A dot, an arrow or a droplet on a map on your phone: that is how we indicate our location today. But for those who grew up before the smartphone, the ANWB emergency roadside telephone was a reassuring presence along the motorway.
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You are surrounded by design all day. The sneakers you wear, the car you drive, the cutlery you eat with and the phone that keeps you in touch. Design begins with your own body: getting your hair cut, training your muscles, possibly decorating your skin. Design shows who you are, who you want to be and where you want to belong. And it is everyone’s property.
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For many people it is a milestone: the moment you can ride a bicycle without training wheels. Remarkably, in the Netherlands there are more bicycles than people.
Over more than a century, the chair has become an icon. It has been looked at far more often than it has been sat on.
The Bruynzeel kitchen by Piet Zwart appears to be a fresh, modern kitchen was in fact a carefully engineered system designed around one specific user: the housewife.
Here you'll find the digital hand-out containing all gallery and object texts from the exhibition 'In Shape'.
Although domestic technology is seemingly designed to reduce work, it has mostly served to heighten the existing division of roles within the home.
Modern advertising presents us with ideas about gender and shaving that are mostly western and binary.
Today’s sports shoes are designed to keep improving your performance, which goes hand in hand with technical innovations and science.
Although your skull provides natural protection for your brain, the cranium cannot withstand a hard impact caused by an accident or a bullet.
As we travel, we are cut off from the world around us and often move so fast that we cannot even see who is driving next to us.
A dot, an arrow or a pin on a map on your smartphone: these are what you use nowadays to indicate where your body is located. But does anyone still remember the phone box?
Design crosses the threshold of our bodies more often than you might think.
In other countries, the bike tended to be associated after the turn of the century with the working class. Queen Wilhelmina’s penchant for cycling meant that in the Netherlands, by contrast, bikes continued to be used by all levels of society. They have been seen as ‘typically Dutch’ ever...
Rings are worn directly on the skin, but they are also visible to everyone. They make it easy to display your affinity with another person or a particular group.
For many of us, eating with a knife, fork and spoon is entirely natural.
We dig, plant, rake and water the garden, and then leave it to grow. The watering can has become a typical and familiar design in this regard.
The rules determine not only the game in general, but also how the player is permitted to move the ball around the pitch.
Curvy bottom and hips, wasp waist or gym-honed figure: the image of the ideal body has changed a lot over the centuries. Underwear helps people get as close as possible to that perfect image.
One of the most personal designs can be found right there on your head.