Subtle experiences of products, projects and exhibitions by Droog Design digitally preserved over the last 30 years.

2006

Rapid Manufacturing

Rapid Manufacturing features the work of French designer Patrick Jouin. Droog flagship store shows Jouin’s latest innovation the OneShot. It’s the first time this unique one piece, folding stool is presented in the Netherlands. This revolutionary design made by Rapid […]

02.03.2006

New British Designers

An exhibition with works by Loop.ph, WOKmedia and Julia Lohman. The official opening was preceded by an Open Talk with the designers of the three design studios featuring in the exhibition. Droog director Gijs Bakker operated as a moderator […]

01.03.2006

Dish Mop by Gijs Bakker

Gijs Bakker Dish Mop, 2006 This dish-washing brush features a black foam ball securely held between the prongs of a steel fork, creating a minimalist yet effective cleaning tool. Beyond its primary function, the Dish Mop invites playful interaction. The […]

01.01.200603.06.2025

The Honeycomb Vase by Tomas Libertiny

Tomas Libertiny The Honeycomb Vase, 2006 Libertiny invited colonies of bees to contribute to the creation of sculptural forms, resulting in a vase built by 40,000 bees in just one week. The designer constructed a vase-shaped hive, which the swarm […]

01.01.200612.11.2024

Second-hand Bookshelf by Maarten Baas and Franck Bragigand

Maarten Bass & Franck Bragigand Second-hand Bookshelf, 2006 Originating from Baas’s earlier Hey Chair, Be a Bookshelf concept, the design playfully reassigns purpose to familiar objects, allowing them to take on a completely new role. Bragigand unified the assembled elements […]

01.01.200627.02.2026

Crochet Chair by Marcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders Crochet Chair, 1997 Wanders hand‑crocheted cotton yarn into intricate flower-based motifs, then dipped the assembled crochet in epoxy resin, placing it over a chair mould. Once dried, the mould was removed, revealing a self-supporting, hollow seating shell that’s […]

01.01.200608.07.2025

A House with Future for Bureau Beyond

A House with Future was a conceptual housing project developed in 2006 for Bureau Beyond, which invited designers to imagine new ways of living. The project was presented as part of an exhibition in Utrecht, where multiple visions of the […]

01.01.200612.01.2026

Corian

On January 27th 2006, the joint project ‘Droog for Corian’ took off in Genk, Belgium. A group of ten designers, from the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Portugal, was informed in detail about the technical processing and working qualities […]

01.01.2006

2005

Droog Dinner Delight 2005

The fully booked Droog Dinner Delight designed by Marije Vogelzang revolved around the theme of ‘Sharing’. For example, for starters the guests received melon or ham which was served on a unique plate made of two halves. Some guests received […]

20.12.200526.10.2023

Droog T-shirt competition

date: 29 September 2005 location: Droog at home Droog usually approaches a specific designer for an assignment, but with the Droog T-shirt competition we wanted to give every designer a chance. Anyone could send in a concept for a short-sleeve […]

29.09.2005

New Swedish Designers

‘Objects tell stories about moments in our lives, people we have met and places we have been to. What happens with products after they have left the store?’ In 2004, Front design surveyd the ‘Story of Things’ by interviewing Swedish […]

23.09.2005

In third place: Sweatshop-shirt "do-it-yourself"™ by Drus Dryden

Drus Dryden’s ‘Sweatshop-shirt ‘do-it-yourself’ is a box with all the ingredients for your own sweatshop. The 3 cents, that would otherwise have gone to someone in a sweatshop has been deducted from the price.

02.08.2005

Machine comes to bloom for Sony VAIO 5th anniversary

Machine comes into bloom by Mina Wu: ‘Subtle lines of an organic form crawl upon a technical device and continue their way on the hand of the human who operates this machine. Human created technology. Technology created a whole new […]

02.08.2005

Dutch Prime Minister meets creative industry

In order to gain more knowledge about the Dutch creative industry, Prime Minister Balkenende had dinner with the main players in this field. The dinner took place at the Droog flagship store in Amsterdam. The Prime Minister and his guests […]

07.06.2005

Woolbeing for Heng Yuan Xiang group

date: 2005/2006 HYX (Heng Yuan Xiang group) is one of China’s top woollen consumables companies. They asked Droog to create and elaborate an innovative concept for its trademark. As one of the official sponsors of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, HYX […]

02.06.2005

Urban Eco Dinner for Nike

date: 2005 location: Droog Amsterdam In order to have a better understanding of the European market and consumer, Nike brought a team from the United States over to Amsterdam. At Droog they had a ‘brain picking’ dinner with Dutch creatives […]

02.06.2005