2013
Spark and PAL-V Europe N.V. have been nominated for the Rotterdam Design Award 2013 for their PAL-V flying car! It’s a real honour to be nominated for this Dutch design award with international standing. […]
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In October, students from the University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU) arrived full of enthusiasm for a look behind the scenes at Spark. […]
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The Criade, the latest box spring from Auping, is being launched in various countries this autumn. Unique to this box spring is the design: the subtle frame set on legs […]
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October 2013
In mid-October, it was announced that Spark was among the prize winners for its revolutionary Eneco thermostat Toon® and the ultimate safety hammer LIFEHAMMER EVOLUTION. Both products received a GIO 2013, the award for Good Industrial Design. […]
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The EurEducation Foundation has published an exciting comic book depicting the cutting-edge Rescue Tip-Board, the inflatable life raft developed by Spark for the Haaglanden Fire Safety Region. […]
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Toon® is the revolutionary smart thermostat that everyone’s talking about. Eneco’s website now features stories from enthusiastic users and celebrities, such as Angela Groothuizen and Annemarie van Gaal. […]
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September 2013
Visitors to the World Port Days in Rotterdam last weekend (7 and 8 September) were able to take a tour through the Merwe-Vierhavens area, organised by Stadshavens. […]
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July 2013
Yannick Willems (8) was interviewed on the 2nd July for the item ‘This is me’ in the Volkskrant. […]
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June 2013
The Syntens MKB Innovation Top 100 opened in a spectacular fashion this year: entertainer and presenter Dolf Janssen arrived on stage in the PAL-V flying car. […]
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Spark design & innovation is 20 years old! And we celebrated in spectacular style, along with 1000 enthusiastic visitors, on Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th of June. […]
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May 2013
The 52nd edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile design fair in Milan took place this year from the 9th to the 14th of April. […]
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April 2013
Every year the students of the Erasmus University Rotterdam organise the EFR Business Week to inspire students to make their dreams come true. During this week they come into contact with leading speakers and they get to philosophise with them about various subjects, such as ambition, success, happiness and motivation. […]
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March 2013
Have you ever wondered about just walking onto a frozen ditch and, in one movement, clicking on your blades and skating off? Well, with the skates developed by Spark for the traditional Frisian skatebrand Nooitgedagt it’s now possible! […]
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February 2013
IOB, the largest annual business fair for students of industrial design took place this year on the 20th and 21st February at TU Delft. Of course, Spark was present at the event and its stand, full of inspiring products, was busy with visitors. […]
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The first ever ‘Nederland innoveert’ (Netherlands innovates) took place at the Evoluon in Eindhoven on 1 and 2 February. The national technology event for engineers showcases top Dutch projects and aims to inspire (prospective) technicians […]
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December 2012
On Friday 14 December, the Delft department of Honeywell Enraf came for a look behind the scenes in the design studio here at Spark design & innovation. The festive occasion was inspired by Honeywell Enraf recently received the Bronze Certificate for its Honeywell Operating System (HOS). […]
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Optelec introduced the Optelec Compact 7 HD in October; a portable electronic magnifier for home, the office or for school. The Compact 7 HD makes daily activities such as reading the newspaper or looking at photos more comfortable and less location dependent. […]
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This autumn, Holmatro launched the ‘Spider range’ during a spectacular event for dealers. This innovative modular pump line, co-developed by Spark, was very well received. […]
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Max van Klink and his father Arjen, winners of Spark’s LEGO PAL-V photo competition, took their well-earned gyrocopter flight on Saturday, 1 December. […]
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November 2012
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October 2012
The GIO Awards 2012 have been announced: the only prize in our country that honours the craft of both designer and client. […]
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On Sunday 21 October the Dutch Design Awards (DDA) were presented for the tenth time. Spark was present because of the nominated EasyScan from i-Optics. […]
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Spark was present with an inspiring stand at Ecomobiel 2012 on the 9th and 10th of October 2012, in Ahoy Rotterdam. […]
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The biggest and most comprehensive trade fair for sustainable mobility, ecomobiel 2012, will take place on the 9th and 10th of October 2012 in Ahoy Rotterdam. […]
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September 2012
In the September issue of De Ingenieur, engineer Jack Ruibing, serial innovator for the Haaglanden Safety region, tells of the advantages of the Rescue Tip-Board developed by Spark. […]
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The dress rehearsal for the Rescue Tip-Board, an inflatable, tilting life-raft, took place at the beginning of September. […]
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Due to our ambitions and on-going design activities in Brazil, in recent months we’ve been working hard on a Portuguese version of the Spark website. […]
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August 2012
In April 2012 our dream came true: the flying car PAL-V took its first flight. Because it will be some years before we can fly the PAL-V ourselves, the Spark team set to work to make it happen […]
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Every two years, the student association i.d, from the department of Industrial Design at the Technical University (TU) Delft, organises a study trip to a developing economy. […]
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July 2012
Flying with KLM this month? Then don’t forget to read the Holland Herald! KLM’s in-flight magazine introduces holidaymakers and other passengers to the flying car: PAL-V. A dream that has become a reality thanks to Spark. […]
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The jury of the Dutch Design Awards (DDA) scouted, nominated and then chose the EasyScan as a finalist in the main Product category and in the Best Professional Product sub-category! The international jury of design specialists will decide in October who will walk away with the prizes. […]
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Tineke Schouten is over the moon. Her newest addition is HENK, the high-end suitcase designed by Spark. Much to Spark’s surprise, Tineke was shown with her fuchsia pink HENK on the promotion posters for her show LOL Inclusive. The show could be seen throughout theNetherlands in the Spring of 2012. […]
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June 2012
The Rescue Tip-Board, a fully inflatable life raft for rescue workers, which Spark developed in cooperation with HONOR Safety & Consultancy, took to the water this Spring […]
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The smart thermostat Toon® is proving popular with Eneco customers. This month the first batch was delivered […]
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As part of Architecture Day on the 23rd of June, Spark opened its doors to local residents for a tour. This year, the theme for the event was ‘Taste Rotterdam!’. In this context ‘tasting tours’ were organised including ‘Experience the Harbour!’, a cycling tour through the harbour area. […]
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From today, Honeywell Enraf’s digital interactive product portfolio viewer is available for download from the iTunes App Store. Spark developed the iPad app that allows you to view Honeywell Enraf’s complete product portfolio simply and intuitively. […]
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May 2012
The development of innovative sports products is a focus point for Spark design & innovation. In order to make contact with the umbrella organisations and companies in the international sports world […]
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Espresso bar Lungo organised a vibrant Euro Foosball Championships on the 11th of May and as a seasoned foosball club, of course, Spark was there […]
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The ground-breaking trade fair for people with a physical disability - Support 2012 - took place in the Jaarbeurs exhibition centre in Utrecht from the 9th to the 12th of May […]
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An extensive article about the flying car, PAL-V, appeared in ‘De Ingenieur’ [The Engineer] on the 27th April […]
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On About.com, part of The New York Times Company, Andrew Leibs has written an enthusiastic review of the unique Optelec Compact 5 HD […]
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April 2012
Sparker Antony Weinbeck drove the Carver to Milanfor a visit to the Salone del Mobile 2012 design fair. […]
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Did you know that Spark design & innovation is active on the popular social media, Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin? Take a look at our profiles. […]
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Sparker Antony Weinbeck is going to show off on the road. On 17th April he is driving off to the design fair Salone del Mobile in Milan with the Carver […]
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Together, PAL-V Europe NV and Spark have made the impossible possible: on the 6th of March PAL-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle) made its first test flight at the Gilze-Rijen Airbase. With the flight of the new hybrid vehicle a dream has become reality. […]
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March 2012
On the 29th February, Spark opened its doors to five employees from Wacom and 20 of the company’s customers […]
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Honeywell Enraf gave a successful presentation at the StocExpo 2012 in Rotterdam on the 15th March […]
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Eneco has a new smart solution on the market that helps consumers manage their energy consumption […]
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December 2011
Spark has given the existing wooden board used to train for speed skating a facelift for the Eindhoven-based game and fitness company Embedded Fitness […]
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During our recent company outing to Aviodrome, Spark said goodbye to Arno Rodenburg and welcomed Jean-Paul Niellissen […]
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Spark and Optelec introduce the Optelec Compact 5 HD, a unique, electronic handheld magnifier that has a continuous zoom with a magnification range of 1.5 to 18 times […]
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November 2011
‘Why on earth does a car need four wheels? […]
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ThyssenKrupp presented a revolutionary stair aid - the StairWalker - at the recent Rehacare trade fair in Düsseldorf […]
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The Intelligent Personal Anti Decubitus Device (I-PADD) has won third prize in the 10th edition of the Herman Wijffels Innovation Awards 2011 […]
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At the end of October, the University of Groningen began a pilot project in which students and teachers will try out the M2Desk […]
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October 2011
Barely a week after receiving two GIO awards, Spark is winning prizes with its clients again […]
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Designer Walter van Tuijl recently visited Spark's old and new business partners in Taiwan […]
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The Intelligent Personal Anti Decubitus Device (I-PADD) has been nominated for the Herman Wijffels Innovation Award 2011 […]
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This year Spark has hauled in two Good Industrial Design awards […]
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The Ultima M from Veromatic and Spark has been honoured with the prestigious Intelligent Vending Award at the Eu'Vend in Cologne […]
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September 2011
It now hangs beside the GIO Award: the official certificate that conclusively proves that the Xpozer system from Xpozer and Spark has won a Red Dot Design Award […]
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Royal Auping is one of four finalists in the Best Client Award, a special prize within the Dutch Design Awards […]
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August 2011
In early August, the Haaglanden Fire Service tested a new life raft for rescuing people who are drowning […]
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Spark's Jeroen Sluijter is preparing to take on the world - in his role as coach of a youth baseball team […]
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July 2011
Brazil is one of the largest emerging players on the world stage […]
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June 2011
Visitors to Spark cannot fail to see it: the mock-up of the VertiGO, the superfast accelerating, electrically-powered racing motorbike […]
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The ClearReader+ from Optelec and Spark has achieved fourth place in the SME Innovation Top 100. The jury was unanimous about giving this text-to-speech device for the blind and visually impaired a top position […]
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The SecuBike has begun its march on New York and environs […]
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March 2011
The Xpozer system from Xpozer and Spark has been awarded a Red Dot Design Award, one of the most coveted design prizes in the world […]
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‘This is, I think, the greatest commuter vehicle' […]
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Is it possible to mobilize the masses in order to design a good product? If yes, what does this mean for designers and design offices? These were just a couple of the questions raised during the TU Delft Industrial Design Alumni reception on March 10 at Spark […]
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The top of Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), a global market leader in the area of measurement- and control technology, has praised the core team behind the Fusion4 […]
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February 2011
From March, the SecuBike will adorn the streets of the Belgian capital […]
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‘We're amazed by just how much there is made by Spark on the market', says Tim Beumer an Industrial Design student […]
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December 2010
The life size Spark Action Hero packaging was a huge success at the recent Industrial Design Engineering Business Fair (IOB) run by the Technical University Delft. Thanks to this attention-grabber there was a constant flow of students to our booth […]
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November 2010
Spark is participating again this year in the Industrial Design Engineering Business Fair (IOB) business days run by the Technical University Delft. And how! At this tenth edition of the IOB students can profile themselves as the new Spark Action Hero […]
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October 2010
This year, Spark has scooped six Good Industrial Design (GIO) awards; that's double the haul from last year! For us, this is a wonderful recognition of Spark's design philosophy 'True Innovation' […]
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Spark recently ran an evening lecture for the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), a part of Erasmus University. The lecture, which was held in Spark's own design studio […]
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On the afternoon of Wednesday 13 October Spark will take part in the national NEVAT T&U event 2010 (Subcontracting & Outsourcing) in Papendal. The entire chain of suppliers and subcontractors […]
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Honeywell Enraf recently launched the Fusion4 MiniPak, an explosion proof control module, which it developed together with Spark […]
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September 2010
On 21 en 22 September Spark will be at Ecomobiel 2010, the event for green mobility […]
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July 2010
Spark is proud to report that three of our clients have been included in the Syntens Small Business Innovation Top 100 […]
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June 2010
Holmatro introduced a new line of innovative products to make rescue work quicker, safer and easier at Interschutz 2010 in Leipzig. One of these new products - the Personal Power Pump SPU 16 PC […]
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A team from Spark joined the friendly Ecomobiel rally for sustainable vehicles on Friday 5 June. The two Spark designers drove in our very own Carver One […]
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May 2010
From 27 - 30 May, Rotterdam will be swept up in the European Design Festival 2010. As a Rotterdam office through and through, Spark is among the many exhibitors […]
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Optelec recently launched an amazing new reading aid, developed in close cooperation with Spark, at Sight City 2010 in Frankfurt. This device, the ClearReader+, has a unique function […]
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April 2010
BCycle Solutions launched the SecuBike bicycle locker - developed by Spark - on April 13 2010, at the Urban Design Fair 2010 in Amsterdam RAI. This trade event […]
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March 2010
The wireless Honeywell Enraf SmartRadar Flexline has been awarded the de 'Engineers' Choice Award 2010' […]
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On Tuesday 2nd March, Spark, together with ThyssenKrupp Accessibility, proudly accepted an award for the Levant stair lift. […]
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Last week the brand new M2Desk was nominated as the ‘Best Innovative Hardware Product' for primary education. […]
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On the 1st of March, the first SecuBike bicycle lockers were put into use by local councillors […]
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February 2010
The British Forklift Truck Association has voted the Ravas iForks the most innovative product of the year […]
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From the 9th to the 12th of March, Spark presents its newest innovations at the ESEF 2010 […]
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November 2009
The Eco mixer tap won the ‘Eneco Sustainability Award' during ‘The Best Idea of the Netherlands 2009'. Spark developed the tap […]
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This year, Spark has won three ‘Good Industrial Design' awards. […]
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October 2009
‘The Best Idea in Holland' has once again asked Spark to take part in this successful television programme. […]
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September 2009
The men from Flextars came to us with an idea: a multifunctional accessory for mobile phones […]
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August 2009
We were thinking mostly about the transportation of children and shopping when we developed the Babboe; meteorologists in Rotterdam […]
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While working on the new Braille controller for Optelec, we wanted to make the smallest Braille controller […]
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June 2009
Fifty mums and their kids worked up a sweat for a good cause […]
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May 2009
More than 10 years ago, the Dutch businessman Henk dreamed of […]
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At the end of April Minister Eurlings of Transport and Water Management attended a demonstration of the PAL-V […]
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April 2009
‘When it comes to design it’s not about making something beautiful, but making something smart. […]
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The US television network, ABC, recently gave extensive ‘primetime’ […]
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'Ergonomics is still an integral part of the design process at Spark' […]
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March 2009
In recent months our Spark-team has been strengthened by a number of bright colleagues […]
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‘Particularly at this time we are very pleased to introduce iForks, the new solution in mobile weighing. The market is […]
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February 2009
Spark designer Eric Verberkmoes is, at this moment, flying towards Qatar […]
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Ahmed Aboutaleb, the brand new Mayor of Rotterdam, honoured us […]
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January 2009
Last Monday morning unknown robbers demolished an ING ATM machine in Amsterdam South-East […]
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December 2008
Last December Spark played a proactive role in the Business of Design Week in Hong Kong. Director Maarten Wilming presented on ‘True Innovation' at the IDT Expo. […]
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November 2008
Seatbelt-opener PietjeBelt, the product idea with which Cees Stam and Spark won ‘the Best Idea in Holland’ […]
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Last Saturday Robin Lokers and Spark were awarded a very honourable third place during the ‘Best Idea in Holland 2008' finals. […]
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October 2008
Last Saturday Robin Lokers and his box-chair made it through to the finals […]
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Are you creative HBO or WO studies almost finished? Then Rotterdam invites you to ‘HELLO, my name is...'! […]
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Spark design & innovation took to the podium four times […]
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August 2008
Commissioned by DSM, Spark has designed a special drinks bottle, called the ‘Excellerator'. […]
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At the Spark Grand Open on 27 June, Syntens advisors […]
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Spark designer Jeroen Sluijter is at the Olympic Games in Beijing. […]
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The jury has reached a decision! […]
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July 2008
Spark Grand Open - a visual impression. […]
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June 2008
Leading Industrial Design Agency Celebrates 15 Years of Innovation Excellence […]
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Spark has been feverishly working on developing and getting production ready […]
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March 2008
Spark design & innovation, along with industrial designer Aafke Kauffman and TU Delft, has developed the “Unite”: […]
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Designers from Spark design & innovation will once again be members of the professional jury […]
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February 2008
Spark is present at the ESEF trade fair in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht (NL) […]
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The Compact+, developed by Spark for Optelec was presented with an Independent Living Design Award […]
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January 2008
Spark was the beating heart of the listed 'Vertrekhal Oranjelijn' (‘Orange Line Departure Hall’) building on Thursday 10th January. […]
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November 2007
On the first of November we took up residence in a monumental building called 'Vetrekhal Oranjelijn', […]
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October 2007
On Saturday 20th October, Cees Stam and Jolanda van den Berg, supported by Spark design and innovation, were declared winners of the Best Idea in Holland; something which we at Spark design and innovation are naturally very proud of. […]
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Last weekend the awards ceremony for the Dutch Design Prizes 2007 took place in Eindhoven. […]
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The spark-designed Big Babboe ‘bakfiets’ or cargo bike will be in the spotlight in the coming five weeks […]
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March 2007
In recent times the Dutch market has been witness to a unique concept: a high-quality, high-in-character, ‘old-fashioned', reliable ‘bakfiets' (cargo bike), which is delivered in kit form. […]
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February 2007
Princess Christina opens new Optelec headquarters. Princess Christina officially opened Optelec's new headquarters in Barendrecht today. […]
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SBS6 TV program shows Braille Controller at the Ziezo fair […]
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January 2007
The HENK suitcase in ‘RTL Boulevard’. “Packing and dragging away”. RTL Boulevard anchorman Leco van Zadelhoff knows by now that this belongs to the past. […]
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November 2006
This month, Optelec’s ALVA BC640 was received by the market with applause. […]
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October 2006
Spark has developed the unique “Wheel Chair Manipulator” for the Centre for Rheumatism and Rehabilitation in Rotterdam. […]
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September 2006
Recently introduced for the first time on the Caravan Salon in Düsseldorf: […]
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August 2006
The “mbrace” is a rescue vehicle that can be used as a mobilisation aid for major natural disasters, especially earthquakes. […]
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April 2006
For the NMA company (Nederlandse Machinefabriek Alkmaar), Spark worked together with Niema […]
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March 2006
At our stand A116 in hall 1, a number of new exciting innovations are at display. […]
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Spark design & innovation is developing an innovative concept for a new generation scoot vehicles […]
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December 2005
Zowel de Sunshower als de luxe reiskoffer HENK zijn te bezichtigen op de Miljonair Fair in de RAI Amsterdam […]
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October 2005
Between 24 October and the end of November, Jetix 3D Jungle Cards can be collected at Super de Boer supermarkets. They can be viewed with the 3D viewer that was designed by Spark. […]
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Commercial director Eric Blomsma from Carver Europe GmbH said Wednesday that serial production will start in three weeks in a factory close to Strasbourg. […]
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From 700 entries both HENK and ClearView+ have been inclused in the 10 selected products in the category ‘Consumer products’ of the Dutch Design Awards 2005. […]
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August 2005
It obtained the International STAR DIAMOND AWARD, a prestigious emblem of achievement and true quality. […]
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June 2005
The DPU 31 PC Personal Power® Duo pump was developed together with Holmatro, to meet the wish of a light and quiet duo pump. It can power two hydraulic rescue tools simultaneously. […]
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March 2005
The Optelec ClearView+ is an electronic video magnifier system for the visually impaired. It can be used for magnifying (up to 40x) […]
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November 2004
Ir. Robert Barnhoorn and ir. Maarten Wilming, the two managing partners of Spark, have been interviewed […]
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October 2004
The PAL-V - a new vehicle to lead a revolution in personal transportation. […]
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September 2004
For more information see www.henk.com. […]
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May 2004
The Orinoco product line, developed by Spark for Proxim, has recently been extended with the addition of the new Range Extender Antenna. […]
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April 2004
As of 19 April, hundreds of thousands of Dutch children will have over one million Fox Kids TV-Cards to collect. They’ll all want a viewer, available free at Super de Boer supermarkets, to look at their TV-Cards. […]
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March 2004
The Ort-O-Mate is the first motorised aid for the removal of elastic support stockings. Recently nominated for Best Product 2003 by NRC Handelsblad […]
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February 2004
An innovation in wireless networks: the AP600. This single-radio […]
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January 2004
Medical innovations and more at Spark design & innovation's exibit at ESEF 2004 […]
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The latest Unilever Bestfoods Cup-a-Soup dispenser was designed and developed by Spark. This new automatic vending machine for soup has several improvements on its predecessor. […]
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