Ed Annink
Ed Annink is partner at Ontwerpwerk multidisciplinary design in The Hague the Netherlands. He works internationally as product designer, curator, initiator and writer. He works with outstanding international labels such as Driade, Authentics, Droog Design, Royal VKB and Purple South. The products and exhibitions he initiated curated and designed have been awarded and published internationally. Being interested in the culture of design and as design advisor he co-operates with several international design initiatives such as ExperimentaDesign in Lisbon. As design organizer and educator he was co-initiator and dean of FunLab, a Masters Degree in Experience and Scenario Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. As teacher he created an innovative conceptual design education procedure based upon images. With this »image toolbox« he led for Vitra Design Museum international summer workshops in France between 1994 and 2003. Ed Annink initiated several design related exhibitions, catalogues and books, a.o; Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas (2003), Lovely Language (2008), Norm=Form, about design and
standardization (2010), The style of the state (2010) and Gerd Arntz, graphic designer (2010).
He was responsible head curator, curator and organizer for the second edition of Utrecht Manifest 2007. In summer 2010 the first edition of the international biannual »Design and Government«, for which he is the initiator and the responsible head curator, took place in Den Haag, Essen (RUHR.2010) and Berlin.
Ed Annink is interested in the why of design and for who we design and produce. He wants to know about the international
generic and specific motives for design. He wants to bridge between culture and economy, involving cultures and
sub cultures. The quality is in his curiosity and talent to connect people and activities. The monograph
»Ed Annink, Designer« was published in April 2002.
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