Tip 10 the ultimate holiday edition
— week 29, 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 10 tips to get you through Summer, here our collected overview.
1: Wake up – Hit REC •
Dream Recorder is a magical bedside device that catches your nightly visions and plays them back as vivid, cinematic reels. No idea how this works, but just dreaming that it would is nice. Anyway, cool project by Modem. Download the open-source code, gather the off-the-shelf hardware components, 3D print the shell, and assemble everything. No soldering required. Sweet dreams!
2: Raw Losers
Back in 2008 the movie + exhibition + platform Beautiful Losers brought together the best creatives in design, street art, moviemaking, music and skating. The documentary is a beautiful time capsule of big names on the brink of making it in their field. We stumbled upon the collected raw footage of all their interviews. Among others: Mike Mills, Ian MacKaye, Barry McGee, Geoff McFetridge and Tony Hawk.
3: League #8
We have been running our football scarf-brand The League Extraordinaire since 2015 and this Fall we present our new collection for 2025-2026. The list of absolute superstars gets even better with four of our favorite powerhouses: Sainer (PL), Rapapawn (SP), 108 (IT) and Antigoon (NL).
4: That’s Wright
David Romero creates 3D renders of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that were never built. Throughout his career, Wright designed a whopping 1,114 structures of all kinds — bridges, skyscrapers, banks, churches, car dealerships, social housing, and more — 532 of which came to fruition (!!).
5: Pattern woman
Evelina Kroon has a wonderful sense of color and patterns with an unmistakable 70s vibe.
6: 300 Percenter
Markies is a legendary dreamy futuristic design by Dutch architect Böhtlingk that after 37 years finally seems to come to fruition! Check out the Klokhuisfilm about the design (in Dutch)
7: Favorite Auntie
When we visited the OFFF Festival in Barcelona last May, we were smitten by the charming artist Nice Aunties. Her project by the same name puts AI to such awesome, funny and heart-warming good use, it put an instant smile on our faces. The Auntieverse is a world built and ruled by aunties, filled with everything aunties love.
8: Weaving woman
Estelle Bourdet weaves the most glorious, intricate, hardcore, interesting textiles. This is the kind of art we want on our walls.
9: Koma Chroma
Koma Elektronik created the Chromaplane which, on first view, looks quite dull. But closer inspection shows the compartimentation into sections indicated by small lights. The real magic kicks in when you see this instrument put into action.
10: Matching
Tomohiro Okazaki is not only an excellent name (if only we could all be Japanese...) but also a guy with a wonderful skill to endlessly vary with stop motion animations about matchsticks. The amount of patience to create each scene... Click through his posts and be sure to check out the behind the scenes. Wild stuff!!