Dutch Design Awards

🧡🪽 Among fifteen outstanding nominees brought together under the Emerging Talent Award as this year’s class of forerunners, three winners received the Emerging Talent x Keep an Eye Foundation Grant and a tailored Talent Development Programme.

🏆 shows extraordinary range and the ability to communicate his ideas both effectively and disarmingly.
“De Haan carries on brilliantly the tradition associated with Dutch design — characterised by a strong artistic vision, and ideas that are critical and humorous, coming together through great craft,”
says the jury, chaired by , with .🧡 Each winner — including Vera van der Burg and Plasticiet — pushes both their own limits and those of design, showing remarkable versatility and sustained vision.

🏆 The Emerging Talent Award is made possible by , a longstanding partner championing young design talent. . .
♦️ Dutch Design Awards 2025
📸 1 Willem de Haan. 3-4 Latest Version/Motor Home

🧡🪽 bridges craftsmanship and industrial technique, transforming everyday materials into surreal, narrative objects. Innovating through research on materials and production methods, he achieves results that make one wonder what’s really going on. By clashing the precise logic of engineering and production with curiosity, popular culture, and craft, his objects become gateways to material and immaterial futures.

The Rotterdam-based artist-designer exists outside conventional design categories. Both measured and highly experimental, he draws from functionality, abstraction, industry, craft, and culture. Under his hand, materials undergo metamorphosis—challenging expectations and transforming in unexpected, expressive ways.

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1 Chandelier, Photo by Emilie Vialet 2023
2 Fountain of Knowledge
3 Video Fluid Dynamics ©Alex Todirică

🧡🪽 is a designer who engages in deep dialogue with material. A former furniture-maker in Japan, he blends craftsmanship and modern design principles with precision, exploring wood grain, texture, and unpolished surfaces in collectible furniture.

Craftsmanship is something to cherish. In a design scene driven by constant innovation, Ota stands apart for his profound material understanding—carving volumes and textures to reveal the natural knots within. His craftsmanship slows time while keeping a keen eye on the future, offering an approach to design that feels both traditional and timelessly new.

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1 Surfaced, photo by Mitsuo Suma
2 Sho-Ota by Yuta Sawamura
3 Surfaced, photo by Piercarlo Quecchia. Project with Agglomerat

🧡🪽 is a Dutch design and material brand that bridges material innovation and circular design, reimagining waste as durable, expressive, and valuable matter for interiors and architecture. Founded by Marten van Middelkoop and Joost Dingemans, they transform plastic waste into solid surface materials, furniture, and artistic objects with strong sensorial qualities.

Their recycled surface boards—marble-like, resin-like, and richly textured—are handcrafted to a level that demonstrates waste’s potential as a high-end design material. Through painstaking trial and error, Plasticiet achieves consistency and quality that set them apart, creating something precious from recycled sources—materials sought after by legacy brands for far more than sustainability claims.

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1 Plasticiet’s Mother of Pearl material, Picture by Pim Top.
2 Marten and Joost, credit Jos Kottman
3. Plasticiet Karlite material (object), by Pim Top