Four Dutch companies present the Spiral Tower, an innovative, sustainable and energy and space-saving variant of the traditional Ferris wheel. The Spiral Tower is an initiative of KCI The Engineers, Bosch Rexroth, HILLEBRAND and NorthernLight.
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Two industrial designers from Rotterdam developed a personal social distancing laser projector, to make the distance we need to keep in these corona virus times visible.
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Artists are now able to submit their applications to play at ESNS 2020. ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) is the showcase festival with the very best emerging acts from Europe. ESNS 2020 takes place in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands, from January 15-18, 2020.
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The first products that spring to mind when you think of Dutch exports might be flowers or cheese, but in recent years the music industry has become an important export area. Exports in 2017 totalled €201.
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Architectural firm Space Encounters and Creative Holland together present 'The Museum', during the Salone del Mobile (9-14 april 2019) in Milan, with space for art and design from the Netherlands.
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This Friday sees the start of South by South West (SXSW) 2019, the leading tech, media and music festival in Austin, Texas. The Dutch will be there in force with a combined delegation from Brabant C, New Dutch Wave and Dutch Design Foundation.
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The FRAME Awards were announced at a gala event in Amsterdam last week. Philippe Starck won a Lifetime Achievement award and Faye Toogood was named ‘Designer of the Year’ award, but the international winners also include plenty of Dutch designers.
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Talpa Media has announced the appointment of Kim Dingler as head of Talpa Global. As Managing Director, Dingler will be responsible for the global launch and commercialization of television formats and digital concepts.
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Dirty God, the new film from director Sacha Polak and producer Marleen Slot, opened the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) last week. Within hours of the opening, the cast and crew were on their way to Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. Dirty God is the first Dutch film to be nominated for an award at Sundance.
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A pavilion that is not a building in the traditional sense, but a temporary climate system built with local materials. This will be the distinctive Dutch contribution to the Dubai EXPO 2020.
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MVRDV has presented a daring and ambitious design for two towers with interactive facades in the centre of Taipei: the Taipei Twin Towers.
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For the third year in a row, Martin Garrix has been announced as the highest ranking DJ in the world's most popular DJ poll during AMF. Like earlier years, the Netherlands are well represented in the list, with four DJ's in the Top 5.
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This week Connecting the Dots presents the third edition of Enlightened Design in London with work by Dutch designers Jesse Visser, Jacqueline Harberink, Alex Groot Jebbink, Margaret van Bekkum and Marc de Groot.
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Ten young designers with creative solutions and designs unthought of will show the visitors unexpected moments and innovative solutions with their Occasion Dutch Design Lounge.
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In 2022, an entirely new Natural History Museum will open its doors in Copenhagen. Dutch design agency Tinker imagineers won the international tender to design the new scenography for an area of almost 4.900 m2 netto.
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The originally Dutch file sharing platform WeTransfer announced the acquisition of FiftyThree Inc., the New York and Seattle-based parent company of sketching app Paper and presentation tool Paste. WeTransfer acquired the team, the entire patent/IP and trademark portfolio, and all assets for the applications.
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Last week, 24 winners of the 2018 Dutch Design Awards were announced. The winning projects will be shown during Dutch Design Week (20-28 October 2018), when the overall winner of the Future Award will also be announced.
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KCAP has won the competition for the International Cruise Port City masterplan in Qingdao, China. The masterplan provides Qingdao with a high-density mixed-use environment for living, working and cruise tourism
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Dutch architects West 8’s ‘pollinator garden’ is the winner of the design competition to upgrade the northern section of Bernie Spain Gardens on London’s South Bank. The announcement is a major step forward in the transformation of the Gardens.
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MVRDV is proud to announce the opening of a new office in Spaces Réaumur, Paris. In recent years, MVRDV has become increasingly active in France with prestigious projects in Rennes, Bordeaux and Paris.
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Home is where the heart is. But how do you conquer that heart when your house is far away from home? During Milan Design Week, hospitality forms the starting point of the second edition of the international design exhibition Design Language.
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