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Luna Maurer

Luna Maurer is a designer and artist working in the field of digital media.

Herenmarkt 93B
Amsterdam, NH
Netherlands
luna@poly-luna.com

Maarten Baas

Since 2005 there's studio "Baas & den Herder". That's where all new products of Maarten are developed and most products from the collection are being produced.

 

Rosmalensedijk 3
's Hertogenbosch, NB
Netherlands
info@maartenbaas.com

Irma Boom

Irma Boom is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer specialising in book making. With her use of unfamiliar formats, materials, colors, structures, and typography she makes the book into a visual and haptic experience.

Koninginneweg 174
1075 EH Amsterdam, NH
Netherlands
office@irmaboom.nl

Hella Jongerius

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 and projects for clients such as Maharam (New York), Royal Tichelaar Makkum (The Netherlands), Vitra (Basel) and IKEA (Sweden).

Gruttersdijk 22
Utrecht, UT
Netherlands
info@jongeriuslab.com

Richard Hutten

Richard Hutten (1967 Zwollerkerspel) graduated at the Academy Industrial Design Eindhoven in 1991. That same year he started his own designstudio, working on a variety of projects such as: furniture-, product-, interior- and exhibition design.

p.o. box 6005
3002 AA Rotterdam, ZH
Netherlands

Christien Meindertsma

Christien Meindertsma explores the life of products and raw materials. For her first book, Checked Baggage (2004), Christien purchased a container filled with a week's worth of objects confiscated at security checkpoints in Schiphol Airport after 9/11. She meticulously categorized all 3267 items and photographed them on a white seamless background. Christien’s second book, PIG 05049 (2007), is an extensive collection of photographic images that documents an astounding array of products that different parts of an anonymous pig called 05049 could support.

Provenierssingel 59 B
Rotterdam, ZH
Netherlands
info@christienmeindertsma.com

Makkink & Bey

Studio Makkink & Bey is led by architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey. Supported by a design team, they have been operating their design practice since 2002. Studio Makkink & Bey investigates the various domains of applied art while studying the tension between the private and public domain. Taking a critical stance towards the designing of public space, architecture, interiors, exhibitions and products is pivotal.

Overschieseweg 52 a
Rotterdam, ZH
Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)10 4258792
intern@studiomakkinkbey.nl, studio@jurgenbey.nl

Premsela and DutchDFA

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The sector institute for the field of design is Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion. Operating from a cultural perspective, Premsela wants to create opportunities for the growth of Dutch design. Premsela organises lectures and symposia and initiates events and publications in order to contribute to a better design climate.

For example, it was involved in the inception of Visies op Vormgeving – two weighty books recording the history of design in the twentieth century – and Morf – an independent magazine on design.

Consciousness

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This attention to traditional methods is a response to the threat hanging over our society; threat in the form of pollution, deforestation and global warming.

Graphic design: An explosion of styles

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Graphic design has also seen a lot of changes. During the 1970s and ‘80s, the tone was set by designers with an impersonal and austere signature. Who can forget the angular, mechanical numbers on the postage stamps by Wim Crouwel, which cheerlessly announced the coming of the computer age? Or the politically charged work of Jan van Toorn, who felt that designers should have the courage of their convictions and approach their work with social engagement?

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