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22MUSE Antwerp presents JAE KO – Striated
Full press release https://designspotter.com/newswire/22muse-antwerp-presents-jae-ko-striated/

Once in a lifetime: Jae Ko’s debut solo exhibition in Belgium at gallery 22MUSE Antwerp. Opening: Thursday 22.10.26 Exhibition: 23.10 - 28.11.2026
Jae Ko transforms ordinary paper into monumental sculptural landscapes through an intensive process of rolling, compressing, layering, and shaping. In Forces of Nature (pictured), countless tightly wound layers create flowing, organic forms that evoke forests, moss, waterways, and natural topographies. The monochromatic green palette enhances these associations while drawing attention to the work’s rich texture, movement, and craftsmanship. Rhythmic circular openings introduce depth and shadow, allowing the installation to shift with changing light. Blurring the boundaries between painting, relief, and sculpture, Ko pushes paper far beyond its conventional use, revealing its expressive and structural potential. The work reflects her ongoing exploration of material, process, and time, transforming an everyday medium into a meditative yet dynamic environment that invites slow contemplation and rewards close observation with an ever-changing interplay of texture, light, and abstraction.

22MUSE Antwerp presents JAE KO – Striated

full press release https://designspotter.com/newswire/22muse-antwerp-presents-jae-ko-striated/

Once in a lifetime: Jae Ko's debut solo exhibition in Belgium at gallery 22MUSE Antwerp. Opening: Thursday 22.10.26 Exhibition: 23.10 - 28.11.2026

Jae Ko transforms ordinary paper into monumental sculptural landscapes through an intensive process of rolling, compressing, layering, and shaping. In Forces of Nature (pictured), countless tightly wound layers create flowing, organic forms that evoke forests, moss, waterways, and natural topographies. The monochromatic green palette enhances these associations while drawing attention to the work’s rich texture, movement, and craftsmanship. Rhythmic circular openings introduce depth and shadow, allowing the installation to shift with changing light. Blurring the boundaries between painting, relief, and sculpture, Ko pushes paper far beyond its conventional use, revealing its expressive and structural potential. The work reflects her ongoing exploration of material, process, and time, transforming an everyday medium into a meditative yet dynamic environment that invites slow contemplation and rewards close observation with an ever-changing interplay of texture, light, and abstraction.

TJEP. 25 Years! Retrospective
Full press release https://designspotter.com/newswire/tjep-25-years-retrospective/

Designs of the Times Retrospective Architecture & Sculptures Frank Tjepkema pairs artistic invention with design that works in the real world, across a range of disciplines. He is owner and creative director of design studio Tjep. and creative director of contemporary jewellery brand OYUKIO. To mark 25 years of the studio, we’re looking back with 3 retrospectives: Architecture & Sculptures (click on link to external file), Objects & Products (September), Jewelry (October).
Architecture & Sculptures incl. eg.:
Select outdoor projects in public space: entrance gate of Paleis Het Loo (Apeldoorn), sculptures Air Cells (Amsterdam), Bicycloud (Amsterdam) and Zwerm (Eindhoven).
Architecture project: Village Super Markt (Bangladesh).
Self-Sufficient Project Harvest (Oogst 1 – 100 – 1000).
Select indoor projects: sculpture Airco Tree (Heathrow), interiors for Restaurant Praq (Amersfoort) and Schiphol Lounge 3 (Amsterdam).

Conceptual and Sustainable Innovation.
Visual Elegance and Functional Intelligence

TJEP.
Multidisciplinary Design
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Image: ZWERM: Tjep.in association with Heijmans and Signify for Council Eindhoven © Patrick Meis

TJEP. 25 Years! Retrospective
full press release https://designspotter.com/newswire/tjep-25-years-retrospective/

Designs of the Times Retrospective Architecture & Sculptures Frank Tjepkema pairs artistic invention with design that works in the real world, across a range of disciplines.

He is owner and creative director of design studio Tjep. and creative director of contemporary jewellery brand OYUKIO.

To mark 25 years of the studio, we’re looking back with 3 retrospectives: Architecture & Sculptures (click on link to external file), Objects & Products (September), Jewelry (October).

Architecture & Sculptures incl. eg.:
Select outdoor projects in public space: entrance gate of Paleis Het Loo (Apeldoorn), sculptures Air Cells (Amsterdam), Bicycloud (Amsterdam) and Zwerm (Eindhoven).
Architecture project: Village Super Markt (Bangladesh).
Self-Sufficient Project Harvest (Oogst 1 – 100 – 1000).
Select indoor projects: sculpture Airco Tree (Heathrow), interiors for Restaurant Praq (Amersfoort) and Schiphol Lounge 3 (Amsterdam).

Conceptual and Sustainable Innovation.
Visual Elegance and Functional Intelligence

TJEP.
Multidisciplinary Design
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Image: ZWERM: Tjep.in association with Heijmans and Signify for Council Eindhoven © Patrick Meis

INFINITE SCROLL BY TJEP. FRANK TJEPKEMA full press release https://designspotter.com/newswire/infinite-scroll-by-frank-tjepkema/ Frank Tjepkema pairs artistic invention with design that works in the real world, across a range of disciplines. He is owner and creative director of design studio Tjep., and creative director of contemporary jewellery brand OYUKIO.
2026 marks Tjep.’s 25th anniversary, celebrated with Infinite Scroll: a series of kinetic sculptures that take the most reflexive gesture of modern life — the scroll — out of our thumbs and into the room. As the image hints, a free-standing robots autonomously operating a screen, turning an ironic, unblinking eye on the spirit of our own scrolling age. Six perform together at the Codrico Factory (Rotterdam) and the Waag Futurelab (Amsterdam) this September; the work is released as a limited edition of 25 in brass, stainless or corten steel — one for each year of the studio’s practice.

Tjep. at Big Art
Codrico Factory, Katendrecht, Veerlaan, Rotterdam
Friday 11 – Sunday 13, September 2026

Tjep. at GLUE
Waag Futurelab, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam
Thursday 17 – Saturday 19, September 2026

Conceptual and Sustainable Innovation.
Visual Elegance and Functional Intelligence

TJEP.
Multidisciplinary Design by Frank Tjepkema
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Basten Leijh & Ahrend win Red Dot Design Award

https://designspotter.com/newswire/basten-leijh-ahrend-win-red-dot-design-award/

Open the door to more peace, focus and creativity. Discover the Ahrend Cerene collection designed by Basten Leijh of which the model Meet only just won a Red Dot Design Award!
“The Ahrend Cerene Meet impresses with its modular nature, offering great flexibility in modern working environments. Sophisticated details create convenient privacy.”
– Red Dot Jury

Ahrend Cerene Collection designed by BASTEN LEIJH
Ahrend designs workspaces and furniture that adapt to the needs of people and organizations. With a focus on circularity, modularity, material expression, and long-term value, Ahrend develops flexible solutions for changing work environments. The Ahrend Cerene Collection offers a stylish and functional solution for flexible spaces and open-plan offices. These acoustic design pods ensure that employees can retreat in peace and with the highest comfort. Each Ahrend Cerene pod promotes creativity, focus and calm, and contributes to a pleasant acoustic climate. The collection features the models Call, Chat, Meet and Meet XL, with Ahrend Cerene Skylight available as an option for Meet and Meet XL.

Basten Leijh & Ahrend win Red Dot Design Award
full press release https://designspotter.com/newswire/basten-leijh-ahrend-win-red-dot-design-award/

Open the door to more peace, focus and creativity. Discover the Ahrend Cerene collection designed by Basten Leijh of which the model Meet only just won a Red Dot Design Award!
“The Ahrend Cerene Meet impresses with its modular nature, offering great flexibility in modern working environments. Sophisticated details create convenient privacy.”
– Red Dot Jury

Ahrend Cerene Collection designed by BASTEN LEIJH
Ahrend designs workspaces and furniture that adapt to the needs of people and organizations. With a focus on circularity, modularity, material expression, and long-term value, Ahrend develops flexible solutions for changing work environments. The Ahrend Cerene Collection offers a stylish and functional solution for flexible spaces and open-plan offices. These acoustic design pods ensure that employees can retreat in peace and with the highest comfort. Each Ahrend Cerene pod promotes creativity, focus and calm, and contributes to a pleasant acoustic climate.

The collection features the models Call, Chat, Meet and Meet XL, with Ahrend Cerene Skylight available as an option for Meet and Meet XL. Statius PR

Mark your calendars. Dutch Design Week 2026 is coming in raw, taking over Eindhoven from 17-25 October. 💥

This year, DDW returns to the core of design.

In a world increasingly driven by control, optimisation and perfection, the theme R.A.W. shifts the focus to what cannot be smoothed out: the unpolished, the unpredictable and the experimental. Because design doesn’t begin with a perfect plan, but with the urge to explore, question and reveal new possibilities.

For nine days, Eindhoven becomes a place where design is shown in all its stages—from first experiments and works in progress to finished projects across former factories, historic workshops and new creative hubs.

Witness the future in the making, and take part in it.

🗓️ 17-25 October 2026

📍 Eindhoven

🎟️ Programme and tickets coming in September.

💾 Save this post and tap the link in bio to read the full theme manifesto 🔗