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Dutch Design Week (DDW) has earned itself a firm position on the national and international map. Designers, the national and international media, and interested parties from Russia to Japan and from China to the UK came to Eindhoven to attend the largest design event of the Netherlands.



Strijp-S, the main location of DDW, welcomed as many as 25,000 visitors. The ‘Graduation Galleries’ of Design Academy Eindhoven attracted well over 20,000 design enthusiasts, and the exhibition ‘Talent 2008’ in the Designhuis drew this year around 10,000 visitors, more than double the number of last year’s attendance, when 4,500 people came to the Designhuis.



With Alessi to Milan



One of this year’s highlights was the visit by Alberto Alessi, the director of the illustrious Italian design company Alessi. During his two-day visit, he performed the official opening of Dutch Design Week in his capacity of keynote speaker. Alberto Alessi spoke with various Eindhoven-based designers about their work and the future of design. He also offered to help strengthen the international position of DDW and to set up collaborations with other European cities. To this end, the Dutch Design Week organisation is already in talks with Milan and London.




DDW welcomes you



This was the seventh edition of Dutch Design Week Eindhoven. Around 1500 designers from home and abroad were represented in nearly 200 projects, spread across some 50 locations throughout the city. DDW is accessible to a broad audience and presents a wide array of multifaceted design developments. For example, the Eindhoven University of Technology gave visitors the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the technically oriented side of design and architecture, large design bureaus and other businesses showed the latest developments within their field of operation in the ‘Dutch Living Room’, and recently graduated designers introduced their work in a large number of exhibitions and events.


Data Dutch Design Week 2009: October 17 through October 25