Dutch Arts: Design in the Netherlands

(Foreword) 'Design, the fifth volume in the Dutch Arts series, is a brief survey of developments in Dutch design over the past century. The first chapter covers industrial design, the second chapter features decorative arts and crafts and focuses on jewellery, ceramics and glass, and the third chapter surveys graphic design. Emphasis is on design since World War Two.

Ed van Hinte (1951), author of the chapter on industrial design, studied Industrial Design at the Delft Institute of Technology, graduating in product ergonomics. Since 1981 he has worked as a freelance designer. Some of his designs were commissioned by Dutch Telecommunications (PTT). He is also a regular contributor to professional journals on tech-nique, architecture and design.

Gert Staal (1956), who writes about jewellery, ceramics and glass, studied Dutch and Art History in Amsterdam. Since 1983 he has been on the editorial staff of the national daily NRC Handelsblad. Staal has also co-edited a number of Dutch journals on industrial design, decorative art and architecture, and has written for Abitare (Italy), Art Aurea (West Germany), Dutch Art and Architecture Today (Netherlands) and Idea Magazine (Japan). He published Between Dictate and Design in 1987. That same year he was editor of the catalogue Dutch Design 1945-1987, a joint project of five major Dutch museums.

Carel Kuitenbrouwer (1953) trained as a graphic designer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and studied Visual Communication at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Academy of Art), also in Amsterdam. Besides his activities as an independent graphic designer, Kuitenbrouwer works as a publicist and teaches at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Since 1986 he written regularly on graphic design and other applied art forms in the NRC Handelsblad, in Items, a design quarterly, and sporadically in other media.'

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