The greatest thing about being Dolly Rogers is that we get to work with super nice and extremely talented people, who are our friends. I’d like to introduce you to the talented young Victor De Bie.

He asked us for a website with a cms to showcase his plethora of artworks and accessories, together with his commercial styling work. We’ve just launched www.victordebie.com.  Designed by us fine folks here at Dolly Rogers and masterfully built by Erik Escoffier.

Spot Store is a funky new shop and gallery space in de negen straatjes run by really nice people, Tim and Niels.

With a fresh approach of working together with local artists, they present a whole range of design toys, prints, etchings, chairs, crabs, custom sneakers, laptop sleeves and canvases. As well as their own Spot tee’s with original prints, plus labels such as Ontour, Bench and more.

We’re super excited that they asked to showcase our Zaishu chairs from the Amsterdam project, which are now exclusively available here.

Friendly prices and great art. Drop by and see for yourself.

We’ll do anything for a laugh…and also for charity. So when the guys at Partizan Publik asked us to help them out with putting together some ‘Mo’ footage for the Movember gala event, we jumped at the chance.

We had so much fun that we even extended our literary skills to writing subtitles for the famous Hitler Downfall clip as a teaser for the Movember gala fundraiser. Check it out on YouTube.

For those of you not in the know… Movember (formerly known as November) is the month where men around the world stop shaving and grow their Mo’s to raise money for the battle against prostate cancer.

Movember is an Aussie initiative started by some mates of ours back in 2003 while having a beer in a small bar in Melbourne. In its first year, 30 Mo Bros took part in Movember and last year, across the globe more than 173,000 Mo Bro & Sistas got on board, raising more than €16 million.

Here at Dolly Rogers HQ we recently hosted the first live Powerpoint Karaoke event ever to take place in Europe (that we know of).

We opened our Amsterdam studio for a day to second year graphic design students from Falmouth University, UK. This was not another one of those yawnable events where students sat back and listened to professionals waffle on about their own great knowledge.

No siree. Our unsuspecting guests were posed the challenge to give a 2-minute presentation on slides that they’d never seen before. These rotated without regard for the participants, and they had to give it their all-creative-best to come up with a coherent story AND relate it back to a given theme.

With strict judging criteria such as mileage gained, interpretive dance, karma sutra and wank-o-vation, this was one of the greatest education by immersion experiences… otherwise known as baptism by fire! Check out more photos here.

I love the cultural cosmos that is Amsterdam. For Museum Nacht this year I was invited to a special pre-screening of the program being shown at Artis Planetarium - a digitally animated alternative music show called SonicVision.

I can only describe it as sliding into a warm bath and submerging yourself into the silent coma of underwater-worldness… then to be suddenly wrenched out and thrust into the triple dipper rock n’ roller coaster ride at the local kermis. Finally, when the seat belts have been released you stubble out of the theatre to realise you’ve just been on a melding of all the thrill rides … sizzler twist, gravitron, bouncy castle, screaming swing, topple tower, megadrop free fall, super looper, top spin and house of mirrors. Thank you MN8!