OOOMS’ Schizo Vase has been shown on dutch television at Motel De Jong.
This vase is donated to Daan Samson, our favorite prosperity artist!

click here to watch the episode

Studio OOOMS has been invited to conduct a 5 day workshop at the Singapore Polytechnic.
The title of the workshop is “Lost & Found”. This title is based on the free materials that have lost their original function and for which a new function will be found.

The group assignment demands a real hands on approach, as well as the abillity to make quick decisions and
to be creative with limited materials. The programme places an emphasis on practice-oriented, creative work, complemented by short presentations and discussions.

If you like to see the PDF brochure about our workshops, click here.

More photo’s of the workshop can be found on our facebook page.

On the 12th of June OOOMS stepped on a plane to Mexico. We were invited by CEDIM to give a 5 day
workshop about interior & product design. Before we left we put lots of effort in the preparation so
nothing could surprise us.

CEDIM is situated in Monterrey, a modern city which is surrounded by stunningly beautiful mountains,
where it easily gets up to 40 degrees Celsius.

Our group consisted of 23 students from different departments and some participants were already
graduated. One of the main goals of the workshop was to make the participants realise that limitations
of a material mainly exist in their brain, not in the material itself.

The participants really worked hard. Not only we, but even the staff was surprised how the students
took over the whole school to work on their projects. Students were working in the classroom and
in the workshop, but also any other empty room, in the basement and in the hallway.
It was amazing to see them work with such enthousiasm! Even when Mexico was playing the soccer
match against France, the students kept on working while watching the game! The night before the
presentation some students even didn’t go to bed and worked the whole night, just to have their
project finished; That’s the spirit!

At the end presentation we really felt proud of our students; So many great projects made in just
1 week! According to all the lovely reactions from the students and the staff, and even the director
of the school, we must have done a pretty good job!

We would like to thank all the participants for their great effort and our friends of the staff for
taking such good care of us!

If you like to see the PDF brochure about our workshops, click here.

OOOMS would like to invite you to a collaborative presentation of 5 design studios showing
their latest work at ‘De Toonkamer’.
This presentation will be held during the Dutch Design Week 2011 in Eindhoven.

We look forward to seeing you at the venue!  www.detoonkamer.com

USB sticks are always nice to have around when transferring files from computer to computer. These Wooden USB Sticks from OOOMS are made to stand out from their natural environment of computers and offices. The sticks are picked from the woods and are individually selected for their natural beauty, and then professionally handmade into unique and personal Wooden USB sticks.

1Gb: 39 euro
2Gb: 45 euro
4Gb: 49 euro
8Gb: 55 euro

Description: Wooden USB stick 2.0
Dimensions: 8 x Ø 2 cm / 3,2 x Ø 0,8 inch
Memory sizes: 1 Gb, 2 Gb, 4Gb and 8 Gb.
Suitable for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Design: OOOMS

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We also offer sticks with personalised engraving, starting at 50 units. Please email us for more information.

The Puzzleboard by OOOMS can be used in more ways than one:
each board can be used on its own as a cutting board or serving plate, or put some boards together and you have super-sized your workspace. It’s ideal for cutting those long baguettes! But the best thing is that any wineglass can be fitted into the blank spot of a board. Using the boards at parties allows guests to enjoy both wine & delicacies, while still having one hand free to greet other friends.

19,95 euro per board

Description: cutting board, beech wood (FSC certified)
Dimensions: 29 x 17,5 x 1,7 cm /  11,4 x 6,9 x 0,67 inch
Design: OOOMS

Why would only humans make use of eco-friendly technology? OOOMS designed a birdhouse with a solar panel on it’s roof. During the day sunlight feeds the solar panel, charging a small battery inside. At twilight the transparent stick will light up and cast a tiny light on your garden. This light attracts an easy nighttime snack for the bird; all she has to do is stick her beak out of the hole and wait for the buzz.

70,- euro.

The word schizophrenia is derived from the Greek words for to split (schidzein) and mind (phren). This splitting is related to fragmenting of the thought processes.
OOOMS used this as inspiration to create a  vase with a ribbed surface which creates two different shapes.

The outside shape is based on a greek Amphora vase. The inner shape is inspired by an brass indian flower vase.
The Schizo vase is made out of cork, with a transparent finish that makes the vase durable and the inside waterproof.

790,-  euro

Description: Vase / dark brown cork / transparent coating
Dimensions: 49 x 49 x 90 cm / 19,3 x 19,3 x 35,4 inch
Design: OOOMS

Next to the large Schizo Vase which is in full production, we created a few unique vases from cork in various sizes (diameter 22 cm, height 31, 38 and 47 cm). When you are interested in one of these Schizo Vases please contact us.

The word schizophrenia is derived from the Greek words for to split (schidzein) and mind (phren).
This splitting is related to fragmenting of the thought processes.
OOOMS used this as inspiration to create a vase with a ribbed surface which creates two different shapes.

The outside shape is based on a greek Amphora vase. The inner shape is inspired by an brass indian flower vase.
The Schizo vase is made out of expanded polystyrene (EPS). A white finish makes the vase durable and waterproof.

650,- euro

Description: Vase / EPS / white coating
Dimensions: 49 x 49 x 90 cm / 19,3 x 19,3 x 35,4 inch
Design: OOOMS

The design of this lamp is inspired by schizophrenia.
The word schizophrenia is derived from the Greek words for to split (schidzein) and mind (phren).
This splitting is related to fragmenting of the thought processes.
OOOMS translated this into a design where the ribbed surface creates two different shapes.

The inner shape is a classic lampshade. The outside is more neutral, and looks a bit like a beehive.
When turned on, the inner shape of the Schizolamp will be emphasized due to the translucency of the material.

The Schizolamp is made out of EPS, a material which makes the design very lightweighted.
A transparent finish makes the lamp durable and easy to clean, while maintaining its natural color.

470,00 euro

Description: Pendant lamp / EPS / Transparent coating
Dimensions: 49 x 49 x 38 cm / 19,3 x 19,3 x 15 inch
Specifications: E27 socket /max. 40 watt energy-saving light
Included: 110 cm transparent electricity cable / ceiling cover

The Glassbulb Lamp by OOOMS is a lamp shaped like a wineglass.
This atmospheric lamp is the perfect lighting for those long romantic evenings accompanied by a nice Bordeaux.
The LED’s inside will shine for over 20.000 hours, so that’s around 10 years of romance at night!

59,00 euro

Description: Pendant lamp / LED
Dimensions: 23 x Ø 6,5 cm / 9 x Ø 2,7 inch
Specifications: 20 LED’s / lifespan 20.000 hours / ~ 3000 K / ~ 320 Lumen
Available in: 220 Volt and 110 Volt
Included: 200 cm black electricity cable
Design: OOOMS

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Studio OOOMS thinks we can all agree that the overly bland corporate environment can use any type of excitement boost that it can get. Enter these 14 carat goldplated staples. Intended primarily as a form of jewelry, these luxury pieces can be applied to clothing (or just about anything) with the help of your average stapler. Of course you can also impress your boss by turning in your next report decked out in gold. He will feel you.

59,00 euro

Description: 24 x 14 carat Goldplated staples
Dimensions: 1,6 x 1,3 x 0,5 cm / 0,6 x 0,5 x 0,2 inch
Design: OOOMS

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Commissioned by the Dutch souvenir project and initiated by the European Ceramic Work Centre, the Milkmaid by Studio OOOMS is not your typical keepsake. Inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s innocent painting “Het Melkmeisje”, this Delftblue ceramic figurine will certainly be a talking point if you leave it out on your mantelpiece!

119,00 euro

Description: Ceramic Delftblue figurine with cork
Dimensions: 22 x Ø 3,5 cm / 8,7 x Ø 1,4 inch
Commissioned by: the European Ceramic Work Centre
Artwork: Baschz
Design: OOOMS in cooperation with Davy Grosemans

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Finally OOOMS has its own page on Facebook. Visit us by clicking www.facebook.com/dutchdesigners .
We will use this page to keep you updated on the things that go on at our studio.
Our latest contribution are the photo’s of our 2 weeks of teaching at CEDIM, Monterrey.

Enjoy!

We would like to invite you to the presentation of OOOMS at de Toonkamer, during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. The theme of the presentation is "craft & design in progress". Besides exploring our new products, you can have a peek inside our studio which is located next to the exhibition space.

OOOMS will present a new line of interior products which are inspired by schizophrenia.
The word schizophrenia is derived from the Greek words for to split (schidzein) and mind (phren). This splitting is related to fragmenting of the thought processes.

Our new interior products are made of Biofoam.
Being produced from the renewable resource PLA, BioFoam is an addition to the current range of advanced EPS foam products offered today. It can be completely biodegraded, composted or used for feedstock for recycling. Being "designed for the environment" implies there is no chemical waste, which complies with the so called "Cradle to Cradle" principles.

We would like to thank Synbra for their support and supply of the Biofoam.

Location:
TAC
Gagelstraat 6A, Entrance C
5611 BH Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Dates and opening hours:
23 Oct – 31 Oct
Daily 13.00 – 19.00
Friday and Saturday 13.00 – 22.00

Drinks:
23 Oct 17.00 – 22.00

The ETFAM Trade Fair is an annual business-to-business exhibition for producers and buyers of ethical and fair trade goods. OOOMS will be participating as well, so please feel free to visit us at our booth. The trade fair is ETFAM’s real market place where buyers of ethical and fair trade goods can meet suppliers of these goods in person to do business with each other in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. The fair offers producers from developing countries and upcoming markets access to the Western European markets and enables visitors to find out more about the producer behind the product.

The ETFAM Trade Fair offers a unique trade environment to do business in an professional yet informal manner, with a wide range of catering products, general gifts and wellness products: a wonderful selection of high-quality articles. There will be a matching plaza with a range of supporting services as well, such as design, branding and micro finance, where on the spot forms of collaboration can result in customised products. Furthermore, a workshop programme will be provided to inspire you and keep you on your toes. Besides all of these excellent business-to-business opportunities, a congress about sustainable catering purchase will be held at this years’ fair too. This congres is targeted at buyers within government institutions.

ETFAM Trade Fair 2010
19 – 21 september
Beursgebouw Eindhoven
The Netherlands

On the trail of design to the ends of the Earth! Pigr’s design shop and e-shop, with a back-office devoted to developing design, explore the World Wide Web in search of new projects by young designers from all over the world. In real life it is based in Milan… reading, observing and travelling all over the place, but only in search of new ideas! This year, in pursuit of entertainment, sharing and for the pure pleasure of discovery, Pigr is presenting a gradually expanding selection of original and unusual objects, which have never been marketed before on the official design circuit. Pigr’s operations derive from an interest in the latest frontiers of contemporary creativity and an understanding of the kind of spontaneous design being thought up by the latest generations.

Pigr does not just seek out and market simple products: Sono Pigr – the design blog – actually listens and takes note of every single new vibration coming from the world of design; Pigr – the design shop – showcases the work of designers, like the work of OOOMS, developing small and major projects and keeping track of production and marketing right through to the public presentation of the latest collections of unusual objects on sale at reasonable prices. Allowing design to be experienced and enjoyed by everybody, even nowadays.

PIGR
14-04-2010 / 19-04-2010
Via Clusone, Milan
Italy
Open from 10AM till 10PM

The Wooden Memory Game is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and two cards are flipped face up over each turn. The object of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards. The game can be played with any number of players.

Our Wooden USB Sticks are all unique, but sometimes can look very similar. Because of this we thought their images would make a real challenging memory game. We would like to offer this game for free! All you have to do is some printing and cutting.

Click here to view the PDF of the frontside of the game. Print it on the thickest paper your printer can handle. Reinsert the printed sheet to print the backside. Click here to view the backside.

The Sixpack is a bottle carrier that can hold up to 6 beer, soft drink, or water bottles. It’s perfect for those BYO dinner outings where a normal 6 pack gets destroyed after you rip out one beer.

Description: Carrier rack made of steel
Dimensions: 25 x 10 x 5 cm / 9,8 x 3,9 x 2 inch
Design: OOOMS

This Designhuis exhibition is showing a wide variety of colours in design. The nice thing about this exhibition is that it not only shows coloured products, but even more shows the different reasons for the use of colour in design. KLEUR! shows the designs of i.a. Studio OOOMS, Dick van Hoff, Marcel Wanders and Hella Jongerius.

’Kleur!’
27-03-2010 / 12-09-2010
Het Designhuis
Stadhuisplein 3
Eindhoven
The Netherlands

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So what if your chances of ever becoming an astronaut are less than zero? You can still defy gravity using OOOMS’s Anti Gravity Machine and you know it’s probably more fun. All you have to do is strap yourself to the moving see-saw contraption and voila! You can moonwalk like Neil Armstrong all over the basketball court.

Description: Anti Gravity Machine made of scrap steel
Dimensions: 105 x 150 x 300 cm / 41,3 x 59,1 / 118,1 inch
Design: OOOMS

Although we love to keep up with new media like Facebook, Youtube and Twitter,
we didn’t really feel like maintaining a Twitter account ourselves.

Instead we thought of tweets generated by real birds.
Have a look at oooms.nl/tweeterfeed to see the first results.

twitter.com/tweeterfeed

Do you need a good alternative for wearing fur? Why not wear hats made of 100% human hair. The Hairhats are a statement about the fact that people shave and cut up almost every animal walking around with nice fur, but refuse to adorn human hair.

Description: Hats made of 100% human hair
Dimensions: various
Design: OOOMS

Do you know the feeling that you do not want to take a look at something, but you still do? The Roadkill carpet is a continues struggle between attraction and repulsion. It’s a warm, soft, cuddly carpet that attracts you to take a nap on it. But at the same time its a repulsive image of a car-flattened, bloody fox.

3400,- euro. Leadtime is 8 weeks.

Description: Handmade carpet from 100% wool
Dimensions: 170 x 240 cm / 66,9 x 94,5 inch
Design: OOOMS

Commissioned by De Hub, and in cooperation with TNO, Studio OOOMS is working on a product manufactured by Rapid Manufacturing.
The design is based on the idea that using RM is still a relatively expensive technique. Inspired by a ordinary paper party banner, OOOMS  designed  a structure which is made in one small piece. When you stretch the structure it will increase in size.  The result became a beautiful, stretchable necklace, looking like lace. This product was shown during the Dutch Design Week 2008, together with the results of other participating designers.

Description: Necklace made with RM
Dimensions: D 2 x 25 cm / D 0,8 x 9,8 inch
Commissioned by: De Hub & TNO
Design: OOOMS

The drawers of this cabinet can never be fully closed. When closing one drawer, the one next to it will open a bit. If you want to open a drawer that is fully closed, you just hit, kick or push the drawer next to it.

4500,- euro (made to order)  Please contact us if you’re interested.

Description: 4 drawer cabinet, Oak, stainless steel frame
Dimensions: 105 x 113 x 50,5 cm / 41,3 x 44,5 x 19,9 inch
Design: OOOMS

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Fooddesigner Annelies Hermsen asked a selected group of designers to be creative with 100 kilograms of sugar.
While receiving lots of comments on the sweet smell in and around our workshop, OOOMS created a roomdivider with caramel & Meranti.

The creations were presented during the Dutch Design Week 2009, the perfect meeting place for designers, companies and public. A diner was served, mainly containing sugarbased ingredients. Meanwhile visitors could enjoy the remarkable designs at Lebesque, a well-respected company in both the Netherlands and abroad.

Description: Roomdivider from caramel and Meranti.
Dimensions: 150 x 180 x 5 cm / 59,1 2 x 70,9 inch
Commissioned by: Annelies Hermsen & Lebesque
Design: OOOMS

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With this nifty vehicle you can move fast forward when walking slow. Looking like a treadmill on wheels, the Rollator uses a special gear drive system to multiply your walking efforts and increase your pace. While you won’t look quite as cool as those hipsters tooling around on their Segways, you might end up getting there just as quickly.

Description: Rolling treadmill, 3 gears
Dimensions: 130 x 60 x 100 cm / 51,2 x 23,6 x 39,4
Design: OOOMS

Behold the world unseen.
When the stress of city living gets too much, just deploy this contraption, jump inside and close the lid. It looks exactly like a traffic box that is found commonly along streets and sidewalks. It comes complete with vents so you can look out and watch the world go by while you hide and wait for your therapist.

The concept of the “Expect “ cabinet is to change fixed expectations. A straight lined cabinet with what appears to be 4 drawers turns out to be something most unexpected, a complex series of hidden spaces.

Description: 4 drawer cabinet, MDF / Metal
Dimensions: 130 x 70 x 40 cm / 51,2 x 27,6 x 15,8 inch
Design: OOOMS

‘Rocker’ is an universal attachment to turn almost any four-legged chair into a real rocking chair. Depending on the chair of your choice, you can get any kind of rocking chair; from very relaxed to a more active one. This project is the result of the Designboom rocking chair contest, where a premature version of the Rocker became 12th out of more than a thousand contestants.

Description: Universal attachment for chairs, Plywood / Steel
Dimensions: 80 x 5 x 10 cm / 31,5 x 2 x 3,9 inch
Design: OOOMS in cooperation with Meinte van de Meulen

The digital world often forces trade-offs between two opposing preferences: speed and quality. When working with images, speed often translates to lower resolution, compressing elements to simplified shapes. During this process, it is the computer, compelled by necessity, that makes the decisions about what is taken out and what is left. If we apply this logic to existing products, like here to the sideview of an Eames chair, we see that certain aspects of the product come to the front, while others recede.

Description: Extrusion chair, Steel / Polyurethane foam
Dimensions: 80 x 80 x 60 cm / 31,5 x 31,5 x 23,6 inch
Design: OOOMS

The Wire-frame collection came into existence because of a great fascination of the wire-frame structures in the 3D modelling phase of the design process. This chair is designed by computer using 3D software and after that its handmade in real steel wire.
One of the interesting aspects of this chair is that it becomes very transparent; you are able to view the entire chair from one perspective.

Description: Wireframe chair, 4mm steel wire
Dimensions: 47 x 50 x 80 cm / 18,5 x 19,7 x 31,5 inch
Design: OOOMS

The Wire-frame collection came into existence because of a great fascination of the wire-frame phase in the design process. The wire-frame structures are designed by computer using 3D software and after that they are made by hand.

Description: Dining table for 8 persons, Steel chrome legs / Laminated plywood top
Dimensions: 280 x 110 x 74 cm / 110,2 x 43,3 x 9,1 inch
Design: OOOMS

A collection of handmade products entirely made of cable-ties. With a lot of patience we’ll be rewarded with beautiful new structures, which can only emerge by fervent monkish work.

Description: Light – Sphere made of 2600 cable-ties
Dimensions: 60 cm / 23,6 inch
Design: OOOMS

This lounge chair is the perfect spot to spend your lazy sunday afternoon reading a book. The inside of the chair is padded with soft cushions while the outside is covered with a structure of 8000 cable-ties. Every cable-tie is painstakingly stripped to another to give it the spiky appearance of the sea creature it’s named after.

Description: Lounge Chair, stainless steel frame, cable-tie cover
Dimensions: 80 x Ø 130 cm / 31,5 x Ø 51,2 inch
Design: OOOMS

Oooms was invited to take part in a project ‘Iconen in Beeld’, commissioned by De Negende and EDHV. Together with 22 other designers they created a collection of souvenirs, each based on an iconic building in Eindhoven. This led to a great variety in designs, presented in a visually very clear way; each souvenir has been placed on a timeline, at the point in time the according building was built. Oooms was selected to design a souvenir for the ‘Evoluon’.

The Evoluon is the symbol of Eindhoven as ‘company town’ during 1920-1970. During the heyday days of Philips the inhabitants of Eindhoven were mostly real ‘Philips people’; they worked at Philips, in their spare time they went to Philips relaxation Centre and the children went to a school where Philips had mostly a large share at the establishment. Also in the church Philips was represented.

Oooms designed a souvenir which translates the atmoshere at that time; A small furnace bridge with a tea-candle. The shade of the old logo brings back memories to the period in which Philips was represented in all facets of life.

Description: Candleholder made with SLS
Dimensions: 11,6 x 7,7 x 7,4 cm / 4,6 x 3 x 2,9 inch
Commissioned by: De Negende & EDHV
Design: OOOMS

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Studio Oooms has been invited to participate in a project by De Negende and Edhv. Together with 22 other designers
they made a collection of souvenirs, each based on a iconic building in Eindhoven.
This led to a great variety in designs, presented in a visually very clear way; each souvenir has been placed on a timeline, at the point in time the according building was built.

If you like to see what Studio Oooms designed, print out the first image of this item (the black&white thing) and click here.
On the new page click ‘direct starten’, this will start your webcam. Now hold the code in front of your webcam and our souvenir will appear like its floating on top of the code.

 ’Iconen in Beeld"
19-12-2009 / 28-02-2010
Het Designhuis
Stadhuisplein 3
Eindhoven

Reading by Light combines contemporary and classic lights with text works from artists and writers to create a new exhibition environment for the acts of reading and consideration. The condition and act of reading will be explored in a number of light/text juxtapositions ranging from philosophical opinions to humour.

New lights and text works will be commissioned to join a number of specifically selected objects and texts to create a stimulating environment that will relate to those interested in design, art and literature. The reading material will come in many different formats such as works on paper, neon art works, books and small sculptural objects. Classic and contemporary furniture will also be included to work with a number of art works and lights.

Artists exhibiting will include: Damien Hirst, Lawrence Weiner, Simon Patterson, Ian Finlay, Rose Finn- Kelcey, Christopher P. Baker and Jeremy Deller. The lights come from designers such as Ingo Maurer, OOOMS, Freedom of Creation and Kenneth Grange..

The Civic
Hanson Street
Barnsley S70 2HZ
United Kingdom

Date: Saturday 14 November – Thursday 15 January 2010
Time: Daily
Free admission

From October 17 through October 25 2009, Eindhoven presents the 8th edition of Dutch Design Week, the largest design event in the Netherlands.

The participants include established bureaus, high-profile designers, talented newcomers, and recently graduated designers, one of the reasons why this Dutch Design Week is the perfect meeting place for designers, companies, and public.

OOOMS will be participating in 3 totally different exhibitions;
One is held inside office cubicals, one in several shop windows, scattered throughout the city center, and one is the setting for an experimental dinner.

Fooddesigner Annelies Hermsen asked OOOMS to be creative with sugar.
While receiving lots of comments on the sweet smell in and around our workshop, OOOMS created a roomdivider with caramel & Meranti.

Please come and have a look and taste at the Sugar Show during the DDW from 9.00 AM – 18.00 PM.

Location:
Lebesque
Hoogstraat 301
5654 NA  Eindhoven

In this expo the community centre, in which in the past you spent your time pottering around and on Saturday mornings rehearsing with your band, has been discovered again. The present day community centre settles from September 12th till November 2nd 2009 in the exhibition room of KOP. Our community centre is open four days a week and welcomes you with coffee, cookies and art.

You have the opportunity to explore everything that is here!
The caretaker, with his split personality and obsession for clocks, opens the doors of the community centre for a large group of international artists and designers, who dissolve the borders between fine art and design.
Experience todays objects of art, the specially designed tools, the multimedia party games and instruments. In the community centre you can attempt everything.

Amusement and self-reflection for active visitors.
Everything around us has been designed. All our objects are a combination of function and beauty. Functional objects in this way gain a double identity.  In our daily life fine art plays another role that is not tied to function. In the community centre you will encounter and experience the dissolving of the boundaries between art and design. The question will arise: what am I looking at, is this art or design?

Neighbourhood related cosiness, but slightly different.
In the community centre 45 national and international artists and designers created a site in which you are challenged to think beyond its borders. Not only is there art and design, but also an exciting dialogue. Both entertainment and (self)reflection are focus points. The whole thing makes you think of the typical neighbourhood togetherness and conviviality, but this is different. The caretaker welcomes you warm-hearted and will surprise you…

Participating artists and designers:
i.a: 5.5 designers (FRA), Atelier Blink (BE), Zelda Beauchampet, Blokmeubel, Buro Jet, Dennis de Bel, Michiel van Erp, Jaap de Jonge, Ward van Gemert, David Graas, Mark van den Gronden, Frank Halmans, Susanna Hertrich (GER), Floris Hovers, Instituut voor de Lopslopende Mens, Pieter Jamart (BE), Zowie Jannink, Chris Kabel, Eric Klarenbeek, Robert Knight, Theo Konijnenburg, Lise Lefebvre (FRA), Sander Lucas, David Moises (A), Sander Mulder, Oooms, Gert Paans, Tom Reijnders, Sander Reijgers, Martin Robitsch (A), Snode vormgevers, Diane Steverlynck (BE), Sebastiaan Straatsma, Hans Tan (SP), Louise van der Veld (initiator and company), Rob Verwer, Wieland Vogel, Jonas Vorwerk, Martijn Wildekamp, Tijmen Zonnevijlle

The Community Centre / ’t BUURTHUIS welcomes you from September 12th till November 2nd at Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5pm. KOP – Speelhuislaan 171 – Breda (NL).

 SOFIA DESIGN WEEK is the first of a kind design festival in Bulgaria. Between June 5th and June 12th Sofia will be transformed into a vibrant capital of design, where Studio OOOMS will be showing some of their products.

In its first issue, SOFIA DESIGN WEEK is welcoming some of the most avant-garde international names in the contemporary product, communication, interactive and graphic design. Sofia Design Weeks aims to place our city on the global map of design. Through discussions and experience exchange, it will also seek the next identity in our visual environment, one that is urgently needed.

Sofia Design Week will take place annually in order to involve Bulgaria on a regular basis in the ongoing global discussion on the future of design.

For the first time in its history Sofia will host a design event of such significance:
22 free of charge expositions of product, communication, interactive and graphic design;

NEXT IDENTITY FORUM: The international event, part of the festival that gathers some of the most significant names in avant-garde design nowadays: 3 days, 17 speakers. Between June 5th and June 7th creative people from all spheres will be brought closer to the idea of next visual identity for our environment;

5 workshops, led by some of the most noteworthy names in design, who will reveal their working processes;
Additional events and artistic actions will take place in the public space;
Design Lounge zone in the yard of the National Academy of Arts;

„We live, consume and survive in a highly aggressive and chaotic visual environment. It is time for next identity, for intelligent and socially adequate design.” – urges SOFIA DESIGN WEEK` s manifesto.

Please join us for a view of the new 400 Years Later — Cite Goes Dutch exhibition, opening to the public on May 16 and running through June 14.

1609: The Dutch Discover New York
2009: New Yorkers Discover Dutch Design
The exhibit presents everything from furniture and tabletop objects to jewelry by 23 emerging Dutch designers and manufacturers and 1 photographer. Curated by Studio Jan Habraken and Alissia Melka-Teichroew in collaboration with Wabnitz Editions Ltd and Josée Lepage, the work draws an outline of contemporary design coming out of, and shaped by, the unique climate of the densely populated Netherlands, whose designers grow up below sea level and under heavy gray skies.

400 Years Later will introduce recent and never-before-seen work by Studio Oooms, Frederik Roijé, Jorre van Ast, Mirjam van der Lubbe, Studio Glithero, Sander Mulder, Lucas Maassen, Lotte van Laatum, Dave Keune, Maarten Baptist, Lisa Klappe, Jan Habraken and byAMT Studio, among others, that is both intricate and pared-down, pragmatic and poetic, witty and well-crafted.

WHEN
Saturday, May 16 through Sunday, June 14 2009

OPENING PARTY
Saturday, May 16, 2009 from 6 – 8 PM

WHERE
CITE Showroom
131 Greene Street (between Prince and W Houston St.)
New York, NY 10012, USA

OPENING HOURS
11:00 am – 7:00 pm Monday through Saturday
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Sunday

CONTACT
Contact Person for CITE Showroom
PJ Casey 212.431.7272 (CITE Showroom)

For Press Release, please download by clicking here

Fuori salone internazionale del mobile – Milan 2009
from 22 to 27 of april – Via Lodovico il Moro 27
(alzaia Naviglio Grande)
open hours 12:00 – 24:00

Party 24 april from 20:00 to 24:00!

Meike van Schijndel | AMSTERDAM Tourism & Convention Board (ATCB) | NEVE | | Tom Dixon | Esther Derkx | Jan Puylaert Nora de Rudder | SERRALUNGA | WET | PHILIPSdesign | Guido Ooms & Karin Lieshout | Fulvia Mendini | HAFRO | Zaha Hadid Dax van Son | FELICE ROSSI | Stefano Marzano| Jacco Bregonje | LELO | Karim Rashid | GianLuca Neve | METALSPOT
Bram Boo | Michael Young | Gianni Ilardo | Richard Hutten | ANTIQUE MIRROR | Carlo Magnoli | ARGENTOVIVO
d’Hanis & Lachaert | P-FACTOR | Claudio Brovelli | Betony Vernon | Amiez | SNOWHITE | CASAMANIA | Fabio Novembre

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From 2 – 13 April the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven will once again be the place to find electronic music, interactive installations, film, art performances, live cinema and robotics. The STRP Festival is a multidisciplinary all-out experience in which music, art and technology merge.
During the STRP EXPO+, we have plenty more to offer from 8 – 13 April with a wide array of unique performances and art projects on top. Some are freaky and totally out there, while others are extremely sophisticated and innovative. During Easter we have a couple special installations and workshops. You can go ‘Lay an Egg’ from 2D to 3D or let the Unbelievable Frying Object installation do it for you. Further, there are workshops to be done and performances to be experienced

Art is not weird and technology is not sterile: this is the message that STRP aims to convey. Art can be a physical experience and technology makes for a wonderful toy. It causes you to look at reality from a different perspective.

What can you expect? First and foremost, a major exhibition of technological art installations: the STRP Expo, which features works including Infinite Cubed by the Brazilian duo Crescenti & Cantoni. This 3×3×3 metre cube made of moving mirrors creates the ultimate “Droste Effect” named after the optically enchanting Dutch cocoa ads. Next, try looking deep into the eyes of the Hexapod spawned by Matt Denton. This six-legged spider robot tracks you like a predator going after its prey, and instantly posts your picture on its website.
STRP Expo features dozens of amazing and largely interactive works of art that appeal to your entire body.

While there is a strong international flavour to the STRP Festival, the Netherlands is likewise well-represented. Featured Dutch artists include Daan Roosegaarde, whose work has been displayed around the world; robotics artist Freerk Wieringa; and video artist Jérôme Siegelaer. Plus, a number of recent graduates will also be participating, including Jeroen Holthuis, Evelien Lohbeck and Paul Verhoeven.

Would you like to experience all of this and more during this year’s STRP Festival? Then be sure not to miss STRP Expo+ from 8 – 13 April (Easter Weekend). Day tickets are only €10, and children under 12 are admitted free (on Friday and Saturday until 21:00). Your day ticket is valid for the entire day, in other words including the evening part of the programme (which in some cases will last well into the night!). Check the timetable at this site for the complete programme.

From April 8th – 13th is STRP Expo+ open for audiences to explore and experience artworks, performances, workshops, live cinema, animations, and much, much more!
Tickets are 10 euro, and all kids under 12 get free entrance (untill 19h in the Easter weekend).

The STRP Festival takes  place in the building ‘Klokgebouw’ at Strijp-S in Eindhoven. Works from Granular Synthesis are also to be seen at MU and the 5 Minuten Museum (5MM).

www.strp.nl

On the 28th of February Max Mara will open its new flagshipstore in Milan. The inauguration will be held at corso Vittorio Emanuele, piazza del Liberty 4. The new store carries designs of studio OOOMS.

Max Mara, or The House of Max Mara, is an Italian fashion house. It is best known for elegant, wearable, ready-to-wear clothing.

The brainchild of Achille Maramotti, Max Mara was founded in 1951 and has since become one of Italy’s most successful fashion companies. Like many Italian firms, Max Mara remains a family company although, interestingly, no member of the family is a fashion designer. Instead Max Mara operates by the highly successful formula of employing well-known fashion designers to create their collections—a method described by fashion critic Colin McDowell as a form of designer “moonlighting” and which is characteristic of a number of Italian ready-to-wear companies. Designers who have created collections for Max Mara include Anne Marie Beretta, Karl Lagerfeld, Luciano Soprani, Guy Paulin, and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. The identity of more recent Max Mara designers was a jealously-guarded secret; they were, however, acknowledged in retrospect.

The first Max Mara shop was opened in Reggio Emilia in northern Italy in 1951 and the first collection consisted of two coats and a suit which were copies of Paris couture designs. Although Achille Maramotti was officially trained as a lawyer, his family background was firmly entrenched in dressmaking since his mother had founded a tailoring school in 1923. Maramotti’s vision to produce designer fashion for the mass market was remarkably farsighted at a time when haute couture still dominated fashion and high fashion ready-to-wear clothing did not exist. Like the whole fashion industry during the early 1950s, Max Mara looked to Paris as inspiration for its designs and produced garments which combined Parisian designs with their quality manufacturing techniques.

Commisioned by De Hub, and in cooperation with TNO, Studio OOOMS is working on a product manufactured by rapid manufacturing.  The design is based on the idea that using RM is still a relatively expensive technique. In order to get the most out of this, Studio OOOMS  designed something that can be made when its small, but can be a lot bigger when in use. Inspired by a ordinary paper party banner, the result became a necklace made in one piece. This product will be shown during the Dutch Design Week 2008, together with the results of other participating designers.

Lace is back in vogue. Today’s top designers are discovering the new possibilities offered by these translucent lines of thread. Bruges has traditionally been one of the world’s great lace- making centres and from 11 November 2008 until 1 March 2009 the city is set to become a new breeding ground for all the very latest lace trends and ideas. ‘The Face of Lace’ is a four month celebration of contemporary art, design and fashion, which will highlight the many facets of this most fascinating material.

More and more young artists and designers are unashamedly using lace in their patterns and themes. Also studio OOOMS has discovered the true beauty of lace: the richness of its transparency, the fluidity of it silken lines and the delicate interplay between ornamentation and structure. With new techniques and new materials, they have given lace new meaning. Lace once again has its own place in contemporary culture.

From 11 November 2008 until 1 March 2009 works of art, design ornaments and fashion concepts related to lace will be displayed throughout the length and breadth of Bruges – both indoors and outdoors. These pieces will create a fascinating dialogue with the city’s ancient buildings, streets and canals, as well as with historic works of lace selected from the collections of the city’s museums.
The Face of Lace will offer four months of contemporary art, fashion and design of the highest quality – an ambitious project laced with all kinds of exciting contrasts, concepts and challenges. The organisation of the Face of Lace has been entrusted to Musea Brugge and Brugge Plus. The exhibits have been chosen by project curators Hanneke Kamphuis and Hedwig van Onna.

An extensive sample of the latest in innovative Dutch design, grouped under seven headings: RELAX, PLAY, EAT, ILLUMINATE, INTERACT, PROTECT and WORK. The exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Madrid Design Association (DIMAD), consists of 140 items by up-and-coming designers as well as those who have already made a name for themselves outside the Netherlands (Studio OOOMS, Marcel Wanders, Tjep, Richard Hutten, Ineke Hans, Demakersvan, Joris Laarman or Hella Jongerius), created with the idea in mind of seeing domestic and urban space as a continuum, with no clear division between indoors and outdoors (Binnen/Buiten).

FOUNDATION BUILDING, A CORUÑA: 17 October-25 January 2009

This enormous French Chandelier was created for an exhibition in the library of TU Delft. The University organised an exhibition, showing- and giving workshops about modern plastics and its uses. The chandelier consists of 25.000 cable-ties, painstakingly careful zipped together into one giant lighting object. Currently the French Chandelier is part of the collection of Spazio Rossana Orlandi.

Description: French Chandelier
Dimensions: 275 x 150 cm / 108,3 x 59,1 inch
Commissioned by: TU Delft , 
Design: OOOMS

Well chosen lighting is an important ingredient for every successful party. An interesting and atmospheric by-product of light are its shadows. Our design uses those shadows to create the right ambiance; A 360 degrees skyline of lively people emerges by shadows on the walls.

Description: Interior lighting, lasercut metal sheet with lighting fixture.
Dimensions: 28 x ∅ 80 cm / 11 x ∅ 7,49 inch
Commissioned by: Designboom
Design: OOOMS in cooperation with Georges Beaujean
 

Design and execution of 8 museum trolleys, for guided children tours at the museum. The chair can be used as mobile storage, a seat for tired visitors or a stage for children to address the group.

Description: Mobile storage chair, Plywood / Fiberglass
Dimensions: 50 x 50 x 70 cm / 19.7 x 19.7 x 27.6 inch
Commissioned by: PMMK, Museum of Modern Art Oostende
Design: OOOMS in cooperation with Davy Grosemans
 

Design and execution of a symbolic relay stick, commissioned by the ‘Commissie Gelijke Behandeling’. During the ‘European Year of Equal Rights’ this relay stick is handed over every 2 months to another organisation. The stick exists of 6 separate parts, symbolic to the six organisations, hold together by a brass thread.

Description: Relay stick, birch / brass
Dimensions: 28 x ∅ 3,8 cm / 11 x ∅ 1.5 inch
Commissioned by: Commissie Gelijke Behandeling
Design: OOOMS
 

About one third of Holland (meaning “hollow land”) is below sea level. Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is built in the middle of a former lake. Flevoland, which is also reclaimed from sea, is on average 8 metres below sea level. The concept of “Hollow Land” highlights the fact that Holland is not only flat, but below sea level as well. These topographical depressions are as iconographic as wooden shoes and tulips. A mould is made of a hole in the ground, somewhere in the Netherlands. From the mould, a perfect replica of the hole is produced in ceramics.

Description: Ceramic dish
Dimensions: 32 x Ø 6 cm / 12,6 x Ø 2,4 inch
Commissioned by: the Dutch souvenir project, initiated by the European Ceramic Work Centre
Design: OOOMS in cooperation with Davy Grosemans

Totaljoy is a company that has developed a very safe material for the use within the medical
market. Their material is non toxic, phthalate free, FDA approved and heavily tested by TNO.

One day  the idea was born to produce these special products in this safe material.
The order for a new line of 7 different models was given to Studio OOOMS who took on
this unusual challenge.

Dimensions: various
Commissioned by: Totaljoy
Design: OOOMS

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Presentation of 10 graduates from DAE during the Salone del mobile. Improvised with found street-material and produced for an exhibition within 3 weeks. We’ve welcomed visitors with food, drink and atmosphere.

Description: presentation with found material
Commissioned by: Design Academy Eindhoven
Design: OOOMS in cooperation with 9 graduates from DAE

Exhibition of young designtalent in cooperation with the Design Academy Eindhoven. CILO shows you the work of these participants: Studio OOOMS, Nadine Sterk, Vivian Wierts, Wieki Somers, Wouter Scheublin, Tomm Veldhuis, Susan Verhijen, Monique Goossens, Cris Bartels, Mara Skujeniece, Chris Kabel, Sander Wassink, Tom Dissel, Bertjan Pot.

Twenty pieces have been chosen to show a multiple view of interior design nowadays. All products are a reflection of our current time-period. A period when social issues are reflected in objects, new materials are used and age-old habits are charished or rejected. A time to think about what enriches- or or impoverishes us.

The designers found quality in their daily environment and translated this sense into their creations. The products which emerge are more than just functional. They are products which communicate through inner qualities, characters of our time.

During October 2008 Studio OOOMS will be showing work in Torino. This third event-exhibition in the calendar of Torino 2008 World Design Capital opens to the public in a setting symbolically and structurally suited to housing the results of an unusual encounter between mixed communities, designers and companies: the Palafuksas in Piazza della Repubblica 25.
In the centre of a square that tells the story of waves of immigration and stratified attempts at adaptation, which speaks Piemontese, writes in Arabic and wears Chinese clothes, rises the luminous and open container of an exhibition that includes among its participants highly important names in world design, from the Japanese Naoto Fukasawa, to the Catalan Martì Guixè, the Brazilian Campana brothers and Jasper Morrison from Britain,
but also the Italians Giulio Iacchetti, Matteo Ragni, Carlotta de Bevilacqua and many others, for a total of forty eight protagonists of unusual triangles of designers, companies and communities.

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From 13 January through 23 March 2008 the Designhuis Eindhoven opens its doors to The Family of Form, an exhibition with works of three generations of graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven. In 2007 the exhibition was received with much enthusiasm at the Salone del Mobile in Milan and the Institut Néerlandais in Paris. Now for the first time and in its most extensive form The Family of Form can be admired in the Netherlands. The reason for this retrospective is the sixtieth anniversary of the Design Academy Eindhoven.

The Family of Form – 60 years Design Academy Eindhoven

photo’s: Patrick Meis

This table by OOOMS is not made to fly, but certainly looks like it can.
The framework of this lightweight table is inspired by the LCM Plywood lounge chair from the Eames couple.

Description: Table made of plywood and aluminium tubing
Dimensions: 100 x 90 x 74 cm / 39,4 x 35,4 x 29,1 inch
Design: OOOMS
 

When seeing this table the strange urge emerges of smashing it in two parts. The holes in the table refer to the edges of stamps and other perforated papers.

1800,- Euro (Made to order) Please contact us if you’re interested.

Description: Stamp Table, Meranti
Dimensions: 190 x 90 x 74 cm /  74,8 x 35,4 x 29,1 inch
Design: OOOMS

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How come artificial plants don’t bloom?
OOOMS designed a series of artificial plants which don’t look real, but they really bloom!

Just spray water on the surface of the Green Lettuce and within minutes the little leaves will gently unfold.
When you treat the Red Coral with some water it will release its arms and grow three times its size.
The Gum Tree needs special care every day. Pour water in the pot and within 7 days the leaves will unfold,
showing us the bright colours within.

Description: Artificial plants, Polyurethane foam
Dimensions Green Lettuce: 22 x 12 x 13 cm / 8,7 x 4,7 x 5,1 inch
Dimensions Red Coral: 16 x 16 x 45 cm / 6,3 x 6,3 x 17,7 cm
Dimensions Gum Tree: 35 x 35 x 30 cm / 13,8 x 13,8 x 11,8 inch
Design: OOOMS

How come artificial plants don’t bloom?
OOOMS designed a series of artificial plants which don’t look real, but they really bloom!
This surprising plant needs special treatment every day. Pour water in the pot and within 7 days the leaves will unfold, showing us the bright colours within.

Description: Artificial plants, Polyurethane foam
Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 45 cm / 6,3 x 6,3 x 17,7 cm
Design: OOOMS

How come artificial plants don’t bloom?
OOOMS designed a series of artificial plants which don’t look real, but they really bloom!
Just spray water on the surface of the plant and it will release its arms and grow three times its size.

Description: Artificial plants, Polyurethane foam
Dimensions: 35 x 35 x 30 cm / 13,8 x 13,8 x 11,8 inch
Design: OOOMS

When looking at the ceiling for a lamp that will be switched on by this light pull, you can look at long as you like, but you won’t find any.
This light pull is actually also the lamp; when pulling the cord, the ring at the end will light up.

Description: Ceramic Lamp, 220 Volts
Dimensions: 8 x Ø 26 cm / 3,15 x Ø 10,23 inch
Design: Studio OOOMS