Brilliant Eindhoven is the latest photobook by Norbert van Onna. It includes essays by Tijs van den Boomen.
Eindhoven is the innovative hub of the Netherlands, its capital for research and development. In order to carry out its role as brainport, the city had always sought outside specialists - glassblowers from Czechia in the early twentieth century, top Chinese talent today.
Norbert van Onna captures Eindhoven just as its last factory is leaving town and assembly lines have given way to laptops and flexible workplaces.
In five essays, journalist Tijs van den Boomen shows how the city is shedding its industrial angularity, and he wonders whether Eindhoven might be starting to look too much like a campus.
Eindhoven Hoofdstad/Brilliant Eindhoven Text: Tijs van den Boomen 224 pages full-colour 31 cm x 24 cm 2008 75,- Euro
