4DSOUND is a studio exploring spatial sound as a medium. Since 2007, 4DSOUND has developed integrated hardware and software systems that provide a fully omnidirectional sound environment. These environments enable vivid sonic experiences that blur the boundaries between the real and the imagined: the world of sound we know, and a world beyond.
Giverney Grace Volrath creates bespoke embroidery pieces in Amsterdam
Atelier Begane Grond is a choice of name based on my dealings with the clay soil. Shaping it on my turntable creates objects, mostly objects with a utilitarian function such as a washbowl or a piece of furniture. But sculptures are also created. The result is a unity of form, skin and colour that touches all the senses.
Nick Krouwel (Leiden, Netherlands, 1991) is an architect and furniture designer based in Amsterdam. His work focusses on sustainable solutions for the built environment while seeking for a synergy between functionality and design. These ‘design and build’ solutions are materialized into small to large scale projects by combining digital design and rapid production processes. He has professional and academic experience at TU Delft, MIT Boston and ETH Zürich.
Atelier Wolfson is an Interdisciplinary leather studio founded by British-Chinese artist Elaine Chan-Perryman. Her practice is strongly rooted in craft; balancing tradition and innovation. She creates sculptural Leather objects on an intimate scale - one at a time, by hand. Using an incredibly labour intensive technique known as the 'Saddle Stitch'. Her contemporary pieces invite ritual and have utmost respect for Mother earth.
BureauAat hugs the future, loves Nature and embraces pure craftmentship.
Ceel Mogami de Haas is a multidisciplinary artist from Geneva. His work could be described as measured visual poetry, translated into sculptural objects, 3D video animations, drawings and much more.
Chameleon Jones, or Alison Saren is self-taught American artist out of Amsterdam, Netherlands. She works with mixed media to create abstract sculptures and visual art. She mainly works with epoxy and pigments to create stunning colorful works.
Deborah Apol is a Dutch artist specializing in light objects. She started Apol Objects in 2018 with a clear vision: to create handmade, visually stimulating and interactive art. By combining layered acrylics and artificial light, Deborah is able to use the full color spectrum. She creates unique installations which can dramatically change with different light transmission. The color palette can be as mystic as the moon, glow like Northern Lights or be warm as the evening sun.
DeliSouth imports sustainable & organic Southern European brands to make them easily accessible for consumers. At DeliSouth they offer you something a little different. They have direct contact with their passionate producers from Spain, Portugal, Italy, France & Greece which they visit regularly.
Dilruba is an artist, designer and storyteller that works foraged materials she has collected through her walks and journeys. Her art explores how to accentuate the essence of these objects. Instead of using them as brushes, she plays with the way she holds them, dipping into inks, allowing the object to guide her rather than the other way around. In this humbling process, she is the apprentice of the objects, a means by which they can unlock and showcase what they are made of.
DokaLab is a darkroom kit designed for developing black-and-white photos, born from the desire to bring back the tangible experience of physical photos in a world where everything is digital. With Doka Lab, you can easily transform digital images into physical prints while enjoying the hands-on process that evokes the nostalgia of a traditional darkroom. The kit is also designed to be as eco-friendly as possible, made of 99% cardboard with only the lens in plastic.
Donata is a photographer who primarily focuses on capturing people. Bodies and faces, that we all have, yet carry so differently. Her passion lies in photographing dancers, though she also works in portraiture, fashion, and e-commerce.
Ismael Velo and Joost van Hammeren run Earthscape, a public space design agency with a focus on creating playgrounds that stimulate and engage children, both cognitively and physically.
Nandin Erdene is a Mongolian Fashion Designer based in Amsterdam with deep expertise in haute couture tailoring and womenswear design. Her own fashion label, embracing the freedom to infuse her designs with creativity and personal inspiration, often drawn from nature and the emotional depth of film characters. Her work focuses on creating experimental garments that are fluid, stable, and uniquely tailored to different body shapes, offering a sense of individuality and simplicity.
François Dumas is a French designer based in Amsterdam. His work has been shown in various exhibitions after he won the Villa Noailles’s grand prize in 2010 for the Sealed chair. He is also a founding member of the Krux collective that involves designers, artists, and craftsmen.
Gijs Knol is a composer and Music Producer and creates custom music and sound design for media such as podcasts, museums, but also for radio and television productions like short films or documentaries. In 2019 Gijs received the Buma New Talent Award for music composed for the Anne Frank Museum.
Godsendo, is an Amsterdam-based Afro DJ, renowned for his dynamic sets that seamlessly blends all afro styles. His unique style merges traditional Nigerian childhood songs with contemporary beats, creating a vibrant musical tapestry.
HOUT&MOS is a furniture design studio started by Michiel de Jong. He works with saved or reclaimed wood and their work is based on circularity, this ties in with the use of moss for indoor decoration and air quality.
Chaja Hertog & Nir Nadler (aka Hertog Nadler) are an artist duo, operating across disciplines of visual arts, performance & film. Their work explores relations between the natural and the artificial; combined with physicality, humor and the passage of time.
Ernst Koning studied Industrial Design in Utrecht and started his own studio after he was graduated in 2011. He has his own label, Ilias Ernst, but he also works freelance for various companies like Gispen, Lande, Puikart, Hollands Licht and Cartoni Design. He gets inspired by ordinary objects and uses this inspiration to create functional and well-designed products which express simplicity and creativity with a surprising edge.
Inside Studio is a kitchen design studio. With care and responsibility they make tailor-made and custom kitchens to fit in the intimacy of your home.
Brainstorming, prototyping, engineering, testing and finally moving to mass-production of your product. They can help you all the way from A to Z. From custom electronics to software and coding.
Jolanta Izabela Pawlak studied art in Europe and the United States. She lived and taught art on Curaçao in the Caribbean, the United States and in Europe. Her work as an artist has gone through various metamorphosis, reinforced by her education and shaped by different mediums including sculpture, jewelry, painting, photography and stage set.
Jorn Vlaanderen is a mixed media artist, exploring all types of mediums in his art. He’s deeply driven by ideas and feels an obsessive need to express them. Some pieces are designed to sell, while others are intended for gallery exhibitions. Some of the creative practices he often uses are capturing sounds, taking photos, and transforming them into drawings.
Kim Blekkenhorst is a ceramist and illustrator with a background in product design. Her ceramics have both a functional and a narrative side, and her artistic process retails a balance between precision and submission. She explores her practice through the ceramic wheel, plaster moulds, and hand building. Kim is hosting ceramic workshops at Contact. You can contact her by email to inquire about them.
LFTOVR is a project born in early 2021. It's shared between two professional chefs and friends, who during the difficulties caused by the pandemic decided to join forces against food waste. LFTOVR is an idea based on the use of waste from large food distribution. Our mission is to give value to those products considered ugly, old, dented and close to being thrown away. We are committed to expressing our creativity and processing the would-be-wasted produce.
Logonow.nl is a signage specialist doing screen printing and embroidery for brands like Daily Paper, Moak Pancakes, Omelegg and more.
MEAUI.STUDIO sets out to brighten people's lives through colourful and playful wavy mirrors and interior design products. Kim, founded MEAUI.STUDIO to transmit a celebrate life and health.
Marijn Roos Lindgreen works as a visual artist with a focus on architectural space. Her work explores the function our immediate environment, on all scales, fulfills and proposes alternatives, both in text and spatial installation. After a newfound interest in woodworking, she joined Contact to further expand her practice with the designing and making of furniture. Next to her work as artist/designer she works as a drafter on architecture (adjacent) projects under the name of Bureau Lindgreen.
Medulla Studio is a fashion brand focused on up-cycling by either adding to existing pieces or completely reconstructs them. The brand primarily creates new textiles from old ones by cutting up pieces, patch-working them together, and hand-embroidering them. She’s also experimenting with tearing materials apart and weaving or knitting them back together. More recently, she has also started exploring the realm of digital garments.
Coming from a background in the film and game industry, Naivi’s founders Coen Klösters and Bas Korsmit started the company early 2015 to bridge the gap between creativity and technology. By focusing on tailor made, high end software development, Naivi surpasses the barriers that come with standard software applications, making each project unique.
Nick Verstand (1984) is a contemporary artist researching human perception through spatial audiovisual compositions. His autonomous installations and live performances investigate the frontier between the material and the immaterial, and are created through collaborative design processes aimed at breaking down social boundaries. The resulting intuitive experiences, co-creations of artist and audience, generate a hypnotizing environment for the subconscious mind.
OSSO is the lovechild of designers vin&flo. Together they explore the boundaries of symmetry. This goes beyond aesthetics, their designs try to create symbiosis between natural materials and new technologies. Respecting the old, whilst embracing the new. In this space, they imagine the future of living.
I am Pim Swinkels, an electronic engineer from Eindhoven. I use my knowledge of electronics to make things I like. Some of them already exist, some of them don’t. My passion for technology started when I was very young. As A child I loved to play around with electronics and hardly any toy survived since I always tried to figure out how they worked. Now I still feel at my best when I am creating things.
Emilio is a multidisciplinary artist who does live music and DJ’ing. In addition, Emilio runs his own record label, Purple Purple, which doubles as a creative studio.
ReBlend is a Dutch upcycling initiative founded to make 100% recycled new yarn from mixed residual textiles for fashion and interior design.
Rollo, of Rollo Studio, creates innovative lighting by combining 3D printing with sand. His work explores intricate geostructures and biomorphic designs, blending software and lighting technologies. Initially more artistic and experimental, including functional lighting and interior design, transforming from sculptures into practical yet creative pieces.
We are an independent international engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation. Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people’s lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals.
Sam is an American-born artist based in Amsterdam, where he works on bringing his ideas into reality. Sam writes poetry and short-form fiction.
Sol Systems, a custom soundsystem project from Romania, was crafted to achieve a synergy of sound power and crispness while embodying elegance in aesthetics. It takes advantage of the functional benefits that a horn design brings. "Sol" derives from Latin, meaning "sun", symbolizing the warmth of the soundwaves it produces. In Romanian, "Sol" translates to "ground," reflecting the speakers' capacity to shake the earth. Sol Systems is where warmth, power, and sound dance in harmony.
We are an urban design and research practice based in Amsterdam. We focus on public space design, community-led projects and documentary based urban research. We believe that good design of the public realm is essential for healthy urban environments and citizens. Public spaces are the spaces we share our common grounds, we design spaces in an open and collaborative process. Our built projects strive to be playful spaces where people can meet to; play, hang out, exercise, learn, have fun and co
Studio IJsberg is an architecture studio founded in 2012 by Peterine Arts. They work on renovating buildings with an attention for personal design and collaboration with clients. Their work begins with a respect for nature, the environment and the building they are working with.
Julien is making books, exhibitions, strategies, performances and programmes at the intersection of art, design & theory
Founded in 2008 Studio Mingus is a small Amsterdam-based full service studio with a focus on visual branding. We design for both large and small companies. Working closely together with our clients we offer tailor-made solutions to help enhance or build their brands.
Studio Soozō is an interdisciplinary design space headed by Zsófia Török, a designer with a background in architecture and interior design. Operating at the intersection of design and art, Studio Soozō specializes in crafting unique objects and furniture pieces. Thriving on experimentation, the studio often repurposes recycled materials to create sustainable designs. Its philosophy revolves around merging functionality with creativity while embracing eco-conscious practices.
Studio Vondst is a packaging studio with the unique, illustration-based approach for stand-out branding & signature style. Works with brands and suppliers actively targeting sustainable growth (and sustainable packaging design). Always tries to find that potential to turn it in something special. Everything is just that diamond in the rough.
Studio Wild is a collective of three Dutch architects developing provocative designs to exceed the current boundaries of architecture. Founded in a squatted school complex in Delft, the studio has developed an untamed approach to architecture, design, and art. Studio Wild (Tymon Hogenelst, Jani van Kampen, and Jesse van der Ploeg) aims to operate on the border, in areas of tension between politics, architecture, and nature, embracing complexity by working in a variety of disciplines.
Full time (landscape) photographer since 2009, but now also broadening the horizon. After the arrival of my eldest son in 2017, which made the landscape photographer's life with its irregularity a bit strained, as well as a move to a bigger house, with chore space and possibilities, a new seed was planted during 2018. A course in craft furniture making at the Hout- en Meubilerings College in Amsterdam followed in 2019.
Thomas creates bows and arrows with the classic techniques used by native American tribes and medieval fletchers. Using traditional tools and materials he want to connect the younger generations with the century old art of using bow and arrow.
UXMiles is a UX strategy and design agency.
Sieto van der Scheer is a urban landscape architect
i am jai is a fashion company set up by Esther Tromp. The jewellery finds their roots in Jaipur, India. By working with local crafts people, i am jai hopes to make a difference in the local community. Always keeping sustainability in the highest regard.
