Tropenmuseum commercial

Alexandre Lagoët and Rick Coolegem of Saatchi and Saatchi have made a campaign for the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. The campaign highlights that there is a story to be told about every artifact in the museum. Printed ads and the website give a fortaste to a visit to the museum. Next year there will also be a storyteller in the streets of Amsterdam. The wonderful illustriations are by Chris Buzelli.

Chris Buzelli
Saatchi & Saatchi Amsterdam

Gijs Bakker

I know Gijs Bakker as one of the founders of Droog Design. This strip chair was his very first product in 1974. Together with the Dutch laboratory TNO he developed a new revelutionary technique to bend laminated wood. Gijs Bakker has said it is essential for an artist to be able to take time to refine a product or process. It took a period of 1,5 year to take this chair into production. Fortunately, producer Castelijn gave Bakker all freedom he needed.

source: www.designmatcher.com

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

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).

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

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:

Inka Jarvinen

Inka Jarvinen

EricandMarie

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

Eric and marie