As we believe we've noted before, the joy in that exhibition format in which designers present objects which are important and/or relevant to them, is that no matter how often it is repeated it is always new. Same, same, but different. For their 2017 show Dutch Invertuals are presenting collections of objects from 45 alumni which have an importance to/relevance for them, or which simply represent an object of wonder and inspiration to the relevant designer. And because it's Dutch Invertuals
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Just as January means Cologne, April is Milan. And normally only Milan. In 2015 however we managed to spice things up with an interview with Michael Geldmacher from Neuland Industriedesign on the method by which designers are paid and organising a survey of designers attitudes on how they are paid. Didn't change the world. Made us feel a little better however..... USM Haller Privacy Panels, as seen at Milan Furniture Fair 2015 Michael Geldmacher and Eva Paster a.k.a Neuland Industriedesign
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As a general rule, what you don't say is more important than what you do say: your body language famously sending discrete messages to those around you, messages which betray your feelings and intentions more eloquently and honestly than you ever could, or indeed would often dare to. Similarly, an inanimate object's body language also sends discrete messages which eloquently betray its intentions. An object's body language being more commonly referred to as its form and the functionalists
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Such was the quality of the new products we saw during our autumn tour they kept us going well into November; indeed it wasn't until a cold dank Friday in Chemnitz ahead of the opening of the exhibition Andy Warhol – Death and Disaster at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, that we even realised it was November.
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Cohesion is a concept with which we are very familiar. Largely because it is a state we never achieve. Much like the geometry's asymptote never touches its associated curve, so to do our lives approach cohesion, without ever achieving such a condition. It remaining something tantalisingly ahead of us. Infinitely so. And so it was with a particular personal interest we viewed the new 2014 Dutch Invertuals' exhibition: Cohesion. As is traditional with Dutch Invertuals the participating
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Many people, if not peoples, could currently be forgiven for reacting somewhat sceptically to the notion of a “Happy Future”. With their exhibition “Happy Future” Dutch design collective Dutch Invertuals take on this scepticism and aim to show that the basic ingredients for such are there; we just need to identify and use them correctly. Established in 2009 Dutch Invertuals is a loose collective of designers, largely but not exclusively with a Design Academy Eindhoven background, who
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As we've already admitted the first time we saw a Dutch Invertuals exhibition we didn't hang around very long. Since then however we have matured a lot and the show has become a regular feature of our visits to Eindhoven and Milan. Simply put, one always finds something challenging, exciting and beautiful at a Dutch Invertuals show. And invariably something you don't really understand, no matter how often it is explained to you. But that itself is for us reason enough to go. In 2012 Dutch
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For all in or near Paris this summer the Dutch Invertuals exhibition "Matter of time" is showing at Gallery S.Bensimon from 16.06 until 11.07 One of our highlights of Dutch Design Week 2010, "Matter of time" presents projects from 8 design studios that use 600 year old wood that initially formed an entrance gate to "Old-Eindhoven" to create objects/installations which examine time in all its material and immaterial contexts. A particular favourite of ours is "Drawn by time" by EDHV - a piece
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Eindhoven is Philips. Eindhoven used to be much more Philips; but in course of the inevitable restructuring of the last 20 years Philips have greatly reduced the number of buildings they need. Buildings which Eindhoven city council hope to turn into a "Creative City" In addition to office blocks occupied by architects, photographers or graphic designers, just about every Eindhoven based product designer you meet works in an "old Philips factory" And the principle Dutch Design Week
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We must begin this post with a small confession. Something we were too scared to tell the good folks at Dutch Invertuals personally. We first came across the Dutch Invertuals design collective @ Milan 2009. Where we walked out of their show after 36 seconds. It was our fault. We were tired, hungry and on our way to the opening of a Belgian product design showcase. We shouldn't have gone. It was the wrong moment on the wrong day for experimental Dutch design. We spent a little longer at
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