Mind the Step – DDW video #1
Goodbye screen, hello voice, goodbye ads!
In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer, and Tessie Hartjes, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All four contributors – sometimes accompanied by guest bloggers – are…
Marleen van Bergeijk Wins ASML Makers Award
Marleen van Bergeijk has won the ASML Smart Makers Award for the most promising designer. The award ceremony took place on Saturday, October 21 during a talent show of Smart Design to Market in the Brabant Living Lab at the…
World Design Event: The Embassy of Health
Premiering at the first World Design Event from 21 through 29 October 2017, during the Dutch Design Week, the Innovation Powerhouse (Eindhoven, Netherlands) will be open to the public for the first time and transformed into the Embassy of Health.…
Iskandar from Uzbekistan
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, E52 has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Iskandar Makhmudov Country of origin: Uzbekistan Work: Program…
Nina van Bart: Hidden Gem #8 DDW
During Dutch Design Week, E52 takes you through the pearls of the festival. Ten special designers which are, in our eyes, the hidden gems of the year. In the run-up to DDW, we put one pearl in the spotlight every…
Roald Klumpenaar wins Robot Challenge
Roald Klumpenaar has won the “Empowered by Robots-Challenge” with his “Focused Assembly Worker“. He left behind the Rollator Inspector and Blind Traffic controller, among others. Klumpenaar earned 10,000 euros with his idea, which according to the jury is directly feasible.…
World Design Event: All About the Embassy of Data
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how does that work? What’s going on in a society like that? Are there any good examples to learn from? DataStudio Eindhoven explores the transition a city has to go through to actually become…
Viola van Alphen: Hidden Gem #7 of DDW
During Dutch Design Week, E52 will be introducing you to the festival’s Hidden Gems. Ten special designers who we feel are the stand-outs of this edition. A different Hidden Gem will enjoy the limelight each day of DDW. Today: Viola van…
VDL Bus & Coach to start new business in Madrid
VDL Bus and Coach opens a new subsidiary in the Spanish capital Madrid. The choice to open a subsidiary in Spain is the continuation of VDL’s strategy to establish a direct presence of the buses & coaches division in the…