ASICS’ new HQs by Powerhouse Company were designed to stimulate physical activity
Millennial’s friendly interior design for ASICS’ Amsterdam headquarters proactively ensures the wellbeing of employees and visitors, sustainably.
Moooi’s 2019 products launch strategy goes beyond Milan
Singing chandeliers and ‘walking on clouds’ rugs. Moooi’s 2019 exhibition in Milan unveils few new products within a smaller location. This year, the company is set to introduce new collections at other design events across the globe.
LE FEMMES DE DELFT: Flemish renaissance meets tattoo art
LE FEMMES DE DELFT series by Meisterwerke brings together Vermeer, tattoo and iconic Dutch ceramic design.
Robot Love: exploring our most intimate relationship with intelligent machines
A brain-scanned symphony of a kiss, a romantic FaceTime kinetic sculpture, VR sex toys and a AI cheating female-bots gone wild. Can we trust loving robots? Can they trust us? The Robot Love exhibition explores love in the era of intelligent machines.
TIME IS NOW: Baars & Bloemhoff creates 4 stylish design settings
At Dutch Design Week, Baars & Bloemhoff presents the TIME IS NOW exhibition: 4 thematic trend worlds showcase the brand’s new flat packed furniture and materials together with design, fashion and art.
OOCLOCK unconventional design marks time with rotating elements
With OOCLOCK, René Holten and 2Creatics rethinks clock design by eliminating the hours, minutes and seconds’ hands and splitting the face into rotating parts.
Gourmet bacteria, and biosynthetic tiger penises: 5 quirky food design projects at Dutch Design Week 2018
Digital seasoning, the subtle power of microbes and tasty grams of happiness. 5 quirky food design projects in Eindhoven.
Dutch Design Week 2018: 10 must-see exhibitions in Eindhoven
An all inclusive loving robot catwalk, Design Academy Eindhoven grad show and mussels in the 3D printer. 10 must-see exhibitions at Dutch Design Week 2018 tuning with the main theme ‘If not you, then who?’
Daan Roosegaarde’s SPACE WASTE LAB tracks sidereal junk in real time with beams of light
Daan Roosegaarde and his team of experts present UFO-like performances which visualise real-time space waste connecting earth with the layer of junk orbiting the planet.
Scholten & Baijings’ TIME FOR TEA installation celebrates sipping rituals through design
A Japanese exquisite tea set, soft green hues, subtle patterns and bespoke furniture. The TIME FOR TEA installation brings together crafts and design from across the globe, one sip at a time.
London Design Biennale 2018 goes emotional
Themed ‘Emotional States’, London Design Biennale 2018 focuses on the power of design to create, trigger and shape emotions. We selected 12 of the best installations on show including a kinetic architecture adapting to body movement, a rainbow structure celebrating LGBT right to equal love, nostalgia-infused wallpapers and a temporary shelter and objects designed by refugees.
Gates of light: Dan Roosegaarde explores futuristic eco-landscapes
Inspired by light-reflective butterflies wings, kites and bioluminescent algae, Dan Roosegaarde envisions futuristic sustainable light designs by the floodgates of the historic Afsluitddjk site in the Netherlands.
ROBOTANICA: a new digital wilderness merges with Nature
Virtual reality for chickens, robot-bugs and pollution responsive costumes but also cloud-makers deviating excessive UV radiation. ROBOTANICA exhibition showcases provocative projects exploring the entanglement of technology with natural ecosystems.
Dutch Design Week 2017: design as a mind-stretching tool to innovate and improve everyday life
Can design save the world? A circular economy-driven pavilion, loving robots and a project sand-mapping the planet: 10 brilliant exhibitions at Dutch Design Week 2017.
Moooi’s extraordinary life: designers narrate their debuting designs in Milan
Designers narrate Moooi’s extraordinary life through their projects debuting in Milan. Archipanic met Marcel Wanders, Maarten Baas, Luca Nichetto and more.
Os & Oos’ SYZYGY lamps and clock are inspired by aligning planets and stars
Syzygy design collection by Os & Oos projects overlapping geometries that reproduce the astronomical light interactions between the sun, the moon and the Earth.
Maarten Baas Makes Time: time related projects on show at Dutch Design Week
A 12 hours long real time clock-installation, kinetic ticking machines and knitting lamps. Maarten Baas Makes Time exhibition presented lateral thinking design projects.
Dutch Design Week 2016: 10 must-see exhibitions in Eindhoven
Archipanic is in Eindhoven for Dutch Design Week 2016! We selected 10 must-see shows in town. From designs that shape sexuality to Maarten Baas’ time-related exhibition and a quirky Parliament of Things, but also Space Age furniture from the ‘60s, parties and more…
The Smog Free project: the world’s largest air-cleaning tower opens in Beijing
Daan Roosegarde inaugurates the Smog Free Project, an air-purifying tower envisioning a cleaner urban future. Starting from Beijing.
10 design installations at London Design Biennale reflect on ‘Utopia by Design’
Inaugural London Design Biennale goes on show during London Design Festival and focuses on “Utopia by Design”. From the United Kingdom to Europe but also Turkey, India, Chile and South Africa.
From concrete warship to floating dream home
Step aboard a unique floating home in Amsterdam that was created by transforming a concrete warship into a cosy alcove.
Eight fronts, battlefronts and frontiers on show at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Which are the fronts that architects can tackle in order to improve people’s life? We examine eight fronts and key topics explored by must-see exhibitions at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.
Lensvelt launches intentionally BORING office design
Affordable collection of BORING office furniture by Space Encounters for Lensvelt put people at the centre without claiming attention. The new grey designs aim also to rebalance “work” and “play” activities in the office.
Kitchen on the Run project tours Europe to bond refugees an locals around a table
From Italy to France, Germany, Holland and Sweden. The Kitchen on the Run project aims to bring refugees and Europeans together around a table: a nomad container created by design students to make #EuropeABetterPlate.
Urban bird nest amplifies birds’ tweet to improve cities’ soundscapes
“Orator” urban bird nest by Katia Tolstykh features a copper trumpet-like speaker to soothe metropolitan noise with amplified chirps and tweets.
Bottle Up project turns Zanzibar glass waste into design crafts
Bottle Up: in Zanzibar, young designers up-cycle glass waste produced by increasing tourism into a collection of responsible design accessories.
Dutch Design Week 2015
Architectural mirrored cars, cartoonish redevelopments and a design football team to take over the stadium but also talents awards and groovy gigs. Dutch Design Week 2015 posed the right questions to free designers’ power of imagination in Eindhoven.
Maarten Baas supervised architecture teams to re-develop Eindhoven ugliest place
Eindhoven ugliest place is about to get a cartoonish facelift thanks to Maarten Baas and a local studio who engaged into an architecture battle.
NLXL launches Materials wallpaper by Piet Hein Eek
Piet Hein Eek designed a wallpaper collection with a three-dimensional effect that resembles architecture materials like marble, wood and brick.
Architecture of Milan Expo 2015
At Milan Expo 2015 international architects designed sustainable and temporary national pavilions in name of the fair motto “Feed the planet”.