Over a 100 talented (young) designers participated in this years 'Design Contest 2017 | Reinventing Textiles', in which the participants designed a special product or material. The jury, Simone Post, Martijn van Strien and Suzan Rüsseler, selected the Top 10 that can be seen from November 26 to December 10, 2017 on the Panoramadeck of the TextielMuseum.
At the Dutch Design Week the TextielMuseum displays its current program with an interesting Pop-up presentation. By showing three different components - an impression of ‘Earth Matters’, the exhibition by Lidewij Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano, new by TextielMuseum products in collaboration with Studio Job and an activity on one of the TextielLab machinery – the visitor gets a brief tour through the TextielMuseum in Tilburg. Unlike previous years, the museum does not present itself at de Snelkookpan (Strijp-S) but at de Kazerne.
At the beginning of this year, TextielMuseum commissioned Studio Job (Job Smeets, 1970 en Nynke Tynagel, 1977) to develop a new series of design products for by TextielMuseum. These new ‘design classics’ are a reflection on the history of the design duo and the endless possibilities of the TextielMuseum. The series features new icons with recognisable colourful and daring designs by Studio Job. With its graphic drawings the studio reduces shape and colour to strong outlines that can be perfectly translated into textiles.
After a nerve-wrecking voting campaign, the TextileMuseum at Tilburg turned out to be the winner of the BankGiro Lottery Museumprice 2017. The TextileMuseum has gotten 32.155 votes of the total 80.390 votes that have been released to the three nominated museums.
Data collected on two centuries textile mills in Tilburg by volunteers.
This short documentary shows the development of the tapestry 'The War Elephant' made by Belgian artist Jan Fabre together with our productdeveloper 'weaving' Stef Miero in the TextielLab of the TextielMuseum. The end result of the tapestry is shown in The Noordbrabants Museum in the exhibition 'Under the Spell of Bosch'.
Dutch Design Week presents experiments, ideas, answers and solutions of 2500 designers on 100 locations during 9 days. In the route we made for you we present 15 special expo's of designers who developed their fabrics/ materials in the TextielLab of the TextielMuseum. Save the date! DDW 2016: 22 until 30 October.
Books which go together with the exhibition Switch | Dutch Design on the move
