• Is it useful to produce cultural content in an industrial manner? — • What are you searching for in Berlin?
• How many days should we go without sleep? — • Do you and berlin share a collective space? — • Am I still in time?
• If Berlin would be a person, who would it be? — • Is it getting dark soon, or light early now? — • The expression Dutch design has almost become a brand of its own. It is like a trademark. What is that makes a design a Dutch design? Or what is it not? In your opinion, will something like "Berlin design" emerge? — • When you think about German graphic design (its role in society), would you like to change something? — • Why am I the Universe? — • We are part of the "Project-Generation". Every daily task, every cultural action as well as every professional activity is nowadays designated as "projects". Even having a family becomes a project. Based on your working and living experiences and considering the parameters of your needs to be able to realise your "projects", what am you capable of to make your environment worth living?
• Berlin is a very "trendy city" at the moment - How serious, do you think, Dutch Designers take German Design? — • Can you think of professions or countries in which being german would be an advantage? — • What is lacking to build up more long-lasting structures out of little projects that have real economical power? — • Please sum up your own personal impression of Berlin in two words. — • Are WE our CITY? And what makes a ‘Berliner’? — • At what time will Detmar perform tomorrow in that club? — • Waarom willen zoveel (amsterdamse) creatieven in Berlijn wonen en werken wetende dat er nagenoeg geen werk is? — • I would like the know what - for the next decade - could make a major city worth living in and coming back to?
• Now that you are based elsewhere, how often do you still think about Berlin and what feelings come up? And does Berlin have the capacity to develop itself into the metropolis that it once was (and according to some already is again? Why or why not? — • What do you think is Dutch about Dutch graphic design? — • How can you 'Be Berlin'? — • I would like my answer to be read as a polemic; therefore it also functions as my question. — • Where does the free spirit in Berlin’s entrepreneurship come from and how can we cultivate something similar in other cities? — • How do you feel as a German designer / artist that lives in the Netherlands? — • Why is there such a huge gap between the energetic, provocative quality of Berlin’s underground scene (graffiti, street art, etc.) and the lack of such qualities in the graphic design of institutions and companies? — • Why Berlin?
• Why Berlin?
