Dutch Design Week: Dutch designer Jelte van Abbema won the €10,000 Rado Prize at the Dutch Design Awards last week for a body of work including Symbiosis, an experimental project that involved printing with bacteria.
Van Abbema printed on paper (top) and billboards (below), creating simple typographic forms that changed colour and form as the bacteria multiplied and then died.
The Rado Prize, sponsored by watch brand Rado, is awarded each year for innovative, topical work by a young Dutch designer.
See our earlier story on the overall winner of the Dutch Design Awards, Merry-go-round Coat Rack by Studio Wieke Somers, and best consumer product winner FlexVaas by Vij5.
Here's some info about Symbiosis from van Abbema, followed by his biography and info about the Rado Prize:
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Symbiosis
Printed media puts a pressure on our environment. Solutions like soya ink or natural pigments are a way in the good directions, but Jelte van Abbema tried to take it a bit further. Floated curiosity to a new approach and a fascination for growth, he investigated the possibilities of bacteria in visual culture. To cause no epidemic he followed a course at the department microbiology of the university Wageningen.
It's revolutionary approach: printed-paper does not need to be finished when it rolls of the press. After a period of research he pressed with carefully composed bacteria text on posters. In a converted poster box of JCDecaux – in fact a huge Petri dish – he created the correct humidity and warmth to let the print grow.
A new manner to publicly captivate without changing poster each week. Time gets barral at the work and transforms the image to something new. The bacteria act and create their own aesthetically induced dimension.
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Winner Rado Young Designer Award 2009 – Jelte van Abbema
Jelte van Abbema was born in 1982 in Voorburg, the Netherlands. He grew up in the Dutch town of Wageningen, which is known for the life sciences and peacemaking. As a young gardener, he learned about the strangeness and beauty of nature, and with this he found the tools necessary to grow. Upon graduating high school in 2000, he began his studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven in Man & Communication. In June 2006, he graduated cum laude. His work was nominated for the René Smeets and Melkweg Design Awards and received the Willie Wortel Award for invention.
In 2007, he founded Lab van Abbema to investigate how design, science and technology can combine to shape a new landscape that reflects the contemporary nature of our world. His ongoing search for making the unfamiliar familiar has resulted in numerous collaborations, and his work has been exhibited and published internationally.
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RADO YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD
Winner: Jelte van Abbema "A promising marriage between art and science, based on in-depth research. This technical invention creates new images and forms."
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