Synapse mind-controlled toy car by Alejo Bernal
Dutch Design Week 2013: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alejo Bernal wants to help people improve their concentration spans by controlling a toy car with their minds. More
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"Eindhoven has design, it has science and it has industry"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: the penultimate stop on our Dezeen and MINI World tour is Eindhoven. In our first video report from the city, co-founder of Dutch Design Week Miriam van der Lubbe explains how the small industrial town has become one of the leading centres for design and technology in the world. More
Precious Plastic by Dave Hakkens
Dutch Design Week 2013: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens has made his own machines for recycling plastic to make new products locally and plans to share the designs so others around the world can do the same. More
Dystopian Brutalist Outerwear by Martijn Van Strien
Dutch Design Week 2013: this fashion collection made of heavy-duty black tarpaulin by graduate designer Martijn Van Strien is on show at Design Academy Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week, which kicked off yesterday. More
Phonebloks mobile phone concept by Dave Hakkens
Dutch Design Week 2013: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens' concept for a mobile phone made of detachable blocks has gone viral, attracting over 16 million views on YouTube and garnering almost a million supporters online (+ movie + interview). More
New Design Academy Eindhoven creative director announced
News: graphic designer Thomas Widdershoven of Amsterdam studio Thonik has been appointed creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven after a turbulent period for the Dutch institution. More
Design Academy Eindhoven advertises for creative director
News: Design Academy Eindhoven is looking for a creative director following a period of turmoil that has seen the resignation of the heads of the three masters courses, their subsequent return to the school and the departure of school's chair. More
Fading Desk by Thijmen van der Steen
Work at home with fewer distractions behind the misty screen of this desk by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Thijmen van der Steen. More
Dezeen's top ten projects at Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show
Dutch Design Week: Dezeen editor Rose Etherington selects her top ten projects from the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week, including a system for decontaminating polluted land using plants and a method for turning debris from demolished buildings into new construction materials (+ slideshow). More
Engineering Temporality by Tuomas Markunpoika Tolvanen
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Tuomas Markunpoika Tolvanen has covered pieces of furniture in a fine web of steel rings before destroying them with fire to make functioning objects that resemble fuzzy fading memories of the originals (+movie). More
Design Academy Eindhoven "gives in to demands" of departed masters heads
Dezeen Wire: three senior Design Academy Eindhoven teachers have agreed to return to their posts after claiming victory in their dispute with the school.
Jan Boelen, Joost Grootens and Louise Schouwenberg, the heads of Social Design, Information Design and Contextual Design respectively, resigned two weeks ago but will now return to the school in the new academic year. More
Gijs Bakker leaves Design Academy Eindhoven
Dezeen Wire: Gijs Bakker, head of the masters school at Design Academy Eindhoven, is leaving after 25 years, the school has announced. His departure this week coincided with graduation week for masters students and was followed by the resignation of the heads of all three masters courses. More
Design Academy Eindhoven masters heads resign
Dezeen Wire: the heads of all three masters courses at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands have resigned following a disagreement with the school over educational reform. More
Bread spoons by Niels Datema
These five measuring spoons give the correct quantities of flour, water, yeast, sugar and oil to bake the perfect loaf of bread. More
Listen to Your Hands by Lee Sanghyeok
Cologne 2012: closing one drawer of Lee Sanghyeok's table causes another to shoot out at random. The project won second prize at the [D3] Contest at imm cologne this week. More
City Music by Akko Goldenbeld
Dutch Design Week 2011: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Akko Goldenbeld has made a model of the city that plays the piano. More
Eveline Visser at My Way talks
In this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, Dutch designer Eveline Visser talks about the wall of nest boxes she designed for birds in the city. More
Christien Meindertsma at My Way talks
In this movie Dezeen filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma talks about her book PIG 05049, in which she traced and catalogued all the products derived from a single animal. More
My Way talks: unfold
In this movie Dezeen filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, designers Dries Verbruggen (above) and Claire Warnier of Belgian studio Unfold explain their virtual potters' wheel. More
My Way talks with Design Academy Eindhoven
Here's a full-length movie of the My Way talks hosted by Design Academy Eindhoven and filmed in Milan earlier this year. The talks were moderated by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs and paired recent graduates from the academy with industry experts to discuss the evolving roles of designers. More
