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Roland Pieter Smit

Interview with Roland Pieter Smit – DDW 2015

Social & Green Design Guide with: Roland Pieter Smit about Made by Scorlewald – DDW 2015  Video by Robert AndriessenText by Annemiek van GrondelProduced in partnership with DOEN Foundation Made by […]

Goof van Beek

Interview with Goof van Beek & Laurentius de Ruiter – DDW 2015

Social & Green Design Guide with: Goof van Beek & Laurentius de Ruiter for Collectie Veenhuizen – DDW  Video by Robert AndriessenText by Annemiek van GrondelProduced in partnership with DOEN Foundation […]

Dick van Hoff

Interview with Dick van Hoff about >VEEG – DDW 2015

Social & Green Design Guide with: Dick van Hoff for Social label – DDW 2015 Video by Robert AndriessenText by Annemiek van GrondelProduced in partnership with DOEN Foundation >VEEG   Social Label […]

Nadine Sterk, Lonny van Ryswyck

Interview with Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck from Atelier NL – DDW 2015

Social & Green Design Guide with: Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck from AtelierNL – DDW 2015 Video by Robert AndriessenText by Annemiek van GrondelProduced in partnership with DOEN Foundation Earth Alchemy […]

Manon van Hoeckel

Interview with Manon van Hoeckel about In Limbo Embassy – Embassy of the Undocumented – DDW 2015

Social & Green Design Guide with: Manon van Hoeckel at Design Academy Eindhoven – DDW 2015 Video by Robert AndriessenText by Annemiek van GrondelProduced in partnership with DOEN Foundation In Limbo […]

Jeroen Wand. Image by Daphne Kuilman

Jeroen Wand – a portrait

Text by Anna Bates Photo by Daphne Kuilman Jeroen Wand presented his work at the Milan Design Week, together with the work of Mieke Meijer, at various locations such as at Ventura Lambrate, Cor […]

Nienke Sybrandy. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Nienke Sybrandy – a portrait

Text by Anna Bates Photo by Ilco Kemmere Studio Nienke Sybrandy was present at the Milan Design Week in Lambrate. Missed it? Her work was published on the front cover of Connecting […]

Mae Engelgeer. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Mae Engelgeer – a portrait

Text by Anna Bates Photo by Ilco Kemmere Mae Engelgeer presented her work at the Milan Design Week at Ventura Lambrate. How did you become a textile designer? I come from a fashion […]

Marcello De Simone, Bruce Wayland. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Little Owl Design, by Marcello De Simone & Bruce Wayland – a portrait

Text by Anna Bates Photo by Ilco Kemmere Marcello De Simone and Bruce Wayland presented their design label Little Owl Design at the Milan Design Week 2015 in Lambrate.  How did you get started […]

Rick Tegelaar. Image by Daphne Kuilman

Rick Tegelaar – a portrait

Text by Anna Bates Photo by Daphne Kuilman Rick Tegelaar presented at the Milan Design Week together with the design collective Workmates. Instead of a presentation they published a newspaper Good News.  What is […]

Elise Luttik. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Elise Luttik – a portrait

Text by Ingeborg van Lieshout Photo by Ilco Kemmere Elise Luttik presented at the Milan Design Week with Dutch Satellite at the SaloneSatellite in Rho, Milan. In the end it was design her heart […]

Marjan van Aubel. Image by Mischa Haller

Marjan van Aubel – a portrait

Text by Anna Bates Photo by Mischa Haller Marjan van Aubel presents at the Milan Design Week together with Jólan van der Wiel in Lambrate with their presentation Energies Unseen What is your process? […]

Basten Leijh. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Basten Leijh – a portrait

Text by Jeanne Tan Photo by Ilco Kemmere Basten Leijh is founder of Bleijh Industrial Design Studio in Amsterdam.  How would you describe yourself in one word? Let me think […]

Niels van Eijk, Miriam van der Lubbe. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe – a portrait

Text by Jeanne Tan Photo by Ilco Kemmere Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe founded their studio, Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe, between 1998-2000. They live and […]

Robert Bronwasser. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Robert Bronwasser – a portrait

Text by Jeanne Tan Photo by Ilco Kemmere Robert Bronwasser is the founder of SMOOL by Robert Bronwasser. He lives and works in Amsterdam. How would you describe yourself in […]

Lizan Freijsen. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Lizan Freijsen – a portrait

Artist Lizan Freijsen lives and works in Rotterdam. Her extensive research into stains has been translated into ceramics, textiles, an exhibition, a book and, most recently, a series of hand-woven […]

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 […]

Christoph Brach, Daniera ter Haar. Image by Boudewijn Bollmann

Raw Color – a portrait

Text by Annemiek van Grondel Photo by Boudewijn Bollmann Life is all about colour and identity. Daniera ter Haar (31) and Christoph Brach (34) are Raw Color. Textures and textiles are recurring themes […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Maarten Baptist. Image by Judith Jockel

Maarten Baptist – a portrait

Photo by Judith Jockel for Connecting the Dots #5 Website: www.joine.nl

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 […]

Richard Hutten. Image by Roos Kroes

Richard Hutten – a portrait

Photo by Roos Kroes for Connecting the Dots #1 www.richardhutten.com