Dutch Design Week – Student Work

The Dutch Design Academy graduated 171 students this year, and one of the perks is that they get to exhibit their senior project at Design Week.  With 250,000 attendees (DDW’s figures), this is a powerful draw to keep students in the area through the end of October.  I talked with one student who had graduated…

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Dutch Design Week – Thoughts on Design

While we were in the Netherlands for Dutch Design Week, I began to focus on just what the catalysts are that make an area fertile ground for designers.  Eindhoven is not a big city, it is industrial in nature and in the interior of the country, not close to any significant centers for culture.  But…

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