Designosaurus

Mar­tin and I drove out to Eind­hoven on a Fri­day and man­aged to waste two hours walk­ing around the cen­ter think­ing that Dutch Design Week was noth­ing but a few show­cases of lamps in some ritzy shop win­dows. It felt pretty dumb and we were get­ting pretty mad that we came all the way there for what seemed to be noth­ing but a com­mer­cial­ized use of some design con­cepts. Good thing we took out our tick­ets and actu­ally READ them. Appar­ently there was a whole expo that we were miss­ing out­side of Eind­hoven cen­ter, we “quickly” made our way over to it.

This place was great but we didn’t stay for too long the first day because we needed to drive back to Mei’s place and crash. We got back to Antwerp, grabbed some food and headed out to find Mei. A few drinks and a jazz bar later Mei and I felt like crash­ing while Mar­tin and Mei’s room­mate Sean stayed up for a few drinks and music.

Any­ways, Dutch Design Week day 2. Awe­some, we hung out with Aaron and Ben who had arrive from Berlin. There were meet­ing tables with built-​​in swings, walk­ing canes that you can step on to bring back upright, lots of more maker-​​fair type exhibits, a few cars, some pretty weird bikes, stu­dent work, an edi­ble candy design project and some really big really comfy bean bags per­fect for tak­ing mid-​​day naps in. Pic­tures to follow:

This lamp could be adjusted with a coun­ter­weight that pulls the wooden rings up one by one to change the cur­va­ture and length of the col­ored threads.

This car is street legal AND up for sale. I’m not sure they have any takers.

This one booth had noth­ing but lev­i­tat­ing things, woooo mag­nets! Very appro­pri­ate to make Apple’s holy iPad float and spin mag­i­cally except it makes it com­pletely use­less as a device.

These chairs are all assem­bled with a sin­gle stan­dard­ized piece in the mid­dle and pan­els of var­i­ous materials/​color so you can mix n match to make your own cus­tom set.

Appar­ently the rea­son so many new light­ing designs include cop­per shades is to that the reflected light gives the cold tem­per­a­ture of flu­o­res­cents a warmer color.

Crazy bikes: