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Newsletter #119

This week, social and humanitarian design takes precedence in the exhibition Why Design Now? as part of the design Triennial at New York's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Zach Lieberman, a keynote speaker at the Graphic Design Festival Breda, speaks about the EyeWriter, an open source eye-tracki...

Newsletter #118

Don't take design for granted: Slovenian graphic designer Ranko Novak who recently visited The Netherlands comments on the normality and permanence of design in Dutch society. We get a sneak peek into Philips Design's latest award-winning Design Probe which examines Self Health, we start our coverage ...

Newsletter #117

The Shanghai World Expo 2010 has begun: the Netherlands' contribution includes not only the Dutch pavilion 'Happy Street' but one of China's major theme pavilions 'Urbanian' has been designed by Kossmann.dejong. In a special Expo report, we see how countries utilise design as a powerfu...

Newsletter #116

Reviews from Milan this week: we hear from emerging Dutch designers about why it's so important to present in Milan and how they funded their presentations this year and see how visitors and designers rated the new design district Ventura Lambrate. We also bring you news from lighting event Luminale which...

Milan 2010 Newsletter - Day 3

Our last newsletter from Milan looks at the influence of Dutch heritage on many of this year's presentations and how emerging designers and small studios are tackling sustainability in design. We check out new products: Weltevree take to the outdoors, Bertjan Pot explains his six-armed sweaters and Pieke ...

Milan 2010 Newsletter - Day 2

For our second day in Milan, Design.nl visited Spazio Rossana Orlandi with its lovely leafy courtyard that is an oasis of calm amidst the busy design festivities around town. The gallery presented many Dutch designers including Piet Hein Eek, Jack Brandsma, Niek Van Der Heijden, Bas van der Veer and Scholten ...

Milan 2010 Newsletter - Day 1

A jam-packed first day of the Milan Furniture Fair. For this first Milan 2010 newsletter, we bring you an exclusive interview with Gijs Bakker about Yii, his latest project in collaboration with Taiwanese designers and craftsmen. We see Pieke Bergmans' Monsters and Scholten Baijings' colourful new pie...

Newsletter #115

Two very different institutions in London feature Dutch design this week: the Design Museum explores Sustainable Futures while Sotheby's will auction Design Academy graduation works. We hop over to the new Design Museum in Holon, Israel to find out about The State of Things and we hear more about why The ...

Newsletter #114

More Milan previews this week as the annual design festivities inch closer: Dutch-based international designers win high profile competition for free exhibition space in the new Ventura Lambrate area and we give you the round-up of product launches happening around the city. Food-designer Katja Gruijters want...

Newsletter #113

One of the announcements to rock the Milan design-horse this year is the creation of a new (Dutch-heavy) area that aims to put the focus back onto design: we preview Ventura Lambrate this week. Also two international exhibitions - Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen debut in the U.S. and Design by Performance highl...

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