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…
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.
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.
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.
With everyone becoming a ‘graphic designer’ these days, the graphic design industry is getting more and more crowded. Clients are losing trust and think they know better than the professional because they’ve got a copy of Photoshop on their computer.
Speider Schneider wrote an interesting article about this ‘death on creativity’ on Processed Identity which I think everybody should read:
I needed my appendix removed so while being wheeled into surgery, I told the doctor I only budgeted $200 for the operation but if I liked his work, I had other organs he could remove down the line at a higher fee. I asked if he wouldn’t mind if I had a few people look over his work and make some suggestions on how he performed the operation. One of them was my 10 year-old son because he was a whiz at the game “Operation.” When I came to, I was in the gutter wearing nothing but a hospital gown and my appendix still rupturing.
Read more: http://processedidentity.com/article/that-dirty-word-creative/
Theo Aartsma is a 27 year old graphic designer from the Netherlands. He’s currently working as an interaction/flash designer for TFE in Groningen. He mainly focusses on blending illustration and design, forming 3D illustrated typography works.
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