All posts in Ilco Kemmere

Madeleine van Lennep. Image Ilco van Kemmere

Design Policy Adapting to Change – interview with Madeleine van Lennep

Design Policy Adapting to Change Shortly before the Milan Design Week 2015 we had a conversation with Madeleine van Lennep, director of the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO) Much has changed […]

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 […]

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 […]

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Enlightened Design during ELLE Festival 2014

  Enlightened Design – 26-28 June 2014 Design is less and less about seducing consumers with beauty and functionality, and more and more often about the search for improvements to […]

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 […]

Max Bruinsma. Image by Ilco Kemmere

Watch the system crack – column by Max Bruinsma

Column by Max Bruinsma, editor & design critic Photo’s by Ilco Kemmere Quite a few seasoned design aficionados warned me, the first time I planned to visit the Salone. Prepare […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]