one of my favourite dutch poster designers michiel schuurman, took a job as a textile designer for dutch brand ‘vlisco’ some while ago, since then i’ve been really looking forward to seeing his output
he finally ‘outed’ himself this week on facebook and showed us what he has been up to with the vlisco 2013 collection… amazing stuff
last weekend i had fun attending the dutch design week and the dutch design awards 2013 ceremony on saturday evening; for which i was kindly invited by the organisation, as usual well organised and some well-deserved winners too this year
one of my favourite pieces was the funky collection of inside-out trainers by elisa van joolen (pictured at the top), whilst the whole idea of deconstruction, reapproprating objects or thinking back to front may not be new, these were particularly well executed and pure fun to see… the lower image is actually from a different designer, but clearly someone with a similar vein of thought…
two necessary functions combined into one: the eco urinal, smart…
…some time in the late 19th Century, the drowned body of a young woman was recovered from the River Seine. As was customary in those days, her body was put on display at the Paris mortuary, in the hope that someone would recognise and identify her. The pathologist on duty became so entranced by the face of the girl with the enigmatic half-smile that he asked a moulder to take a plaster cast of her face…
the story of the model behind one of the most-kissed models on earth: resusci anne and l’inconnue
a beautiful series of jewellery pieces from artist maiko takeda, practicality doesn’t appear to have been the prime factor here (via ‘jean louis d’)
