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Dutch Design Awards

🏆 | Celebrating how designers continue to chart the way forward. Emerging Talent Award 2025: 15 nominees leading the field into the future

01/11/2025

🧡🪽 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. . .
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📸 1 Willem de Haan. 3-4 Latest Version/Motor Home

31/10/2025

🧡🪽 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.

🏆 challenges our surrender to technology in a time when it advances faster than we can comprehend.
“Van der Burg highlights what AI reveals about our own self-reflection — reminding us not to let the digital world define who we are,”
says the jury, chaired by , with .

🧡 Each winner — including Plasticiet and Willem de Haan — 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. . .
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📸 Portrait by Esther van der Heijden. Objective Portrait. From text-to-clay.

30/10/2025

🧡🪽 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.

🏆 takes something many in the field explore — and raises the bar. “They truly create something precious from recycled sources. As material innovation, it has enormous creative and commercial potential,” says the jury, chaired by , with .

🧡 Each winner — including Vera van der Burg and Willem de Haan — pushes both their own limits and those of design, showing remarkable versatility and continued vision.

🏆 The Emerging Talent Award is made possible by , a longstanding partner championing young design talent.
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📸 1 Marten & Joost — credit: Jos Kottman | 3–4 Pim Top

19/10/2025

Willem de Haan, Vera van der Burg, and Plasticiet are the Dutch Design Awards: Emerging Talent 2025 winners! 🏆
Last night, the awards were presented during the celebratory DDA Award Night, honouring a wide scope of nominees: 15 critical voices with enormous promise for the field. The Emerging Talent Award proudly places them side by side as a cohort of forerunners shaping the future of design.

“Among an outstanding group of nominees, these three winners stand out in their fields,” says Borre Akkersdijk, founder of BYBORRE®️ and chair of the jury. “Each brings versatility and pushes both their own limits and those of design. They’re makers who keep challenging themselves to create remarkable work, and there’s no doubt they’ll continue to surprise us.”

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📸 Almichael Fraay

17/10/2025

🧡🪽 is a Dutch artist whose sculptural interventions reframe public spaces through uncanny props and scenarios. By inserting artificial elements into familiar settings, he humorously exposes the fragility of social systems, memory, and collective imagination.

De Haan’s work merges humour and critique with a strong sense of storytelling—balancing sweetness, irony, and deep reflection with powerful ex*****on. Through the range of his work, he plays with historic and future narratives, building on them critically. His practice reveals how humour can act as a disarming yet potent language for addressing pressing issues such as climate change and cultural identity.

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1 Motor Home
2 Portrait by Esther van der Heijden
3 Latest Version

17/10/2025

🧡🪽 is a designer and researcher exploring AI as a tool for self-reflection and creative inquiry. Her work interrogates subjectivity, emotion, and the possibility of slow, intimate modes of machine learning.

Merging design, philosophy, and anthropology, van der Burg uses AI to question what technology means for human experience—turning design into a mirror for introspection. A PhD candidate at TU Delft’s Designing Intelligence Lab, her practice is both personal and universal, using design to tell stories about technology, self-exploration, and their potential to shape the world we live in for the better.

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1 Objective Portrait
2 Portrait by Esther van der Heijden
3 From text-to-clay

17/10/2025

🧡🪽 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

16/10/2025

🧡🪽 With , Eva Oosterlaken & Finn Strivens imagine equitable futures together with organisations and communities. They create participatory tools and design experiences that empower citizens, using collective imagination to navigate complex systems. Working from Rotterdam and London expands their possibilities by connecting with diverse communities.

Their studio takes a strong social approach, weaving systems thinking and storytelling into experimental scenarios that explore community agency and change in playful yet actionable ways. Representing a generation focused on empowerment, they carry the voices of the communities they work with empathy—translating inspiration into actual change.

📸 Werkplaats 2040 in Dutch Design Week 2024 . A speculative exhibition commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, exploring future work scenarios and citizen agency, and how policymakers consult citizens on workers’ rights.
Photo by Puck Kroon. SZW+komovō+futurall_
2 (Studio Futurall) photographed by Cleo Goossens
3. Fenland Futures, using medieval manuscripts of museum collections help communities reimagine their relationship with climate change and envision more resilient futures
photography by Dan Weill Photography.

16/10/2025

🧡🪽 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

16/10/2025

🧡🪽 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

15/10/2025

🧡🪽 is a sonic and visual artist exploring artificiality, distortion, and altered perception through sound, light, and material interplay. His kinetic installations oscillate between calm and unease, creating encounters with elemental presences through movement, water, and reflection.

His practice probes the shifting nature of perception—concealed in systems that appear simple but reveal meticulous craft and complexity. By blurring the boundaries between physical and digital experience, Simonis redefines how we perceive space, rhythm, and sensory depth.

Simonis represents a new generation of designers translating material experimentation into poetic experience, expanding the scope of Dutch design toward the intangible and the sensory with great ex*****on.

🏆 The award will be presented Saturday 18 October during —supported by , a longstanding partner in championing young talent.

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1. To Water is to Be
2 Nanno Simonis by Studio DBLY
3 LCD Gateaway

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