Just stumbled upon this great video for a Dutch band named TIKA. As you do not know I’m working in a personal project, soon to go live, on ‘happy places’. This video so fits into that.

In the documentary music video, actor ‘giant’ Carel Struycken (who rose to fame by playing iconic freaks in pop culture,

From the moment we open our eyes it fuels our existence. We are on a mission to remind everyone to never lose your sense of curiosity or wonder. Long live learning!

‘Driving safely in the dark: opportunities for design as the crisis unfolds’. It is the full title of the lecture held by John Thackara on December 15th, to celebrate BNO’s 15th anniversary. I have been a fan of him for a long time, following

Nice interview by Submarine with Jeff Hull of Nonchalance at PICNIC festival 2011, a hybrid arts studio in San Francisco with an expertise in Situational Design. Jeff’s company created The Jejune Institute, an immersive game set in San Francisco

Got this image from Jan Willem Weissink, CEO Corio Nederland when we were working on Hoog Catharijne together. He took it at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy. It’s a work by Maurizio Nannucci from 2003. It’s so relevant

Spotted this on Fran’s blog, to cool:

Bruce Mau’s The Bureau of Doing Something About it: A pop-up studio, working in real-time, designed solutions in response to complaints.
Last year, the Toronto Complaints Choir, produced as part of the 2010-2011 World Stage season at Harbourfront Centre, collected

What does UNHATE mean? UN-hate. Stop hating, if you were hating. Unhate is a message that invites us to consider that hate and love are not as far away from each other as we think. Actually, the two opposing sentiments are often in a

Agree.

Martine sent me this link, The Bear by Becky & Ryan. The Bear is a series of stand alone paintings detailing the bond that forms between a first time father and his son, and the discoveries they both make along the way. Really nice, makes me think about the project I did

Watch this fun and great talk at The Do Lectures, and also check the other talks too.

The Do idea is a simple one: that people who Do things can inspire the rest of us to go and Do things, too. So each year we invite a set of people down here to come

Just bumped into these really nice Take Away Shows. Passionately made by Vincent Moon with a stunning sound quality, a series with really intimate recordings of concerts by great bands. Some hand-picked highlights:

Wilco

I was watching some TED Talks in the train, again looking for some fresh insights and, because I’m way behind (56 talks…) in watching them so I random picked one in iTunes: TEDTalks : Bertrand Piccard’s solar-powered adventure – Bertrand Piccard (2009). What an incredible story. A balloon as a metaphor for life. Made me

Kreeg dit geweldig inspirerende verhaal van Jorn.

Prof. Dr. Paul de Chauvigny de Blot SJ Lic. Ph. werd geboren

Zo goed dit. Delen is zo leuk en al helemaal dingen zoals deze mail van Pieter Spinder:

Lieve mensen,

Ik kwam maandag een mevrouw tegen van www.saamendeelen.nl en zij gaf mij een visitekaartje, waarop ze de volgende tekst had afgedrukt die ik graag aan jullie mail:

Er was eens een verhaal. Een oud verhaal,

24 uur met… Maarten van der Weijden (Dutch only)
This is a great story on how nothing is what it seems. Maarten won a gold medal on at the last Olympic Games in China, after overcoming cancer. In this great show by Wilfried de Jong, one of the best interviewers on Dutch tv, Maarten

Idealize #25 met Ellemijn Veldhuijzen van Zanten (Dutch only)
Ellemijn is a Dutch actress, mother and columnist. Although the entire conversation is interesting, fast forward to 21:10. From here, the conversation is about her five children. Only two of them still live and although this sounds as a dramatic story, which it obviously is,

I travel by trains a lot, since I do most of my work not really near where I live. And I use that time for a lot of things. Trains are great. They enable you to go wherever you want to go, and while you are doing that, do something else at the same time.

One of the speakers at Mastermundo 2008 was Laurent Haug, founder of LIFT Conference. LIFT is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities

I joined a massive Dutch design posse on a formal business mission to produce The Naked Poodle at the Business of Design Week , together with Fabrique and Leendert Mulder. Hong kong is amazing. And being part of a formal delegation is too. That opens up doors

Another trip to Seattle, this time to present the work that we did for Microsoft. I really enjoy these trips, since they nicely combine work with fun stuff, nice people and great food. Stayed in the same hotel as the previous trips in Kirkland and had a ‘Spa Arrangement’, which sounds more exotic than it

Seattle again. Besides work for Microsoft and a coffee with Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon.com), some time to check out Seattle. Jansen is out with the Hoek family, and I took the bus from Kirkland to Seattle and got out at the first stop in downtown. Decided to explore by foot. Always enjoy walking through

Trip with Waacs crew to Milano, visiting the Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milano 2008 for inspiration and fun. We saw everything, in Milan and the fair.

For more, see also the Flickr slideshow.

Dag 1: Geland!
Precies volgens planning landden we om 13.55 lokale tijd. Had meer willen slapen maar is niet meer gelukt dan en uur of 2, dus terwijl ik dit nu zit te typen is het hier nog maar 21.14 dus eigenlijk 06.14 in NL. Hakt er wel ff in, maar doe nog gewoon nog wat

Jochem and I travelled to Berlin, where the Real Dutch Design books were presented at the Dutch Embassy. Was nice to have a look in the Rem Koolhaas designed building and see so much real good Dutch design there.

At …,staat we worked for Diageo. For one of the brands in their portfolio, Gordon’s Gin, we developed the global brand iconography. As Greece was and probably still is their key market, I and my collegue René flew to Athens to present and brief local agencies on the new developed iconography.

When you think