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Design Academy Eindhoven
Design Academy Eindhoven is an interdisciplinary educational institute for art, architecture and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The work of its faculty and alumni have brought it international recognition, and is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading design schools. History The Design Academy Eindhoven was established in 1947 and was originally named the Academie voor Industriële Vormgeving (AIVE). The first nine students graduated in 1955. In 1997, the Academy moved into " De Witte Dame" (The White Lady) building and subsequently changed its name to Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE). In 1999, Li Edelkoort, was elected chairwoman of the Academy. In 2009 she left the Design Academy to pursue personal projects and was replaced by Anne Mieke Eggenkamp as chair. She was in turn succeeded by Thomas Widdershoven from 2013 until September 2016. Since 2017, Joseph Grima has taken place as CD. Structure The bachelor's program is split into eight interdisciplinary departments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eindhoven
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Statistieken gemeente Eindhoven AlleCijfers.nl it is the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands and the largest outside the conurbation. Eindhoven was originally located at the confluence of the |
Dutch Design Week
Dutch Design Week (also known as DDW) is the largest annual design event in Northern Europe. It presents work and concepts from more than 2,600 designers to more than 355,000 visitors from home and abroad. Hosted in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the event is about Dutch design. The event takes place around the last week of October and is a nine-day event with exhibitions, studio visits, workshops, seminars, and parties at many venues dispersed throughout the city. Due to its industrial character, hosting companies like Philips, Philips Design and DAF, Eindhoven sets itself the goal to become the national industry- and design capital. Also, hosting the Design Academy Eindhoven and the Eindhoven University of Technology, the city produces a profound bases for innovation. In order to communicate these outcomes, the Dutch Design Week is organized. The initiative started twelve years ago as a non-commercial fair where design, industry and business could talk to each other on 'neutral' gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stone Twins
The Stone Twins is a creative branding agency based in Amsterdam. It was founded by twin brothers Declan and Garech Stone (born 8 November 1970, Dublin), graduates of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. The Stone Twins have a reputation for ideas-based, engaging and strategic design solutions. Their body of work is quite eclectic, with no fixed visual style - as it equally embraces the palettes of graphic design, art-direction and copywriting. The firm's award-winning work includes a coveted Dutch Design Award, several European Design Awards and 12 D&AD Pencils. Their work forms part of the permanent collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The Stone Twins regularly write for trade magazines, including ''Communicatie'' (Wolters Kluwer) and ''Eye'' magazine: the International Review of Graphic Design. They are authors of the book ''Logo R.I.P.'' (A Commemoration of Dead Logos); the updated 2nd edition wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Stockmans
Pieter (Piet) Stockmans (born Leopoldsburg, 26 October 1940) is a Flemish designer and ceramist. Biography Stockmans was born in Leopoldsburg. He studied sculpture and ceramics in Hasselt and in Selb in Germany. After graduation, he settled in Genk. From 1966 to 1989 Stockmans was an industrial designer in the Royal Mosa porcelain factory in Maastricht. In those years he was the chief designer, who designed over 70% of all the company's products. Most successful was his design for the coffee "Sonja" cup, of which over 40 million were sold. kunstbus.nl. Accessed 25 May 2015. Between 1969 and 1998 Stockman also taught industrial design at the Department of Product Design at the Municipal Institute of Visual Comm and Design, later Media and Design Academy in Genk, and from 1983 to 1985 taught ceramic design at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Van Stein
Saskia is a Germanic feminine given name. There are at least two different sources of the name. One is of North German and Northeast Netherlands origin, where it originally meant "a Saxon woman" ( metathesis of "Saxia"). Notable people with the name include: * Saskia Alusalu (born 1994), Estonian speed skater * Saskia Bartusiak (born 1982), German football player * Saskia Burmeister (born 1985), Australian actress * Saskia Clark (born 1979), British sailor * Saskia Howard Clarke, contestant on the ''Big Brother'' British television series in 2005 * Saskia Cohen-Tanugi (1959–2020), French actress and theatre director * Saskia de Brauw (born 1981), Dutch artist and model * Saskia de Coster (born 1976), Belgian writer * Saskia de Jonge (born 1986), Dutch swimmer * Saskia D’Onofrio (1924-1999), Finnish opera singer and actress, better known by her stage name Maaria Eira * Saskia Elemans (born 1977), Dutch cyclist * Saskia Esken (born 1961), German politician * Saskia Estupin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Schouwenberg
Louise Schouwenberg (born 23 January 1954, in Belfeld) studied psychology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She worked as a visual artist from 1985–2003. Since then her primary focus has been on art and design theory. Schouwenberg is head of the Masters programme Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (teacher since 2005, head since 2010), and mentor of the Masters programme Inside, Interior Architecture, of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Schouwenberg has curated exhibitions on the cutting edge of art and design and has worked as adviser for many organisations. She regularly writes for international art and design magazines and has contributed to a range of books, some of the latest being the monograph: '' Hella Jongerius- Misfit'', released by Phaidon Press in 2010, a monograph on artist , published by Nai publishers in 2012, and Panorama - Konstantin Grcic, pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satyendra Pakhale
Satyendra Pakhalé (also known as Satyen Pakhalé; born 1967) is a designer, industrial designer, and architect. He realizes projects from industrial design, applied research to design vision of the future, technologically challenging product development, manufacturing, highly crafted pieces, exhibitions, and architecture. He works in the fields of product design, including consumer electronics, health care, aviation, mobility, home appliances, furniture, digital products & computers, and interior design and architecture. In 2008, he was selected as one of L’Uomo Vogue magazine's 80 most influential creative people with a vision worldwide in design and architecture. His works are in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide. Early life Satyen Pakhalé was born and raised in central Maharashtra, India. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Design Engineering from Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur (now Visvesvaraya National Institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Otero Verzier
A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : ''marina'', "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats. A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or cargo from freighters. The word ''marina'' may also refer to an inland wharf on a river or canal that is used exclusively by non-industrial pleasure craft such as canal narrowboats. Emplacement Marinas may be located along the banks of rivers connecting to lakes or seas and may be inland. They are also located on coastal harbors (natural or man made) or coastal lagoons, either as stand alone facilities or within a port complex. History In the 19th century, the few existing pleasure craft shared the same facilities as trading and fishing vessels. The marina appeared in the 20th century with the popularization of yachting. Facilities and services A marina may have refuelling, washing and repair facilities, marine and boat chandlers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Gregoor
Johannes Jacobus "Jan" Gregoor (April 9, 1914 – May 20, 1982) was a Dutch painter and art educator. His works were extensively exhibited in art galleries and museums throughout the Netherlands. He taught art at the Design Academy Eindhoven, alongside Kees Bol. Gregoor was born in The Hague, where he studied at the Dutch Royal Academy of Art. During World War II, he put his art skills in service of the Dutch resistance, when (sometimes along with Max Velthuijs) he forged stamps in identity papers of people in hiding.Lenteren P"Mijn hand wil altijd een andere kant op."''Volkskrant'' 2005-01-26. Accessed 2008-05-27. His work concentrated among others on urban and industrial landscapes. Among his many students were Helen Berman, Frans Clement, Els Coppens-van de Rijt, Jan Dibbets, and Hans van Vroonhoven. His brother, Nol Gregoor, was a famous Dutch art critic and essayist An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Crawford
Ilse Catherine Crawford (born 1962) is a British interior and furniture designer. Early life and education Crawford was born in London in 1962 to Jill Rendall and Malcom Crawford. Her father, Malcom, was the editor of ''The Sunday Times'' and her mother, Jill, an artist and a pianist. When she was seven years old, Crawford went to live with her grandparents to alleviate the strain on her mother who had recently had triplet daughters. When Crawford was 18 years old, she had planned to attend University of York, but after her mother died, decided to attend Bedford College to study history. Career She worked in an architects firm and for the ''Architects' Journal'' before being chosen as the launch editor of ''Elle Decoration'' and then the short-lived '' Bare'' magazine. In 1998, she left to work for Donna Karan, soon moving on to designing interiors and setting up her own design studio, StudioIlse, in London in 2001. In 2000, Crawford founded the Man and Well-Being departm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kees Bol
Cornelis "Kees" Bol (September 21, 1916 – September 16, 2009) was a Dutch painter and art educator. His work was exhibited in art galleries and museums throughout the Netherlands, as well as in Paris. In 1950 Bol was awarded the Thérèse van Duyl-Schwartze Prize and in 1982 he was made Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Biography Bol was born in Oegstgeest. Initially he was a florist in his home town. After moving to Eindhoven in 1935, he held corporate jobs at Bata Shoes and Philips. In 1941 he married Toos van 't Hof. In 1946 he turned to art, studying at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague with Paul Citroen, Han van Dam, Jan Heesters, and Henk Meijer.Kees Bol - Unofficial website In 1947 he moved to Tongelre, Eindhoven where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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