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Pheromone Design
Scary and fascinating at the same time, this insect series by Pheromone Design proves once and for all that if want to be inspired by nature, there's more than...
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Christopher Marley
Lauren Clay
Etsy by aliens - that's the first thought that came to my mind when I saw Lauren Clay's fantastic, otherworldly art works. But after a more careful second look, I...
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Lauren Clay
Lindsay Milne McLeod
Sometimes I open up a magazine and see a photo series that is so completely ME! Those moments are exhilarating and frustrating at the same time. I wish I could have...
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Lindsay Milne McLeod
Altdeutsche Möbel by Moooi
Gemütlich, kitschig and supertoll - three German words that perfectly describe the new Altdeutsche Möbel collection by Dutch designers Studio Job for Moooi. The...
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Altdeutsche Möbel
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Moooi
Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Bar
Flying intercontinentally used to be so glamorous - and Virgin Atlantic is trying (very successfully, I might add) to bring back some of that old glamour in the...
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Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Bar
World of Louboutin window display
To mark the 20th anniversary of Christian Louboutin, StudioXAG were commissioned to design & produce a spectacular World of Louboutin concept space within landmark...
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World of Louboutin
Transmission LA: AV Club
Do you like your art installations just as loud and colorful as I do? Then look no further. The excellent Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is currently...
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Transmission LA: AV Club
IKEA PS 2012 collection
Interior designers on a budget, rejoice! The new IKEA PS Collection is coming to an IKEA store near you on May 1, 2012. Its designers were challenged to make new...
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IKEA PS 2012
Atelier Olschinsky
Yes, but what is it? - I hear you ask. And frankly, even after a second look at Atelier Olschinsky's new metamorphosen II series, I haven't got a clue. What I do...
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metamorphonen II
iPad 3 wallpapers by excites
Just got your new iPad 3 and haven't found the right wallpaper yet? Then look no further! You can download these beautiful wallpapers by graphic designer and...
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wallpapers
Make me a winner!
Do you enjoy reading Interiorator? Then nominate this blog for the ultra prestigious VT Wonen Meet the Blogger Award! Nominating is easy and will only take a...
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VT Wonen Meet the Blogger Award
Fabio Novembre - Happy Pills
It's very Jonathan Adler's Pill Carafe meets Iittala's Vitriini boxes meets Cesare Casati's Pillola lamp - but somehow Fabio Novembre's new Happy Pills come out...
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Fabio Novembre
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Happy Pills
Zou Bisou Bisou
Check out the fabulous mid-sixties modern New York interior - and instantly fall in love with the incredibly catchy song Zou Bisou Bisou, both of which are featured...
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Mad Men
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Zou Bisou Bisou
Ingrid Robers - Happy
Time flies when you're having fun - and before you know it, summer comes around and your children start their annual search for the perfect stationary. This year,...
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Ingrid Robers
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a...
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Cindy Sherman
Holton Rower
Got a few cans of leftover paint you just don't know what to do with? Then take a good look at this amazing video by artist Holton Rower. "Just a little mix and...
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Holton Rower
Alegra Bar at the Burj Khalifa
Not to be outdone by Ozone - the current highest bar in the world - the new Alegra bar at Dubai's Burj Khalifa ups the ante on over the top yet ultra hip bar...
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Alegra
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Mr. Important
Uonuon tiles
Andy Warhol must have turned in his grave when he saw these Uonuon tiles - and then he probably wondered why his casket wasn't as colorful! Manufactured by...
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14oraitaliana
RAL Color Feeling 2012+
Although not as hip as Pantone, RAL is still the international leading color standard. And to be honest, I prefer RAL's understated and factual trend forecast to...
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RAL Colour Feeling 2012+
L'Odyssée de Cartier
This three-and-a-half minute long Cartier commercial took a whopping TWO years to make and has to be seen to be believed. It is beautiful, vulgar, chique and trashy...
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L'Odyssée de Cartier
Catalina Estrada
When I was in Spain last weekend, I discovered this wild and wonderful new wallpaper collection by Colombian artist Catalina Estrada for Coordonné. The patterns...
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Catalina Estrada
Jaime Hayón - Hope Bird
Spanish designer Jaime Hayón’s Hope Bird is a tabletop-sized sculpture that symbolises the importance of “an optimistic approach to what lies ahead”. ...
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Jaime Hayón
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Hope Bird
Antique rescue masks
This pair of early rescue masks, shown above, dates from between the mid-1800s and World War I. They look a bit familiar, right? Almost 100 years before Darth...
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antique rescue masks
Pentax K-01 / Marc Newson
Finally, a camera design I can get behind! This Pentax K-01 was designed by Marc Newson and is causing quite a stir with its bright yellow color. The K-01 is also...
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Marc Newson
Fabrice Fouillet
Stylish but dangerous blobs of jelly take over famous lamps - that is the weird but beautiful concept behind Fabrice Fouilet's latest work Triangle.
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Fabrice Fouillet
Tony Duquette
More is more! That was the motto of legendary American artist, interior and jewelry designer, costume and set designer Tony Duquette (1914 - 1999). Here are some...
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Tony Duquette
Interiorator x de Bijenkorf
I'm very proud to announce that Interiorator is expanding! Starting later this month, I will be publishing a monthly blog post for The Netherlands' leading...
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de Bijenkorf
Martín Azúa
Sometimes it takes me a while to find something that truly inspires me. I choose to wait instead of posting something that I kind of like but am not terribly...
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Martín Azúa
Johanna Grawunder - Boxy
Boxy by designer Johanna Grawunder is a stunning series of storage furniture in colored mirror. With these new designs, Grawunder won the 2012 Wallpaper Design...
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Johanna Grawunder
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Boxy
Ozone Bar
Too much is not enough - that is what design agency Wonderwall must have thought when they designed Ozone Bar at the top floor of the swanky Ritz Carlton hotel in...
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Ozone Bar
Anselm Reyle for Dior
It is not often that I make a foray into women's wear, but this time I could not resist when I saw the bags that German artist Anselm Reyle has designed for Dior....
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Anselm Reyle
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Dior
Modefabriek / Cruyff Classics
How do you present four totally different shoe brands on a seventy-five square meter surface at the visually very loud Modefabriek fair in Amsterdam? By physically...
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Modefabriek
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Cruyff Classics
Robey Sportswear 2012 collection
Quiet please - while Interiorator provides the styling for the latest Robey Sportswear campaign starring Holland's highest ranking tennis player Robin Haase. More...
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Robey
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Robin Haase
Wes Anderson - Moonrise Kingdom
The best stylist in the world is a movie director - and his name is Wes Anderson. I organized a private screening of Andersons's masterpiece The Royal Tenenbaums ...
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Wes Anderson
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Moonlight Kingdom
Joana Vasconcelos
Unfortunately no longer on display at the Venice Palazzo Grassi, Contamination by artist Joana Vasconcelos consisted of a patchwork sprawl of brightly colored forms...
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Joana Vasconcelos
Yayoi Kusama
What happens if you give thousands of children thousands of stickers to decorate your pristine white living room? That is a question Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama...
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Yayoi Kusama
Anthony Hartley
Anthony Hartley is a Yorkshire based furniture designer and maker who creates dynamic and engaging furniture of the highest technical quality. He produces each...
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Anthony Hartley
Candida Zanelli
The most memorable pages of Elle Decor Italia tend to come from renowned Italian stylist Candida Zanelli - at least, for me! Her color combinations are surprising,...
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Candida Zanelli
Blade Runner Sketchbook
Long out of print and worth hundreds of dollars, the extremely rare Blade Runner Sketchbook is finally available online - for free! Check out almost one hundred...
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Blade Runner Sketchbook
Cha cha heels for Christmas
This clip from John Waters' Female Trouble always brings a smile to my face. Happy holidays from Interiorator!
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Cha cha heels for Christmas
Point G Plaisirs Gourmands
Oh la la, check out the new packaging and brand identity for Point G - that's French for G spot! It's fresh, colorful and very now. Just the way I like it! }
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Point G Plaisirs Gourmands
Goliath Doin'It Party at Drop Coffee
In November 2011 I popped over to Stockholm for Goliath Sportswear to do the styling for the Doin'It Party at Drop Coffee. Great music and wonderful people: a...
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Goliath
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Drop Coffee
Guggenheim Color
For more than 50 years the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York has selected the perfect wall colors to complement the celebrated collection of modern art...
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Guggenheim Color
Skinemax by Smash TV
Skinemax by Smash TV is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It's long form entertainment for short attention...
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Skinemax
Thalia de Jong
Thalia de Jong likes to watch people with their pets, as she finds that careful observation not only reveals a great deal of information about animals, but also...
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Thalia de Jong
Honda CR-Z Intersection
Ultracool French car magazine Intersection recently collaborated with Honda to create the Honda CR-Z Intersection concept car. The beige and fluorescent orange...
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Honda CR-Z Intersection
Nils Völker
A giant lamp that slowly breathes in and out - a visually interesting if somewhat unnerving concept by German artist Nils Völker. It can be seen at the Art Lab...
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Nils Völker
Fornasetti - Armistizio Collection
Just when I thought Fornasetti was over and out (the famous Tema e Variazioni plates have really been done to death by every interior design magazine in the world)...
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Fornasetti
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Armistizio
The Circus Book 1870 - 1950
During its heyday, the American circus was the largest show-biz industry the world had ever seen. From the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling American circuses...
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The Circus Book 1870 - 1950
Rebecca Baumann
Take two-hundred flip clocks, a couple of thousand colored sheets of paper and you end up with Automated Colour Field by Australian artist Rebecca Baumann. The...
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Rebecca Baumann
Dev Harlan
Dev Harlan is a multidisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice combines the physical and the virtual with the use of sculpture, light and projection. As a self...
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Dev Harlan
Richard Amsel
One of the most famous illustrators you have never heard of, Richard Amsel has designed some of the most iconic American movie posters and album covers of the...
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Richard Amsel
Takuya Hosogane
The bigger, the brighter, the better - that is the motto of Japanese video artist Takuya Hosogane. Surprisingly little is known about Hosogane, so I guess his work...
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Takuya Hosogane
Roomba Robot Vacuum Art
Who knew Roomba vacuum cleaners could make such beautiful art? There's even a Flickr group pool dedicated to these artistic robots. The pictures you see below...
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Roomba Robot Vacuum Art
Beech Table
Is it possible to lust after a table? Apparently it is! The Beech Table by Amsterdam-based designers DUM is the must-have table of the season with its color...
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Beech Table
Douglas Coupland
A true Homo Universalis, writer, clothing designer and interior decorator Douglas Coupland shows off his unique style at his Vancouver home. Be sure to check out...
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Douglas Coupland
Zuo Corp
Mirror, mirror on the wall...who has the coolest shop in all of Warsaw? It is the tiny Zuo Corp pop-up store designed by Super Super and Inside / Outside. Mirrors...
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Zuo Corp
Carnovsky - RGB wallpaper
Three wallpapers for the price of one - if you have a living room with alternating red, green and blue light, that is! RGB is by far the most over the top wallpaper...
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Carnovsky
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RGB
Bioluminescent plankton
How amazing it must be to surf these beautiful fluorescent blue waves off the coast of California! The color is caused by bioluminescent plankton, whose cells...
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bioluminescent plankton
Fiorucci Park Avenue 1979
In preparation for my new career as a visual merchandiser, I was looking for exciting window displays - and they don't come any more exciting than the Fiorucci...
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Fiorucci
The House of Annie Lennox
Currently on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the House of Annie Lennox celebrates the creative vision of one of the most original performers of...
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Annie Lennox
Cole & Son - Circus
And we're back from the totally amazing London Design Festival where Cole & Son presented their upcoming Geometric collection at the Andaz Hotel. The absolute...
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Cole & Son
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Circus
Troy Emery
Troy Emery is an artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Emery’s art practice is an ongoing project of producing a series of artworks that investigate...
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Troy Emery
Jean-Paul Goude
Hundreds of visual ideas in this totally overwhelming video collection of French artist Jean-Paul Goude's work. It's amazing how relevant and original his ideas...
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Jean-Paul Goude
Convincing.tv
Convincing.tv is a poet and artist who works in collaged writing and digital formats. Other than that, very little is known about him (or her). Have a look at this...
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Convincing.tv
Craig & Karl - Portraits
Craig Redman and Karl Maier live on opposite sides of the world but collaborate daily to create bold work that is filled with simple messages executed in a...
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Craig & Karl
Philippe Petit
"I had to make a decision of shifting my weight from one foot I got on the building to one foot I got on the wire. This is probably, I don't know, the end of my...
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Philippe Petit
Ben Sandler & Julie Vianey
Photographer Ben Sandler and stylist Julie Vianey combine their talents in the retro-futuristic photo series Tomorrowland.
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Ben Sandler
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Julie Vianey
Paris vs. New York
Witty and colorful graphic design on the Paris vs. New York blog by Parisian graphic designer Vahram Muratyan. Get the limited edition posters - or affiches, if you...
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Vahram Muratyan
Chatbots arguing with each other
Chatbots are internet programs used to cheat people into thinking they are chatting with a real person. What happens when you let two chatbots talk to each other?...
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Elisa Strozyk
Wood. Paper. Textile. Which is which in German designer Elisa Strozyk's work? Striving to "give importance to surfaces that are desirable to touch" Strozyk provides...
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Elisa Strozyk
Southern California Moments
A growing collection of cool Californian photographs submitted by readers of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some of my favorites. You can see the full collection...
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LA Times
lladró atelier: metropolis
Lladró is quickly transforming from a matronly Spanish porcelain manufacturer into a twentyfirst century design house. Its new Metropolis collection of vases,...
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lladró atelier metropolis
Andy Gilmore
A master of color and geometric composition, Andy Gilmore's work is often characterized as kaleidoscopic and hypnotic, though it could just as well be described as...
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Andy Gilmore
Tsé & Tsé Associées
Stylists, this is how you do color! The highly original Parisian duo of Tsé & Tsé Associées are now in their twentieth year of collaboration and have recently...
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Tsé & Tsé Associées
Payton Cosell Turner
Payton Cosell Turner loves stickers. Thousands of them. She arranges them in fantastically elaborate patterns that reference vintage wallpaper. Want to make...
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Payton Cosell Turner
Anchorage in the Seventies
This BIG photo essay provides tons of inspiration for all you colorists out there: Washed out, melancholic tones - but at times also bright and shiny. Want...
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Stephen Cysewski
House of Hackney
Screw minimalism. Here's House of Hackney - Britain's latest interior design sensation. House of Hackney takes the concept of British home wares and turns it on...
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House of Hackney
Chris Burden - Metropolis 2
Coming this fall to the LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolis 2 by Chris Burden is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast...
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Chris Burden
Katrin Korfmann - Frank's Office
I saw this photograph by Katrin Korfmann last June at Art Amsterdam. Cool, huh? Korfmann works with different media, mainly photography and art in public space,...
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Katrin Korfmann
Victorian scraps
I never thought I'd have the courage to admit it...but I like poesieplaatjes! Check out this gigantic photoset of Victorian scraps on Flickr.
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Victorian scraps
Foekje Fleur bottle vases
At the moment I have six of the fab Foekje Fleur bottle vases but I WANT MORE. Apparently Foekje can't keep up with demand because all vases are sold out at the...
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Foekje Fleur
Lenticular 3D Indian Gods
Sometimes inspiration iles just around the corner - literally in this case. I found these lenticular 3d posters at Etje's Little India for 5 euro (small) or 10 euro...
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lenticular
Erotic Rush
Erotic Rush is part of my Endorphin Rush project, a trend forecast and design inspiration book for a fictional nightclub by Puma.
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Erotic Rush
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Endorphin Rush
Toxic Rush
Toxic Rush is part of my Endorphin Rush project, a trend forecast and design inspiration book for a fictional nightclub by Puma.
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Toxic Rush
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Endorphin Rush
Anyma
Winner of the third prize at the 2011 Satelliet Design Challenge.
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Satelliet Design Challenge
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Anyma
Sci-fi Style
What happens when you bring a respected brand such as Artifort into the space age? That was the theme of this 2010 photoshoot assignment in collaboration with...
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Sci-Fi Style
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Artifort
Food styling
Food, glorious food - done the Interiorator way with bold colors and tongue firmly in cheek. Photography: Sander Veltman Styling: Patrick Kooiman
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food styling
Early work
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step,” a Chinese philospher once said. How true! Here is some of my early work, mostly collages, drawings,...
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collage
Sufjan Stevens - Too Much
Cool song, cool video...what more can I say except that Sufjan Stevens is one of the coolest musicians of the moment. Be sure to check out his latest album Age of...
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Sufjan Stevens
きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ - Ponponpon
There are only three letters in the world that could possilby even begin to describe this wacky brainfart video by きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ: O, M and G.
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Ponponpon
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