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The Exploded View Beyond Building at Dutch Design Week was created out of 100 different bio-based materials. It also uses sustainable building methods to highlight the ways we as a global society can apply sustainable design...

Dutch Design Week, the largest design event in Northern Europe, is back once again this October to show how pioneering designers around the globe are changing the world for the better...

Imagine a lamp that doesn't need to be plugged in - and that you have to water once a week. Ermi van Oers is making it happen with this incredible plant-turned-lamp. The Living Light is an off-grid light that's powered by...

All the materials needed to build this temporary pavilion in the Netherlands are borrowed. bureau SLA and Overtreders W built the People’s Pavilion – a centerpiece of the Dutch Design Week (DDW) taking place in Eindhoven...

Could flexible architecture be the future of urban design? Prolific Dutch architects MVRDV just unveiled one very colorful hotel whose nine rooms can be transformed into a variety of configurations...

Most of us won't have a chance to blast off to outer space and glimpse the beauty of Earth at night. But designer Daan Roosegaarde's firm Studio Roosegaarde brought that image of light and darkness to the Eindhoven Railway...

With prefabricated gypsum walls and a western red cedar facade, Solar Cabin is an aesthetically-pleasing design that offers profound environmental and social benefits...

H5N8 avian flu decimated chicken flocks in the Netherlands. But van Spronsen found the good in all the waste. She heated the carcasses to 70 degress celsius for three seconds to clean out the virus and then played around...

RE-SEA ME is a continuation of Nienke’s earlier project, SEA ME, a rug made from sea algae yarn, that also highlights the contrast between the abundance of plastic waste in the oceans and overlooked ocean resources...

Andrea de Chirico recently showcased the SUPERLOCAL Hairdryer 1.0 project as part of the Design Academy of Eindhoven’s exhibit at Dutch Design Week 2015. In an artist’s statement, Chirico states his belief “that the...

Andrea de Chirico recently showcased the SUPERLOCAL Hairdryer 1.0 project as part of the Design Academy of Eindhoven’s exhibit at Dutch Design Week 2015. In an artist’s statement, Chirico states his belief “that the...

We've seen many uses for algae, but Dutch designer Nieke Hoogvliet takes the cake for coming up with one of the most unique designs we've seen. Using yarn made from kelp, Hoogvliet created a gorgeous green rug. The Sea Me...

We've seen many uses for algae, but Dutch designer Nieke Hoogvliet takes the cake for coming up with the most unique algae design. Using yarn made from kelp, a large seaweed and one of the biggest types of algae, Hoogvliet...

These days it seems like cola is absolutely everywhere, but drinkable water may not be. Helmut Smits points out that contradiction with a machine he calls "The Real Thing" that transforms unhealthy bottles of Coke into fresh...

These days it can seem like cola is absolutely everywhere, but drinkable water may not be. Helmut Smits wanted to take advantage of that contradiction with a machine he calls The Real Thing. The idea is to turn that unhealthy...