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Newsletter #131

This week, we take a peek inside a private art gallery/loft apartment in New York designed by UNStudio and see who's doing what at this year's London Design Festival. We also attended the farewell event of Premsela's former director, Dingeman Kuilman and spoke with Armand Mevis about the graphic d...

Newsletter #130

Dutch Design Double update #1. This week we begin our coverage of Dutch Design Double, the design festival which will take over Amsterdam and Utrecht for the next two months. In Utrecht, we drop by the intriguing exhibition of German visual artist and graphic designer Ilka Helmig who elevates everyday materia...

Newsletter #129

The Design.nl newsletter returns after a brief summer break. We bring you communication design news with an astounding number of Dutch winners in this year's red dot design award, and cultural broadcaster VPRO gets a new visual facelift courtesy of Thonik. We bring you previews of the annual design festiv...

Newsletter #128

Continuing our fashion focus, we give a sneak peek of G-Star’s new RAW Sustainable collection, check out what happens when architects and fashion designers work together and we see how the crime scene inspired the best Dutch fashion graduate of 2010. This is our last newsletter for the summer, we will r...

Newsletter #127

Fashion happenings fall into our radar this week: Amsterdam International Fashion Week got off to a flying start with Iris van Herpen wowing audiences again, this time with her crystallized creations. Antoine Peters decides to fuse fashion with music and in Paris, Jan Taminiau dazzles during Haute Couture Wee...

Newsletter #126

Fashion and design graduates take the spotlight this week as we continue our reviews of Dutch graduation shows. ArtEZ Arnhem is a particular highlight and we announce the top 14 fashion graduates in The Netherlands who will compete for the top prize in the annual Lichting show. In celebration of the upcoming ...

Newsletter #125

Digital design takes precedence this week as delve into an exhibition showcasing conceptual products made using 3D digital manufacturing techniques and we try to answer some of the doubts that designers might have about Open Design. Also, we examine a new Master course that hopes to generate more critical thi...

Newsletter #124

Renovations, refurbishments and reconversions this week: a museum about an English icon, a cramped Amsterdam apartment and a 62-metre long barge. Also, the Dutch graduation season is upon us, and this week we list the various final exhibitions and presentations happening around The Netherlands. Keep an eye ou...

Newsletter #123

Plenty of food for thought this week. Recently in The Netherlands for the 6th Premsela lecture, Nancy Etcoff argues for the psychological essentialness of beauty and how fashion and science should be fused. Arnhem graduates reinterpret everyday materials to create exquisite objects and we see what happens whe...

Newsletter #122

In this week’s newsletter, we look at experimental projects that take us into the future of design. Interactive Smart Textiles intersect the boundaries between art, fashion and technology, Philips Design’s new exploratory Design Probe aims to reconnect our bodies with the natural environment and a...