CRISP Platform is a cooperation between researchers and designers from a variety of companies and educational institutes in the creative field. Eight innovative projects extend the scope of design to Product Service Systems. Designers learn about research and how it can be applied, researchers learn about design practice and how to align their research with industry objectives. CRISP is an excellent example of how science, the creative industry, and companies can work together to achieve meaningful innovation.

 

Taken By Storm designed all five issues of CRISP magazine. The final extra-packed edition features four years’ worth of results but also reflects critically on their value for the future: what works, what doesn’t, what requires more study and how can methodologies be applied in practice? The warm response from government, industry and the creative sector fuelled the prolongation of the individual projects: CRISP is done, the creative industry has just begun.

Color bursts right off the cover: we wrapped up the series with a (literal) bang, a simultaneous start signal for the next stretch. The photo was made in close collaboration with Rutger Prins. He shot the explosion  of pigment powder with high speed flash photography.

 

CRISP Magazine brings the insights of the projects into a tangible product, to stimulate over 200 project members during the CRISP initiative. We co-created the magazine with the editorial team, working side by side to untangle complex information into a legible, natural flow. Two layers of information are coded with distinctive colors, and projects cross-references help to find similar stories.