Dutch Design
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- robco0
droog design
- neue75_bold0
dutch design is often thought of as an aesthetic but it's really more of a mentality, which is usually strongly associated with communication, experimentation and staying away from global trends...
so yeah, good luck with your project :)
- LOL. Well said.scrap_paper
- yeah, experimentation and researchwaterhouse
- neue75_bold0
maybe this might help too ? http://www.design.nl
- janne760
very large archive of Dutch graphic designers
(with a lot of people's work, such as Ben Bos, Wim Crouwel, Otto Treumann etc.)
http://www.nago.nl/- they should had worked on that logo. lol. pretty awful.akrokdesign
- Anders0
Actually I think dutch design is characterised by being individualistic; having no specific style, but ready for re-ordering content.
Weirdos. I love them all.
- janne760
it's the liberal history and nature tat roots deeply inside the Dutch. Even though we have officially one or two political parties claiming liberal point of views openly (on the right: VVD, on the left: GROENLINKS), i think compared to many nations abroad almost any political party in NL has fairly strong liberal qualities to them.
Just like the Jews coming from Portugal and beyond to our big harbour city and called it MOKUM (=safe harbour. Now Amsterdam), as they hailed it for its liberal trade and governing, nowadays you can still view the Netherlands as being one of the most open countries regarding trade, multicultural lifestyle and society and global political and military engagement.
This makes that The Netherlands ultimate identity doesn't really exist as our princess Maxima recently said. It's basically an identity that's built on unstable soil consisting a history of cultural clashes and mergers. Just like the unstable wetlands the Netherlands was cultivated on.
- uan0
- janne760
Van Nelle factory. (Dutch brand of coffee)
Icon of Dutch corporate architecture. Extremely modern in its days.It now turned into a design factory, with tons of big and small creative agencies in it:
http://www.ontwerpfabriek.nl/