DAD Galerie Berlin present Highlights of Dutch Design Week 2015

Obviously defining a “Best of” Dutch Design Week, or indeed any design week, is impossible, one can only hope to

smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: October

……and continued over Budapest and on to Berlin – where amongst other delights we partook of the exhibitions Sensing the

(smow) blog compact Dutch Design Week Special: Dirk Vander Kooij

Back in the day when the CD was new and exciting we remember watching a breakfast TV host spread honey on one to demonstrate how indestructible they were. Other CDs were attacked with keys, dowsed in hot coffee and stood on.

These days we all know much better. CDs are destructible. We’ve seen the light.

And at Dutch Design Week 2014 you can can see the light a recycled CD emits.

Or at least the luminescence produced by a mass of recycled CDs in the thoughtfully and intelligently formed Fresnel Suspension Lamp by Dutch designer Dirk Vander Kooij.

Unter Zwischen im Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum

In 2011 a group of Dutch artists and designers established the Orangemann Trust and set about converting an old, abandoned