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October 21, 2005

DDW 01

yesterday david came down from enschede to spend a day with me, for the dutch design week. he was really nice and polite. it was my first time meeting david, after talking online for a while. as with offline meetings, i always get nervous about whether we were going to get along or not, etc, but david was really cool! i was also very impressed with his bahasa jawa :)

we managed to catch quite a few exhibits yesterday, in 4 different venues: klokgebouw, TAC,witte dame and the buro philip van den hurk. in 10 hours, we saw following exhibits: AirForm, Re-Use/Re-Make/Re-Value, Dutch Mountains, Material Sense 02: Innovations, Move Me, Graduation 2005, SPRNG, Lift-off, Tac Hotel, Arnhems Design, past tense, future sense - 80 years of design, 1 meter sessie YKSI... whew!

it was a supercool day. lots of inspiring stuff. i'm still sorting out my notes, as well as the cards/flyers i picked up and the photographs. we took hundreds of photos; david has the supercool digital rebel. i was happy because he was also carrying around his extra lenses, so i didn't feel like an ultra-geek changing my lenses at exhibits.

there is so much i could write about but i'll just present the highlights. here's the first of the dutch design week series:

Re-Use | Re-Make | Re-Value
Designers Jo Meesters and Marije van der Park bowled me over with their collection. Laser-cut wooden tabletop, delicate ceramic tea set and a vase with a city skyline cut-out from delft blue motif, the natural beauty of an onion bulb.

Taken from their website:
Meesters & Van der Park Anno 2004 present during the Dutch Design Week 2005 the collection Re-Use / Re-Make / Re-Value. The collection is centred on the reuse and revaluation of discarded furniture and textile. Re-Use / Re-Make / Re-Value changes people’s views on existing and discarded products. In addition to this collection, the design duo presents new ceramic works. Natural containers based on the revaluation of natural beauty.