Collaboration with Schueller de Waal for Paris Haute Couture 2019/2020.

Posted on July 1, 2019

Textile proces based on Afterseason research to the potential of using waste ink from the digital textile printing industry.

Press release Schueller de Waal — Dutch fashion design duo Schueller de Waal teams up with Pik Pik Environment to present its first Collaborative Cleaning Initiative named ‘Litter’, supported by the city of Paris. On Tuesday 2 July 2019, on a public square, right in front of the town-hall of the 15th arrondissement, a group of 50 models, cool kids and volunteers started to clean the streets in an upbeat cleansing fashion performance. The models picked up trash from the streets, dressed head-to-toe in freshly made garments made from the studio’s leftover fabrics, deadstock and other remains from the fashion industry. The act of cleaning served as an inspiration for both the presentation as well as a design principle. With the performance, the initiators aim to make a powerful statement on the current state of the industry and inspire for change.‘Litter’ is the next step for SDW in unfolding their story of ‘Fashion Therapy.

www.schuellerdewaal.com

Launch and prizes for upholstery collection for Wolf Gordon

Posted on June 12, 2019

Wolf Gordon launched the upholstery collection, VEER by Aliki van der Kruijs.

The collection was the winner in the “Contract Fabric” category at the 2019 NYCxDesign Awards. This global competition, presented by Interior Design and ICFF, recognises achievements in architecture, interior design, products and technology.

The collection won additional awards at NeoCon 2019. The “VEER by Aliki van der Kruijs” collection won the Best of NeoCon Editors’ Choice Award in the Textiles: Upholstery category, presented by Contract magazine.

The collection also won a HIP award, presented by Interior Design in the Workplace: Fabric+Textiles Designer Collaboration category. CEO Rick Wolf also took home the HIP award in the Manufacturer Leader: Greater Good category.

Finally, Metropolis recognized the collection with a #MetropolisLikes award.

Made by Rain in NATURE Triennale

Posted on May 10, 2019

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Cube design museum in Kerkrade, Netherlands co-organize the exhibition “Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial,” which opened simultaneously at both museums. On view May 10 through Jan. 20, 2020, the Design Triennial will feature innovative projects, from 2016 and later, that highlight the ways designers are collaborating with scientists, engineers, farmers, environmentalists and nature itself to design a more harmonious and regenerative future.

Made by Rain is present in both venues.

Article in DAMN° magazine #72

Posted on May 2, 2019

“If you would describe the works of Aliki van der Kruijs in one sentence, the phrase would probably be a fluid chain of the following key words: water, blue, textile, trance. Her textile works paint the drops of a rainfall or the cadence of the sea. They’re always blue. And they set the mind to a poetic trance.”

Read text by Ringo Gomez-Jorge here.

Winner category design

Posted on February 16, 2019

Open to Art / ceramic award / 3rd Edition
Organised by Officine Saffi, Milan.

Open to Art / nomination

Posted on February 6, 2019

Made by Rain porcelain is nominated for the Open to Art award at the Milan gallery Officine Saffi. Open to Art is a biennial competition that aims to recognise the role of ceramics in contemporary culture, art and design.

24 shortlisted artists will be exhibited at Officine Saffi gallery from February 14^th through April 18^th 2019. During the opening reception – on February 13^th – the jury will announce the winners.

The finalists have been selected amongst 400 candidates over 45 nationalities by an international jury comprised of 8 experts from the art and design world including Felicity Aylieff (artist, Head of programme Royal College of Arts, London), Laura Borghi (Officine Saffi), Flaminio Gualdoni (journalist, art critic and professor at Brera Academy of Fine Arts), Tom Morris (editor and consultant specialized in design, interiors and architecture), Isabelle Naef Galuba(director of Ariana Museum), Elisa Ossino (architect, stylist), Ranti Tjan (director of EKWC) and Matteo Zauli (curator, director of Carlo Zauli Museum).

http://www.officinesaffi.com

Nomination Beazley Design Awards

Posted on September 14, 2018

12 September 2018 – 6 January 2019

Made by Rain is nominated in the category fashion for the Beazley Designs of the Year award and now on show in the Design Museum in London.
Every year since 2008 hundreds of design experts from around the world nominate the most innovative and thought-provoking designs from the past 12 months.

Now in its eleventh year, Beazley Designs of the Year is the Design Museum’s annual celebration of the most original and exciting products, concepts and designers in the world today.

The international awards and exhibition showcase design projects from the previous 12 months, across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Product, Graphics, and Transport. Design experts, practitioners and academics from across the world are asked by the Design Museum to suggest potential projects, from which the museum has selected 87 for nomination to display in the exhibition. A specially selected jury will choose a winner for each category and an overall winner – to be announced in November 2018.

#BeazleyDesignsoftheYear

MadebyRain.com is online!

Posted on March 2, 2018

A webshop, archive and information about this ongoing project combined. With an (almost) live rain radar it responds to the weather conditions above the studio in The Hague.
www.madebyrain.com