Almost two decades later, we’re still here. Still living (recently as a family of three), still working, and glad that we stayed long enough to see how much the city pulses with life. Since starting our studio From Form in 2012, we’ve had the chance to meet countless talented designers, artists, illustrators, and filmmakers. With many of them we share the same obsession over colour. And some even bring colour quite literally to the city, through bags, murals, sculptures, or spatial designs.
Colour has always played a central role in our own projects, too. People often ask how we put our palettes together. The truth is, there’s no rigid formula. No Pantone swatches neatly laid out, no PDFs with strict schemes. It’s an intuitive process – testing, tweaking, resetting. Playing it by eye rather than by rule. We imagine it’s the same for the following artists and designers: they seem to combine colours as if it were second nature. And perhaps that’s the most Rotterdam thing about it: here, colour isn’t ornamental, it’s instinctive.