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Newsletter #102

The new year brings good news for Christien Meindertsma who has been named by a leading newspaper as one of the top ten most interesting young people to watch in the Netherlands this decade. We also talk to Rotterdam Design Prize winner Joost Grootens who like Meindertsma has a modesty that results in quieter...

Newsletter #101

Our very last newsletter for the year: we examine how stories shape/manipulate our view of objects, Droog launches new Dutch fashion labels in New York, we take a look at two striking cathedral-inspired spaces - one dedicated to fashion and the other, a guesthouse - and Viktor & Rolf add an enchanting spa...

Newsletter #100

A special edition this week: the Design.nl newsletter turns 100. To celebrate this, we look back at the year through a compilation of our favourite articles. Also Marcel Wanders releases his much-awaited book Amsterdam Creative Capital, as a gift back to the city he credits for making his career possible, and...

Newsletter #99

A packed newsletter this week: We hear from Alice Rawsthorn on where Holland stands in the very particular challenges this century poses for the design industry in "The Next Promise of Design". Ethics, sustainability and an all-embracing approach are the basics she says must come to characterize how...

Newsletter #98

This week, we see how an economics graduate with no knowledge of fashion or the fashion industry launched her own label while bringing hope and livelihood to a group of women in India. Also, two different design competitions this week: Hella Jongerius leads a live public pitch to design a Camper shoe store in...

Newsletter #97

This week we bring you the first of our Japan stories: we see the cultural exchange between Dutch and Japanese design during the recent design week in Tokyo and hear how collective ownership could be the way of the future, as heard at the Premsela Design Forum, Face Value. Also we talk vases & sweaters, a...

Newsletter #96

This week, we sit down to chat with Sophie Krier about the lack of hard-core and credible criticism in design and how the students at Rietveld Academy were given the opportunity to look at this during Dutch Design Week (DDW). We see work that was 'discovered' during DDW and is now being exhibited in M...

Newsletter #95

Our coverage of Dutch Design Week continues this week with the second half of our look at the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Galleries. It seems that the students are really helping to define what design's new role in a broader cultural context will be and their focus is research. Backing that up i...

Newsletter #94

Our Dutch Design Week coverage continues this week with a focus on emerging designers. We look at part I of our favourite picks from the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Galleries, and speak with young designer Alejandro Cerón from Atelierdorp about the benefits of working with a collective rather t...

Newsletter #93

Our coverage of Dutch Design Week (DDW) 2009 begins this week with news about winners of the Dutch Design Awards, we talk to some of the best industrial design graduates from TU/e (University of Technology Eindhoven) and see if/how designers are responding to a post-crash world. We also find out more about ho...

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