Tip 5 — week 23, 2025
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These are some of the most interesting and beautiful things that we talked about at our studio this week. We show you the stuff that we have come across on instagram, the web or in real life and that inspires and excites us. And yes, sometimes we mingle in our own projects. We enjoy sharing it with our friends, colleagues and anyone interested. Below this week’s 5 tips, here our collected overview.
1: Pit Painting
Look again. These aren’t photographs, oh no. They’re photo-realistic paintings crafted by the deft hand of Dan Witz. Born in Chicago and exhibiting for over two decades, Witz has honed his hyper-detailed style down to something that’s got to be part art, part science. Plus, we bet he’s a bit of a legend at gigs, the one who suspends himself trapeze-style above a writhing crowd, palette and paintbrush in hand.
2: Not Really Frizbees
Frizbee Ceramics is an artist-run brand based in They offers a high-end handcrafted limited edition porcelain tableware collection. The brand's cups, bowls, plates and planters often include nostalgic visuals like aliens and distorted smileys. With ‘limited edition’ we mean they’ve all but sold out there previous stock. The next drop is in less then 5 days!
3: Mocking Chair
On the last edition of Dutch Design Week, Willem Zwiers presented a lumpy rocking chair made from colourful ceramic tubes extruded with an old meat grinder. Zwiers milled metal strips into the feet of the chair, allowing it to rock back and forth. He abtly named it the ‘Mocking Chair’
4: Rocksolid
Up until now, industrial society has aimed to treat nature efficiently by transforming it into standardized forms. However, now that digital technology has developed sufficiently, it is no longer impossible to handle irregular items as they are. Shinko Geisha‘s ‘Nosemono’ is a series of tape holders in which river stones are 3D-scanned and artificial objects are added to them so that they become parasitic on the surface.
5: Where do you want me?
Jan der Burg van Dirk? Jan Dirk van der Burg? One of our favourite Dutch photographers, released a book called ‘Waar wil je me hebben?’ (’Where do you want me?’). The sum of 160 striking portraits forms an entirely new work of art—uplifting photography at its finest. A book that makes you feel excited about life. Order it here.