Toon Milaan

Toonkamer in Utrecht is showing a selection of Dutch presentations in Milan, so if you missed us there...

www.toonkamer.nl

design factory bratislava

22.05. exhibition re:cycle (curator:Leonne Cuppen-Yksi) has been opened by the dutch ambassador at design factory Bratislava. Since a long time i wanted to visit this remarkable city because i heard they had the same struggle fighting to keep some 70s architecture as we had in Berlin. It happened by accident, that we checked in, in one of the major buildings of the argument; hotel Kiev. 

Design factory is a great place with very nice people, an island and playground for people who love design within a new rising Bratislava with a skyline of mostly boring high buildings covered in glass - like many other cities we know. 

Greetings from Salone

Thanks to everybody who came to visit us so far! We are getting great responses for Concrete Lace and Quantz Coffee Mug,

chiao, chiao

Quantz Collection at Salone Milano 2009

Please be invited to visit KREJCI by Doreen Westphal at via Savona 6/Lotus Garage as part of the Tuttobene exhibition from 22.-27. april.

We present the Quantz Collection: Concrete Lace and Concrete Coffee Mug; developed with G.tecz Germany.

Where do you get the inner tubes from?

Often people ask us where we get the old inner tubes from. Well, first of all we live in Amsterdam, we have a lot of bicycles and therefore we have a lot of old inner tubes. Collecting them is more of a challenge. Since a few month Debbie from Social Workshop Pantar in Amsterdam comes ones a week and then she tours on an old-school 'bakfiets' along the bicycle repair men who support the project.

We did a little survey under the repair shops, asking how many tubes they throw away per day; between 3 and 15 was the answer, depending if they are into fixing or just put a new tube. Old tubes don't get recycled in a large way so most of them end up in the incinerator. We believe that in Holland 10 000 tubes get burned per day. We worked out that last year we turned the amount of one day into bags. Something should happen...

Quantz and G.tecz

Last week i had the fantastic opportunity to experiment with QUANTZ, an ultra high performance concrete by innovative german company G.tecz. These guys are great and they can optimize concrete in a way that you can really make anything from it, for example a coffee cup or a garden chair. Within architecture the can also optimize concrete so one needs a lot less of the material for a building as you would need from conventional concrete. On the photos are first examples of the 'QUANTZ' collection, soon more...

New York International Gift Fair

For the first time Krejci by Doreen Westphal was presented at NYIGF by the Wabnitz Collection and  was very well received by the visitors of the fair.

Two of our bags got selected for the special sustainability section at the entrance of the hall and people liked them so much that someone even managed to steel one of them despite 24 security watch.

2008

Two more days and we start a new year, good to take a moment to look back on 2008. The essence of what this year meant for me is probably best described with the words of a german environmental scientist who's name i unfortunately do not know anymore, but what she said was about this:

'Now that we have this huge economical crises we also have for the first time a realistic chance to reach the targets set by the protocol of Kyoto. '

I wish all of us stunning and great ideas and a lot of energy to create and built a whole new system for our future!

New Studio at Westerdok Amsterdam

KREJCI moved to a new studio, it is right in the center of Amsterdam yet we have the water of the Westerdok right in front of us. Now in the winter we smell the wood fires of our neighbours, the people who live on the boats opposite from us at the dock. In the summer we hope to enjoy the sun on the quay. At the moment it is still a bit of chaos but building works a moving fast!

Dutch Design Week 2008

For the first time Krejci took part in Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. On the picture you see our stand with some new items, a bicycle bag, picture frame and a floor cloth from inner tubes.

Further we introduced the idea of a double exit sink which is a sink with a second exit. This gives the opportunity to decide if water could be collected and used again or if it is definitely spoiled.

Tokyo Designers Week 2008

In November 2008 KREJCI took part in 'Created in Holland' a collective exhibition of Dutch designers during Tokyo Designers Week.

Watch this little movie to get an impression:

mobach

If you ever are in Utrecht go and visit this shop, it's great and from now mobach is selling KREJCI as well.
http://www.mobachwinkel.nl/

"Let's grow some more balls!"

Let’s grow some balls! by Doreen Westphal

Let´s grow some balls! is a combination of lounge chair and plant container from recycled plastic. The design is a spontaneous and yes; very direct reaction on the 'tegenlicht' documentary here in Holland which introduced the cradle2cradle production principle. Let's grow some balls! is a call to us designers to take more responsibility for the things we make.

I presented this object in april at the Salone Internazionale de Mobile as part of the Tuttobene (www.tuttobene.nl) exhibition in the Via Tortona.
Depending on the plants ones grows inside the ball the shape changes every time. Mediteranian herbal garden, tulips or exotic plants, you can even grow a roof but the chair keeps it's strong appearance.

Salone Internazionale de Mobile - If waste is food let me be your chef!

Just in time we finished our new items to take to the salone in Milan, the Lab Lamp made from old computer circuit boards and the plantball with the inspiring name "Let's grow some balls".

new things for paris and ambiente

in paris we presented our first items, not made from old innertubes but brand new ceramics. a birdshouse which we developed in the KREJCI Lab.

Moving into the Volkskrantbuilding

End of june 2007 we managed to get a space in the Volkskrantbuilding, a former office building of daily dutch paper.

This is phantastic place, my neighbours are all doing really interesting things, there is also a dance studio and the Canvas club on the top floor, there you can look over whole Amsterdam.

Krejci in Japan

From 6-8 june Krejci will make it's entrance at the Interior Lifestyle/Ambiente in Tokyo. We wil be presented by Koji Nishiba, a very cool japanese guy.

Good Luck, Koji!

visiting the sewingshop warsaw

Last week i took the night train to Warsaw to visit the sewing shop which makes almost all the bags for Krejci. They just recieved 5 boxes of inner tubes and were very busy. We talked about the adaptation of the Krejci collection for the Japanese marked, we will start there very soon and we made some samples of new designs which i will publish soon.

e-mail from Sweden:

'Greetings from Sweden'

Hey. Just bought a Tubus messenger-bag at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm.. Awesome design.

I just have a some stuff to say.. first off:

Wallet
Wallet
Wallet
Wallet
Wallet !

and

Make me a nice hardcase for my electric guitar :) also
Sell all of the collection in Stockholm!

Best regards /Rasmus Björkegren

allrighty, i am going to visit the sewing shop next week and there will be a wallet!
guitar case, maybe as a special addition for the 50s birthday of tom morello, but that will take a few more years,

best, doreen

100% Design Rotterdam

Krejci will participate at 100% Design in Rotterdam 7-8-9 June 2007. We will be placed at the "campsite" stand C02. If i look at the ground plan it promises to be a little wild, whats wrong with 90degree angles?

Hope to see you there!
Have you been at our website?

www.krejci.nl