Colour Conversation is an exchange with creatives. In each episode the guests share insights about their working field, process and the role of colour within their practice.
Our solo exhibition Multiply at Cuypershuis in Roermond shows a curated selection of 15 years of research on colour and design.
We have been invited to present a selection of our blankets at Huis Kamer Contact. The former Philips factory in Eindhoven is transformed into a temporary exhibition space.
We are happy to announce that Raw Color is the winner of the Limburg Design Award 2023. An exhbition will take place at Cuypershuis to present the work of the studio.
The sculptural pieces LINK and LOOP are staged in monumental colour settings. The presentation of LINK and LOOP took place at the Raw Color studio during Dutch Design Week 2022.
Temperature Textiles is the winner of the Public Vote in the category Homeware Design. Thanks to everybody that voted for us!
Please visit the custom developed website that provides all information and content that is connnected to the project Temperature Textiles.
The physical Temperature Textiles presentation took place at the Raw Color studio during Dutch Design Week 2021.
The website Project Planum showcases the knit Planum that is applied in the studios projects Chroma Columns, Quarantine Quilts and Field Frames.
During the interdisciplinary workshop week at Elisava in Barcelona we have experimented together with a group of students on light and colour.
Invited by Prof. Frank Philippin we gave a workshop to students of the Design department at Hochschule Darmstadt to work hands on with colours and Riso printing.
The studio was commissioned to create hacks from original designs by recombining the pieces and adding elements from the OS archive.
DASH tile collection is released for Hamrony Inspire as part of their Signature collection. DASH comes in 6 colour ways.
Tiny Offices is a concept to stimulate working in nature in small scale capsules. Three design studios have been selected by Wendy Plomp of Dutch Invertuals.
During Dutch Design Week 2018 we will present our latest project Props & Prints at the Showroom of Piet Hein Eek.
Graphic Time is finally available, after more than one year of product development toghether with Dutch Design Label Vij5. You can order it here.
The Adidas Colour & Materials Department has invited Raw Color to host several workshops in Herzogenaurach and Eindhoven.
Publication about the studio and house in the Norwegian Interior Design magazine Nytt Rom, with photography by Anne Bråtveit.
Solids & Storkes on shown during Graphic Matters, Breda and Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven in 2017 as part of the Grind the Gap presentation.
Especially developed version of Graphic Time is part of the show Collection #3 Part III 'Domestic Appeal' curated by Matylda Krzykowski.
We are proud to be jury members for the design talent competition Ein&Zwanzig 2017. Together with Carole Baijings, Nina Bruun, Uli Budde, Stefano Giovannoni, Konstantin Grcic, Mathias Hahn, Philipp Mainzer and Simon Legald we've selected the 21 talents.
Very proud. Blend the new collection for Nanimarquina will be launched during Salone del Mobile. You can find it at Hall 16, Stand D41.
Azure visited the Eindhoven studio of Raw Color, the design firm who fuses the worlds of graphic design, product design and brand identity.
Invited by Professor Mark Braun of the product design course at HBK Saar in Saarbrücken Germany, the studio hosted the Workshop Colour Profiles.
On the cover of the new Dutch Magazine Wonderful Things - WOTH. Plus an extensive Portfolio feature on the studios work.
Joanna van der Zanden organised a series of Workshops with De Domijnen in Sittard. To stimulate the cultural climate within the regio, several artists and designers have been invited.
Happy to announce the new collaboration with the Spanish rug brand Nanimarquina. The first work in progress prototypes are presented during the 'Blend' exhibtion in London.
Raw Color’s first European solo exhibition 'Blend' at The Aram Gallery is a dynamic mix of interactive installations, materials and visuals. It allows the visitor to experience the multidisciplinary nature of the design studio.
The first European solo exhibtion opens on September 19th during London Design Festival. The show combines a varity of existing projects with brand new projects.
DutchDesign is a series of interviews by students of the Interactive Arts and Technology School of SFU Britsh Columbia, Canada. We are happy to be part of the 2015 series.
A wishlist of designers and projects was put together. The result is a collection of 100 pieces by over 50 international designers from tabletop items to furniture via lighting and conceptual objects.
20 design students from Gachon University of South Korea visited Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Eindhoven and joined several workshop. At our studio the students worked for one day on the topic ‘Word Objects’.
Chromatology was developed as part of the exhibition ‘The Vincent Affair’. Departure point was to showcase contemporary counter pieces that represent aspects of Vincent van Gogh’s work.
A multi spread feature about our self commissioned work and assignments. Thanks for the great article.
Feeds per Minute is presented during this exhibition which is a prelude of the Taipei World Capital 2016 programme.
The Fans installation was developed for LYNfabrikken BOX in Aarhus, Denmark. The concept of BOX is to make room for exhibitions by designers, architects and craftsmen of a more conceptual nature, that blurs the boundaries between design and art.
Nice Interview and report about our studio. Great editing, pubishing and design by Elana Schlenker.
Being invited as part of the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei we also visited Taiwan to give a workshop and lecture.
Invited by Mischer’Traxler’s European Design Lab at IED Master we were hosting a workshop for one week. The goal was to build your own circular colour tool.
Newly gained knowledge allows us to venture deeper into the future. We create new tools, speak a new language and formulate new aesthetics. We interpret nature, re-think our traditions and shape our identity.
On the verge of shifting cultures and collapsing economies, one really has to thoroughly reconsider who we are and what we stand for. Formulating a new awareness. Gaining the freedom from fading boundaries.
TextielLab won the Woonbeurs Pin for the innovation and their contribution to the dutch design scene. For this occasion a fair stand was designed that is based on the graphical identity.
Raw Color developed a new film for the exhibition WHITE. The Nederlands Fotomuseum will present existing and new work by artists such as Blommers / Schumm, Anton Corbijn, Ellsworth Kelly, Joep van Lieshout, Erwin Olaf, Jaap Scheeren and many others.
Raw Color gave a lecture and a three day workshop at the LA based Otis College of Art and Design. During the Otis Design Week 2013 the 10 MA students of the graphic design department worked on posters.
Chemical reactions, rotation-moulded experiments, unfinished constructions, colour science and woven techniques are transformed by imagination during the Salone del Mobile.
Graphic Happiness in China brings together an overview of more than 40 Dutch designers, which includes 20 iconic figures of Dutch Design such as: Dick Bruna, Wim Crouwel, Theo van Doesburg, and Anthon Beeke.
Nice publication that accompanies the exhibtion about the graphic design scene in the Netherlands of the past and today.
We were part of the speakers amongst Mevis & Van Deursen, Lava and Our Polite Society to discuss graphical identies of musea.
The Index Collection has been included in the permanent textile collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York.
A very nice feature about our work giving an overview of our projects. Items is a great magazine and we hope that they will continue in the future.
By conducting research and experiments the Invertuals have transposed the theme of conflict onto contemporary designs.
This exhibition gives an overview of the contemporary graphic design scene in the Netherlands featuring among others Edhv, Irma Boom, LUST and Thonik.
The Index Collection tea towels are for sale now, find more information here.
Curated by the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Raw Color is invited to present their projects ranging from textile, photography to other media in the University gallery. The show will be accompanied by a lecture and workshop.
The German Colour Association honours Raw Color with the 2012 price for their achievements in the field of colour and design. The ceremony will be held during their international conference in Berlin.
Curated by the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Raw Color is invited to present their projects ranging from textile, photography to other media in the University gallery. The show will be accompanied by a lecture and workshop.
The Cryptographer will be on show during Graphic Design Festival Breda.
The Blossom photo series will be for the first time on show, as well will be Temporary Trees be part of the group show.
We are developing a collection of textiles at the TextielLab in Tilburg. It will result in a series of tea towels and blankets.
During three days the students were supposed to develop a hut, structure, surface... that would be able to cover themselves.
O' at via Pastrengo 12 in Milan hosts Dutch Invertuals 'Retouched'. Invited by the curator and founder Wendy Plomp, 11 designers worked on fragility and vulnerability applying it to contemporary design.
On the initiative of Étienne Hervy and Émilie Lamy, a number of graphic designers have been invited to take part in the project to create a new collection of books with no imposed theme.
Otrascosas de Villarrosàs is an exhibition and projectspace in Barcelona. We are very happy that our work is featured in their beautifully designed year book of 2011.
We've always been fascinated by the beauty of blossom branches. The series was actually done in spring 2011 as a pre study of Temporary Trees.
Presented by Onomatopee in collaboration with The Royal College of Arts Critical Writing in Arts and Design programme, ‘Comfort Zone’ is a Group Exhibition of Nest 2011, talk and launch of Onomatopee’s NEST 2011 box-set.
Temporary Trees is a project by Mkgk & Raw Color as part of the international platform Make a Forest. D/struct will also be on show which is developed together with Lucas Maassen. Both projects were supported by MU.
This is a preview of the Fall/Winter 2012 collection is entitled “On The Rocks.” We just finished the photoshoot for the campaign and lookbook.
Together with the organization 'ArtEast' Raw Color and MKGK was giving a 'Master Class' for local artists and students, to create new artificial trees.
Invited by MU, Temporary Trees was a project that took place during Dutch Design Week (22-30 October 2011) as part of Make a Forest, an international platform.
How do you integrate the digital, the screen, the computer and the internet with the physical world? MU, in collaboration with Lucas Maassen and Unfold, takes up the challenge with 'After the Bit Rush.
Invited by Dutch DFA we were participating as one of the speakers at Indias biggest Graphic Design and Communication conference called Kyoorius Designyatra.
For the academic year 2011/12 Raw Color is appointed as teachers at the Department Man and Activity, which is under the lead of Oscar Peña.
Otrascosas de Villarrosàs is an exhibition and projectspace sited in Barcelona, hosting projects from art to design and fashion.
Design students of the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (Art School Hamburg/Germany)visited our studio during their excursion to the Netherlands.
The studio is a 70 square meter space based in a former factory building in Eindhoven called the Klokgebouw.
First year students of the Design Academy were working on the theme of constructing colour.
This years exhibition of the Best verzorgde Boeken (Best Dutch Book Designs) took place in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Raw Color is happy to announce that the Nest series has been awarded as one of the Best Designed Books of the Netherlands in 2010!
Curator Arne Hendriks asked us to be part of Dutch Domestics, an exhibition showcasing a research driven movement among young dutch designers. We were thrilled to be part of that group.
This book shows the expanding field of Graphic design from 1900 right through 2020. Published in collaboration with the Graphic Design Museum of The Netherlands.
Dutch Invertuals presented 'Matter of Time', focused on the basis material of 600-year-old wood; archeological oak wood which once served as the foundation for the Eindhoven city entrance.
This year’s Dutch Invertuals at Dutch Design Week showed us how by pulverising it to make paper, fashioning it into medieval tools and arms or visualising its movements the low-tech way.
A favorite was Raw Color's Exposures fabric, a photosynthetic fabric exposed to daylight in segments by a hand-cranked machine.
When we visited Raw Color’s studio last fall, we fell in love with the duo’s polychromatic portfolio, and we invited them to create a special series for Sight Unseen.
In the exhibition Stuffed twelve designers and artists presented new works inspired on taxidermy. The exhibition concept was born in 2008 after one of the initiators saw the historical collection of stuffed animals at the 'Milieu Education Centrum'.
They stated that we should look more for the subtleties in a room created by light, shadows and small corners. Their result was, in my opinion, very bold, since it did not have a function, it was not a space but a statement, an investigation.
