Every October, collectors, dealers, curators, and designers travel to Eindhoven, a small manufacturing town in the Netherlands, for what might sound like an insignificant event. In reality, it's a gold mine.
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‘Dutch Graphic Roots’ is an English-language website, publishing portraits of designers who have been at the roots of Dutch graphic design culture. Every month a new portrait is put online.
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GK Osnova has announced MVRDV winner of an international design competition for the mixed-use complex Silhouette in the city centre of Moscow, that will serve as a symbolic gateway to Moscow.
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As climate change causes sea levels to rise, floods are becoming a global challenge. With 75 per cent of the world’s ever-growing megacities located in delta areas, large-scale construction on water seems to be only a matter of time. The Dutch know how.
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Trendwatcher Li Edelkoort opens her own design gallery in Paris. Edelkoort Gallery exhibits design as well as arts and crafts. The place will host live events too.
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Dutch Sustainable Business and Design has taken over Prenzlauer Berg. The first ever ‘inspired pop-up-shop’ recently opened its doors in Berlin.
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With 2018 on the horizon, Connecting the Dots is preparing a design exhibition with light as its sole focus, at the imm cologne between 15 and 21 January.
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MVRDV introduces a radical approach to a former industrial site with WERK12, a transparent 9,600m2 mixed-used development located close to Munich’s East Station.
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The annual MPavilion, a small but prestigious cultural building for the summer season in Melbourne helps OMA to connect the firm more closely to the Australian market.
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MVRDV have, with the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI), designed Tianjin Binhai Library as part of a larger plan to provide a cultural district for the city.
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The 22nd edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event has been visited by the record number of 395,000 visitors. ADE has once again cemented its position as the worlds leading platform for electronic music.
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NL Architects was rewarded with the Future Award for DeFlat Kleiburg, making it this year’s big winner the Dutch Design Awards. The flat from the sixties in Amsterdam where the habitants took the renovation at hand themselves was also awarded a Dutch Design Award in the Habitat category.
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The Dutch World Directory 2017-2018 gives an overview of the world music scene in the Netherlands. The guide provides a helping hand by providing an overview of its prominent agents, archives, festivals, labels, media, musicians, promoters and venues.
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Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu of Dutch architecture firm OMA have been selected as the design architects for the expansion of the New Museum in New York.
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EasyJet, the budget airline, is celebrating Dutch culture with a pop-up café in partnership with the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions. The café will serve sprinkles on buttered bread, a popular Dutch breakfast dish.
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Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has won the competition for Zhangjiang Future Park, a 100,000m2 park and culture centre in Shanghai.
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For the first time this year's’ edition of Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) will have a strong focus on China's exploding dance scene.
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DPDK, the Dutch digital agency known for its work for 7UP, Pernod Ricard and Peugeot, opened an office in New York. After a period of exceptional growth the business move allows the agency to expand its international client roster.
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On the 13th of September 2017, Queens Quay Boulevard was awarded a Toronto Urban Design Award of Excellence. West 8 + DTAH's design won in the category Large Spaces and/or Neighbourhood Designs.
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From September till November, the 2017 Dutch Culture Festival in Chengdu will present a diversity of events themed around public space and city living.
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During the Beijing Design Week 2017 a broad range of Dutch design is featured in the 751D·PARK from 28 September until 6 October. The projects presented show Dutch design never occurs in isolation; it is driven by inclusivity, cross-fertilization, integration and looking at the bigger picture.
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