Tomorrow is Good: Design Thinking and Ethics
If we want tomorrow to be any good, we’ve got to do improve it right now. The well-known American management professor Peter Drucker once said: “The best way to predict the future is to...
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“Have technicians and designers make love together – fireworks guaranteed!”
It was “really just a design concept”, the red balloons that were to be used as a prototype for an artificial uterus at the Dutch Design Week of 2018. “This week we are here purely...
King meets with designers at Sectie-C
King Willem-Alexander visited Sectie-C this afternoon. The power of creativity and the role of designers in society were the main topics of today’s program. The reception is by Martijn Paulen,...
Myth busting about ideation: Marijn van der Poll teaches start-ups how to think conceptually
Marijn van der Poll, former co-curator of the Dutch Design Week and a faculty member at the Design Academy Eindhoven, says it is a myth that idea generation – whether for a design, a product, a...
OS ∆ OOS: DDW Hidden Gem #8
The Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is the largest design festival in Northern Europe. Every year we pick nine designers that we think are this year’s hidden gems. You can read their stories here....
Dementia and caregivers
This is a series of stories about students graduating in the field of design and mental health. This time we talk with Evie Sparidaens. Last year she graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven on...
Graduation Show Design Academy moves to Campina site
The Graduation Show of the Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) moves from De Witte Dame to the Campina site near the Kanaaldijk-Zuid. The exhibition during the Dutch Design Week, has grown from 30,000 to...
Help with “wanting sex again” to the States
In a series of articles we talk to recent graduates of the Design Academy Eindhoven about Design & Mental Health. For example, what can design mean for people with sexual traumas? Today we are talking to Nienke Helder about ‘her’ Sexual Healing. As her...
Eindhoven alumni at Salone del Mobile in Milan
The world’s biggest design event, the Salone del Mobile in Milan, starts this week. And just like last year, the Design Academy Eindhoven will be there. A delegation of twelve recent graduates...
Design cities Eindhoven and Milan: connected through the air
Vandaag opent de jaarlijkse Salone del Mobile Milano zijn deuren The high-tech sector in Southeast Brabant is large and growing. More and more investments are leading to an increase in business...
Again, four Red Dots for VanBerlo Design
With designs for ATAG, Bosch and Vicon, VanBerlo has once again won four Red Dot Awards this year. The prizes will be awarded on 9 July during the Red Dot Gala in the Aalto Theatre in Essen,...
New perspectives on design at ‘Born at Night’ exhibition
A new exhibition at Kazerne, featuring products taken from the chaotic Chinese manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, is setting out to challenge the way that we in the west think of design. The work of...
DDW delivers millions for Eindhoven
During Dutch Design Week 2017, the 335,000 visitors spent a total of almost 15 million euros in shops and restaurants. More than one-third of this was spent in the hotel and catering industry. The...
WoW: Women rule the world of design
Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day. Reason for WoW – Women of Wearables, to organize a meeting dedicated to this day took place in Eindhoven. The initiator of the event,...
Dutch Design Week’s People’s Pavilion wins FRAME Award
The People’s Pavilion, a temporary and circular building that was erected on the Ketelhuisplein during Dutch Design Week 2017, has won a FRAME award. FRAME is one of the world’s leading brands...
Robot SAM is now working for Wall Street
There’s a tiny village in the middle of Strijp-S in Eindhoven. With 24 sea containers and a shared vegetable garden. This is the special workshop of a group of creative Eindhovenaren....
€25,000 for winners of Bio Art & Design Award 2018
Artists and designers interested in the life sciences are invited to propose new projects for the Bio Art & Design Award 2018. To get a feeling of the contest, design house MU now showcases the...
“Creatives of the South” at VanBerlo: Staircase illusion
The “Creatives of the South” is a group for photographers, bloggers, vloggers, copywriters, social media managers, designers, developers, strategists, project managers, SEO specialists,...
VanBerlo at CES2018 – The First Day
Eric Biermann (Design & Development Director at VanBerlo) and Bram Hendriks (Sr UX Designer at VanBerlo) are visiting the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In a daily diary, they...
2017 brought Philips no less than 165 Design Awards
A record number of 165 design awards was collected by Philips over the past year. Many RedDots and iF-awards of course, but also prizes from The American Institute of Architects, Good Design,...
Success for DDW’s Kickstarter campaigns
During and after Dutch Design Week, several innovative products could be supported by means of the Crowdfunding Dutch Design on Kickstarter. Eventually, four of the projects reached their goals and...
Brabant earns €15M because of “Mondriaan & Dutch Design”
With exhibitions and events during the national theme year “Mondriaan to Dutch Design”, the province of Brabant attracted 78,000 extra visitors from the Netherlands and abroad. Together...
Charlotte Kin wins Social Design Award with “Through Eyes”
Charlotte Kin has won the Social Design Talent Award from the municipality of Eindhoven with “Through Eyes”, a photo project to show problem youngsters their positive aspects. With the...
eVoLuOn: an Überlab, a mentality, a playground
…but preferably on another location in the inner city The province of Brabant recently expressed its support for the establishment of a national design museum in the Evoluon. This is in...
Dutch Design Foundation wins “Wimpel” by NLingenieurs
NLingenieurs has awarded Dutch Design Foundation with the “Wimpel”. The prize is handed out once every five years to an organization or person in the spotlights who has had a positive...
