Student projects
Student projects
Stella van Beers converts grain silo into micro home
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Stella van Beers has created a watchtower-style house inside a grain silo. More
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Student projects
Student projects
Pauline Rip designs cultural artefacts for Bigfoot, elves and reptilian humanoids
A project by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pauline Rip suggests how three mythical creatures might become part of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage. More
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Rosana Escobar finds new potential in the humble coffee bag
An agave plant fibre used to produce coffee bags could be repurposed in the furniture industry, according to Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Rosana Escobar. More
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Bruno Baietto creates symbolic vases by blowing glass inside bread
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bruno Baietto hopes to highlight the role of bread as a symbol of class, politics and religion, by using it to shape blown glass. More
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Vincent Dassi uses pulped cardboard to make and repair everyday objects
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Vincent Dassi has developed a form of papier-mâché that allows anyone to make and repair household objects using recycled cardboard boxes. More
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Leo Maher charts a history of homosexuality with Unfamiliar Passions furniture
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Leo Maher has created a series of unusual furniture pieces that combine references to queer culture from across history. More
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Dutch Design Week
Dutch Design Week
Hsin Min Chan's giant dress empowers its wearer by making them unapproachable
An experience of 24-hour surveillance led Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Hsin Min Chan to create a dress that exaggerates the "to-be-looked-at-ness" of its wearer. More
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Design and integrative therapy combine in Laura Deschl's "trauma-healing" garments
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Laura Deschl has developed The Healing Imprint, a therapeutic garment that looks like activewear but is made to help heal trauma. More
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Dutch Design Week
Dutch Design Week
Filips Staņislavskis' Human-Cloud Project turns human breath into clouds
One of the award-winning projects from this year's Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show explores how humans might use geoengineering to develop a more intimate relationship with the climate. More
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Ilja Schamle powers server with tomato plants in self-sustaining ecosystem
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Ilja Schamle has replaced batteries with living plants in this self-built server system to explore how technology could enter into a symbiotic relationship with nature. More
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Gerardo Osio weaves chair into weeping willow tree on the Dommel river
Designer Gerardo Osio has woven the living branches of a weeping willow tree together to form a "living seat" along the Dommel river in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. More
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Anna Perugini's reversible vases have jointed stems like bamboo
Bamboo Grove is a collection of mouth-blown glass vases that can be overturned and filled with flowers at both ends designed by Italian designer Anna Perugini for Ichendorf. More
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Anna-Sophie Dienemann creates wearable pop-up "distance keepers"
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Anna-Sophie Dienemann has developed a line of accessories to encourage social distancing that can be unleashed by the wearer when others come too close. More
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Santa Kupča creates duvet-style dresses for video calling during lockdown
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Santa Kupča's Stuck-at-Home Masquerade collection includes three pillowy garments that are designed to be worn during remote video calls in coronavirus isolation. More
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Sachi Tungare forms swirly vessels from discarded cigarette butts
Indian designer Sachi Tungare collected five kilograms of cigarette butts by hand to create her Jugaad collection of multi-coloured bowls and vases. More
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Tadeas Podracky's The Metamorphosis furniture rejects mass-produced design
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Tadeas Podracky rejected formal design methods when creating these unconventional furniture objects, which he made by layering materials like "a bird weaving its nest". More
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Diego Faivre gives extension cables a Memphis makeover
Eindhoven graduate Diego Faivre has coated electrical plugs in brightly coloured, patterned clay, in a bid to inject some fun into these "boring and forgotten" objects. More
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Dorian Renard blows plastic like glass for a collection that reconsiders the material's value
French designer Dorian Renard has applied traditional glassblowing techniques to a series of plastic furniture and sculptural pieces, in a bid to present the maligned material in a new light. More
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Dutch Design Week exhibition explores "complex networks" of junk
Design Academy Eindhoven alumni studios look at the myriad consequences of junk in a globalised world in an exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum and across the city for Dutch Design Week. More
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Micheline Nahra deconstructs and reconstructs a dining set
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Micheline Nahra has disassembled a four-person dinner setting and rebuilt it for one person, in a bid to make absence visible. More
