• Droog
    Droog
    Design Studio
    Droog pioneers new design directions in the heart of Amsterdam. >
  • Printed fashion
    Welcome to the future with 3D printed couture that effectively, and fashionably, utilises rapid prototyping. >
  • Green feet
    Forget green fingers. With Oats Shoes's new Virgin Collection you can have green feet, or shoes rather. >
  • Dirk Vander Kooij
    Product Designer
    Dirk Vander Kooij is a product designer, best known for using recycled plastic from old refrigerators to create a range of chairs. >
  • Lighting the way
    Karim Rashid’s Cross Lamp consists of countless small figures joined together to create an iconic symbol. >
  • Rewriting history at DI2011
    Co-founder of Droog, Renny Ramakers has paved the way for products and projects that challenge the limits and borders of design thinking. >
  • Chop chop
    What do you get when you put 8 000 chopsticks, 4 000 joints and 2 000 rings together? Two seats for the prices of one! >
  • Renny Ramakers
    Renny Ramakers
    Creative Director
    Co-founder and director of Droog, Renny Ramakers curates exhibitions, is a judging panelist on various boards, and leads lectures and workshops worldwide. >
  • Photo: Femke Reijerman
    Beautiful and useful
    Architectural Acoustics and Legwear are two funky but functional projects by Niek Pulles. >
  • Paperback bookshelf by Studio Parade.
    Books, sideways
    A shelf that displays horizontally makes it much easier to read the spine. See Studio Parade’s good idea. >
  • Breaking boundaries at DI2011
    Maarten Baas’s designs are not defined by predetermined boundaries, rather he finds his cause in undertaking new experiments. >
  • Student Pavilion at Erasmus University by Paul de Ruiter Architects.
    Cool on campus
    A proposal for a new student pavilion at Erasmus University in the Netherlands aims to be energy neutral. >
  • Obstinate seating
    Jurgen Bey says chairs are never used in the way they were designed to be used. His Stubborn Chair rebels against this notion. >
  • Museum matters
    With designers like Maarten Baas and Jaime Hayón on the job, the newly improved Groninger Museum could only be impressive. >
  • Kashida font by Freedom of Creation.
    For all types
    Freedom of Creation turns any personal text into a 3D font and sculpts it into physical form using 3D printers. >
  • Carolian Wilcke for Priveekollektie. Photo: Jelle Mollema.
    Designed things
    Object Rotterdam, at the cutting edge of art and design, will showcase limited edition designs, craft and jewellery. >
  • Flower design by Andreas Verheijen. Photo: Wendelien Daan.
    Floral fun
    Flower engineer Andreas Verheijen meshes his interest in design and love of flowers to create awe-inspiring installations. >
  • Maarten Baas
    Product Designer
    Maarten Baas is the youngest designer ever to be recognised as Designer of the Year during Design Miami. >
  • Latro Algae Lamp by Mike Thompson.
    Algae energy
    The Latro Algae Lamp uses algae to transform carbon dioxide into light. >
  • Endless chairs by Dirk vander Kooij.
    Plastic goes on
    A creative process that gives discarded plastic a second life is always welcome, like Dirk van der Kooij's Endless range of chairs. >
  • KLM tableware by Marcel Wanders.
    Elegance in the air
    Marcel Wanders has designed a fab new range of tableware for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines >
  • Marcel Wanders for MAC.
    Marcel magic for MAC
    Marcel Wanders and MAC Cosmetics have creatively collaborated on a limited edition of sophisticated makeup products. >
  • Democratising design
    Various technologies and social platforms has allowed for, literally, anybody to be a designer. Here's a book that considers this. >
  • Bird in Hand by J.P. Meulendijks.
    Hand creations
    Bird in Hand is a lamp that pays tribute to the age-old pasime of casting hand shadows on walls. >

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