The Dutch Wolda ’09 winners

Wolda is the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world, creating an archive that tracks the evolution of tastes, styles and trends in global design, year after year.

Wolda’s standing is guaranteed by the endorsement of many of the most important design associations: Wolda is the only awards scheme in the world endorsed by more than 100 design associations and schools.

Today, the winners of 2009 were announced. From all these winners there were also 6 Dutch logos awarded:

• Best of The Netherlands: Niel-Jan Weijsters

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Samsung advertisement in Amsterdam

On thursday, may 20th 2010 at 21:45, Samsung introduced the first and largest 3D-outdoorproject in the Netherlands. The 3D-projection was aimed at the Beurs van Berlage and showed the audience how this historical building got revived in a almost magically way.

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Live interactive mega billboard

Public service employees in the Netherlands face aggression and violence on the streets more and more often. Onlookers unfortunately do not intervene often enough when they encounter a situation like this. A live interactive billboard in Amsterdam and Rotterdam is used to place people in a similar situation witch confronts them with their inactivity.

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The logos of Dirk Leys

Dirk Leys is a 25 year old freelance graphic designer from Tilburg, the Netherlands. He’s been running his own brand identity design company called unieq since 2007 and works for clients worldwide. Dirk is also the designer of our Dutch Inspired logo and runs the logo inspiration website LogoMoose.com

Here’s a small overview from all the logo’s that Dirk has designed over the past years:

adanvio by Dirk Leys

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Sushi collection, Morosso

One of the more global and intriguing furniture designs this year is Moroso’s Sushi Collection, designed by Edward van Vliet.

Sushi collection, Morosso by Edward van Vliet

For global furniture, Sushi is a design that does not appear to be suffering from economic woes. In fact, it looks quite well-off! Sushi debuted this year and has already been featured in three international design shows in Amsterdam, Milan, and New York.

Read more: http://inventorspot.com/articles/sushi_26148

• Via InventorSpot

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Woofers by Sander Mulder

Sander Mulder started studying design in 1996, sparked by the creativity and ingenuity he displayed as a child. It soon hit home; this would become his life long passion. His successful graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2002, resulted in the start-up of his own design studio.

Always seeking new challenges and inspirations he has since then steadily been working on a diverse portfolio containing lighting, furniture and interior designs for international clients and his own collection. His work is proof of the firm believe that good concepts can only exist in symbiosis with a good execution, and it investigates new ways of approaching the construction, functionality and aesthetics of everyday objects and spaces.

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Phat Knits by Bauke Knottnerus

Phat Knits, created by Dutch designer Bauke Knottnerus, is a series of brilliantly over scaled furniture pieces. Knit, woven, knotted or piled like spaghetti, the series includes seating, rugs, and multifunctional interior objects.

Phat Knits by Bauke Knottnerus

Read more: http://www.designwarrior.net/phat-knits-by-dutch-designer…

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Telfort, bubbles and happiness

Last week, the Dutch brand development agency VBAT unveiled the new brand identity for Telfort, one of the leading Dutch telecom providers. Telfort contacted VBAT and asked them to redo the whole visual identity to set themselves apart from the other telecom providers (T-Mobile, Ben, Hi, Vodafone, and KPN). The new look should reflect Telfort’s position as the aspiring, price-sensitive peoples’ champion within the sector.

The result is a logo made from two speech bubbles in reference to a conversation. When used in the whole branding package the speech bubbles get six different fresh and fruity colors.

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Hawaii-Sized Island Made of Recycled Plastic

What can you do with all the plastic waste floating around in the Pacific Ocean? A group of Dutch architects has an answer to this question. Their idea is to create an island, about the same size as Hawaii, out of it.

The island would be populated by ‘climate refugees’ who will live in recycled plastic homes and work on farms or grow seaweed. The idea is to make the entire plastic island self-sufficient with the habitants producing their own food and energy.

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Thé Tjong-Khing – Max Velthuijs Award 2010

Thé Tjong-Khing (born August 4, 1933) has won the Max Velthuijs award of 2010. The Max Velthuijs award is a triannual oeuvre prize for the best Dutch illustrator for children’s books.

According to the jury, the works of Thé are characterized by great dynamism. His numerous spiritual illustrations are remarkable agile and graceful, even in their notorious awkwardness and clumsiness. The combination of clear and accessible figurative quality innovation make his works recognizable and widely known and loved.

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