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

2016

Toaster by Didier Hilhorst & Nicholas Zambetti

The toaster cloth is made of fabric with metal wires interwoven. The metal wires can heat up to a substantial temperature, enough to toast bread. The first slice of bread is placed on the cloth, wrapped once; the second slice […]

02.08.2016

Urban Mutualism by Krijn Christiaansen & Cathelijne Montens

Street furniture must cope with extreme situations and are therefore often heavily founded with composite materials. Urban Mutualism researches the opportunities to reduce this, by linking furniture onto one founded object. #1 Exists of a bench that is ‘locked’ onto […]

02.08.2016

Cushion control by Didier Hilhorst & Nicholas Zambetti

A new generation of remote controls: a bunch of different cushions each having its own function: one for the channels, one for the power, one for the volume and so on. These remote controls can be thrown around, transforming the […]

02.08.2016

Painted Plastic Plant Company

Franck Bragigand made….

02.08.2016

Car mirror by Gijs Bakker

‘Tell me what car you drive and I tell you who you are.’ Car mirror is an ironic comment on men’s relationship with their cars. A photograph from a glossy magazine has been four colour silk-screened on a plexiglass mirror. […]

02.08.2016

You can become a piece of the city by Yoya Yoshika

13.06.2016

Knitted Maria coffeepot by Gijs Bakker

Coffeepot ‘Maria’ is a classic piece of the Rosenthal collection (German porcelain manufacturer). A cap, knitted around it, is glazed onto the porcelain.

11.06.2016

Porcelain stool by Hella Jongerius

Hella Jongerius was looking for an application for porcelain other than the usual dinner services and vases: could porcelain be safely scaled up to make furniture? Porcelain is by nature malleable, soft and warm. It’s only in the firing process […]

11.06.2016

Chest box by Jan Konings

Chest box is a very playful object of 63 plywood boxes of various sizes in a casing. The boxes fit into each other like Russian dolls and can be piled up however you want. Some are too small to be […]

11.06.2016

Cigar box, Drawing box, Shoe polish box & Stamp box by Richard Hutten

Richard Hutten created a series of maple boxes with traditional functional extras in the lids, expressing their meaning. They are genuine reinterpretations of classical private containers. He made one for drawing with a ruler and a circle template, a shoe […]

11.06.2016

Boxed bowl, lunch & ring by Joost Grootens

Joost Grootens chose to explore the border between the box as an object and as packaging. In the end he preferred not to choose at all. Here is what he did: he made birch plywood boxes that add functionality to […]

11.06.2016

Extended Cigar Box Cupboard by Wieki Somers & Dylan van den Berg

Wieki Somers & Dylan van den Berg stayed extremely close to the cigar box, except that they chose to radically stretch it to the size of a cupboard, including the hinges and locks, and even the printed paper tape along […]

11.06.2016

Use It Again by Martijn Schönfeld

11.06.2016

Winter-Droog by Aleksandra Adamczyk

11.06.2016

Runner up: A T-shirt should tell its own story by Arlene Birt

Arlene Birt’s design ‘A T-shirt should tell its own story’ represents a T-shirt with integrated labels and illustrations that explains its life cycle.

11.06.2016

Winner: The tallest Man by Sarah Dorkenwald & Ruth Spitzer

An adjustable T-shirt inspired by the tallest man ever – standing at 2.72m. The T-shirt has 4 cm increments allowing you to measure the height of other objects. “Our way of product development links graphics and product design, involving a […]

11.06.2016