News:

Internships available! There are exciting internships available for both a design-student as for a management and communication student.

Open Design Meetup
9th of May I’m organizing the 4th meetup on open-design. Again there are really interesting guest speakers; Joris van Tubergen & José de la O.
Joris is creative director of the fablab Utrecht and developed a portable 3d printer. Amongst other subjects
he will talk about digital production and the changes it will bring to design and society, and he will bring along
his 3D printer!

José de la O is a Mexican born, Netherlands based product designer, who graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven. He has open sourced a project of his, and he will talk about his learning from that experience.
More info at www.meetup.com/open-design

Open-designism.com: I’m collaborating on a blog / community website called open-designism.com. It covers the exiting emerging field of open design. The website supports, follows and contributes to the open-design movement. We do this across various fields; from creative industries such as architecture and product design, to science and DIY.

Exhibit GEENEN+HOON at the Aram Gallery London

An overview of my work, together with work of British designer Il Hoon Roh. According to the Aram Gallery; The exhibition uses Geenen + Hoon’s works to show how two designers interpret similar influences. It presents a succinct step by step journey from initial sketch to full size piece, so as to highlight crossovers in their methods 17 Sept – 5 Nov. Aram Gallery, 110 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London. www.thearamgallery.org

Exhibition “SELF-STRUCTURE,” in Paris 3 models of the Gaudi Chair & Stool are shown in an inspiring exhibit at le Lieu du Design in the center of Paris. The exhibit aims to show the work of artists who suggest different ways of structuring matter. In other words, artists surpass traditional Euclidian geometry in order to try out alternatives to the straight line. 30 Sept – 17 Dec 2011, Le Lieu du Design - 74 Rue Du Faubourg St. Antoine,  75012 Paris
Exhibition “That’s How it sits” A show at the National Technical Library in Prague, Czech Republic, will cover the history of modern Dutch chairs since the twenties until present. The Gaudi Chair is also presented. This retrospective exhibition give a view of the most influential chairs of Dutch soils since the Rietveld period. The exhibited collection was created in collaboration with the Rietveld family. 10-26 June 2011, Technická 6 / 2710, Prague
Gaudi Stool in permanent collection DHUB Museum! DHUB Design Museum Barcelona has acquiered the Gaudi Stool for their permanent collection. The stool will be part of an impressive collection of design products, including a number of 3D printed products. The museum is constructing a new museum-building in Barcelona (2.000 m2) specifically dedicated to Design. Its permanent premises is scheduled to be completed in 2011.
The Gaudi Chair will be exhibited in Milan during the Salone Del Mobile. Together with Wallpaper magazine and Freedom of Creation. There will be a live 3D-printing performance in which the public co-creates. You can also bring your own 3D-files and get it be printed on one of the 3D-printers at the Brioni Headquarters, Via Gesù 2a Metro: MM2 Montenapoleone Opening times: 13-17 april, 10am-7pm

We’ve opened a 3d print shop on shapeways;

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/studiogeenen Light-room project is now online: see ‘projects page’
exhibition, Gaudi Stool: 15 june 2010 – 29 may 2011 FABRICATION LABORATORY FULL PRINTE3D Design Museum Barcelona www.dhub-bcn.cat
The Gaudi Chair & Stool will be exhibited at Euromold Frankfurt, in Germany. With ‘Freedom of Creation’ 01-04 december 2010 www.euromold.com
The Gaudi Chair and Stool will be auctioned at Pierre Bergé & Associés in Paris, on Octobre 15th 2010 www.pba-auctions.com –>