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Julie Van Oyen
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Senior product designer ➡️ archive + museum collections on Europeana.eu
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En route to Newcastle for #XDW

Gregg's ain't ready 🫓🫓🫓

#XDesignWeek
Looking down at a blue suitcase at the train station
June 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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🏰 How's this for an event venue?

The CREA Cultura festival in Foligno, Italy is a multi-day event of workshops and performances exploring themes of digital creativity and prototyping in education.

Catch me at my DesignLab workshop tmrw in one of these epic rooms 🫠
A group of adults and teens in a circle of chairs conducting a musical workshop, in a large room with frescoed vaulted ceilings and gold accents. An up close photo of a white statue of a young man with curly hair, slightly smiling. The entrance to the CREA Cultura festival, which is a large wooden door under a stone balcony; a CREA Cultura flag sits next to the door.
May 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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A glorious moment walking past The Depot on my way to @nieuweinstituut.nl for some usability testing today ✨

#thedepot #nieuweinstituut #rotterdam #museum #designsky
The Depot, a mirrored bowl-shaped building reflecting Rotterdam's skyline, in front of a bright blue sunny sky
April 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Look at these beauties! A set of zines created by photography students at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague 📸

The students used their own photographs next to archival images from Europeana's collections 😍

Chuffed to be part of such a great project ☺️

#zines #photoarchive #artschool #designsky
A collection of zines containing black and white images, riso prints, decorative text and paper of various colours and textures.
March 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Type and graphics to drool over - even in the 15th century, book designers knew what was up 🌞

Unten: Theorica eclipsis solaris. by Locatello, Boneto (Drucker)
Herzog August Library, Germany
CC BY-SA

#designsky #bookdesign #astronomy #cosmography
The page of a book from 1490, with a block of latin text running down the left side, and two large images of the sun's and moon's orbits with orange and yellow spheres on the right
March 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The days are getting longer and it's making me think of Målning's light-filled canvases 🐚☁️🦪

Målning
Blekinge Museum, Sweden
CC BY-NC

#painting #culturalheritage #malning #swedishart #seascape #landscape
A painting on canvas with a stone wall and leafy tree in the foreground, a grassy field and white building in the midground, and a cloudy sky behind. A small boat with multiple people inside, on a moody sea in front of a light-filled but cloudy sky. Other boats behind.
March 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Highly recommend a foggy morning run along the Schie river whilst listening to the Rushmore soundtrack ☁️🏃🏼‍♀️🎶
A photo of a river with green grassy banks and leafless trees alongside it, and a foggy grey sky above
February 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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A lush day at the European Ceramic Work Centre's open studios - visiting old friends and making new ones 🫖🏺🧱🪨

#designsky #ceramicdesign #ceramics
A brick and plaster wall with two white ceramic cloud sculptures mounted on it. Multiple wooden crates supporting various pieces of a dark grey tea set. A geometric grey and white ceramic sculpture featuring intersecting ridges and corners. Multiple multicoloured ceramic cylinders of varying heights standing on a concrete floor.
January 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Bring back hand painted signs 📣

#designsky #handpaintedsign #vintagesign
Photo depicting a brown and red brick building with a hand painted sign on its side. The sign looks like a long white scroll with the Dutch words "Glas, porselein, aardewerk" written across in uppercase letters.
January 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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You cute, Deventer 👀💖
Photo depicting an A-frame red brick house with red shutters in Deventer, Netherlands. Photo depicting an old-fashioned red mailbox in Deventer, Netherlands. Photo depicting a narrow, cobbled street framed with red brick and white plaster buildings in Deventer, Netherlands.
January 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Loving the graphics on these old Olivetti Lettera 22 ads 😍

Giovanni Pintori, 1954
from the collections of Internet Culturale, Italy (CC BY-NC-SA).
www.europeana.eu/item/446/CAI...

#designsky #culturalheritage #olivettilettera #vintagead #typewriter
A vintage typewriter print ad depicting a photo of a typewriter and colourful graphics containing dots and lines. A vintage typewriter print ad depicting a photo of a typewriter and colourful graphics containing abstract shapes and serif letters. A vintage typewriter print ad depicting a photo of a typewriter and colourful graphics containing dots and lines.
January 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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In Delft, we call it #BlauwSky 🦋

@bsky.app #bluesky #delftblauw #delftblue #ceramic #tile #netherlands #dutch #culturalheritage
A hand holds up a white ceramic tile with a blue butterfly painted on it in the Delft Blauw style. In the background are beautiful tulips vases in blue, white, gold, and other colours.
December 9, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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Do u even lift??

Stans starkaste karl.
Juni 1956. by Örebro Kuriren - Örebro County Museum, Sweden - Public Domain.
www.europeana.eu/item/916121/...

#vintagephoto #photoarchive #culturalheritage #lifting
A black and white photo showing a man in a suit deadlifting a very large set of weights.
December 5, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Today's cool old photo of the day, from our collections:

Fotografi - by Bellander, Olof (1904-1959) - Malmö Museum, Sweden - CC BY.
www.europeana.eu/item/91672/M...
A black and white photo of a man laying on his back on a desk, holding a chair in his teeth as a stunt.
December 4, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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Today's COPOTD (cool old photo of the day):

Motorcykeluppvisning på spång av bräder av pansarelever vid Arméns underofficersskola (Försvarets läroverk) i Uppsala 1949. by Okänd - Army Museum, Sweden - Public Domain.
www.europeana.eu/item/91616/a...

#photoarchive #culturalheritage #vintagephoto
December 3, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Speaking of #culturalheritage, check out the old newspaper plastered to the walls of the log cabin my parents are renovating 🤯
December 1, 2024 at 12:19 PM