Rotterdam & Breda - The Netherlands

It just happened that while we were in The Netherlands there was a graphic design festival in a town called Breda, about 2 hours away.  So we decided to do a little trip to Breda and stop in Rotterdam on the way.

Rotterdam

Rotterdam was really cool because of the totally unique architecture, and it was on the water, which always makes a city cooler in my opinion.  I actually went online and searched for what to do in Rotterdam, I found a little itinerary for how to spend your day there and we followed it exactly, down to what transportation to take and what to eat.  Rotterdam felt less European and more modern then the other places we've been.

We paid to go up the Euromast, so we could see the whole city.

In the metro:

Utah!  Apparently this is the direction Utah is located.

Cool cars:

Park:


Cool Sculptures:

Breda Graphic Design Festival

Going to the design festival was somewhat of a bust.  The main exhibit we wanted to see was a paper exhibit by one of Seth's favorite designers at the time, Hattie Newman who does a lot of really cool paper exhibits.  I looked at a lot of her stuff when doing my BFA.  We ended up getting out too late, spending too long at the Graphic Design museum, and on top of that we got lost.  So, we only saw a few exhibits, and Hattie's was not one of them unfortunately.  But the Graphic Design museum was really neat.  Especially the kids section.

Breda:

Kids section of the museum:

Seth loved this exhibit at the festival, you could change the type around on this program someone created.


Back on the train to back to Amsterdam. This was on the train next to us, apparently you can't smoke or talk on this train.