15 September 2007

Theatre posters

The Dutch Theatre Institute has recently announced its theatre poster awards. Below are my favourite nominees.





































Levi van Veluw



















Levi van Veluw is a very talented artist, who just graduated form the Artez Art School in Arnhem, The Netherlands. His work can be seen at the ArtOlive exhibition until tomorrow!

Levi van Veluw

06 September 2007

Chairs

For me, the chair is the ultimate design object. There are so many different solutions to create a beautiful, functional chair. It is also exiting to see how during the last century new technologies were quickly implemented in new chairs.



















Above some classics, by Poul Kjaerholm, Arne Jacobsen, Jasper Morrison and Charles & Ray Eames (clockwise from top left).

31 August 2007

Libraries




















































Yesterday I visited the University Library in Utrecht, the Netherlands, designed by Wiel Arets. It's a beautiful, exiting building (espacially for those with vertigo!).












Amsterdam just got a new library too, developed by Jo Coenen. It makes me happy that in the public sector there still is a budget for projects like these.

Wiel Arets Architects
Jo Coenen

Mibo















































Mibo was launched in 2001 in a bid to inject some colour and pattern into the then glass and steel world of domestic lighting. I particularly like the textiles.

Mibo

30 August 2007

Magical Finland

Two illustrators who take you to a fairytale world. They both have Finnish roots, let's go there!

Klaus Haapaniemi:


















The Taika range for Iittala









































Sanna Annukka:


















20 August 2007

EricandMarie
































At the website of Eric and Marie Design Studio you can find interesting use of materials and formats.

Eric and marie

26 July 2007

Studio8 Design





















Studio8 was established in 2005 by Matt Willey and Zoƫ Bather, formerly creative directors at Frost Design. Another inspiring discovery.

studio8design

06 July 2007

Niche modern

































Beautiful lamps from handblown glass by Niche Modern.

They are based in the US, so the lamps are designed for 110 V, but surely there is a way to use them in Europe too? (and how can it be that I have a degree in industrial design engineering and not know this? blush)

Niche modern