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31/10/2018 Design / Design Process / Kissing / multicultural souvenir / Souvenir / Stroopwafels

Culture Cult Exhibition – Dutch Design Hotel Artemis

October 4th was the opening of the Culture Cult Exhibition. It is wonderfully organized by Nadja Schreurs, coordinator of the D&A platform of the Hotel, which has the aim to promote diverse designers and artist through exhibitions in the hotel’s

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24/10/2018 Collaboration / communication / Design / Design Process / Dutch Design Week / Education / identity / Kissing / Knowledge / Multicultiralism / samples / Tradition

One more turn around the sun

Dutch Design Week 2018. It’s already been one year! It all goes so fast! A year ago, To Kiss or Not to Kiss participated in this design event in collaboration with the Innovation Networks Lectorate from The Hague University of

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25/10/2017 Collaboration / communication / Design / Design Process / Education / Inspiration / Kissing / Multicultiralism / samples / Tradition / Uncategorized

Diversity is sweet!

The richness of cultural diversity can be expressed in different types of souvenirs. As an opportunity to expand this idea, Aliana Bertolo one of my students at IDE/Open Innovator took the challenge to explore how she could express multiculturalism through

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01/10/2017 Collaboration / Design / Design Process / Education / Inspiration / Multicultiralism / samples / Uncategorized

Pop-up Plans

The project is expanding in interesting directions. Through the co-creation sessions I met Anja Overdiek who works as a senior researcher at the Innovation Networks Lectorate of The Hague University of Applied Sciences. After a couple of inspiring conversations Anja

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28/05/2017 Collaboration / communication / Design Process / Inspiration / Multicultiralism / Uncategorized

Co-Creating

While the Chinese kissing couple was in the glazing process, I thought it would be a valuable opportunity to involve a multidisciplinary and multicultural group of students in the project. In agreement with the IDE-Open Innovator program managers I organized

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28/05/2017 China / Clay Models / Design Process / Garment / Multicultiralism / Tradition / Uncategorized

What has been happening?

It has been a while since the last time I posted something about this project. Apart from being busy with work and my own education, my approach to this project has been to take it one step at a time

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04/09/2016 China / Clay Models / Design Process

First out of twenty

In July I signed up to a course at Dutch Molds to start with the first steps towards making complex plaster molds. Piet van der Sluis is the owner of Dutch Molds in Amsterdam. He has been making molds for

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13/07/2016 China / Clay Models / Design Process

Exploring plaster mold-making

In the past few weeks I continued with my quest to search for production alternatives of plaster molds to make the kissing couples in The Netherlands. The purpose is to reduce initial production costs as much as possible.  I already

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17/04/2016 3D scanning and printing / Clay Models / Collaboration / Design Process / samples / Uncategorized

3D thinking

As we all know 3D printing has been growing and progressing in leaps and bounds in the past years. I was curious to find if it would be an option to 3D print this souvenir in porcelain at the famous

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17/04/2016 Clay Models / Collaboration / Design Process / Inspiration / samples

The efforts it costs to get a cost price

Next to exploring stories about cultural similarities or differences in the multicultural Holland, finding out about the design – and the production process for it – has been challenging. One of the main purposes of this project is that the

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27/02/2016 China / Design Process / Garment / Inspiration / Textiles / Tradition

“Decorated with Gold and Silver” exhibition leads me to learn more about the Chinese culture.

I went to visit the new Exhibition at Textile Research Center -Leiden “Decorated with Gold and Silver”. I recommend to visit it and to dive into the fascinating world of Silver and Gold embroidery and garment accessories. Here you can

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13/02/2016 Clay Models / Design Process / samples / Tradition

From mold to final model

This project has its own pace and a mindful decision making process. Many proposals and ideas for the  ‘making of ’ possibilities have agitated my creative mind up to the point of wanting to make this pieces of 180 cms

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01/02/2016 China / Clay Models / Design Process

China: Work in progress

I have  been working on the Chinese female. The shape is almost ready and I have started to create the Chinese male so  I will have the first couple ready soon. I will combine this process with a visit to

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08/11/2015 Design Process / Inspiration

Video Production and Brand Design

Jokaland Inspirations (Hemang and Suive) is a Photography and video company who have kindly put their time and knowledge on the creation of the introduction video to this project. We brainstormed and discussed about all ideas in a few sessions. I

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30/10/2015 Clay Models / Design Process / First steps / samples

Discovering Form

It is time to start the design production of the larger pieces. The new models of the couples will be 35 cms high. This is a size that works well for me and easy transport too. I am using plastiline

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15/10/2015 China / Design Process / Garment / Textiles / Tradition

Qipao or Cheongsam- Chinese female traditional garment.

As I mentioned in a previous post, visiting TRC-Leiden has been like finding the Holy Grail. Thanks to Dr. Gillian Vogelsand- Eastwood I met with Christopher Ng, who is a collector of Chinese and South East Asian textiles and garments.

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25/09/2015 Collaboration / Design Process / Textiles / Tradition / Treasures / Uncategorized

Leiden’s hidden treasure

When I visited the National Museum of Ethnology, I discovered that my next visit should be the Textile Research Center in Leiden. A few weeks later I visited this amazing place which to me has been very valuable for the

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22/05/2015 Clay Models / Design Process / samples

Samples are ready

During the past few weeks, I’ve invested quite some hours in detailing, sanding and painting and looking at images of the folkloric garments from each of the countries. I don’t have any knowledge about the technique to paint Delft Blue

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22/05/2015 Clay Models / Design Process / Inspiration / Kissing / Tradition

Kiss

Next to the production of models, I’ve been doing research for the content of the project, learning a bit about Immigration History in the Netherlands and facts and figures about its present population. I am also discovering many interesting design

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03/04/2015 Clay Models / Design Process

Waiting list

At this point I’ve had a line of potential clay figurines waiting for me to give them form and color. I’ve put them in a zip-lock bag so that they keep their moisture. I lined them up on my window

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Recent Posts

  • Culture Cult Exhibition – Dutch Design Hotel Artemis
  • Where can I buy the Souvenirs?
  • One more turn around the sun
  • To Kiss or Not To Kiss at the Dutch Design Week 2017, An unexpected and rewarding impact.
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