This year Vij5 explored the boundaries of crowdfunding by involving the community in one of the most important choices of a design process; choosing color. The experiment revolved around the TwoTowel. A towel and tea towel in one, with two functions that ... Read more
During the Dutch Design Week in 2018 you could 'wander' through a house full of design at Studio Thier & van Daalen ; the new home of the designers and curators of this exhibition. They opened their doors to the public and ... Read more
Commissioned by Dutch Design Foundation & Renault, Vij5 was responsible for furnishing the new Business Lounge of Dutch Design Week (DDW) 2018. The Business Lounge was a temporary furnished meeting place with workplaces, WI-FI and a cloakroom for ... Read more
Commissioned by the Dutch Design Foundation, Vij5 was responsible for furnishing the Press Centre of Dutch Design Week (DDW) 2018. For the occasion we designed a temporary intervention following our design for the Business Lounge, aimed at ... Read more
Also in 2018 Vij5 was present again during Design District in the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam. Design District is the trade event for interior design in the Netherlands. For 3 days, an exhibition floor of over 10,000 m² was filled with presentations of the ... Read more
Minimalist designs and pure materials go together in the elegant and functional collection of the Dutch label Vij5. However, Vij5 products are distinguished by the sincere connection and strong cooperation between the people behind the label - curators, designers, ... Read more
This article is an interview with Mieke Meijer for the official launch of the first NewspaperWood collection in Milan, April 2011. How it all started Mieke Meijer: "In the spring of 2003 I started my third module on the direction ... Read more
The development of NewspaperWood (then called KrantHout) began in 2003 as the result of a research project by Design Academy Eindhoven alumnus Mieke Meijer. After a collaboration with Vij5 in 2007 and a joint presentation of the material in 2011, ... Read more