Posted by: Droog Design

Droog started in 1993 as a statement on design, a no-nonsense, down to earth design mentality. Our unique way of thinking has defined us as a conceptual design company, and has played a role in defining Dutch design internationally.

Co-founded and directed by art historian and critic, Renny Ramakers, Droog has worked with renowned designers such as Jurgen Bey, Marcel Wanders and Richard Hutten, producing products, projects, exhibitions and events that have been extensively published and collected by museums all over the world.

director(s):
Renny Ramakers

Posted by: Metahaven

Metahaven is a design studio engaging the field of visual identity.

From research projects, such as the Sealand Identity Project (2004), Museum of Conflict (2006), and Quaero (2007), the group has moved into installations and critical design projects such as Affiche Frontière (CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2008) and Stadtstaat (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Casco Utrecht). Its recent book, Uncorporate Identity (Lars Müller Publishers, 2010), matches design with inquiries on globalization and network society.

director(s):
Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden

Posted by: Premsela

Premsela, the Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion, creates opportunities for the growth of Dutch design from a cultural angle of approach. In all our projects, we collaborate intensively with a large number of partners. With them, we organise lectures, debates and exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. Premsela also publishes Morf, the Netherlands’ biggest design magazine, and the international web portal Design.nl. Our activities are aimed at designers, students, clients, producers, and everyone interested in the cultural value of design and fashion.

director(s):
Els van der Plas

Posted by: Royal Tichelaar Makkum

Royal Tichelaar Makkum is the Netherlands' oldest company. It lives up to this long lineage but lets itself by no means tie down by the chains of history. Rather, the invaluable knowledge of ceramics, accumulated by successive generations, has provided a firm base on which to build, from which development of products and know-how will progress hand in hand.

Royal Tichelaar Makkum fosters a company culture marked by open minds, an inquisitive disposition, enthusiasm for research and experiment, the pursuit of perfection and the drive to deliver custom made solutions for every conceivable application of ceramics in architecure, art and design.

director(s):
Jan Tichelaar

Posted by: SKOR

SKOR is a nationally operating organisation, which develops exceptional art projects in relation to public spaces.

director(s):
Fulya Erdemci

curator(s):
Tom van Gestel (senior curator), Theo Tegelaers (curator), Nils van Beek (curator)

Posted by: Trans Artists

Trans Artists is a knowledge centre on artist-in-residence opportunities. Since its foundation in 1998 it has grown into the biggest source worldwide of up-to-date information about facts, use and value of international artist-in-residence programmes as well as other opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere 'for art's sake'.

Trans Artists makes the enormous worldwide residential art labyrinth accessible and usable to the artists, through its website, newsletter, research and workshop programmes.

director(s):
Maria Tuerlings

curator(s):
Lotte Geeven (project coordinator), Yasmine Ostendorf (workshop program coordinator)