And the new European design firm crush goes to… Toko. Okay so they’re in Sydney at the moment but Toko was founded in Rotterdam in 2008 and is powered by Dutch designers Eva Dijkstra and Michael Lugmayr. There’s a line on their site stressing the importance of experimentation and collaboration in their creative process. As designers I think we can get locked into production mode a little too early on in the creative process but the projects I’ve had the most fun working on AND the ones which turned out the best were project on which I allowed myself to try a lot of different directions and approaches, AND the one’s I was able to work with other’s on.