Netherlands | Design Indaba

Trailer: Teresa van Dongen on visualising the magic of nature

Recent Dutch Design Award winner Teresa van Dongen expresses her interest in the unexpected but magical design of nature. >
Are dogs the future of frail care?

Design Academy Eindhoven student Archibald Godts considers the future of frail care where dogs become helpers to those too frail to care for themselves. >
Cube, the Netherlands' first design museum, opens this weekend

The Netherlands' first design museum opens this weekend with two internationally focused exhibitions: "Designing the World" and "Design Identities". >
TextielMuseum presents Fiber Futures | Art from Japan

The Netherlands-based textile museum showcases 30 Japanese artists pushing boundaries in the practice of fibre art. >
A community centre helps Bangaldesh's "landless people" change their economic situations

The Pani Community Centre in Rajarhat, Bangladesh acts as a technical school, community centre, bicycle workshop and playground for children. >
Dutch designer uses discarded wax-prints for a purpose other than fashion

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Simone Post is giving new life to the discarded wax prints from Vlisco by designing a series of interior products. >
Peter Bil'ak: Designing for dance, typefaces and marginalised alphabets

Netherlands-based designer, Peter Bil'ak feeds his multi-disciplinary appetite for design by looking beyond the surface of things. >
Designing the World

Exhibition

Designing the World at Cube Design Museum in the Netherlands is curated by six global design institutes, one of which is Design Indaba. >
Design Indaba curates best of African design for Netherlands exhibition

The new Cube Museum in the Netherlands opens its doors to the public with a collaborative exhibition curated by six of the world’s top design authorities. >
Graduate brings designs from books and movies to life

Daniela Treija’s Design Academy Eindhoven graduate project translates imaginary inventions from books and films into real-life designs. >
Richard van der Laken is an advocate for the power of design for change

The cofounder of the conference What Design Can Do, Richard van der Laken, tells us about the power of design and designers to make change. >
Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse and TextielLab collaborate on a knitted solar curtain

Two Netherlands-based organisations are on the frontier of energy-harvesting textile design. >
Something Borrowed: Collage artist B. D. Graft goes back to paper and glue

German collage artist Brian de Graft started creating art as a pleasant distraction from his studies and it soon became his obsession. >
Redesigning the human body

Bigger is not always better, says artist Arne Hendricks, calling for the downsizing of the human race. >
Fruit and veggie waste is transformed into leathery material

A group of design students in Rotterdam have created a new type of leather from discarded fresh produce. >
Miniature 3D-printed refugees in art project Moving People

The Moving People guerrilla art installation by the Power of Art House collective sees miniature 3D-printed refugees in cities in Europe. >
Marije Vogelzang imagines meat growing on plants for her food design project

Plant Bones is Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang’s exploration into culinary creativity. >
A sustainable salt city in the desert

At only 24 years old architecture graduate Eric Geboers has already designed a solution to global desertification. >
An ocean cleanup project, innovative healthcare and vertically-grown vegetables: five designs that could revolutionise life

Celebrate designs that address serious modern challenges, this year's INDEX Awards winners include clean energy batteries and a language learning app. >
Designers in Amsterdam reward community members for getting Wasted

Wasted is a community laboratory in Amsterdam Noord, where plastic waste is turned into building blocks and rubbish becomes a valuable currency. >
Beauty and ugliness in type design

In this article on the process of designing Karloff typeface, Peter Bil'ak shows just how closely related beauty and ugliness are. >
Sweat wearable combines tech and body

A researcher has designed a textile coating that analyses the body’s sweat content to warn against dehydration. >
The sweeter side of 3D printing

Designer Julian Sing creates miniature sugar sculptures with a 3D printer. >
Rent a room in Amsterdam’s UrbanCampsite art installation

UrbanCampsiteAmsterdam is an art installation by fourteen architects, artists and designers where you can rent a room in a quirky temporary shelter. >

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