|Dutch retailer HEMA just announced the winners of its yearly design competition. This bicycle carrier won the first prize. It is called ‘Vrachtpatser’ which means

|This week I had the privilege to drive several new Jaguars, like the beautiful XKR and the sophisticated XJL with it’s adventuresome bright purple details,

|Jean Paul Gaultier still is one of the most hip fashion designers, but for this interior he is following the green fashion to the letter.

|At the Dutch island of Vlieland, farmers use this traditional, functional and very pretty design for the opening and closing of fences. Photo Pam

|A Dutch catholic tradition that I celebrated myself: the first communion. Photo Isabella Roozendaal

|Moving fashion shoot for online fashion store Ssense. Design Reed + Rader (Via Today and Tomorrow)

|Semi-abstract images by Mirabelle Marden to be seen at Kimberley Brown Gallery in London, where Marden searches alongside painter Dana Schutz and sculptor Anthea Hamilton for the line between

|For 5 years Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink pictured the seduction of international car girls. Book design Irma Boom

|Designer Nicolas Cheng has designed a range of brooches made of nothing: just some bits of loofah, sponge and cotton. Nothingness is void, poetry, unpretentious modest,

|May 20, 2011 opens the first major museum exhibition to survey the highly productive relationship of painting to photography in the American 20th-century. The photograph’s

|My column for this weeks’ NRC magazine is about the beautiful pulp objects by Jo Meesters. Photo Lisa Klappe

|This is weird and beautiful: click here to see patterns just made by tones. Art Meara O’Reilly Film Lisa Foti-Straus

|Do not miss the retrospective of the world’s best book designer Irma Boom at the UVA, Oude Turfmarkt 129, Amsterdam, June 4 – Oktober 3.

|Brilliant idea for Amsterdam: bacteria that produce electricity and power a system that moves the water, enabling bioluminescent bacteria to thrive and glow a turqoise

|Granta publishes the finest new fiction and non-fiction from around the world. Theme of their latest issue is sex, the oldest obsession, the centre of

|My fourth column for Dutch newspaper NRC is about an environment friendly fun thing called Make-Do, designed in Australia. It consists of three basic nylon

|Click here for an interesting presentation about brand utility by Ingmar de Lange, who has a love/hate relationship with marketing.

|Today the European air traffic is again on the ground because of the ash cloud of Eyjafjallajökull. Photo Sigursteinn Baldursson

|The Motor is open again after a wonderful trip to Egypt.

|We Europe is launching new concept stores in Europe. The furniture for every store differs (designed by Moooi). You can shoot your picture via the