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Dutch Design. Yearbook 2015 | Timo de Rijk, Joost Alferink, Jan Konings, Richard van der Laken | 9789462082465

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Dutch Design. Yearbook 2015

Author:Timo de Rijk, Joost Alferink, Jan Konings, Richard van der Laken

Publisher:nai010

ISBN: 978-94-6208-246-5

  • Paperback
  • Dutch, English
  • 184 Pages
  • Oct 17, 2015

The Dutch Design Yearbook offers an attractively designed survey of about 60 of the best designs that were produced in the Netherlands in the period 2014-2015 in the fields of spatial design, product design, fashion and graphic design. Design is seduction and function, beauty and intellect. The Dutch Design Yearbook represents that breadth in the design of the past year with important designs and current events. The Yearbook features all of the nominations for the Dutch Design Awards 2015, a selection of the best Dutch designs in the fields of spatial design, product design, communication and design research.

In addition, leading critics analyse the most talked-about debates and events, and three essays address topical themes. Sander Manse makes the case for the development of a distinctive vocabulary for the design disciplines, especially in light of social changes that necessitate a new approach to the design discipline. Saskia van Stein discusses the Rotterdam Metabolists, a group of young design and architecture practices that are contributing in radical ways to a new ecology of the environment. Timo de Rijk writes a short history of bad taste to real taste, culminating in an analysis of the lifestyle of the inescapable hipster.

The Dutch Design Yearbook offers an attractively designed survey of about 60 of the best designs that were produced in the Netherlands in the period 2014-2015 in the fields of spatial design, product design, fashion and graphic design. Design is seduction and function, beauty and intellect. The Dutch Design Yearbook represents that breadth in the design of the past year with important designs and current events. The Yearbook features all of the nominations for the Dutch Design Awards 2015, a selection of the best Dutch designs in the fields of spatial design, product design, communication and design research.

In addition, leading critics analyse the most talked-about debates and events, and three essays address topical themes. Sander Manse makes the case for the development of a distinctive vocabulary for the design disciplines, especially in light of social changes that necessitate a new approach to the design discipline. Saskia van Stein discusses the Rotterdam Metabolists, a group of young design and architecture practices that are contributing in radical ways to a new ecology of the environment. Timo de Rijk writes a short history of bad taste to real taste, culminating in an analysis of the lifestyle of the inescapable hipster.

The layout and design of the Dutch Design Yearbook have been rigorously overhauled. The number and size of essays, project texts and accompanying illustrations has remained virtually unchanged, however Glamcult Studio was given free rein to ensure the completely new design of the Yearbook would merit particular attention. Glamcult Studio chose an en cyclopaedic setup, involving a guide-book-like look and a substantively random yet functionally very clear alphabetical order of texts and projects. The Yearbook opens with the essays – as a reader’s guide to the rest of the book. The differences in the texts are expressed in fonts and formatting. To emphasize the topicality of the Yearbook, the designers have chosen Akzo Nobel’s 2015 colour of the year, copper orange C9.21.58, as inspiration for the spot colour.

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