Summary: Over the last decade, from the dusk of the old millenium to the dawn of the new one, Amsterdam-based design collection Machine has added a significant new chapter to the already rich heritage of innovative design originating from The Netherlands. Before electronic music, live video projection, instant global reach and interactive means entered mainstream, they were the first generation of designers to fully adopt and adapt to this different reality and blast a trail in their own destinctly idiosyncratic way. Fuelled by earlier teenage exploits into graffiti and comics, then traditionally trained in graphic design at the Rietveld Academy, the discipline in their hands, heart and mind knows no boundaries and effortlessly crosses over from the printed page to motion, wound and art installation, from the handdrawn letter to the steaming nightclub with thousands of ecstatic bodies.