YKSI EXPO DUTCH DESIGN BIKE

YKSI EXPO
Yksi Expo raises (inter)national awareness for design and provides a platform for design in
all of its form such as, architecture, fashion design, graphic design (in both print and digital),
product design and technology design. Yksi is formed by two exhibitions spaces, ‘The Expo’
and ‘The Stage’. It is our primary ambition to educate and inspire upcoming talent as well as
a broad audience with worldwide design history. Yksi Expo exhibitions travel all over the
world, from Beijing to Bratislava and from Moskou to Milan.
Contact
Yksi Expo
Torenallee 22-04
5617 BD Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Contact person: Annemieke van Leeuwen
E-Mail: expo@yksi.nl
Website: www.yksi.nl
Tel: + +31 (0)40-7805034
DUTCH DESIGN BIKE
Type of exhibition: Design
Availability: 2012, 2013, 2014
Approx. cost in EUR: 10.000 EUR
Cost includes: Loan Fee, Layout proposal, Organization and Dismantling of
the exhibition, Objects, Displays and Signs.
Cost explanation: Fee does not include travelling and accommodation for two Yksi
employees. Next to these costs Yksi counts on the hosting
organisation to cover transport, security, insurance, extra work
force during build and dismantling of the exhibition as well as
organisation of the lighting settings and the availability of three
tv/dvd sets.
Space requirement: 150 – 250 sqm
The exhibition consists of ten remarkable bikes, from the fastest reclining bicycle to a bike
with an oak wooden frame. In addition a collection of surprising objects and designs inspired
by the bicycle or made from bicycle parts will be presented, from a handbag and a rug made
of bicycle tires to a chair made from bike wheels. Each one designed by Dutch designers.
These creative expressions are partly a response to mass production or to the consumer
society. At any rate they help the visitor to view reality or experience their surroundings
differently.
The Dutch Design Bike, part of a larger exhibit arranged by Yksi in the Designhuis in
Eindhoven (the Netherlands) in 2008, already travelled to Bratislava (Slovakia), Moscow
(Russia), Tallinn (Estonia) and Brussels (Belgium).
About the designers who participate (the exhibition might differ as we adjust content in order
to stay up-to-date with the most cutting edge changes in the design field):

Goof van Beek, student at the Design Academy, will exhibit a stool using old materials in a
new way. Sasja Saptenno designs accessories that can change shape. The rubber inner
tubes invite you to create all kinds of organic shapes. The rubber floral rug by Jacqueline
Petit is made of bicycle inner tubes. The book by Jeanette Turkenburg shows the
Dutchman and their bike portrays, in all kinds of weather from city to city. CHAINged
(cabinet) created by Michiel Martens makes the observer question weight and balance.
Hedwig Hulshof will be exhibiting her project Ant Evolution. Doreen Westphal uses unusual
materials, such again bicycle inner tubes, to make products that look rough, but attractive.
After finishing his Industrial Design studies, Jan Willem van Breugel travelled through Asia
by bike. That’s where he came up with the idea for Wheels-on-Fire: products based on reused
bicycle parts. Orlando Tjin Asjoe shows his hat-stand made from waste materials, a
classic. Rico Souren envisioned a chair in a discarded bicycle, which seats comfortably due
to the air filled inner tube seat. Christiaan Lebens has dismantled a bicycle frame, creating
a rugged necklace. A bicycle bell and a lamp form the mould for the sugar and cream set
‘Chico’ by Jacqueline Couwenberg. Yksi Design magically transformed a bicycle bell into a
musical box: if you ring it no sound is produced but in turn it makes the dog run after the
sausage or the lonely cyclist ride roundand-round. ‘Light Rapido’ by Wim van Zandvoort is
made out of a cord and plug with a switch that fits exactly into an old inner tube.
Basten Leijh designed the urban bike ‘Downtown’, with a removable steering wheel as a
lock. Lately he designed ‘Montego Barrow’ the ultimate bicycle mule. Van der Veer
Designers exhibits the ‘Cabby’ delivery bicycle, designed for Gazelle, as well as the SQRL
skatebike. SQRL can be used to perform jumps, wheelies or other spectacular stunts. With
the design for ‘Spike’ Albert-Jan van Dijk won an international design award. This design
has now been produced into a working prototype and can be seen at the exhibition. Bram
Moens shows the M5 carbon ‘Low Racer’, which set no less than eight world records,
making it the fastest bike in the world. Reinier Korstanje exhibits his wooden lifestyle bike
‘OKES’. Whilst Arnout Visser developed three different working prototypes to create
momentum on a bicycle, using nothing but muscle-power. Last but not least Hansen
Hoepner will exhibit his concept-bike ‘Vlieger’ with which he graduated at the ABK in
Maastricht.

LIBERATION OF LIGHT
Type of exhibition: Design, Architecture, Lighting, Technology
Availability: 2012, 2013, 2014
Approx. cost in EUR: 60.000 EUR
Cost includes: Loan Fee, Crating, Layout proposal, Organization and
Dismantling of the exhibition, Objects, Displays and Signs,
Television and Mediaplayers
Cost explanation: Fee does not include travelling and accommodation for three
Yksi employees. Next to these costs Yksi counts on the hosting
organisation to cover transport, security, insurance, extra work
force during build and dismantling of the exhibition as well as
organisation of the supporting lighting settings. Fee also does
not include the objects from Studio Roosegaarde, Dorette
Sturm and Studio Drift. The prices for these objects can be
supplied upon request.
Space requirement: 200 – 250 sqm
Dutch artists, architects and designers are rated amongst the worldwide frontrunners
inapplying new lighting technology such as LED and OLED. This is demonstrated by the
exhibition ‘Liberation of Light’. Poetic and living installations by artist Daan Roosegaarde,
surprising lighting objects by Dorette Sturm and by Lonneke Gordijn & Ralph Nauta, the
interactive light wall Nebula as educational children’s toy by the Eindhoven-based company
NYOYN, and the remarkable use of light and lighting in public spaces and for buildings by
Har Hollands and UNStudio: these are just some examples from the exhibition.
‘Liberation of Light’ shows that LEDs are much more than small, sustainable ‘lamps’. With
the advent of LEDs (light emitting diodes), OLEDs (organic LEDs) and related technologies
light has literally been freed from the casing of that familiar bulb, spotlight or fluorescent rod.
Designers now can make light objects with different shapes, materials and functions far
beyond what was possible before. Spaces, both indoors and outdoors, will be lit in different
ways. In fact light is now making the transition from analog to digital. It can be controlled with
the help of computers, can be made to measure and can even be interactive. All this offers
new opportunities for safety, health, beauty, sustainability and quality of life. A light revolution
has manifest itself - as big as or perhaps even greater than the invention of the lightbulb 150
years ago.
As Emile Aarts, vice president and scientific programme director of Philips Research and
professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology and International Lighting Institute says:
“On several levels relating to light - functional, emotional, biological, social, cultural and
regarding control and sustainability - there are new possibilities and challenges.”
‘Liberation of Light’ was first presented in fall 2010 at the Designhuis Eindhoven, The
Netherlands. After this it started its world tour to Beijing Design Week, China from the 25th of
September till the 3th of October. From the 9th till 11th of December it will be on show during
the Guangzhou Design Week.
Participants (the exhibition might differ as we adjust content in order to stay up-to-date with
the most cutting edge changes in the field of lighting):
Arnout Visser, Arup & Rogier van der Heide, Christa van Santen, CityDynamiek Eindhoven,
Cristina Ferraz Rigo, Daan Roosegaarde, Damian O’Sullivan Design, Denovo Design,
Dorette Sturm, Eindhoven municipality, Ellen de Vries / The Lux Lab, Eric Klarenbeek, Erik
Mantel & Yvonne Laurysen / LAMA concept, Frank de Jong / Pakwing Man / Eric Toering,
Hans Wolff, Har Hollands Lichtarchitect, Henk Bank / Blik-vanger, Henk van der Geest

Lichtontwerpen, Holst Centre, Jacob Alkema, Jonas Samson, Lagusski, Lijmbach, Leeuw &
Vormgeving / Zeno products, Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta / Studio Drift, M+R interior
architecture, Mader Stublic Wiermann / GLOW 2009, NYOYN, OOOMS, Pakwing Man /
Jasper Pieterse, Philip Ross / Aesthetic Interactions, Philips, Philips Lumiblade Creative Lab,
PlantLab, Raimond Puts with Ox-ID / Moooi, Sander Mulder, Saskia van der Steen, Tom
Dixon for Philips Lumiblade, Tom Veeger, UNStudio, Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe.