Articles
Designing is Producing
Peter Kolkman has switched from graphic to product design and says he thinks designing and producing shoud be one and the same. His new wooden iPhone and iPad covers are already popular in Japan.
Ruinart
Piet Hein Eek’s rough and ready aesthetic has been united with Ruinart, the world’s oldest champagne house for which the designer created new wooden packaging.
Furniture Made by Wind
Merel Karhof uses a series of windmills to create a series of upholstered objects – it is a complete and clean industry. Finding and then controlling the wind is her biggest obstacle.
Bagatti Valsecchi 2.0
When design is removed from its usual context during the Milan Furniture fair, it gains a totally new appreciation, as seen in the exhibition at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum.
Emotional Lighting
A light object that shudders when you shout, that breathes heavily when you make it jump or responds to your touch. Fiet by Toer is a responsive design made to engage with the user.
Milan 2013: What to do with Plaster?
Curated by Claudia Linders, Marie Ilse Bourlanges en Elena Khurtova, the KABK presentation in Milan incorporated design, process and finished ‘product’. Each day the exhibition grew with new additions by the students and alumni, an impressive and dynamic way to present the school.
Milan 2013: Lambrate Highlights
It’s hard to believe Ventura Lambrate has only been part of the Salone del Mobile for four years now. Seen as the place for independent designers, design schools and young talent, the Lambrate area always proves popular with the young crowd.
Milan 2013: Aart van Asseldonk
It was in Milan last year during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile that Aart van Asseldonk got the idea for his new series – “Modern Times”.
Milan 2013: Trending, Urban Nomads
Where last year many Milan presentations were awash with technological advances, this year sees many designers longing for a simpler approach. Back to core values, appreciation of materials and an all-together slower pace of life.
Milan 2013: Win for Process Designer
Thomas Vailly calls himself a process designer and along with Itay Ohaly and Christian Fiebig have won the Frame Moooi Award 2013 for a project that reduces a whole furniture factory to the size of a standardized plywood palette.
Agenda
- Turkish Red
Audax Textielmuseum / Tilburg - Like Pastoe
Kunsthal / Rotterdam - Inaugurated!
Paleis Het Loo / Apeldoorn - Designs of the Year 2013 expo
Design Museum / London
Selection:
- Amsterdam Fashion Week 2013
- Dutch Design Week 2012
- Milan 2012
- Amsterdam Fashion Week 2012
- Dutch Design Week 2011
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2010
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2011
- Dutch Design Week 2010
- Dutch Design Double 2010
- Milan 2010
- Design.nl 100th Issue Favourites
- Dutch Design Week 2009
- Dutch Design Double 2009
- Milan 2009
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2009
- Going Out - Restaurants, bars, cafes, clubs and hotels
- Graphic Design Festival 2008
- Dutch Design Week 2008
- Retail Therapy - Where to buy Dutch design
- FreeDesigndom 2008
- Milan 2008
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2008
- Design.nl Tokyo favourites

