Home-base
01/01/2008
For any inquiries or sale of products in The Netherlands please contact or visit Interior Design store Strand West in the beautiful centre of Utrecht.
They are my official home-base for products. You can contact me personally by email or request information @ www.strandwest.nl
China spring
13/02/2008
New perspectives came along and end March/April I will return to Beijing and Tangshan for a small work period with the manufacturer in China, engage at factory, document for publication and most of all working on the design project there. It is a very exciting period seeing this become reality after passionate talks. Also on plan are visits to some art & design studio’s in Beijing and the CAFA academy. The last years I get a chance to see China in all its seasons, spring is on its way!
Addict Lab
26/02/2008
Have a look at www.addictlab.com A great source to find and collaborate with creatives in various fields. Also there are now Regional Labambassadors that write about different area’s.
Here are also the Netherlands represented with all the various things in the Dutch design culture included the Royal Delft Blue and some information on my work there. Have a look @ Addict Lab !
Book Hands and Minds
07/05/2008
My work in China between 2005 and 2008 made itself visual in the form of the book Hands and Minds.
A visual journey of my photography about thinking, perspective and cultural abilities.
Coming soon may 2008.
Constant Stream Private View
08/05/2008
Opening exhibition Private View - 9 May 6pm-9pm CHINA08 @ RCA -
work from Anothermountainman, Jia Zhang Ke, Ma Ke, Aline Helmcke, Miranda Tsui Ngai, Judith van den Boom, Shih Hsin Chao,Yu Tianqi, Architecture RCA (ADS1), Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) RCA, Matt Appleton, Hei Cheng, Suk Han Lee, Emilia Serra and Zhang O.
Fragiles - The Book
20/05/2008
Out NOW a great book by the Gestalten!
Fragiles. Porcelain, Ceramics and Glass book is now released in Europe!
You can purchase the book through the Gestalten website or check a local bookstore near you. My work from China 2006 and a recent exhibition with Sharon Geschiere is featured in the book.
Worthwhile reading !
Hands & Minds / Connecting China.
20/05/2008
Out NOW !
My first book made with a photography dialogue about my work travel in China between 2005/2008.
Order through website EU 35,00 / Hardcover / Format 20 x 25 / Binding 74 pages, full color
New Work / Qing Zuo!?
28/05/2008
New work had finished a series of seats from fully functional porcelain, terra red clay and knitted surfaces.
More details follow soon.
You are welcome to view then at Show 1 at the RCA, Kensington Gore till 8 June.
Open every day from 11am to 8pm.
Look forward meeting you there.
DAMn 17 / Out Now !
01/06/2008
DAMn number 17 june/july edition covers my work trips to China in several pages text and photography.
Check it out in your local store or at www.damnmagazine.be
We are citizens of interspaces
14/06/2008
Our fresh start with BoomWehmeyer !
A collaborative unit between myself and Gunter Wehmeyer.
In studio BoomWehmeyer we work on projects illustrating our wide concern for design development, social communities and innovation.
Slowlab
13/06/2008
A laboratory for ‘slow’ design thinking and creative activism. slowLab is an emerging organization based in New York City and with activities worldwide.
slowLab’s current and future programs include public lectures, discussions and exhibitions, a dynamic online project observatory and communication portal, academic programs and publishing projects.
A great group of people to work with in future. Stay in tune on www.slowlab.net
Coming Slow Market Amsterdam
03/09/2008
This year’s event will take place at the Oude Kerk in the heart of Amsterdam, as part of FreeDesignDom, “a month-long celebration of creativity, innovation, fashion and design” in the Netherlands (see www.freedesigndom.com). As many as fifty emerging designers will show and sell their work to the public, filling the central hall (nave) of the church. In a beautiful chapel just off that central hall will be the ‘Slow Loket,’ a place where slowLab will present talks and workshops, exhibit slow design
provocations, and offer opportunities for
members of that public to express their own views on Slowness in open microphone sessions. At the heart of these activities will be slowLab’s ‘Slow Design Principles,’ a set of criteria against which designers are encouraged to interrogate and appraise their creative ideas, processes, motives, and outcomes. These principles provide a lens through which to more intimately understand one’s identity as a designer, to reflect upon the processes one employs,
to evaluate tangible outcomes, and to imagine new scenarios.
By participating in this event, slowLab hopes to inspire designers to explore Slowness in creative practice, while at the same time empowering the public with a new set of tools to understand, evaluate and respond to the myriad of designs encountered in their daily lives.
Please come and visit Coming Slow Market
11-12 October 2008, Amsterdam (NL)
Talent 2008
05/10/2008
In October the exhibition ‘Talent 2008’ will open in Eindhoven Designhuis, the exhibition is curated by Lidewij Edelkoord.
A selection of European talents in product design will show their work.
My work ‘Qing Zuo’ will be shown here.
This all finds place during the Dutch Design Week. Please visit from 17/10 to 30/11
Slow Loket Amsterdam
11/10/2008
The weekend of 11 October, NY-based organisation slowLab was part of a Freedesigndom event in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam and unveiled the first Slow Loket to create a resource for Slow Design information and inspiration.
Slow Design is not just a word blowing by as hype but a meaningful layer embedded in design & life and should be able to inspire our mentality in engagement with our world.
Slow rapport
16/10/2008
For the site www.design.nl , I wrote small article about the Slow Loket by slowLab during the Freedesigndom in Amsterdam.
Have a read ! Article here
Interior
03/10/2008
On 9 October the event Culturbal started again in Amsterdam. For this event we created with a divers team an interior to stimulate conversation.
Expand Your Expectations
07/11/2008
Never loose your expectations of design! This week I facilitated a clinic with BA product design students about expecting and expanding our view on design and social engagement.
Host design shop Coming Soon & Artez , Arnhem (NL) www.comingsoonarnhem.nl
Active thinking
10/12/2008
A period of looking into empowering each other, design activism, slow values and a outward focus for creating new ideas on the design practise. Fresh start off term 2 teaching with the product design students from Academy of Art & Design in Arnhem.
