Everything is possible In the world of award-winning Dutch designer Henk Stallinga. A sponge can become a vase, a business card can be used as a knife and fork, and almost anything can become a clock, a chair, an electric light. It's a familiar world, almost logical, but not quite. If museums exist to present objects that will stimulate us to thought, then this inspiring collection of Stallinga's work is a museum in itself. These objects appeal ...

Dutch Architects 7 is the most comprehensive overview of Dutch architecture available today. It presents the most recent projects of 120 architects, interior architects, urban planners, and landscape architects and provides excellent insight into the signature style of the Dutch and the unique contribution they make to contemporary architecture. The associated website, www.architectenkeuze.nl, is a handy tool that allows the browser to select an ...

This book celebrates forty years of creative work by a firm that had shaped the landscape of corporate Holland: Designers of Eden. Since inception and focus at Designers of Eden has been to improve the strength of each client's corporate identity and to provide their clients with functional and sustainable methods of visual communication. This is an agency that seeks long-term solutions through a complex multi-disciplinary approach and Create ...

Understanding Design stimulates designers to think about what they do, how they do it, why and to which effect. The book's 150 one-page essays, absolutely humburg free, provide design thinking for inspiration and insight. Fundamental questions are raised about designers themselves and about the role of design in the broader contexts of companies and socety, all directly linked to the experience and everyday practice of designers. Understanding ...

The seventh volume presents a complete listing of the Dutch designers represented in Dutch Design 2002-2003 by displaying their business cards. A valuable resource for all design agencies. ...

Sixth edition in a series that provides excellent insight into the signature style of Dutch architects and the unique contribution they make to contemporary architecture. More innovative than any of its predecessors this edition has been expanded to include for the first time urban planners and landscape architects, and a comprehensive index that provides contact details for all of the companies featured. Also for the first time is the ...

Unassailable as the world's most comprehensive survey of Holland's unique design scene Dutch Design 2002-2003 is a spectacular biannual that represents all genres of visual communication.<P>The set comes in a design bag and includes six paperback volumes, and an index featuring the business cards of all comtributors. From cover to cover each volume is innovative, absorbing, multi-layered and dynamic. Featured are brilliant examples of ...

12th issue exploring the current craze for customisation from recent trends in trainers, clothes and readymades to the latest series of Penguin Classics with blank covers.
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Illustration is back! With a dramatic return to form, this discipline - after years of self-imposed exile - has come in from the cold to reclaim the spotlight. 'Something' had to happen and happen it did; a new breed of illustrators with something to say and new ways of saying it, grabbing the attention of creative departments worldwide. Clin d'oeil focuses on 45 of the most influential and upcoming illustrators of our time. Clin d'oeil ...

Unassailable as the world's most comprehensive survey of Holland's unique design scene Dutch Design 2002-2003 is a spectacular biannual that represents all genres of visual communication.<P>The set comes in a design bag and includes six paperback volumes, and an index featuring the business cards of all comtributors. From cover to cover each volume is innovative, absorbing, multi-layered and dynamic. Featured are brilliant examples of ...