Charissa Dubos

Twitter is hot! The entire world is tweeting. Now you can create your own custom made twitterjewelry on twitjewelry.com. Twitjewelry combines the online and offline world by allowing you to create custom made jewelry with your twitter username. Give your outfit a personal touch and wear your twitjewelry to work as a fashionable business card, or when you’re going out to see who will follow you…

The collection consists of necklaces and bracelets made from sterling silver with a plate on which your twitter username will be engraved. You can make your look complete by adding twitter coins to your twitter jewelry with the hashtag of your choice.

Visit the website: twitjewelry.com

John’s phone doesn’t have a screen, digital address book or any other features we got used to on modern cell phone. The only feature it has is voice communication. That’s it. With John’s Phone you are always available. No frills and useless information such as cameras, SMS messaging, Internet and endless ringtones. John’s Phone keeps things simple.

John’s Phone will be obvious. The phone can call and hang up. It could not be more simple. Each key number can be used as a stored preset number. Therefore, John’s Phone is also perfect as a mobile phone for kids who can store their parent’s number in there for a quick dial.

John’s Phone is a phone with large keys. In the back side of the device is a flap with an address book and pen which makes it a very suitable mobile phone for the elderly who are still used at writing phone numbers down.

John’s Phone was designed by John Doe in Amsterdam and it is this that makes this mobile phone a unique piece of Dutch design.

John’s Phone is available in five colors:

White ( John Snow’s Phone )
Brown ( John’s Phone Tree )
Pink ( John Sweet’s Phone )
Black ( John’s Phone Business )
Green ( John Grass’s Phone )

John’s phone doesn’t have a screen, digital address book or any other features we got used to on modern cell phone, like those which you would expect to find at sites like O2.co.uk. The only feature it has is voice communication. That’s it. With John’s Phone you are always available.

You can buy the phone from their website’s store (worldwide shipment).

His attitude towards design encourages startling and refreshing ideas. He is a defiant explorer of shapes and materials by using, inventing or twisting production methods.

One of his products that really stands out is the Furniture Ball. This Furniture Ball consists of five seat sections each with their own character, a lounge chair, a sort of cradle and rocking elements. Together they form a white sphere.

Furniture Ball by Laurens van Wieringen

The furniture Ball was presented with edible scale models of the Furniture Ball. Different tastes like; pear, apple, drambuie, cinnamon and various sorts of chocolate make them a welcome present.

Furniture Ball by Laurens van Wieringen

Furniture Ball by Laurens van Wieringen

Furniture Ball by Laurens van Wieringen

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His website: laurensvanwieringen.nl

Willem van der Sluis.

Willem’s design firm called Customr, is based in Amsterdam and has an excellent repertoire of work. Some of Willem’s most inspiring works are the Aircon luminaire that was produced by Luceplan and the SportDome, a project that Willem and his team created for the Dutch Department of Justice.

The SportDomes project is a very interesting project. At first, Willem wasn’t that interested in designing anything for a jail. To design a structure that could give people, that are being held against their will, some form of pleasure in their confined day seems like a project for the cold hearted, but Willem created a structure that not only allows the inmates to play a little sports, but shields them from being scrutinized by outsiders.

SportDome by Willem van der Sluis.

SportDome by Willem van der Sluis.

SportDome by Willem van der Sluis.

SportDome by Willem van der Sluis.

The magical aspect of this dome is that at night, when it is illuminated, it looks like a diamond, a piece of beauty inside the terrible concept of criminality and imprisonment.

SportDome by Willem van der Sluis.

Archetoys by Floris Hovers

Here’s a video about the making of these toys:

You can view all the different cars on: Goods.nl

The obverse side of the coin displays the history of Dutch architecture. The names of great and important Dutch architects form the portrait of Queen Beatrix. Stani ordered the names of the architects by popularity. He chose to order the architects not alphabetically or chronologically but in a new way: by using the internet as a seismograph and ordering the architects by the number of hits on search engines.

The Architecture Fiver.

The reverse side of the five-euro coin draws attention to the striking fact that many Dutch architects have also included publishing books on architecture in their professional activities. To illustrate this, recent books on architecture rise up from the sides of the coin like buildings. Through their careful placement they combine to outline the Netherlands.

One of the issues was how many books to take: many thin books or fewer thick books. With one very thick book you would only get a circle. To get the best approximation of the Netherlands you would need books of only one page, which is not optimal either.

Design process by Stani Michiels

The birds on the coin also have a meaning. Each bird flies above the capital of each Dutch province. In the final coin these random birds are replaced with a bird which is typical for that province.

The Architecture Fiver – back.

In the end, it’s a true work of graphic art, a beauty to behold and ofcourse I bought one for myself too.