PUC × Dutch Design Week
Suitcase Symphony
This is yet another innovative design by Jeriël Bobbe, the creator of the Movie-ng Experience that we mentioned earlier in our Dutch Design Week 2011 series. Bobbe’s frequent travels and the carrying a trolley suitcase inspired him to use the trolley as a music instrument. Instead of annoying noises on ordinary stone pavements, a range of relief paving stones create […]
Taggie Shows Where Supermarket Food Comes From
Designer Niels van Hoof developed Taggie, a smartphone app that enables children to research where their supermarket food comes from. By aiming a smartphone camera at a product tag, an animated film will be played which explains where the food comes from and the way it grows. Besides, Taggie enables its users to playfully discover […]
A Bridge Of Ice
“For millions of years, powerful natural elements such as water, ice, black sand and molten rock have shaped Iceland into a country renowned for its rugged beauty. Yet today an additional, man-made power is sculpting the landscape: aluminium smelters, as part of an industrial landscape controled by hydro-power plants and massive dams.” This landscape has […]
Self-Growing Shelter
Biesbosch is a national park in the south of the Netherlands. Usually the river floods about three times a year and covers parts of the park with water. From that, to build permanent constructions from wood or bricks for recreation would be difficult. Feike de Jong came up with Biesbosch Expedition, a steel frame overgrown […]
A Restaurant In A Crate
Ardie van Bommel’s ‘Pure Nature’ graduation project is a modular outdoor restaurant made out of characteristic apple crates. By composing the diverse kitchen and dining units at any spot, allows an open air restaurant to pop up in a minute. Van Bommel’s modular crate restaurant is based on the classic apple crates that are used […]
Train Ticket To The Movies
Wouldn’t it be nice to have some movie entertainment in trains? However, installing LCD screens behind each seat like in airplanes would be much too expensive. A nice and effective way to solve this problem was shown at the Dutch Design Week with Jeriël Bobbe’s ‘Movie-ng Experience’. Not some projected video on a sound barrier, but a series […]
Inventions For A Nomadic Lifestyle
Designer Maaike Fransen came up with a great collection of what she calls ‘inventions for a nomadic lifestyle’. Living in a temporary situation herself, Fransen delved into the needs of an urban nomad in daily life. Being in cognito form time to time is such a basic urban need for nomads wo are spending most of […]
Integrated Bird Houses
Some people consider city birds disastrous when it comes to their homes. The birds are especially unwanted when they accommodate at attics, making holes into wall insulation, and under roof tiles. We could install some traditional wooden bird houses in our garden, on trees or social housing for birds at other places in the city. Recently we stumbled upon even more esthetical, yet subtle solutions: bird house roof tiles. These tiles consist of terracotta with a bird house perched on top where the bird can nest in.
Spotted At The Dutch Design Week 2011
Showcasing the best products, ideas and creations from both young and established designers, the DDW has become the leading design event in the Netherlands with more than 1,800 participating designers, 65 locations throughout the city, 300 events and 180,000 visitors. Industrial design, spatial design, graphic design, fashion, textiles, architecture, you name it... it's all there.
HEL YES! Helsinki Food And Design
HEL YES! brings the tastes and designs of Helsinki to a pop-up restaurant for 15 days in Kalasatama, an old harbor area in Helsinki.
