Items Dutch Design Graduates 2011 is the pilot digital issue of Dutch design magazine Items. In collaboration with LUSTlab, Items presents the first app version of its annual Dutch design graduates issue. Items Dutch Design Graduates 2011 features 45 graduation projects from a dozen design schools in the Netherlands and Flanders, with personal views on this year's crop of young and talented designers by three seasoned design experts. Plus two essays on the state of affairs and future of Dutch design education.Items magazine, the Dutch view on design, was first published in 1982 as a bi-monthly magazine and has been the leading Dutch design journal ever since. Covering all design disciplines and focusing on the interactions between Dutch design and global design discourses, this pilot issue is Items' first international publication. Stay tuned for future editions!Founded in 2010, LUSTlab is the media and technology research laboratory of the design studio LUST in The Hague. LUSTlab researches, generates hypotheses and makes unstable media stable again. The outcomes vary from (strategic) visions to new communication tools, man-machine installations and physical products using digital content.