In 2024, MU Hybrid Artspace in Eindhoven celebrated its 25 year anniversary! For this occasion, they invited us to conceptualize and design their digital archive — or more precisely, a platform that should invite users to roam through its rich contents in an organic, non-linear fashion and foster new connections between the various art works.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 – Winner Dutch Design Awards – category ‘Young Designer’
2023 – Nominee Swiss Design Awards – category ‘Mediation’
2021 – Winner Award for Creative Technology (ACT STRP)
2022 – Winner DDA x EY Award
2020 – Nominee Swiss Design Awards – category ‘Mediation’
2020 – Grant Digital Heritage x Public (creatieve industries fund NL)
2019 – Grant for Talent Development (creatieve industries fund NL)
2019 – Nominee Dutch Design Awards – category ‘Design Research’
2019 – Grant VriendenLoterij Fonds (Stichting DOEN)
2019 – Laureate of FORMAT19 (z33)
2019 – Nominee Social Design Talent Award
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 – Washi Futurism, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
2024 – Mesh Festival, Basel (CH)
2024 – Nature of Hope, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (NL)
2024 – Dutch – More or Less, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL)
2023 – Ornamenta, Pforzheim (DE)
2023 – WeWe Futures, Taiwan Design Museum (TW)
2023 – Washi Futurism, Sekio Bunka Hall, Hamada (JP)
2023 – Swiss Design Awards, Art Basel (CH)
2023 – The Media Gym, Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL)
2022 – Dutch Design Awards, Dutch Design Week (NL)
2022 – MONO Japan Exhibition ART, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 – The Energy Show, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL)
2022 – Solar Energy Kiosk, Fondation Entreprise Martell, Cognac (FR)
2022 – Solar Energy Kiosk, Salone del Mobile Milan (IT)
2022 – Gardening, Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd (NL)
2022 – The End of Infinity, STRP Festival (NL)
2021 – Regionale 22, E-WERK Freiburg (DE)
2021 – Working and Living from Home, Seoul Design Festival (KR)
2021 – Plant Fever, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (CH)
2021 – Heimaten, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (DE)
2020 – Plant Fever, CID au Grand-hornu (BE)
2019 – Common Knowledge, BIO26 Design Biennale (SLO)
2019 – What a time to be alive, Dutch Design Week (NL)
2019 – Dutch Design Awards, Dutch Design Week (NL)
2019 – Basic Income Cafe, The Grey Space in the Middle (NL)
2019 – FORMAT19, z33 Huis voor Aktuele Kunst, Design & Architectuur (BE)
2018 – G18 Graduation Show, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
2018 – Not for Sale, Salone del Mobile (IT)
2018 – State Machine, Crypto Design Exhibition (CYP)
2017 – Alternative Societies, Municipality Eindhoven (NL)
TEACHING
2022-now – Teaching, Royal Academy of Art the Hague (KABK), MA Industrial Design (NL)
2025 – Workshop “Multisensory Experiences in Art Museums”, HGK Basel (CH)
2024 – Workshop “Aktives Begreifen Gestalten”, Bauhaus University Weimar (DE)
2022 – Lecture “Interaction & Tangible Imaginaries”, KAIST University (KR)
2021–2023 – Teaching Interaction Design, Fontys ArtCoDe (NL)
2020 – Guest teaching, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
2019 – Lecture "Living Infrastructure", TU Delft (NL)
SELECTED ACTIVITIES
2024 – Book launch "Washi Futurism", Shibaura House Tokyo (JP)
2023 – Artist-in-residence, Readership Creative Media for Social Change (NL)
2023 – Workshop "Whales of Wall Street", Swiss Design Awards (CH)
2024 – Book launch "Washi Futurism", Rauch & König München (DE)
2024 – Book launch "Washi Futurism" + guided tours, Nieuwe Instituut (NL)
2023 – Presenting at Bump Festival Kortrijk (BE)
2022 – Presenting "Innovative Washi", MONO Japan (NL)
2022 – Presenting "Design x Imagination" with Fiona Raby, Design Dialogues KASK (BE)
2021 – Co-curating experimental, online discussion format, STRP Festival (NL)
2020 – Co-curating hybrid formats with Karaoke Discourse, MU Hybrid Art House (NL)
2020 – Presenting "Basic Income Café" at Economia Conference, Baltan Laboratories (NL)
2020 – Researcher-in-residence, Fontys Hogeschool Journalistiek (NL)
2019 – Workshop "Proxies on Trial", Nieuwe Instituut (NL)
2019 – Artist-in-residence, MONO Japan in Shimane (JP)
2019 – Presenting "Sensory Washi", Shibaura House Tokyo (JP)
2019 – Presenting "Living Infrastructure" at Un/Green Open Fields Conference, RIXC Festival (LV)
2019 – Presenting "4-D News" at Communication, Media and Journalism Conference, University of Sheffield (UK)
2018 – Presenting "Living Infrastructure" at ThingsCon (NL)
2018 – Presenting at Antenna Conference Design Indaba, Dutch Design Week (NL)
2017 – Presenting at Agents of the Anthropocene Symposium, Piet Zwart Institute (NL)
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 – e | Washi Futurism: Book and AR app, self published
2024 – p | unprinted:『和紙フューチャリズム』AR効果はミニマルだから没入できる
2023 – p | Dutch Design Awards: Interview with Cream on Chrome
2023 – p | EY: Waarom Cream on Chrome goud in handen heeft
2023 – p | Het Parool: Gewichten tillen voor een uurtje Netflix
2023 – p | NHK: いまコレ!しまね「世界でCOOLな石州和紙」
2022 – p | Axis Design Magazine Vol. 220: Up next – Cream on Chrome
2022 – p | Dezeen: Solar Energy Kiosk serves orange juice made using solar power
2022 – p | Design Academy Eindhoven: The Alumni Interview Cream on Chrome
2022 – p | Kunstmatig Podcast: Tussen ecologie en tech-tuin
2022 – p | Wallpaper: Alcova - wellbeing, cultural identity and the environment
2022 – p | Studio 040: STRP Festival van start
2022 – p | NRC Handelsblad: Grenzen aan de groei?
2021 – p | FRAME Magazine: What tools do we need for a work-from-home reality?
2021 – p | de lage landen: De verstrengeling tussen design en interactiviteit
2021 – p | ACED Designalism Podcast: Cream on Chrome
2021 – p | z33 Interview: Cream on Chrome designs an interactive coffeemaker
2021 – e | Becoming A News Explorer, Ontwerpen aan de journalistiek (Fontys)
2020 – p | Social Matter, Social Design (valiz)
2020 – p | DAMN Magazine, Feeds and Reads
2019 – p | de Volkskrant: Drie Talenten op Dutch Design Week
2018 – p | Fast Company: This is the most interesting UI design of the year so far
2018 – p | de Volkskrant: Activistische, hoopvolle zoektocht van jongste ontwerpgeneratie
2018 – p | Dezeen: Design Academy Eindhoven students take over Milanese streets
2017 – e | The News Cake, Immersive Narratives (Design Academy Eindhoven)
e = essays
p = press
In 2024, MU Hybrid Artspace in Eindhoven celebrated its 25 year anniversary! For this occasion, they invited us to conceptualize and design their digital archive — or more precisely, a platform that should invite users to roam through its rich contents in an organic, non-linear fashion and foster new connections between the various art works.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 – Winner Dutch Design Awards – category ‘Young Designer’
2023 – Nominee Swiss Design Awards – category ‘Mediation’
2021 – Winner Award for Creative Technology (ACT STRP)
2022 – Winner DDA x EY Award
2020 – Nominee Swiss Design Awards – category ‘Mediation’
2020 – Grant Digital Heritage x Public (creatieve industries fund NL)
2019 – Grant for Talent Development (creatieve industries fund NL)
2019 – Nominee Dutch Design Awards – category ‘Design Research’
2019 – Grant VriendenLoterij Fonds (Stichting DOEN)
2019 – Laureate of FORMAT19 (z33)
2019 – Nominee Social Design Talent Award
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 – Washi Futurism, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
2024 – Mesh Festival, Basel (CH)
2024 – Nature of Hope, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (NL)
2024 – Dutch – More or Less, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL)
2023 – Ornamenta, Pforzheim (DE)
2023 – WeWe Futures, Taiwan Design Museum (TW)
2023 – Washi Futurism, Sekio Bunka Hall, Hamada (JP)
2023 – Swiss Design Awards, Art Basel (CH)
2023 – The Media Gym, Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL)
2022 – Dutch Design Awards, Dutch Design Week (NL)
2022 – MONO Japan Exhibition ART, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 – The Energy Show, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL)
2022 – Solar Energy Kiosk, Fondation Entreprise Martell, Cognac (FR)
2022 – Solar Energy Kiosk, Salone del Mobile Milan (IT)
2022 – Gardening, Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd (NL)
2022 – The End of Infinity, STRP Festival (NL)
2021 – Regionale 22, E-WERK Freiburg (DE)
2021 – Working and Living from Home, Seoul Design Festival (KR)
2021 – Plant Fever, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (CH)
2021 – Heimaten, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (DE)
2020 – Plant Fever, CID au Grand-hornu (BE)
2019 – Common Knowledge, BIO26 Design Biennale (SLO)
2019 – What a time to be alive, Dutch Design Week (NL)
2019 – Dutch Design Awards, Dutch Design Week (NL)
2019 – Basic Income Cafe, The Grey Space in the Middle (NL)
2019 – FORMAT19, z33 Huis voor Aktuele Kunst, Design & Architectuur (BE)
2018 – G18 Graduation Show, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
2018 – Not for Sale, Salone del Mobile (IT)
2018 – State Machine, Crypto Design Exhibition (CYP)
2017 – Alternative Societies, Municipality Eindhoven (NL)
TEACHING
2022-now – Teaching, Royal Academy of Art the Hague (KABK), MA Industrial Design (NL)
2025 – Workshop “Multisensory Experiences in Art Museums”, HGK Basel (CH)
2024 – Workshop “Aktives Begreifen Gestalten”, Bauhaus University Weimar (DE)
2022 – Lecture “Interaction & Tangible Imaginaries”, KAIST University (KR)
2021–2023 – Teaching Interaction Design, Fontys ArtCoDe (NL)
2020 – Guest teaching, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
2019 – Lecture "Living Infrastructure", TU Delft (NL)
SELECTED ACTIVITIES
2024 – Book launch "Washi Futurism", Shibaura House Tokyo (JP)
2023 – Artist-in-residence, Readership Creative Media for Social Change (NL)
2023 – Workshop "Whales of Wall Street", Swiss Design Awards (CH)
2024 – Book launch "Washi Futurism", Rauch & König München (DE)
2024 – Book launch "Washi Futurism" + guided tours, Nieuwe Instituut (NL)
2023 – Presenting at Bump Festival Kortrijk (BE)
2022 – Presenting "Innovative Washi", MONO Japan (NL)
2022 – Presenting "Design x Imagination" with Fiona Raby, Design Dialogues KASK (BE)
2021 – Co-curating experimental, online discussion format, STRP Festival (NL)
2020 – Co-curating hybrid formats with Karaoke Discourse, MU Hybrid Art House (NL)
2020 – Presenting "Basic Income Café" at Economia Conference, Baltan Laboratories (NL)
2020 – Researcher-in-residence, Fontys Hogeschool Journalistiek (NL)
2019 – Workshop "Proxies on Trial", Nieuwe Instituut (NL)
2019 – Artist-in-residence, MONO Japan in Shimane (JP)
2019 – Presenting "Sensory Washi", Shibaura House Tokyo (JP)
2019 – Presenting "Living Infrastructure" at Un/Green Open Fields Conference, RIXC Festival (LV)
2019 – Presenting "4-D News" at Communication, Media and Journalism Conference, University of Sheffield (UK)
2018 – Presenting "Living Infrastructure" at ThingsCon (NL)
2018 – Presenting at Antenna Conference Design Indaba, Dutch Design Week (NL)
2017 – Presenting at Agents of the Anthropocene Symposium, Piet Zwart Institute (NL)
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 – e | Washi Futurism: Book and AR app, self published
2024 – p | unprinted:『和紙フューチャリズム』AR効果はミニマルだから没入できる
2023 – p | Dutch Design Awards: Interview with Cream on Chrome
2023 – p | EY: Waarom Cream on Chrome goud in handen heeft
2023 – p | Het Parool: Gewichten tillen voor een uurtje Netflix
2023 – p | NHK: いまコレ!しまね「世界でCOOLな石州和紙」
2022 – p | Axis Design Magazine Vol. 220: Up next – Cream on Chrome
2022 – p | Dezeen: Solar Energy Kiosk serves orange juice made using solar power
2022 – p | Design Academy Eindhoven: The Alumni Interview Cream on Chrome
2022 – p | Kunstmatig Podcast: Tussen ecologie en tech-tuin
2022 – p | Wallpaper: Alcova - wellbeing, cultural identity and the environment
2022 – p | Studio 040: STRP Festival van start
2022 – p | NRC Handelsblad: Grenzen aan de groei?
2021 – p | FRAME Magazine: What tools do we need for a work-from-home reality?
2021 – p | de lage landen: De verstrengeling tussen design en interactiviteit
2021 – p | ACED Designalism Podcast: Cream on Chrome
2021 – p | z33 Interview: Cream on Chrome designs an interactive coffeemaker
2021 – e | Becoming A News Explorer, Ontwerpen aan de journalistiek (Fontys)
2020 – p | Social Matter, Social Design (valiz)
2020 – p | DAMN Magazine, Feeds and Reads
2019 – p | de Volkskrant: Drie Talenten op Dutch Design Week
2018 – p | Fast Company: This is the most interesting UI design of the year so far
2018 – p | de Volkskrant: Activistische, hoopvolle zoektocht van jongste ontwerpgeneratie
2018 – p | Dezeen: Design Academy Eindhoven students take over Milanese streets
2017 – e | The News Cake, Immersive Narratives (Design Academy Eindhoven)
e = essays
p = press