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Soon to be published (or to be scanned and posted by me)
Arcplus Architecture magazine, United Arab Emirates
RUM Architecture magazine, Sweden
Next Magazine, Hong Kong
Technoly and design, Brazil
icelandreview Atalantica Reykjavik-based ‘Atlantica’, Icelandair’s in-flight magazine
d’architectures d’architectures, d’A, Architecture magazine, France
metro magazine
An interview with me in Metro-magazine, read daily by 841.500 Flemish people on the train.
feeling wonen
Our stocksale nicely listed as one of the design events to see this summer.
design made in rijmenam
a full page in depth interview with me, supplying design-lovers worldwide, from my tiny town Rijmenam
actief wonen
also this lifestyelmag dint let our summersale go unnoticed
promising designer Jiri: an interview
Koen Van der Schaeghe, reporter for ‘Best One’ lifestylemagazine, spent an afternoon at my office and condensed hours of my enthusiasm on his digital pocketrecorder into a well rounded, accurate and comprehensive article about me.
Tomorrow’s designers: an interview with Jiri
My ‘Wally’ wall-system/screen got an honourable distinction at the Design For Europe competition, part of Interieur 06 Kortrijk, one of Europe’s nicest design-fairs. So Dieter Van Den Storm, journalist and project-coordinator of Interieur, came over for a witty interview in De Standaard Magazine (complementary magazine to Belgium’s nr1 newspaper), presenting the new bread of emerging designers like myself.
Miss belgian beauty meets Utilia
In a succeeded attempt to bringing design closer to the people, Chris Meplon (journalist) dreamed up the idea of confronting the Miss Belgian Beauty finalists with Flemish emerging design talent; and have them jury their objects. A fun afternoon, reported in the lifestyle magazine Karaat
Utilia at shopping village
Ad!dict Creative Lab, an international creativity network based in Brussels, installed a laboratory in Maasmechelen Village Outlet Shopping. This physical space is proof of Addictlab’s unique multi-layered concept to showcase Belgian creative talent, inspire a large amount of visitors, testcase possible commercial concepts and create a meeting point for creatives and industry. As one of their 4000+ members I was selected to present ScooterDesks and the Doxy in the shop. For the occasion a special addict labfile was published.
Foldy at European aluminium award
At Aluminium 2006 in Essen, Germany, More than 600 exhibitors from 38 countries presented their products and services dedicated to the material aluminium. On display there, selected as candidate for an European aluminium award, was my Foldy bookrack.
ScooterDesk praised in international designcompetition
And there it was, the ScooterDesk, getting cosy with Hella Jongerius’s Polder Sofa. Indeed the ScooterDesk keeps getting thumbs up, and won a honourable mention, and thus publication, at America’s ID magazine’s annual design review.
A day with the Missbelgianbeauties
Testing a photoblogentry with these pics form the fotoshoot for Karaat magazine.
ScooterDesk featured by Samsung
Hey! Samsung well-designed brand/info magazine DigitAlloffers a cameo on the ScooterDesk in an article on about Ad!dict Creative Lab’s Jan Van Mol.
Utilia’s cd-packaging adored in international designcompetition
The cd-packaging Utilia designed for pop-singer Anita Lixel won a step-100 design award, and thus was covered (nicely) in America’s graphic design magazine Step Inside Design special issue on their awards.
Utilia scores at Milan furniturefair
Some Dutch coverage in the national newspaper’s Het Laatste Nieuws special addition magazine ‘Extra’ on the presentation of Utilia’s new collection during the Salone del Mobile 2006, part of the Design-to.be event, that presented Belgian’s finest designers and design-driven companies at the Zona Tortona, in Superstudio 13
ScooterDesk success down under
The Australian product-design-magazine Curve devoted an entire (and well laid-out) page to the ScooterDesk. And again a cameo(picture) for the ScooterDesk in an interview about Ad!dict Creative Lab’s Jan Van Mol.
ScooterDesk enjoyed by Swedish designcritics
Also the redaction of Sweden’s nr1 designmagazine Form took notice of the ScooterDesk.
Scrivania a rotelle
A short article about the ScooterDesk in Italy’s biggest selling and most widely read magazine, on science & technology: Focus
Also a funny snippet of a cameo in The Italian newspaper La Republica about the designers-hotel Casa dei Designer 2006 I stayed during the Salone del Mobile, Milan, for the second time. For the record, I am not Danish, but Flemish, that was a typo.
ScooterDesk covered in Croatia
I found the ScooterDesk has been published in this Magazine named Majstor, from Zagreb, Croatia. If anyone has any more info on this please let me know.
ScooterDesk appeals to wide audience
Even a leading Flemish woman-magazine Goed Gevoel found the ScooterDesk of interest for their readers; ScooterDesks have appealed to readers far beyond the design and living-scene: ICT, computers, lifestye, gadgets, general interest, marketing, science & technology…
Jiri interviewed in leading office magazine
Two in-depth interviews with me, in Dutch, one in a renowned project/contract/office-magazine published in The Netherlands: Inside Information and the other one in Karaat, a well-spread Flemish lifestyle magazine.
ScooterDesks to Denmark
Utilia’s ScooterDesk was top nominated for index:designaward 2005, moreover Utilia was the only Belgian entry to be top-nominated, except for one young architecture studio; the naked architects, who became good friends. Reason enough for some coverage in national Belgian newspapers and magazines such as: Het Laatste Nieuws, Gazet van Antwerpen and the quality magazine Weekend Knack
ScooterDesk picked up in Hong Kong
Next Magazine Hong Kong keep their ears close to the ground when it comes to new innovations, and so published an article in their enormously popular magazine. On top they were so kind to send me some the issue and some others (remarkably interesting and divers content) in a nice ‘button and cord’ closed envelope.
Denmark ignites ScooterDesk hype
It was Bettina from Denmark who mailed me with some questions about the ScooterDesk, and so I found out Utilia was top nominated for index:designaward 2005 and was featured in Denmark’s newspaper Politiken. Thanks for the copy Bettina!
Utilia at Milan furniturefair 05
.bezign, a collective of some of the finest designers from Belgium, brought together by Damien Bihr from [NAos design Brussels] (http://www.naosdesign.com/) organized their first show at Gallery Grosetti during the Milan designweek 05. They were so kind to invite me as one of their special guests, showing the ScooterDesks in premiere to the Milan-crowd. As documented in their lovely oversized (and well-spread) magazine published for this occasion.
ScooterDesk at forefront of trends
Ad!dict Creative Lab is an international creative laboratory based in Brussels that promotes a network of more than 4,000 creative and multidisciplinary talents from all over the world. They opened their new offices and gallery. Addict collected some of the most remarkable new ideas from their network, and so the ScooterDesks could not be left out of their gallery and complementary magazine issue published for this occasion.
Jiri graduates at the renowned DesignAcademy
In June 2003 Jiri graduated from the influential (ranked 5th worldwide) Designacademy Eindhoven, department Man&Activity (industrial design) led by Oscar Peña designer (bio pdf download) at Philips Design and Wijtse Rodenburg designer at Ahrend As published in the famous DesignAcademy graduationbook, premiered at their graduationshow in October.