Eye Magazine

During the 1980s the Netherlands looked like a graphic designer\'s heaven. Government subsidies allowed cultural work to flourish. Commercial clients backed experimentation seemingly without question. But the 1990s finds young Dutch designers beating a retreat.

‘I don’t think I could have come out on the streets with these posters in Berlin, Paris, or London – not to mention America’

Once every six years, the three international federations of industrial, graphic and interior designers stage an…