Lotte Schoots is an Amsterdam born artsy product designer living near Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 

In July 2024 she graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven. Her graduation projects were presented during Dutch Design Week 2024. Simultaneously, she won the Piet Hein Eek glass contest and her drinking glass “One Twist” was produced and shown at DDW.  

In her work she plays with ordinary extraordinary details found in daily life to highlight the beauty in this world. How we perceive this can make the world prettier and thus more sustainable. 

Jacob Marks (b. Manchester, 1999) is an emerging designer and maker who graduated from Kingston University’s Product & Furniture Design degree in 2022, and whose studio is now based in South London.
His work focuses on the expressive reimagining of natural materials, often using those that are overlooked or disregarded to produce defined and distinctive contemporary works.

Fundamental to his practice is research into the landscapes materials are harvested from, and how design can be used as a tool to address a range of complex social and ecological issues. Projects so far have seen him exploring how a revival of the pine resin industry could provide a renewable and carbon negative material that rivals plastic, and how thoughtful timber selection can support mixed British woodlands.

He has been included in a range of exhibitions, such as those at the Staffordshire Street Gallery, Somerset House and Garrison Chapel. In 2024 he was also nominated for the Design Museum’s Ralph Saltzman Prize, and his work continues to be featured publications such as Crafts Magazine, Wallpaper Magazine and Design Milk.

Zhipeng Wang is a Chinese contemporary jewellery artist currently working between China and Germany. Zhipeng’s artistic practice draws inspiration from a rich Chinese material cultural heritage and his own cross-cultural experiences, focusing on the creation of contemporary art jewellery and hollowware. He incorporates various materials deeply rooted in Chinese culture, including elements like Chinese tea, rice and jade.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Jewellery & Metal from China Academy of Art in 2019, Zhipeng began his cross-cultural artistic journey. Seeking further artistic growth and exploration, he enrolled in the renowned Jewellery Class at Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 2020, under the guidance of Professor Karen Pontoppidan, to pursue his postgraduate studies. He successfully graduated in 2024 with a Freie Kunst Diplom. Zhipeng Wang’s jewellery and hollowware have been showcased in international exhibitions and competitions in countries such as China, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Belgium, Romania, Argentina, and the United States, including the prestigious Schmuck 2024. He has also won several international awards, among them the first prize in the BKV Prize 2024 in Munich, the first prize in the Giancarlo Montebello Prize 2024 in Milan, the winner of the Preziosa Young Design Competition 2021 in Florence, and a special award in the 30th Legnica
International Jewellery Competition “Touch”. Additionally, his works are part of permanent collections in both private and public institutions, including the Auckland Museum in New Zealand, Goldsmiths’ House
Hanau in Germany, China Academy of Art Museum, Legnica Art Gallery in Poland, and Le Arti Orafe Jewelry School in Italy.

Melitta Baumeister, Fashion Designer

Melitta Baumeister is a German fashion designer based in New York City. With a thorough foundation in tailoring she moved on earning a MFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design before launching her own brand.
In 2014, Melitta’s debut collection was shown during New York Fashion Week. This led to her being prominently featured in among others Vogue Magazine, the New York Times, i.D., Numeró, Self Service, giving her career a major boost and allowing her to show her work at prestigious events in both London and Paris.
Interested in the sculptural quality of clothing, Melitta Baumeister exaggerates volumes and reshapes silhouettes, often using uncommon materials and experimental techniques. This distinct approach was met with much critical acclaim by international boutiques and museums alike.

Romin Heide, Product Designer

Romin Heide studied product design at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences with guest semesters at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art and the ENSCI|Les Aterliers in Paris. Together with Hanna Litwin, he has been running the design studio BÜRO FAMOS in Berlin since 2012. The studio’s work includes projects with a wide variety of materials in the areas of furniture, lighting and accessories and has been awarded the Apolline Prize of the Grassi Messe Leipzig and the Red Dot Award, among others.

Romin Heide’s long-standing involvement in the Association of German Industrial Designers – VDID e.V. included co-founding the VDIDlab, the association’s young designers’ organisation.

Since 2015, he has also held teaching positions at various universities – including Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle – and most recently a substitute professorship at Angewandte Kunst Schneeberg.

Jiro Kamata, Jewelery Artist

Jiro Kamata, born in Japan in 1978, lives and works in Munich. He studied at the Yamanashi Institute of Gemology and Jewelry Art in Kofu, Japan and at Pforzheim University. He then studied with Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in several private and public collections, such as the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, USA or the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK.