Graduation Show 2010 Design Academy #6

Michelle Baggerman graduated from the design department 'Man and leisure'

Precious Waste is a new strong material from poor quality plastic bags. Michelle has succeeded in processing her used plastic bags wihout heating or added chemicals. She has turned them into durable but fine threads with which she has weaved a new fabric. The woven product is much stronger than the original, which will considerably increase the lifespan of this material that takes so long to decompose.

Wilco Spruijt graduated from the design department 'Man and leisure'
Table Tones is a table and a musical instrument in one. It offers an accessible way to make music and to communicate together at the table. By turning the boxes upside down you change the table surface from a flat colourful tabletop to a landscape of wood. From table to musical instrument. The basis for this table is a musical instrument called the tonguedrum, which is in essence one of the first instruments man used for communicating with one another.

The human freakshow

 Weird book: 208 pages of visual power. 35 Dutch designers show their Human Freakshow

Graduation Show 2010 Design Academy #5

Sophie de Vocht graduated from the design department 'Man and living'

A piece of lounging furniture (Loop chair) on the cutting edge between chair and carpet, Sophie de Vocht has caught the comfort of the two and united them to become one product. She has created a hand-tufted cover out of a piece of knitting yearn measuring a staggering 300 metres, created especially by the Textielmuseum in Tilburg. 

Yuya Ushida graduated from the design department 'Man and activity'
SOFA_XXXX is made of just 4 different lengths of bamboo sticks, rings and joints. the parts on their own don't seem to be special, but when put together in a regular pattern their beauty appears.
It can be contracted, which makes it easier for transportation. While contracted it can be even used as a chair.

Noteboek - Evelien Lohbeck

Dutch video artist Evelien Lohbeck was with her video 'Noteboek' one of the 25 winners at the prestigious YouTube Play Video contest, a collaboration between The Guggenheim Museum and YouTube. Over 23,000 videos were submitted.

Graduation Show 2010 Design Academy #4

Garance Echazarreta graduated from the design department 'Man and well being'
This mysterious creature is a striking appearance in the interior. The Beast is organic, soft, hairy and exurberant. Its foam rubber antennae or tentacles will offeryou an unusual but comfortable seat, allowing you to immerse yourselfin foam. Hide under t, play with it, flump down in it and The Beast will come to life.

Chloé Pouzoulet graduated from the design department 'Man and well being'
This hand-knitted woollen rug Dune starts off oblong and rigid, but ends in a soft cylindrical trunk in the middle. The trunk can be rolled up to form a comfortable pillow to sit or lie down on, but you can also crawl into it. Those who find he opening and allow themselves to be pulled in will become one with the floor and fuse with thedomestic landscape. Caught in the knitting, your body will give the rug a new shape. A pact between body and architecture in which the two become one.

Graduation Show 2010 Design Academy #3

Maaike Seegers graduated from the design department 'Man and well being'
Maaike Seegers believes that the production process for tableware is at least as interesting as the end product is, it's just that, as a user, you wouldn't normally see it. In Meltware process and product collide. The bowl, the jar and the spoon made of stoneware are not just pieces of tableware but they are also moulds to extend your set.

Amba Molly graduated from the design department 'Man and leisure'
Can products fertilise each other - just like people - and do develop into something new?
Amba Molly made a moulding system which is based on the human cell division. Starting with four products from two worlds, industrial and old-fashioned she used a plastic bottle, an old earthenware oil pitcher, a plastic Tupperware can and a hand-twisted earthenware can. By dividing the moulds systematically, 60 stones appeared. At four stages of division the products mix themselves increasingly further and gradually a new family called Mitose with a new DNA appears.

Graduation Show 2010 Design Academy #2

Jung You Choi graduated from the design department ' Man and well being'
She designed the Cloud Stool, a stool like a cloud, soft, fluffy and airy. Jung You Choi is fascinated by the irregular shapes and colours of the clouds; the way they float by seperately, as little white fluffs in the sky, or the way they can suddenly gather darkly. The Cloud Stool allows you to sink into a cloud. Each seat is unique; the shapes and hues vary as they would in real clouds.

Ellis Droog graduated from the design department 'Man and well being'.

She designed Mosquito Wig. a hairy object to both move around in and hide under: a mosquito net. She has always been fascinated with (long) hair. Its separate fibres gathering to form a unity, its movement, its expressiveness, and the save have it can offer: you can hide behind it. 'People are vulnerable when they sleep, so I wanted to make something that would cover the bed.