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NEWS
Leftover restaurant Rest.
This summer Wageningen houses a new, temporary restaurant called ‘Rest’.
Rest is the Dutch word for leftovers as well as short for restaurant and is an outdoor restaurant that solely uses leftovers to cook their meals.
Made by stacking 45 picnic tables, Rest. is an art project as well as a restaurant, invented by artist Martijn Engelbregt and freelance cook Miguel Brugman.
Rest. will serve lunchdinners on five Sundays up until september 21st.
To prepare these meals they use edible weeds from the Wageningen area, leftovers from farmers and fairs in the neighbourhood, but also that half a package of macaroni out of your cupboard that you don’t fancy anymore, but don’t want to throw away either.
www.therest.nl
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Lucky Mi Fortune Cooking
Another inspiring culinary initiative is ‘Lucky Mi Fortune Cooking’, a mobile snacklab designed by 2012 Architects, that makes daring snacks with unusual ingredient combinations, like for instance cassava roll with fresh herring.
Besides a mobile snacklab Lucky Mi Fortune Cooking also is a culinary embassy that makes optimum use of local ingredients, knowledge and facilities.
More information about her projects you can find at her weblog; Culiblog.
www.culiblog.org
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Graphic Design Museum
On 11 June 2008, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix opened the Graphic Design Museum, Beyerd Breda, the first museum in the world that concentrates specifically on graphic design. An institute that will act as museum, knowledge centre, teaching environment, shop for image culture, designer café and production house for graphic design. The Graphic Design Museum offers established designers an international stage and is, at the same time, a spring-board for new top talent. |
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Masterclass Hella Jongerius- 'fabrics which transform'
On 22, 23, 24 October 2008 Dutch Designer Hella Jongerius will conduct a masterclass in the Audax Textile Museum.
Designer Hella Jongerius (1963) has become known for the special way she fuses industry and craft, high and low tech, tradition and the contemporary.
After graduating Eindhoven Design Academy in 1993 she started her own design company, Jongeriuslab, through which she produces her own projects as well as projects for a diversity of clients.
A selection of objects from the collection of the Audax Textile Museum (ATM) will be the inspiration for designing new contemporary upholstery. During the master class the participants will be supported by the product developers of the TextileLab in the ATM. Use can be made of the computer guided weaving and knitting machines, the embroidery machine, inkjet printer and graphics scan.
The masterclass is intended for professionals in the field of textile and interior and fashion designers. Enrolment is also open to participants like architects and visual artists. Hella Jongerius will select the participants from among the candidates. A maximum of 15 persons can take part.
source : Textile Museum
website: www.textielmuseum.nl
ACTIVITIES
Challenging the Châtelaine!
24/05/08 – 24/08/08
The SM's - Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch- is a museum for contemporary art and design in the provincial capital of Noord-Brabant.
The colourful interior of this museum has been designed by French designer Matali Crasset .
‘Challenging the Châtelaine!’ presents jewellery made by 78 internationally renowned jewellery designers for role models of their own choice. The aim is to revive the tradition of the chatelaine - originally, in medieval times, a chain worn about the waist by the mistress of a castle. Inspired by the success of the Brooching It Diplomatically exhibition (1998), for which artists were asked to design a brooch for Madeleine Albright, then US Secretary of State, Helen Williams Drutt English came up with the idea of inviting jewellery designers to choose their own role model. The participating artists were enthusiastic about the chance to choose a celebrated figure/role model to serve as a source of inspiration. The role models they chose include historical figures, actors, philosophers, artists, scientists, writers, fashion icons and cartoon characters. For example, Gijs Bakker (NL) took Maria Callas as his source of inspiration, Jamie Bennett (US) designed a piece of jewellery for the legendary French chef Escoffier, Jorge Castañón (Arg.) made one for Eva Perón and Felieke van der Leest (NL) found inspiration in Shrek. Rolf Lindner (D) dedicated his chatelaine to all the mannequins in the world, Evert Nijland (NL) to Leonardo Da Vinci and Terhi Tolvanen(FI) to the painter Claude Monet.
www.sm-s.nl
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Marzee
10/08/08 – 04/10/08
Marzee Gallery’s next exhibition will be the annual International Graduation Show.
www.marzee.nl
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R'Uitmarkt
07/09/08
The First Sunday of september Rotterdam will start its new cultural season 2008/2009 with the ‘Uitmarkt’.
The Uitmarkt is the place where all kind of cultural platforms will present their programmes and cultural menus for the upcoming year.
There will be live performances, including theatre, dance and a special concert by the Dutch band Racoon and Dutch singer Stevie Ann.
location: Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam
www.ruitmarkt.nl
Uitmarkt Amsterdam 
30/08/08 and 31/08/08
Heart of the Uitmarkt will be the eastern harbour area, but there’s also theatre at Het Leidse Plein, the Melkweg, Bellevue Theatre and more….
It’s best to check the Uitmarkt website to find out what’s going on where.
There’s also an Uitmarkt for juniors in and around Nemo, an ArtExpo and ‘Toonzetters’ where you can hear the 10 most excellent composed musical pieces of the year 2007, selected by an expert jury.
www.uitmarkt.nl
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Dutch Design Days in Belgium - Seven weeks, Seven events, Seven cities
05/09/08 – 31/10/08
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The Dutch Design Days in Belgium is an initiative of the Dutch government to manifest themselves to their neighbouring country as a country of resourcefulness, inventivity and creativity . |
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The World of Witte the With
12/09/08 - 14/09/08
The Witte the Withstraat is one of Rotterdams nicest cultural area’s with mostly independent, small fashion shops, galleries and boutiques.
In the Witte the With area and the Museum Park there are enough cultural initiatives to fill a three day festival, with special projects indoors, but especially with art, shows and performances in the streets.
This international art festival presents a mixture of movies, theatre, dance, literature, fashion and debates and visual arts in particular.
This years theme is ‘green’. Green standing for ‘new’; new designers and materials, but also a new generation with new ways of enterprising and environmentally responsible designing.
www.festivalwww.nl
During the Witte de With festival, the third edition of the Fashion Tent will be set up, initiated by ‘Nieuwe Ontwerpers’ in the Willem Boothlaan.
It’s the stage of continuous presentations and fashion shows from both established and upcoming fashion designers.
Sunday 14th is academy day, with presentations of this years final exam collections from the various Dutch art academies.
www.modetent.nl
www.nieuweontwerpers.nl
In the vicinity of the fashion tent, also on Sunday september 14th, a street sale will be organized: 30 to 40 stalls with high fashion, sample collections and accessories.
During a workshop the cloths will be starting point for a so called urban picnic.
Students of the Willem de Kooning Academy will design the background scenery and for the final presentation in collaboration with festival visitors they will make packings for picnic baskets that will be filled by ‘Lof der Zoetheid’, a Rotterdam based catering service.
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Bridges to Fashion
18/09/08 – 21/09/08
The third week of september Rotterdam will transform into the Fashion Capital of the Netherlands.
Fashion lovers can feast themselves during the four day fashion event ‘Bridges to Fashion’, with talkshows, fashion shows, exhibitions, films and more.
Bridges of Fashion zooms in on fashion in Turkey and the Netherlands and particularly in Istanbul and Rotterdam.
Just like the Netherlands Turkey plays a more and more important part in the international fashion scene and Turkish designers like Dilek Hanif and Gamze Saraçoglu profile themselves in a very positive way.
Friday evening september 19th several very talented Turkish and Dutch Designers will show their latest collections.
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Also September 19th the Historisch Museum Rotterdam will open the exhibition ‘Bridges to Fashion’, where fashion designs of 19 participating designers will be presented.
Gallery
Saturday september 20th and Sunday september 21st Shopper Rotterdam will launch the first edition of ‘Gallery’, a travelling designer store.
This first edition will be presented at the former ballroom of the Hilton Hotel Rotterdam.
‘Gallery’ is a guerilla concept with leading fashion designers and high-end labels and will appear a couple of times a year in several big cities in the Netherlands.
It’s initiated by ‘Shopper’, a small Rotterdam based warehouse, where upcoming designers can sell their collections, art, accessories and designer toys.
www.shopperrotterdam.nl
www.designersgallery.nl
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Arnhemse Nieuwe 2008
16/09/08
Stichting Ontwerp Platform Arnhem (OPA) aims to stimulate and professionalize the regional design climate going from a cultural, economic and social perspective.
To that end OPA organizes numerous activities for both designers and companies that are engaged in design, production, distribution and sales of innovative products and services.
OPA will start its new cultural season with ‘Arnhemse Nieuwe 2008!’.
For this edition of ‘Arnhemse Nieuwe’ eight freshly graduated, talented designers from the graphic, fashion, product and architecture departments have been selected. To become Arnhem' s News, besides design talent, also distinguished entrepeneurship was required.
The selected graduates are:
• Product Design: Saakje Visser
• Fashion Design: Maarten van der Horst en Lieveke van Zuylen
• Architecture Design: Bastiaan Buurman en Marko Matic
On Tuesday september 16th at 20.00 these New Arnhem Designers will present their work, their fascinations and their plans for the future.
address: Dudok, Koningstraat 40, Arnhem
www.o-p-a.nl
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Everyone who ever cut himself knows that glass is not fit for our fragile body. Alexander van Slobbe, Berend Strik, Naomi Filmer, Simone van Bakel, Shaun Leane and many others will try to find logic solutions for the seemingly unlogical combination of glass and the human body.
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Naomi Filmer
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FreeDesigndom
10/09/08 – 10/10/08
This September will see the first edition of 4 Weeks of FreeDesigndom, which is basically a month-long celebration of creativity, innovation, fashion and design right in the heart of Holland. For this event the two Dutch cities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have combined forces and will host a great variety of internationally-oriented design and fashion events for an international audience. Events that cater to the needs of design and fashion aficionados, industry and media professionals, as well as the general public.
During these 4 weeks of FreeDesigndom, Amsterdam will also host, for the first time, ExperimentaDesign. Starting in 2008, this innovative, multidisciplinary event, founded in Lisbon, will take place alternately in Lisbon and Amsterdam. The ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam biennale consists of exhibitions, conferences, 'open talks', and side events taking place at unusual locations throughout the city.
With its wide-ranging programme, FreeDesigndom is a major new event on the international creative calendar, held annually in Utrecht and Amsterdam.
www.freedesigndom.com
ExperimentaDesign 2008|Space and Place
18/09/08 – 02/11/08
After 4 successful editions in its native Lisbon, ExperimentaDesign, the international Biennale dedicated to design, architecture and contemporary culture, was invited by the City of Amsterdam to branch out to the Dutch Capital. As a result of this, ExperimentaDesign will now take place in alternating years in Lisbon and Amsterdam, each with different programmes.
In 2008, Amsterdam will host the biennale for the first time.
This years theme will be Space and Place – Design for the Urban Landscape..
For the first time in history the earth’s population is more urban than rural. This means that for most people on this planet, the city has become their natural habitat. When in this context we speak of growth and blossom, terrain and flow, or use other natural metaphors, we speak in fact of engineering, architecture and design. We talk about the city as a landscape, that we have created ourselves and continue to shape.
Shaping a place is as much about imagining it as it is about building.
In design for the urban landscape, symbolism meets the existential needs of the city’s inhabitants, who use it to define their habitat as a place to be.
www.experimentadesign.nl
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Inside Design Amsterdam
11/09/08- 14/09/08
Amsterdam for the fifth time.
A four-day long feast of contemporary design, with the Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy on the Oostelijke Handelskade, being the dazzling head quarters, undergoing a complete metamorphosis.
The Lloyd Hotel has a rich history as an ‘emigrants hotel’ and has been transformed to a one-to-five star hotel and cultural embassy by architects, designers and artists.
ELLE Wonen has given the crème de la crème of the Dutch design world carte blanche to completely restyle and refurnish the sixteen rooms in this exceptional hotel. From basement to attic room, all the designers will be allocated their own room: the individual designer Ineke Hans will give the personnel kitchen an amazing transformation, House of Origin will be serving tea and cake there. Famous design duos Scholten&Baijings and Studio Job will also deliver their visions of a hotel room and fill the spaces with their most beautiful objects.
Nienke Sybrandy is to create a ‘green’ area and she will build an exceptional cupboard together with Jeroen Wand. One of the rooms will present the very best from the design fair in Milan, selected by ELLE Wonen. Wandering through the rooms in the hotel,
Jurgen Bey has engaged the help of four of his students from the Royal College of Art in London and will create a breathtaking hotel room together with them.
The hotel’s outside space rests in the creative working hands of designer Dick van Hoff, who always manages to surprise.
FOR KIDS
Games, crafts, watching films: with designer Tineke Beunders(Ontwerpduo) there will be no room for boredom. The latest children’s bed linen from Keet in Huis will adorn the giant
five-metre wide bed.
From the quay at the Lloyd Hotel, shuttle boats and ferries, carry the visitors to the locations around the city, because those too are worth a visit!
At each of the locations there is something special to see or do: workshops, performances,
exhibitions, tastings and more.
www.insidedesign.nl
Platform21 = Hacking IKEA
07/09/08 – 28/09/08
IKEA is-worldwide- a very successful and consumer friendly multinational. It is also a cultural entity, an economic force and an icon of global change. Therefore it is not surprising that numerous artists and designers as well as the general public, have a special relationship with IKEA, reflected in a lot of interesting work.
Platform21 = Hacking IKEA will show the work of those professionals and amateurs and commissions new work by makers to whom the practise of hacking is central.
The official opening to Platform21 = Hacking IKEA will take place on Friday 12 September with the evening programme 10 x 10 x 10 Hacking IKEA, in which 10 creatives with 10 stories will explain in 10 minutes each what happens when you don’t follow IKEA’s instructions
Hack-your-IKEA
Platform21 is looking for your own hacks!
Truly hacking IKEA also means hacking the ideological basis the company’s functioning is founded on. Its products are cheap and not made to last very long. So hack those principles! Every night when people put out the trash, you’ll inevitably find various discarded IKEA furniture among the debris. Don’t throw away your IKEA products.
Hack an IKEA flat pack – a product you buy in a package and have to assemble at home. Make small alterations, or forget the instructions – let your imagination run wild and make something totally different out of it.
Submit before 15 September.
www.platform21.nl
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PIG 05049, Christien Meindertsma
until 28/09/08
Of course, part of the animal is meant for consumption, but what happens to the rest? Over three years, designer Christien Meindertsma has investigated exactly what products are made from pigs. Her quest provided her with 187 products and led her to a tattoo artist, dentist, farmer and weapon specialist. Beer, medicine, munitions, cardiac valves, brake discs and bubblegum: these are but a few products that contain parts, or sometimes minuscule particles, of a pig. For the very first time an almost surgical dissection of one specific pig is exhibited: PIG 05049 is on display in the Kunsthal, together with all the products that originate from it.
NOT FOR VEGETARIANS
PIG 05049 weighs 103,7 kilograms, of which 54 kilograms is meat. This provides for products well-known to the public, such as minced meat, pork rib, ham and pork tenderloin. Meindertsma investigates closely the exact distribution of the pig and while doing so, presents an astonishing image. Dutch pigs arrive at one specific firm after slaughter - and from there on, parts of the pig are transported world-wide. From the skin, bones, meat, organs, blood, fat and other parts of the pig, amongst which brains, hoofs, hair and tail, numerous products are fabricated. Some products stay rather closely related to their original form, whilst others are simply impossible to convert. Well-known gelatin from pig skin is used for liquorices and wine gums, but also added to cheesecake and tiramisu. In the weapon industry this gelatin is used as conductor for bullets.
address: Kunsthal,Westzeedijk 341, Rotterdam
source: website Kunsthal www.kunsthal.nl
website Christien Meindertsma www.theseflocks.com
From Labyrinth to Big Mama 25/5/08 - 9/11/08
Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg
Due to intensive renovations of the museum, the Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg (including all exhibitions) is closed from October 8th 2007 until May 25th 2008, at which point the Museum will open it’s doors again with the exhibition ‘Van Labyrinth tot Big Mama, projects from the
TextileLab'.
With this exhibition the museum will show work that has been produced in the TextileLab, the museum’s creative workshop, by trend-setting designers and artists like Aleksandra Gaca, Studio Job, Piet Hein Eek and Christie van der Haak, Jan Taminiau, Scholten & Baijings, Pieke Bergmans and Berend Strik.
Most of the projects were realised on invitation by the Audax Textile Museum Tilburg. Not only established designers and artists were invited, but also upcoming talents.
Studio Job- Labyrinth
The museum did not limit itself to inviting designers who were already familiar with the textile medium. It is precisely the cross-fertilisation between various disciplines and the contact between more or less experienced designers and the museum technicians, offering their expertise for the realisation of a design, that produced inspiring results.
The lay-out of the exhibition was in the hands of the Amsterdam based designer duo Scholten & Baijings.
www.textielmuseum.nl
| Red Light Fashion The Red Light Fashion Amsterdam project originally was set up In order to redevelop the centre. For the period of one year several buildings will be loaned to Dutch fashion design talents and used as shop-windows, workshops and living areas. The Red Light Fashion Amsterdam initiative gives designers the opportunity to bundle their powers in order to increase visibility and collaboration nationally and internationally.” | |
BOOKS
Ted Noten- CH2=C(CH3)C(=O)OCH3
published 2006
Beautifully edited book with loads of pictures about 15 years of work of Dutch jewellery designer Ted Noten
language: English
How They Work- The Hidden World of Dutch Design
published 2008
Dutch designers are currently creating quite a stir on the international scene. What is the secret of their success? In their book ‘How They Work’ photographer Inga Powilleit and stylist Tatjana Quax examine the working methods of seventeen designers, as well as the typically Dutch approach which has made them world-famous: a fanatical attitude towards work, a healthy lack of respect for convention, and a determination to go their own way.
How They Work consists of portraits of the very top of the Dutch design world, which offer readers an honest and revealing look behind the scenes.
The book has not been released yet but for a preview you can visit Ingaf Powilleit’s website www.ingapowilleit.com or the website of Tatjana Quax: http://www.studioaandacht.nl/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=9
language: Dutch-English
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'How they Work' was published by 010 Publishers, a publishing house that is known for publishing books on the most wide-ranging aspects of architecture, interior design, photography, industrial design, graphic design and the visual arts.
www.010publishers.nl
Jan van Toorn- Critical Practice
published 2008
Another book that has been published by 010 publishers is ’Critical Practice’ by Jan van Toorn.
Jan van Toorn is one of the most significant and influential Dutch graphic designers to have emerged since the early 1960s. While graphic design often does little more than give unthinking visual form to the status quo, van Toorn focused on meaning rather than smooth stylistic expression and developed critical alternatives to the usual design world conventions.
His designs persistently force the viewer to make an effort to process their complexities.
Van Toorn wanted the public to measure the motives of both the client and the designer who mediates the client’s message against their own experiences of the world. He hoped in this way to stimulate a more active and sceptical view of art, communication, media ownership and society.
language: English
www.010publishers.nl/catalogue/book.php?id=565.
House of concepts
published 2008
Design Academy Eindhoven was founded in 1947, at which time it was called (in Dutch) the Academy of Industrial Design Eindhoven. Today the school has a reputation, at home and abroad, as a highly contemporary and virtually unequalled design institute.
The publication, House of Concepts, casts a light – through words and pictures – on the 60-year history of the academy. In the pages of this book, the reader will find the work of important Dutch designers, who have studied at the academy. House of Concepts also offers a philosophical and critical view of design as a whole, and of Dutch design in particular, set in an international context.
language: English
MAGAZINES
LINK
LINK is an inspirational, highly distinctive fashion trade magazine that links wholesale and retail fashion industries.
Editorial subjects are such as fashion developments, technical product information (materials, fabrics and innovative techniques), trends (Describing new upcoming national and international trends translated into inspiring photo reports and editorials), store design and more.
language: Dutch
www.linkmag.nl
Frame
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Launched in December 1997, Frame is an international magazine on interior design that fuses British and American journalism with the aesthetic flair of an Italian publication. First and foremost, Frame appeals to interior designers. But the magazine also has architects and product designers, as well as their clients, in its sights. The driving force behind the magazine is to help interior designers shed their 'second-rate artist' self-image. To make them proud of their profession. And to inspire and surprise them, time after time.
language: English
www.framemag.com
Items
Items is a professional magazine about developments in the design world, covering graphic design, visual communication, product design, interaction design and architecture.
language: Dutch
www.items.nl
Bright
Bright Magazine, first published in February 2005, is an innovative lifestyle magazine covering and connecting digital technology, culture and design.
In 2008 a foreign edition of Bright will be launched.
language: Dutch
www.bright.nl
Textiel Plus
Textiel Plus is a quarterly magazine edited by the Textiel Plus foundation. It provides interviews and photographs about Textile, Designers and more and pays attention to innovative ideas, materials and techniques as well as authentic handicraft.
www.textielplus.nl
TV
There are/have been several Dutch television programs worth watching.
Here’s a short selection and the links where you can find them on the internet.
About new developments in a diversity ofcreative disciplines and about what these developments tell us about our present-day society.
March 2008 Paris Fashion Week
www.vpro.nl/programma/trendspotting/artikelen/39404188
April 2008 Milano, Salone Internazionale del Mobile
www.vpro.nl/programma/trendspotting
September 2008 Venice, bi-annual Architecture Exhibition
www.vpro.nl/programma/trendspotting
December 2008 Miami Beach, Art Basel
www.vpro.nl/programma/trendspotting
Mode in Arnhem 26/01/08
www.novatv.nl/novaplayer/player169.html?id=rep-5759-0
Van hier tot Tokio
About Dutch designers and artists living and working abroad.
24/02/08 Istanbul
Ahmet Polat (fotographer) and Bas van Beek (designer)
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6575713
02/03/08 Berlin
Richard Cameron (musician/ producer) and Ronald de Bloeme (artist)
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6625853
09/03/08 Beijing
Neville Mars, architect and Ruben Lundgren, photographer
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6663611
16/03/08 London
Marloes ten Bhömer, Shoe(designer) and Sander Lak, fashion designer
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6705861
De Kunst 16/03/08
How photogenic are misery and distress
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6705860
I like the sides of design where boundaries meet. Where they clash or melt.
That’s where things happen, develop, appear, where you get surprised, amazed
and start looking through different eyes.
That’s often when different disciplines meet, or cultures, or old craftsmanship
and cutting edge developments….
In the Netherlands several renowned companies join forces with known and less
known designers. For the better of both of them.
Royal Leerdam
Since 1878, the most exquisite art and decorative pieces have been produced in the Dutch city of Leerdam using traditional methods (made by hand and blown by mouth). This requires skill, creativity and years of experience. Royal Leerdam Crystal has plenty of all three.
The master glassblowers of Royal Leerdam guarantee a high-quality glass rendition of drawings by in-house designers and other Dutch artists.
Pieke Bergmans, whoms favorite modus operandi is to alter existing production processes to come to new forms and functions worked together with glassmaster Gert Bullee at Royal Leerdam Crystal to create her crystal viruses.
www.royalleerdamcrystal.com
www.piekebergmans.com
Polycel, Pieter Joosten
Polycel started it’s polyester business in the early sixties when working with polyester was still fairly new in the Netherlands.
The last couple of years Polycel has been working with several young designers and gave them the opportunity to profit from Polycel’s expertise in Polyester.
Polycel benefited from these collaborations as well, giving them the opportunity to demonstrate an
even broader range of polyester’s possibilities and to profile themselves as a partner in innovation.
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The eggy boxes are a sculptural audio installation that is part of Alex Vermeulen’s ‘Mood Rooms’ and deals with how man is influenced by sound and resonance.
Also designed by Alex Vermeulen and developed in collaboration with a group of students physics are 88 floating eggs, each with their own solar panel. The energy that is generated by these panels is used to lift the Buddha (eggman) in the bell glass when the sun is shining.
On bad weather days the Buddha is hidden below the surface of the water.
www.polycel.nl
www.syndicaat.org
Royal Delft/Porceleyne fles
The Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles is the only remaining factory of the 32 earthenware factories that were established in Delft in the 17th century.
In 1988 Royal Delft started with their 'Collection Modern Ceramics'. This collection was the result of a relationship between ceramic artists and the Royal Delft factory, a bond earlier created with the Experimental Unica Departement that existed from 1957 till 1977.
Royal Delft values working with both famous and upcoming artists and designers ever since.
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In the year 2004 Judith van den Boom started an intensive work period with the Royal Delft Blue factory, the Porceleyne Fles in Delft which resulted in a new body of work called Dutch Disturbance.
Working closely with the knowledge of traditional Delft Blue, the skilled workers and exploring the attics of the old factory was the start of experimenting concepts about the use and relationships we had in 2005 with Delft Blue. Dusty and rooted for most local people but highly interesting cliché for the tourists. Do they still believe we wear wooden shoes? Or cycle all over the country to deliver cheese? Ideas about the nature of people where being assumed and turned in cliché's that stayed around for generations.
Time for some disturbance!
Source: website Judith van den Boom
www.royaldelft.com
www.Judithvandenboom.nl
Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum
Royal Tichelaar Makkum is the Netherlands' oldest company and has from 1640 continuously been run by the Tichelaar family. It owes its continuity up to the present day to its appreciation of tradition, though with an eager eye for innovation
Today’s managing director Jan Tichelaar represents the 13th generation at the helm of the company. He appreciated the company’s unique aptitude for research in and production of custom made ceramics.
Signing up renowned architects and designers, he turned the company around into an innovative laboratory for hand crafted, top class custom products, away from making standard classical pottery exclusively.
The invaluable knowledge of ceramics, accumulated by successive generations, has provided a firm base on which to build, from which development of products and know-how will progress hand in hand as, in Tichelaar's vision, they should.
Royal Tichelaar Makkum fosters a company culture marked by open minds, an inquisitive disposition, enthusiasm for research and experiment, the pursuit of perfection and the drive to deliver custom made solutions for every conceivable application of ceramics, especially in architecture.
Designers who collaborated with Royal Tichelaar Makkum are, among others, Studio Job and Jurgen Bey.
Source: Tichelaar website
www.tichelaar.nl
Royal VKB- Koninklijke Van Kempen en Begeer
Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer has made history with durable stainless steel products and timeless silverware. Utensils for cooking and dining in the kitchen and the dining room.
Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer was founded in 1789 and has always concentrated on developing products that offer solutions for modern man and his times. The period we live in is marked by a fast-changing way of life, constantly shifting consumer patterns and very varied life styles. Preparing food and enjoying a balanced meal has become more important than ever.
Royal VKB is the latest brand of the Dutch company Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer, that focuses on innovation.
As part of their product vision and brand strategy Royal VKB collaborates with both well-known and upcoming Dutch Designers. This collaboration results in refreshing contemporary designs, like Jorre van Ast’s functional screw caps, that fit on jars all over the world and allow you to re-use and preserve that memorable mustard jar from Dijon, France or that pickle Jar from Poland.
Source: Royal VKB website
www.royalvkb.com
Philips
Royal Philips Electronics is a global leader in healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle, delivering people-centric, innovative products, services and solutions.
Design at Philips translates technology into human-focused solutions.
Philips Design Probes is a dedicated ‘far-future’ research to track trends and developments that may ultimately evolve into mainstream issues that have a significant impact on business.
The Smell-project for instance is a probe collaboration with the Design Interaction department of the Royal College of Art in London. In Smell, a prototype apparatus was created which basically captures odors from the body and not only communicates them to the wearer but also to other people.
Dogs are reputedly able to sniff out cancer, so this work may initiate dialogue that leads to medical practitioners being able to carry out smell-based diagnoses.
Source: Philips website
www.design.philips.com
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other places where craftsmanship and design meet:
Audax Textielmuseum in Tilburg
The heart of the Textile Museum, the building in which a hundred years ago the weaving looms of textile manufacturer Chris Mommers were in full production, now houses the TextileLab, the museum’s experimental workshop. Students, designers and artists collaborate with the museum’s product developers in experimenting with the machines in order to achieve special, often highly advanced results. This process of collaboration and experimentation does not take place behind closed doors. The TextileLab is a normal, but through its concept unusual museum presentation, which is open to the public. Visitors of the museum can witness this unique process and are given explanations by the product developers and demonstrators of the museum and by students, designers and artists about their tests, trials, products and objects.
Designers and artists either make products or (parts of) works of art for themselves or in commission for a company or agency, or they are commissioned by the museum. In the latter case, if the experiments are successful, the objects are added to the museum collection in the field of art and design.
Source: website Textielmuseum
www.textielmuseum.nl
EKWC European Ceramic Work Centre in ‘s Hertogenbosch
The European Ceramic WorkCentre is an international workplace where artists, designers and architects explore the technical and artistic possibilities of ceramics. The EKWC operates as an artist-in-residence centre and as a centre of excellence. Its aim is to promote the development of ceramic art, design and architecture. As an artist-in-residence centre, the EKWC annually welcomes about 45 artists, designers and architects to experiment with ceramics for a continuous or phased period of three months.
The EKWC offers, among other things, the most advanced equipment and the support of a team of specialists. This team gives a unique added value to the residency as 75% of the participants have no or little experience with ceramics. Intensive guidance allows the participants to realize their prearranged work plans. The residency is concluded with a final presentation.
Being a centre of excellence the EKWC encourages its staff and participants to conduct research in artistic and technical fields, and also in the area of presentation. The knowledge and understanding acquired are documented and spread internationally by means of publications, exhibitions, masterclasses and conferences.
The EKWC works together with art academies, the ceramic industry, several scientific research centres, museums and galleries in the form of special projects.
Source: EKWC website
www.ekwc.nl
Materia
New materials present opportunities for fascinating innovations. Materia stimulates and inspires architects, designers and producers to apply these materials to their designs. The company is a knowledge centre for developments and innovations in materials, and their applications for architecture and design.
Materia’s aim: to build together with creative professionals on a new vision for the future: Materialize the future!
Materia offers you free use of their search engine, a complete knowledge bank of materials.
They will also keep you updated about innovative materials and their applications, and trends in architecture and design, through newsletters, publications, and presentations.
Materia activates its expertise via the Inspiration Centre, where the new materials can be seen and felt in real life. This way Materia offers a platform for knowledge development, interaction and cross-fertilisation. An inspirational experience.
Source: Materia website
www.materia.nl
GALLERIES
Nijmegen
Marzee
Galerie Marzee was founded in 1978 as a gallery for contemporary jewellery, and has since become one of the principal promoters of contemporary jewellery and silverware.
As a rule, the gallery hosts four or five exhibitions at any time, with new openings every two months. In addition, Marzee has a large collection of jewellery in stock, representing a lot of different great jewellery designers.
www.marzee.nl
Amsterdam
Platform 21 for DESIGN, FASHION AND CREATION
Platform21 is not as much a gallerie as it is a platform. It’s focus is on contemporary issues and topics that will be of relevance in the future. They aim to create dynamic spaces for a variety of projects and activities that question and give insight into how the world is shaped around us and are interested in creative developments in fashion and design, including amateur initiatives.
Platform21 functions as an international meeting point, where seemingly disparate groups can inspire and strengthen each other.
www.platform21.com
Galerie Ra
Galerie Ra, founded by Paul Derrez in1976, shows international contemporary jewellery designs.
On top of that they have regular exhibitions in which they show broader aspects of design like hats, objects, ceramics etc.
www.galerie-ra.nl
Dordrecht
Intermezzo
Intermezzo is a gallery and shop that shows and sells contemporary design, mostly of unknown Dutch Designers. It’s one of the eldest galleries of contemporary design in the Netherlands, situated in one of the eldest cities in the Netherlands.
A lot of designers that just graduated from Art Academies have been showing their work here over the years.
It’s my favorite gallery. I’m buyest I know, because I have connections there. But then again; I have connections there because it was my favourite gallery in the first place.
www.galerie-intermezzo.nl
Rotterdam
Vivid Vormgeving
In the center of Rotterdam VIVID Gallery started in 1999 making contemporary design exhibitions. In these exhibitions designers are able to present their latest ideas, concepts and products to a wide audience.
VIVID has a strong relation with Dutch designers but the scope remains international. www.vividvormgeving.nl
Nieuwe Ontwerpers Arnhem The name ‘Coming Soon’ hints towards the upcoming generation of designers.
Nieuwe Ontwerpers.nl was founded march 2000 to provide a place for fashion designers to show/sell their collections without having to make huge investments . A lot of designers have presented and sold their collections there already.
Besides presenting fashion collections and accessories they compose a diversity of exhibitions with a link to fashion, on a regular basis.
NieuweOntwerpers.nl has an open mind for all talented designers with a link to fashion design
and therefore can by all means be called a talentshop.
www.nieuweontwerpers.nl
Coming soon
Arnhem hosts the Art Academy ARTEZ and a great fashion department.
Therefore it’s no surprise that Coming Soon opened it’s doors there at the end of 2007.
Coming Soon is an initiative of the Arnhem Academy of Arts ArtEZ and presents a selection of Designs from both upcoming fashion talents and well known top designers. Besides fashion Coming Soon also shows and sells other `hand-picked’ design products of young Dutch Designers, such as , accessories, shoes, gadgets, books and magazines
www.comingsoonarnhem.nl
Unlimited Delicious- Kees Raat In the book ‘Bonbon’ Kees Raat gives away 47 of his recipes with pictures that’ll make you drool in advance. Rotterdam
Proef (also in Rotterdam)
Marije Vogelzang has been designing food concepts ever since she graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2000. Bases for her work is the verb ‘ to eat’ which means she doesn’t just think about food on the plate- if there even is one-but about everything related to it; the atmosphere, the ambient sounds, taste, scent and texture, dining company, service, the story behind the ingredients and the effect they have on the body.
Beautiful examples of her work you can find on the ProefLog.
www.proefamsterdam.nl
www.proefamsterdam.nl/proeflog/
Marije Vogelzangs's labfile
Kees Raat’ s addiction to chocolate was the real reason for starting his chocolate career.
Besides for his craft in chocolate making and his unusual choices and combinations of ingredients, Kees Raat is also known for his innovative ideas.
To do justice to his love for chocolate, he started searching for the essence of a good bonbon and came to the conclusion that there are three essential conditions to make a good bonbon:
1) a bonbon should not be too sweet
2) a bonbon should not be too big
3) a bonbon should have an element of surprise
A bonbon that’s too sweet you’ll want to drink away; a bonbon that’s too big makes you feel full and a bonbon that’s boring you’ll forget.
A bonbon that meets with all three conditions mentioned above, makes you want more.
For the book ‘Koekje’ Kees Raat masterminded 50 surprising new Dutch-cookie-recipes.
www.keesraat.nl
www.unlimiteddelicious.nl
Kees Raat's labfile
Fabricca
Because Fabbrica is located in the Rott