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Tech From Here: NL · Dutch Design Week 2026

The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.

The workThe HAMZA Guitar by Caro Repr, designed and built during an internship at Overload Guitars in Rome (supervised by Overload luthier Matteo Dondi; pickups by Diego Tomelleri, Gorilla Pickups), shown in The Purple Show at Burgers (E39). Dutch Design Week 2026 ddw.nl

Other sources

  1. Overload Guitars on Instagram (@overloadguitars) instagram.com
  2. The Purple Show, website thepurpleshow.eu
  3. OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e, §11.5 Muscles of the Pectoral Girdle and Upper Limbs openstax.org
  4. Dutch Design Week venue: Burgers (Stichting Hertogstaat) ddw.nl
  5. Equipboard, Overload Guitars equipboard.com
  6. The hamza guitar (ddw.nl) ddw.nl
  7. 5611 pb (postcode.site) postcode.site
  8. hertogstaat.nl/geschiedenis.php hertogstaat.nl
  9. hertogstaat.nl/bewoners.php hertogstaat.nl
  10. hertogstaat.nl/werkplaatsen.php hertogstaat.nl
  11. hertogstaat.nl/programma.php hertogstaat.nl
  12. also site.ddw.nl
  13. guitar-list.com/node/40048 guitar-list.com

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
Close view of a black guitar fretboard with an ornate tile-style inlay and frets of uneven length and spacingPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 2
Close view of a red flame-figured guitar top with a gold star-like geometric inlay below the bridge and pickupPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 3
Caro Repr laughs while holding up the red HAMZA Guitar, fingers pressed on the dark fretboard with its tile-style inlayPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 4
Caro Repr, in a checkered crochet vest, plays the red HAMZA Guitar in a garden, looking down at the neckPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 5
Caro Repr, seated at a wooden garden table under a tree, holds the red guitar upright and laughsPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 6
Caro Repr holds up the guitar's green back, with a red stripe and a large painted eye, in front of their facePhoto: RN Collins
Slide 7
Code-drawn diagram of a right hand seen from the palm, thumb on the viewer's left, with the small intrinsic hand muscles highlighted in orange: the thenar group at the base of the thumb, the hypothenar group on the little-finger side, and the slender lumbricals, with the interossei marked deeper between the bonesImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 11.5, Muscles of the Pectoral Girdle and Upper Limbs (Figure 11.28 and Table 11.9, Intrinsic Muscles of the Hand)Museum or journal record
Slide 8
A courtyard door frame covered in stickers, holding a Dutch Design Week poster in pink and orange, at BurgersPhoto: RN Collins
Ring frame
Street organ 't Pareltje (G. Perlee), Kijk en Luistermuseum, BennekomFrame: Alf van Beem, PD, croppedMuseum or journal record
Quotes and video
Caro Repr's words quoted in this post, from RN's interview with them at BurgersRN's own footage, 17 Oct 2026, Burgers (The Purple Show), Eindhoven

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