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Diederik Schneemann. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Diederik Schneemann – a portrait

Text by Jeanne TanPhoto by Ilco Kemmere Diederik Schneemann lives and works in Rotterdam. His recent projects include A Flip Flop Story and the 3D-printed Mash-up Collection. How would you […]

Sophie Mensen, Oskar Peet. Image by Ilco Kemmere

OS ∆ OOS – a portrait

Text by Jeanne TanPhoto by Ilco Kemmere Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen are OS ∆ OOS. They live and work in Eindhoven. In Milan, they’ll be presenting the ‘Keystone’ chair […]

Geke Lensink. Imabe by Ilco Kemmere

Geke Lensink – a portrait

Text by Jeanne TanPhoto by Ilco Kemmere  Product designer Geke Lensink lives and works in Amsterdam. During the Milan Design Week 2014 she showed her latest work as part of the […]

Floris Hovers. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Floris Hovers – a portrait

Text by Jeanne Tan Photo by Ilco Kemmere Product designer Floris Hovers lives and works in Raamsdonkveer. His new designs for New Duivendrecht, Magis and Vij5 will be launched in […]

Rogier van der Heide. Image by Boudewijn Bollmann

Rogier van der Heide – a portrait

Text by Annemiek van Grondel Photo by Boudewijn Bollmann His passion? ‘Design for a changing world.’ Since 2010, Rogier van der Heide (43) is responsible for product, industrial and communication […]

Hans Heetman, Jaap Patijn. Image by Boudewijn Bollmann

Heetman | Patijn – a portrait

Text by Annemiek van Grondel Photo by Boudewijn Bollmann Heetman | Patijn want to humanize and ‘humourize’. This requires some explanation. Hans Heetman (33) and Jaap Patijn (36) found each other as working buddies […]

Ann Maes. Image by Daphne Kuilman

Ann Maes – a portrait

‘The design discipline has lost much of its discipline’   Text by Annemiek van Grondel Photo by Daphne Kuilman Ann Maes (1952) founded her own agency in 1980, after being […]

Ingeborg De Rood, Ann Goldstein. Image by Ilco Kemmere

‘Design is art’ – an interview with Ann Goldstein and Ingeborg De Roode

When director Ann Goldstein first arrived in Amsterdam taxis didn’t know where the Stedelijk Museum was and nor was it mentioned on maps. The nine year closure had had an effect. “The Van […]

Jan Jansen. Image by Daphne Kuilman

Jan Jansen – a portrait

‘Hands do have other senses than brains’   Text by Annemiek van Grondel Photo by Daphne Kuilman Jan Jansen (1941) is Holland’s most famous shoe designer, creating two collections a year. […]

Ornella Noorda. Image by Daniele Tamagni.s

A life of passion for design with Bob Noorda

Interview with Ornella Noorda, wife of Bob Noorda by Giorgia ZuccariPhoto by Daniele Tamagni Ornella Noorda’s apartment in Milan. The first thing that catches my eye is a painting by Fontana. Every […]

Judith van den Boom, Gunter Wehmeyer. Image by IlcoKemmere.s

Judith and Gunter Wehmeyer – a portrait

Text by Jeanne Tan Translation by Xiyang Wang Photo by Ilco Kemmere Judith and Gunter Wehmeyer are co-founders of Studio BoomWehmeyer. The studio regularly moves between the UK, China (Jingdezhen […]

Daan Roosegaarde. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Daan Roosegaarde – a portrait

Text by Jeanne Tan Translation by Xiyang Wang Photo by Ilco Kemmere Daan Roosegarde is all about ideas. His vision is for technology to become interactive and for cities to become […]

Anette Lundebye, Hannah Jones

Socially Responsive Design – article by Hannah Jones & Anette Lundebye

Socially Responsive Design   Article by Hannah Jones and Anette Lundebye Interviewees: Maziar Raein, Adam Thorpe, Clare Brass, Duncan Kramer, Sanneke Duijf, Marco van Hout Republished from The Dots #5, London Design Festival 2012 What happens when designers […]

Deyan Sujic. Image by Hege Saebjornsen

A view on Design, Dutch design, Research and the Museum – interview with Deyan Sudjic

Interview by Anna Bates Photography by Hege Saebjornsen This year, eight Dutch design studios were nominated for the Designs of the Year prize at the Design Museum in London; among […]

Canton Tower by Mark Hemel

Towering Testimony – interview with Mark Hemel

Designer of the Canton Tower Mark Hemel has decided Guangzhou is the place to move forward with family and career. He talks to Xu Jingxi in Guangzhou. He had looked at […]

Sarah van Gameren, Tim Simpson. Image by André Penteado

Freezing the Moment of Transformation – interview with Sarah van Gameren and Tim Simpson from Studio Glithero

“We are great at failure,” says Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren, one half of studio Glithero, with half a smile. “We have really been on stage with failure,” emphasises her […]

Annemiek van Grondel and Gijs Bakker. Image Ilco Kemmere

A Career in Chapters – interview with Gijs Bakker

He could be called one of the godfathers of Dutch Design and certainly the one who put Dutch Design on the map. Gijs Bakker (1942), co-founder of Droog Design, is […]