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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 
The PICNIC Creative Business Club is a network of companies and organizations which comes together throughout the year. Its objectives are to create the future and explore game-changing solutions to economic, social and environmental challenges.
Members participate in PICNIC events and connect with a diverse group of Dutch and international professionals, entrepreneurs and young
BMW i was one of the sponsors of PICNIC Festival 2011, but also facilitated a by Benoit Jacob Head of Design BMW i, who provided PICNIC participants with exciting insight into the mindset of a forward-thinking car designer, revealing logic which drove the process of designing
Symen Veenstra, better known as enkeling was at the PICNIC Festival 2011. While listening to the talks he drew some attendees in the ‘PICNIC passport’, beautifully printed by Zwaan printmedia by the way. On day 3 he drew speaker Mr. Heath Bunting and some weird cityscapes. Cool stuff, this is what the passport
Hannibal Smith of The A-team would have said: “I love it when a plan comes together.” Wow, what an amazing edition of PICNIC Festival. Some things old, a lot of new, some things borrowed and a lot of green. No, it was not an easy ride
The beautiful leaders and bumpers are the result from a cross-continental collaboration i a true PICNIC spirit between Circus Family in Amsterdam and Marcelo Baldin a.k.a. Combustion from Brazil. The result is simply beautiful.
Hoe moeten we ons de steden van de toekomst voorstellen? Naar aanleiding van PICNIC Festival 2011 (14 tot en met 16 september in Amsterdam), een festival dat zich richt op innovatie, creatieve industrie en technologie en dit jaar als
With the introduction of PICNIC Stories, PICNIC goes beyond the event. Like the festival, PICNIC Stories is all about sharing: inspiration, new ideas, different opinions, and knowledge. Built around content gathered by PICNIC, pieces composed by the PICNIC audience and supported by professional content partners we
Because you will be overwhelmed with inspiration and ideas at PICNIC Festival 2011 and will meet a lot of like-hearted people, you will need this document to jot down all names,
ideas and inspiration to make sure you remember it all when the festival is over. It will be your passport to enter new worlds you
As said earlier, also in its sixth year, PICNIC reiterated its commitment to creativity and technology – in terms of content, involvement of the PICNIC community and its international reach. This event for professionals is internationally known for its innovative festival approach, combining cutting edge content with new, interactive program formats and a surprising and
The build up of the city is about to start according to the work the city planners have been busy with past months. No, we were not kidding when we said we were going to build a city. Judge yourself, check the map!
Design Martine Eyzenga
Art-direction Marcel
Whoo! We’re done. The program is jam-packed. Nothing else fits in. So prepare for 150 speakers, a truckload of workshops, great people and nice food
In this update fresh work by Hans Blaas, Koeweiden Postma, Marije Kuiper, 178 aardige ontwerpers, Karim Cherif of United 135, Liam Aelmans of United 135, Jan Willem Wennekes of Zeptonn and Andreas Johansen. More contributions in a next update.
Building PICNIC is a mix of design, technology, business and governance, mixed with bold ambitions, hard work and a great team. Translating this years’s theme into a physical manifestation of it, is a nice challenge we took on. It leads to a lot of discussions in
It is amazing to receive the contributions for the PICNIC Poster Project. Would like to share some with you. In this update fresh work by Ben Lambers of Studio Aandacht, Chris van Diemen of Taken by Storm, Karim Cherif of United 135, Liam Aelmans of United 135,
PICNIC Club will be a fun place where the light-hearted and like-minded people can easily create a profile and network with other delegates with similar interests, before, during and after the festival. They can share ideas and conversations with other clubbers, connect with speakers, the PICNIC
What defines a city? For me one of the things that does that is the rich visual culture you find on the streets in the form of posters. Obviously we have a big challenge, saying we’re building PICNIC City. Since it is for only three days, and we only have about a week to build
A layered design approach. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something remixed into something flexible.
Organization/brand level
Based on the decisions we made last year, we have defined the design on this most simple level. It is the content, the people and everything else that makes PICNIC into PICNIC. So PICNIC will be simple, no fuzz black
PICNIC News Network, reporting from all over the world to show what’s happening all over the world.
Something new is the PICNIC News Network (PNN), what will be a platform for continuous conversation on subjects related to the main theme of PICNIC Festival. This will be a mix of contributions in video, images and text to
Another year, not just another edition of PICNIC. Since the very first edition of PICNIC, it has set the standard in its field — there was simply no event like it. Last year, we celebrated five beautiful years of PICNIC. Five years of connecting
At PICNIC ‘10 we had the privilege to premiere Sustainism publicly. Sustainism Is the New Modernism, A Cultural Manifesto for the Sustainist Era by Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers a bold document that combines a powerful idea with really strong iconic graphic design. I
The fifth edition of PICNIC took place from September 22 to 24, 2010 at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, and is was fabulous!
The festival was made possible by the enthusiasm, hard work and collaboration of a group of amazing people, including our sponsors, partners, speakers and the PICNIC ‘10 advisors and team but – most importantly
Project Dreamschool at PICNIC’10 was incredibly fruitful. Instead of a written summary of the event, which is quite a challenge, we have a full visual summary. Everything that has been talked about, thought of, etc. has been captured in these fabulous visuals by visual philosopher and story sketcher Dennis Luijer and
This edition we strived to make PICNIC into a village. No, we didn’t change from city to a village because PICNIC has become smaller. Not at all. We changed to a village because we really strive to have people meet each other so they can exchange, what will lead to new beautiful projects and ideas.