A couple of years ago I started collecting Dutch Design online. After a few months, I decided to share my collection on Instagram. Creating a stage for Dutch Design including my own work on my account @wisse_design.
Over time I learned how to increase my reach and how to speed up the growth of my account with targetted followers.
In a masterclass, I share the experience I gained; insights on how to grow faster and reach a better audience.
Stracciatella Big Bowl, from the Telluride project by Design Academy Eindhoven alumni Francesco Pace.
“This project, ‘’Telluride’’, presents the first results of a specific material research that looks into the possibilities of using volcanic rocks as a combined element with porcelain clay and high-firing glazing. During the firing, the lava melts breaking the porcelain structure and creating an organic and unexpected texture. The two structures components bond together and the material result is solid and with a high resistance to impacts.
The Lava was gathered on the hills of the Phlegrean Fields, in the North of Naples. South Italy. “Telluride” is an on-going project, that continues with the creation of a full range of design objects of different size and function.” www.tellurico.com
Picture by Op-Fot
Tralucid bench in yellow cherry by Laurids Gallée and a Quelle Fête Mini by Rotganzen. Design from Rotterdam at the Paris apartment by Romain and Adrien.
Picture by Romain L.
My Circular wall lamp in Rhinestone White, a beautiful sheet material made by Plasticiet from Dutch post-production cutoffs and Belgian household waste. On the left, a painting by Gillis van Oosten from gallery Oode in Amsterdam.
Recycled materials are giving the wall lamp its elegant appearance. I selected sustainable acrylics and sheet material made from recycled plastics to show the beauty of recycled materials. The discs are combined with LED filament glass light tubes. Discover more via the link in bio.
Trending Terrazzo. A sustainable solution to deal with the huge amount of glass waste on Zanzibar caused by their many tourists.
“Zanzibar is an island with about 1 million inhabitants. In recent times, tourism has grown markedly and so too the volume of refuse. bottle-up seeks a solution to this issue.
Glass is not currently collected on Zanzibar because there is no economic value to it. The challenge posed by bottle-up to four design studios, OS/OOS, StoneCycling, Klaas Kuiken en Super Local, is to find a sustainable use for this glass. Products that demonstrate how the status of refuse can be transformed into a resource.
Trending Terrazzo is ideal for producing sustainable furniture, made in Zanzibar. The first test products were formed using unusual 'moulds' found on the island. So a metal wok became the basis for a little table and a piece of corrugated iron served as a mould for a table leg.
Most furniture for hotels in Zanzibar is currently imported from foreign countries and is often made of wood, which means it can be badly affected by the weather conditions on the island. Furniture made from Trending Terrazzo is much more sustainable, beautiful to look at, and generates awareness for bottle-up.” www.klaaskuiken.nl
Picture via Klaas Kuiken
Keystone chair by Os & Oos for Please Wait to be Seated.
“The keystone holds the arch, one of the oldest and strongest and of all architectural forms. The KEYSTONE lounge chair comprises three autonomous yet symbiotic elements: a concrete back that buttresses the spine, a gently curved ceramic arch for your sit-bone, and the wedge-shaped rubber voussoir that supports and completes the arch.
The chair was originally a 450-kilo sculpture, exhibited at a Milanese art gallery in 2014. Thomas Ibsen from PLEASE WAIT to be SEATED approached its Dutch designers, OS & OOS, and said, “Why not get this down to 30 kilos and upholster it? Turn it into a comfortable and practical piece of furniture?”
He then teamed up with Kvadrat to use their exclusive Raf Simons design collection. The chair has since become a collectors’ item, sold to galleries and contemporary art showrooms across the globe. A word of warning, though: it’s not just sit-bone friendly; kids love clambering all over it. So the chair gets our one-off label: PWTBSBTOYSFK (Please Wait to be Seated But Take Off Your Shoes First, Kids).” www.pleasewaittobeseated.com
Picture via Please Wait to be Seated
The Big Bubble coloured edition, colourful mouth blown pendants by Alex de Witte
“The Big Bubble has already become the icon in Alex’s oeuvre, since he first launched it in 2013. These light objects are all unique as they are mouth blown in the Czech Republic, always under Alex’s watchful eye. Alex is pushing the glass blowers to twist their skills further every time again, up until the very moment in which the Bubbles almost collapse. This requires a tremendous control of craftsmanship. All Big Bubbles are unique and are initially available in three categories: small, medium and large. The dimensions range from appr. 40 to 110 cm.” www.alexdewitte.nl
Picture via Alex de Witte
Checkered deck chair by Lex Pott. Woven straps prototype.
“The weaving technique used to create the chair also led the design. Instead of forcing the material into a form in which it doesn't naturally go the design was derived from the possibilities that the material presented. The color variations emphasize the technique and different elements that were used to weave the objects. The result is a pure but vivid design” www.lexpott.nl
Picture via Lex Pott
Dot Trays by David Derksen.
“The Dot Trays are made out of solid blocks of ash wood with just one circular or oval shaped cavity in a bright colour. The coated cavity forms a strong contrast with the untreated wood, giving them a very graphic appearance.” www.davidderksen.com
Picture via David Derksen
Dutch designer Mianne de Vries is doing research on a new layered production technique using twelve colored layers of porcelain. The porcelain is casted in gradient, the pots are hand turned and the plates are carved with a knife to create depth and reveal the colored layers.
Pictures by Mianne de Vries
The Bobo side table by Ronald Knol
“The BoBo Side Table does not follow the conventional rules… It is cuddly, handy and a little bit perky. In short, the BoBo is a piece of furniture with a distinct character, exactly the way I like to design them.
The idea for this occasional table was inspired by the African Baobab tree. This tree with its wide trunk and fragile branches defies all laws of correct proportions, which makes it one of a kind in nature.
The BoBo is expressing the same. Perky and unique. Is it a side table anyway? It sure is handy though, since the 3 plateaus offer room for cups, mobile phone, iPad, remote control or even an old school book…” www.rknl.com
Picture via RKNL
Lizzy Stuyfzand combined textiles, technology, and interior product design in her Royal College of Art graduation project Needleworks; smart interfaces using the tactile qualities of upholstery fabrics and industrial stitch. From the 16th of July, you can discover more about Lizzy’s work and the work of other graduates at the Royal College of Art’s online graduate show.
“Embroidery is not usually what we think about when we consider smart devices. Yet, many of the actions that we find ourselves doing, touching a screen, or pressing a button, use similar manual dexterity and techniques that can be found in embroidery culture. Pattern making, linking, threading, stitching [swiping], spinning [scrolling], trimming [tapping], and so on. Looking at the industrial norms and aesthetic of today’s smart devices, most products fail to expand beyond our audio or visual senses. We have become blind in relationship to our embodied understandings, smart systems often forget about the tangible matters that have the potential to enrich our day to day lives.
Needleworks introduces a technology of conductive embroidery for smart interfaces using the tactile qualities of upholstery fabrics and industrial stitch.
LUMI & SANA represent a pair of embodied tactile interfaces using the needleworks technique, proposing a new way of interaction with our smart systems to enhance our physical relationship. The fabrics and the realisation of this project are provided by Vescom.” www.lizzystuyfzand.com
Cinematography & photography by Sigi van ‘t Schip
Studio Willemiek designed this tapestry for Fair Fabrics during a design project made possible by The Boudless Edit initiative.
“This The Boundless Edit initiative has realized an incredible creative collaboration that allowes to showcase the talented artisan women working hard to support their families and community. Through this project Fair Fabrics could start a collaboration with the Dutch designer Willemiek van Kuijlenborg. Together with the incredible talented Fair Fabrics artisans from the various cooperatives in the Atlas Mountains we could actually working and designing together from the start.” www.fairfabrics.nl
Picture via Fair Fabrics
