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Design Academy Eindhoven
Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) is an interdisciplinary educational institute for art, architecture and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The work of its faculty and alumni have brought it international recognition. History The Design Academy Eindhoven was established in 1947 and was originally named the Academie voor Industriële Vormgeving (AIVE). The first nine students graduated in 1955. In 1997, the Academy moved into the building and changed its name to Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE). In 1999, Lidewij Edelkoort, Li Edelkoort was elected chairwoman of the Academy. Graduation ceremonies were brought back from Amsterdam to Eindhoven. In 2009 she left the Design Academy to pursue personal projects and was replaced by Anne Mieke Eggenkamp as chair. She was in turn succeeded by Thomas Widdershoven from 2013 until September 2016. Since 2017, Joseph Grima has taken place as CD. Ilse Crawford and Oscar Peña were heads of bachelor programs from 1999 to 2019. In 2023, the school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eindhoven
Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also located in the Dutch part of the natural region the Campine. With a population of 246,443 (1 January 2024) on a territory of 88.92 km2,Statistieken gemeente Eindhoven AlleCijfers.nl it is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fifth-largest city of the Netherlands and the largest outside the Randstad conurbation. Eindhoven was originally located at the confluence of the Dommel and the Gender (stream), Gender. A municipality since the 13th century, Eindhoven witnessed rapid growth starting in the 1900s by textile and tobacco industries. Two well-known companies, DA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kees Bol
Cornelis "Kees" Bol (21 September 1916 – 16 September 2009) was a Dutch painter and art educator. His work was exhibited in art galleries and museums throughout the Netherlands, as well as in Paris. Bol's work encompassed landscapes, portraits and still life paintings. His style can be described as figurative and expressive, with a specific feeling for tonal quality. In 1950 Bol was awarded the Thérèse van Duyl-Schwartze Prize and in 1982 he was made Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Biography Bol was born in Oegstgeest. Initially he was a florist in his home town. After moving to Eindhoven in 1935, he held corporate jobs at Bata Shoes and Philips. In 1941 he married Toos van 't Hof. During the second world war he turned to art, first studying with Jan Heesters and later on at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague with Paul Citroen, Han van Dam and Henk Meijer. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Blanco
Joel or Yoel is a name meaning "Yahweh Is God" in Hebrew and may refer to: * Joel (given name), including a list of people named Joel or Yoel * Joel (surname), a surname * Joel (footballer, born 1904), Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Brazilian football goalkeeper * Joel (footballer, born 1980), Joel Bertoti Padilha, Brazilian football centre-back * Joel (prophet), a prophet of ancient Israel ** Book of Joel, a book in the Jewish Tanakh, and in the Christian Bible, ascribed to the prophet * Joel, Georgia Joel is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Geor ..., a community in the United States * Joel, Wisconsin, a community in the United States {{disambiguation, hn, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Berman
Helen Berman (; born 6 April 1936) is a Dutch- Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands. She created modern and postmodern art and has engaged in realistic impressionism and lyrical abstract expressionism. Biography Helen Berman was born in Amsterdam and as a young girl survived The Holocaust. She was trained as a textile designer at the Design Academy Eindhoven. While at the academy, she took extracurricular coursework in the free arts with Kees Bol and Jan Gregoor. After her graduation in 1960, Helen Berman designed textiles for several companies. Some of her designs were awarded prizes and publications in professional magazines. During the seventies, Berman studied painting and drawing with Thierry Veltman, graduating with a teaching degree. In 1978, she immigrated to Israel, where she conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dror Benshetrit
Dror Benshetrit () is an Israeli-born designer based in New York City and Miami. He founded his studio, Dror, in New York in 2002, focusing on product, interior, installation, and architectural design. His work includes the structural support system Quadror, the Galataport Masterplan in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Cappellini Peacock chair. Dror's work is part of the permanent collections of museums in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of Benshetrit's early architectural projects was a residential masterplan for Nurai, an island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. Dror designed 24 beachfront villas for the project, which received coverage in Newsweek. In 2018, he founded Super Nature Labs. Early life Benshetrit was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and studied the work of Isamu Noguchi, Achille Castiglioni, and Buckminster Fuller. At age 25, he moved to New York City and opened his studio. His first commercial product, The Vase of Phases, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maarten Baas
Maarten Baas (; born 19 February 1978) is a Dutch furniture designer. He is known for his Real Time series of clocks in which people paint the time by hand. His career path was influenced by mentors like Jurgen Bey, colleagues like Bertjan Pot, and artists like Erwin Wurm. He attended the Design Academy Eindhoven and lives in Utrecht Utrecht ( ; ; ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. The .... His work often relates to his youth, where Baas works to "balance skilled technicality with the purity of child’s spontaneity." Above the entrance of the main public library at the Neude, Utrecht, the Netherlands, his neon lighting artwork ''Intellectual heritage'' was installed in 2023. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baas, Maarten 1978 births Living people Dutch designer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Twemlow
Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator from the United Kingdom whose work focuses on graphic design. She has been a guest critic at the Yale School of Art, Yale University School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). In 2006, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York named Twemlow the chair and co-founder of its Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism (D-Crit). According to her SVA biography: "Alice Twemlow writes for Eye (magazine), ''Eye'', ''Design Issues'', I.D. (magazine), ''I.D.'', Print (magazine), ''Print'', New York (magazine), ''New York'' magazine and ''The Architect’s Newspaper''." Twemlow is also a contributor to the online publication ''Voice: AIGA Journal of Design''. In 2012 Core77 selected her as a jury captain for the “Design Writing and Commentary” category of the Core77 Design Awards. Twemlow was head of the MA in Design Curatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stone Twins
The Stone Twins is a creative branding agency based in Amsterdam. It was founded by twin brothers Declan and Garech Stone (born 8 November 1970, Dublin), graduates of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. The Stone Twins specialises in areas such as brand strategy, naming and brand Corporate identity, identity (both visual and verbal). The firm is best known for the branding of MassiveMusic and Overhoeks, A'DAM Toren, as well as the design of several Irish commemorative postage stamps. The Stone Twins' award-winning work includes a coveted Dutch Design Awards, Dutch Design Award, several European Design Awards and 13 D&AD Pencils. Their work forms part of the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and has been described as concept-led, witty, thought-provoking and pioneering. The Stone Twins regularly write for trade magazines, including ''Communicatie'' (Wolters Kluwer) and Eye (magazine), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Stockmans
Pieter "Piet" Stockmans (born 26 October 1940) is a Flemish designer and ceramist. Biography Stockmans was born in Leopoldsburg. He studied sculpture and ceramics in Hasselt and in Selb in Germany. After graduation, he settled in Genk. From 1966 to 1989 Stockmans was an industrial designer in the Royal Mosa porcelain factory in Maastricht. In those years he was the chief designer, who designed over 70% of all the company's products. Most successful was his design for the coffee "Sonja" cup, of which over 40 million were sold. kunstbus.nl. Accessed 25 May 2015. Between 1969 and 1998 Stockman also taught industrial design at the Department of Product Design at the Municipal Institute of Visual Comm and Design, later Media and Design Academy in Genk, and from 1983 to 1985 taught ceramic design at the |
Saskia Van Stein
Saskia is a Dutch feminine given name of uncertain origin. It has been in use since the Middle Ages and is also in occasional use in the Anglosphere. One source word might be the Germanic ''sachs'', meaning Saxon. Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of the painter Rembrandt, is the best-known bearer of the name. Notable people with the name include: * Saskia Alusalu (born 1994), Estonian speed skater * Saskia Bartusiak (born 1982), German football player * Saskia Burešová (born 1946), Czech actress, presenter and TV announcer * Saskia Burmeister (born 1985), Australian actress * Saskia Clark (born 1979), British sailor * Saskia Howard Clarke, contestant on the ''Big Brother'' British television series in 2005 * Saskia Cohen-Tanugi (1959–2020), French actress and theatre director * Saskia de Brauw (born 1981), Dutch artist and model * Saskia de Coster (born 1976), Belgian writer * Saskia de Jonge (born 1986), Dutch swimmer * Saskia D’Onofrio (1924-1999), Finnish opera singer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Schouwenberg
Louise Schouwenberg (born 23 January 1954, in Belfeld) studied psychology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She worked as a visual artist from 1985 to 2003. Since then her primary focus has been on art and design theory. Schouwenberg is head of the Masters programme Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (teacher since 2005, head since 2010), and mentor of the Masters programme Inside, Interior Architecture, of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Schouwenberg has curated exhibitions on the cutting edge of art and design and has worked as an adviser for many organisations. She regularly writes for international art and design magazines and has contributed to a range of books, some of the latest being the monograph: '' Hella Jongerius- Misfit'', released by Phaidon Press in 2010, a monograph on artist , published by Nai publishers in 2012, and Panorama - Konstantin Grci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
