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The Dutch Wolda ’09 winners

Dutch Inspired — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:23:13 +0000

Wolda is the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world, creating an archive that tracks the evolution of tastes, styles and trends in global design, year after year.

Wolda’s standing is guaranteed by the endorsement of many of the most important design associations: Wolda is the only awards scheme in the world endorsed by more than 100 design associations and schools.

Today, the winners of 2009 were announced. From all these winners there were also 6 Dutch logos awarded:

Best of The Netherlands: Niel-Jan Weijsters

Jeroen Kroes

Dirk Leys

Dirk Leys

André Brocatus

Ralph Booms

Congratulations all!

Samsung advertisement in Amsterdam

Dutch Inspired — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:17:36 +0000

On thursday, may 20th 2010 at 21:45, Samsung introduced the first and largest 3D-outdoorproject in the Netherlands. The 3D-projection was aimed at the Beurs van Berlage and showed the audience how this historical building got revived in a almost magically way.

Watch the video:

Samsung – Beurs van Berlage Amsterdam on YouTube

Live interactive mega billboard

Dutch Inspired — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:06:57 +0000

Public service employees in the Netherlands face aggression and violence on the streets more and more often. Onlookers unfortunately do not intervene often enough when they encounter a situation like this. A live interactive billboard in Amsterdam and Rotterdam is used to place people in a similar situation witch confronts them with their inactivity.

Watch the video:

Interactive billboard on YouTube

The logos of Dirk Leys

Dutch Inspired — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:29:38 +0000

Dirk Leys is a 25 year old freelance graphic designer from Tilburg, the Netherlands. He’s been running his own brand identity design company called unieq since 2007 and works for clients worldwide. Dirk is also the designer of our Dutch Inspired logo and runs the logo inspiration website LogoMoose.com

Here’s a small overview from all the logo’s that Dirk has designed over the past years:

adanvio by Dirk Leys

cacatu by Dirk Leys

LogoMoose.com by Dirk Leys

iPhoneMonster.nl by Dirk Leys

iVayo by Dirk Leys

glowe by Dirk Leys

Qlicks by Dirk Leys

Silva-IT by Dirk Leys

Avecs by Dirk Leys

Chalk by Dirk Leys

VandaagOpstap.nl by Dirk Leys

AvilyZ by Dirk Leys

Access by Dirk Leys

Finvisie by Dirk Leys

More info

His portfolio: unieq.nl
His Behance profile: behance.net/unieq
On Twitter: @LogoMoose

Sushi collection, Morosso

Dutch Inspired — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:33:50 +0000

One of the more global and intriguing furniture designs this year is Moroso’s Sushi Collection, designed by Edward van Vliet.

Sushi collection, Morosso by Edward van Vliet

For global furniture, Sushi is a design that does not appear to be suffering from economic woes. In fact, it looks quite well-off! Sushi debuted this year and has already been featured in three international design shows in Amsterdam, Milan, and New York.

Via InventorSpot

Woofers by Sander Mulder

Dutch Inspired — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:03:28 +0000

Sander Mulder started studying design in 1996, sparked by the creativity and ingenuity he displayed as a child. It soon hit home; this would become his life long passion. His successful graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2002, resulted in the start-up of his own design studio.

Always seeking new challenges and inspirations he has since then steadily been working on a diverse portfolio containing lighting, furniture and interior designs for international clients and his own collection. His work is proof of the firm believe that good concepts can only exist in symbiosis with a good execution, and it investigates new ways of approaching the construction, functionality and aesthetics of everyday objects and spaces.

Supported by the believe there’s no constant except change and that joy is the accelerator of creativity, he’s not afraid to wander aimlessly and conduct experiments in search of the coincidental beauty of failure. The resulting work is a combination of strong lines, subtle details, innovative techniques and bold statements, often questioning archetypes and their respective interpretations by mankind.

A great example of this is Woofers. This ‘Woofer’ speaker system is a cross-over between an addition to your sound system and your loyal four-footed companion. It’s available as a co-axial speaker system which consists of two dogs. The ‘Woofer’ speaker system contains custom engineered electronic filters and sounds remarkably well compared to your everyday speaker set.

Woofers by Sander Mulder | Photography: Niels van Veen & Sander Mulder

For more information about the designer visit the website www.sandermulder.com

Phat Knits by Bauke Knottnerus

Dutch Inspired — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:27:25 +0000

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

Via Design warrior

Telfort, bubbles and happiness

Dutch Inspired — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:27:42 +0000

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.

They’ve also incorporated the bubbles into their website menu which works very well.

I like the way they use multi-colored graphics but I’m not sure if this is going to have the effect of brand recognition they want it to reach. But then again, I could be wrong…

Other than the colorful graphics, the identity also consist images of way too happy people doing all kinds of crazy stuff. You’ll see a woman using a leek instead of a phone, a young boy trying to listen to his calls through his dog’s head and a woman who has post-its sticked all over her and doesn’t really seem to know why.

Hawaii-Sized Island Made of Recycled Plastic

Dutch Inspired — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:34:11 +0000

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.

Here are a few sketches and ideas of what the island is going to look like:

Beaches are placed near the housing for residents to enjoy.

More info

Inhabitat website: Inhabitat.com

Thé Tjong-Khing – Max Velthuijs Award 2010

Dutch Inspired — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:30:14 +0000

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.

Puss in Boots by Thé Tjong-Khing

Thé was born in Purworedjo, Java to a large Chinese Indonesian family. As a child he was interested in the Tarzan comic strips of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He attended the Seni Rupa (arts) institute in Bandung. After that, in 1965, he came to the Netherlands and started as a draftsman at the Toonder Studio’s, initially as a volunteer and later as an employee.

In 1970 he was asked to provide illustration for Miep Diekmann’s children’s book. He became a freelance illustrator providing illustration to many children’s book authors such as van Guus Kuijer, Els Pelgrom, Sylvia Vanden Heede, Dolf Verroen and Annie M.G. Schmidt.

The wolf and the seven little goats by Thé Tjong-Khing

Thé won the ‘Gouden Penseel’ (Golden Brush) award three times and in 2005 he won the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs for his book Waar is de taart? (Where is the cake?), a picturebook without text. For this he also won the Zilveren Penseel (Silver pencil).

Rapunzel by Thé Tjong-Khing

Table be set by Thé Tjong-Khing

One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes by Thé Tjong-Khing

More info

His website: thetjongkhing.nl