Design
Secrid X Maayke
Secrid collaborates with Dutch artist Maayke Schuitema on five Limited Edition Miniwallets
Secrid Talent Podium - Super Local
Luc van Hoeckel designs solutions for the 90% of the world's population without access to decent basic facilities.
Secrid Talent Podium - Celium
Celium™ is a customizable bio-textile that might well become the new gold standard for fashion, footwear, sportswear, and automotive applications. Polybion is a new company that found a way to produce this versatile and natural material made of cellulose, cultivated with bacteria that eat agricultural waste.
Secrid Talent Podium - Buzigahill by Bobby Kolade
Buzigahill is a circular fashion label founded by the activist and designer Bobby Kolade. Based in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, the label aims to reverse the global fashion supply chain. Discarded clothing from the Northern Hemisphere is taken apart and reimagined into new fashion items, which are then returned to their place of origin.
Secrid Talent Podium - Christien Meindertsma
Christien Meindertsma explores the origins and composition of everyday products. She maps the origins of materials, and how they are produced and used – exposing processes that are often hidden due to industrialisation and globalisation.
Secrid Talent Podium - .unusual by Maartje Dros & Eric Klarenbeek
Designers Maartje Dros and Eric Klarenbeek research sustainable raw materials and innovative manufacturing techniques. At their studio, .unusual: Designers of the Unusual, they work with bio-based and living materials, as well as 3D printing. Their goal is to create an alternative production chain that strengthens the Earth and the climate rather than depleting them.
Secrid Talent Podium - House of Thol by Jana Flohr & Thomas Linssen
The design duo behind the House of Thol tackle urgent everyday problems with a big environmental impact. Their practical, sustainable products help make life greener and healthier.
Secrid Talent Podium - Muju Earth Technologies by Ifeoluwa Afolayan and Wangyang Hu
Ifeoluwa (Lu) Afolayan and Wangyang (Ocean) Hu are the founders of Muju Earth Technologies, a start-up that aims to support farmers worldwide in the transition to regenerative and climate-resilient agriculture.
Secrid Talent Podium - Aumens by Rick and Vincent Eurlings
Aumens is the start-up behind the Compass (Het Kompas), a handy device with a built-in compass whose needle always points to a pre-set location. Thanks to the integral GPS chip, it helps people with dementia find their way home independently.
Secrid Talent Podium - Chloe Innovations by Karlheinz Samenjo
Chloe Innovations is a start-up on a mission to develop affordable medical devices that will give women worldwide access to safe and dignified pain relief during gynaecological procedures.
We Made Your Wallet
Secrid built a profitable business that tries to play the role it should in society: creating jobs, valuing people and the planet, and manufacturing quality products for everyday use.
Secrid Talent Podium - Electric Skin
Electric Skin is a speculative idea that can change how we relate to daily electronic objects, such as our phones. A team of female biodesigners use bacteria that naturally produce electrical proteins for use in electronics. It could be possible to make compostable electronics by integrating these proteins into algae-based biomaterials.
ForestGuard
ForestGuard is an advanced wildfire prevention system. This device detects forest fires within the first 15 minutes and helps communities worldwide to protect their valuable forests and natural resources. An integrated monitoring system can help to manage a fire before it starts or turns into a full-blown fire.
Secrid Talent Podium - ClimaFibre
Sunflowers can help to reduce our dependence and the environmental damage of cotton in the fashion industry.
Secrid Talent Podium - Fungi Force
Entrepreneur Frans van Rooijen and scientist Dr. Michael Sailer are launching a varnish made from natural raw materials.
Secrid Talent Podium - Solarix
Solarix designs and produces aesthetic solar panels as façade cladding.
Secrid Talent Podium - Aectual
Aectual offers a fully circular interior design solution, from furniture to wall panels and ceilings. Their 3D printed products are made from recycled waste streams and plant-based materials, with no waste produced during the manufacturing process.
Omlab
Huub Looze and Margreet van Uffelen create items such as embankment tiles and birdhouses that help restore soil and biodiversity after use.
Resty
Designer Doreen Westphal and entrepreneur Ruud Zanders are turning vegetable waste from Dutch farmers into pure and healthy food. Operating under the name Resty, they process rejected mushroom stalks and misshapen tomatoes into delicious plant-based burgers and sausages.
Studio Milou Voorwinden
Milou Voorwinden is innovating the existing fashion and textile industry by developing 3D weaving techniques.
Suntex
Pauline van Dongen has developed a lightweight, solar-powered textile called SUNTEX.
Haptics of Cooking
Boey (Bo) Wang is dedicated to creating fully inclusive products for performing everyday tasks.
Meaningful Matter
Lotte Douwes transforms ceramic waste into new high-quality tableware and interior products. Her mission is to make the entire production process of porcelain and pottery circular. Because while the plate in your cupboard and that cup on your desk may seem ordinary, they are made from precious pieces of earth.
Secrid Talent Podium - Sumo Baby
Luisa Kahlfeldt markets a high-performance diaper that reduces a baby's diaper use from about 5,000 to 25 diapers.
Zeefier
Zeefier creates high-quality textile paint from seaweed for applications including coloring clothes, carpets, bedding, and curtains.
Medulla
Don Yaw Kwaning wants to bring back deeper awareness, organic aesthetics, and tranquility to society
Front
Ward Massa leads FRONT, which he wants to grow into the top platform for sustainable and aesthetic building materials in Europe
Blended Materials
Tom van Soest makes handmade interior tiles from local waste. He works with industrial clay residues, unique materials, and colors you won’t find anywhere else.
Simon Dogger
Simon Dogger is one of the few blind designers in the world. He advises companies and other designers on sharpening concepts from a non-visual perspective and creating multi-sensory experiences.
Mapu Speakers
Mapu Speakers are handcrafted loudspeakers, shaped by artisans with local materials and sound systems developed by world-class technicians.
Sheltersuit
Bas Timmer is known for the Sheltersuit, a jacket that transforms into a sleeping bag for homeless people at night
Papilio by Tobias Trübenbacher
PAPILIO is an innovative wind-powered streetlight that reduces light pollution and enhances the aesthetic appeal of its surroundings
PulpaTronics
PulpaTronics is developing fully recyclable RFID tags made from paper – to replace metal antennas that are typically hidden in price tags, hotel key cards, and packaging labels.
Circle Farming
Circle Farming is developing an agricultural method with circular fields that combine efficiency and sustainability.
Dungse Lab
Dungse Labs creates building materials from cow dung, transforming surplus waste into high-performance substitutes for wood, particle boards, and plastic.
Ra
Marjan van Aubel creates self-powered lamps, electricity-producing windows, and installations that make us feel connected to sunlight.
Reclaiming the Pocket
Why the pocket gap still matters on International Women's Day
Secrid Milan Design Week — Masterly
During Milan Design Week, Secrid presents Your Pocket, Your Impact
(un)woven
(un)woven is a biomaterial made from waste and residual products from the textile industry.
Carbon Cell
Carbon Cell’s foam is carbon-negative, plastic-free, compostable, and affordable—basically a game-changer for packaging
Respyre
Respyre is developing moss concrete: an innovative building material where living mosses grow on concrete facades.
Bolt by Clip
BOLT, a solution created by CLIP, is the world’s most affordable plug-and-play device for turning any bicycle into an e-bike.
Nova Innova
Ermi van Oers uses bacteria that convert organic matter into electricity and light.
A+N Studio
Alissa and Nienke design innovative materials for interiors that contribute to people’s well-being.
Our Material Lab
Collaborating to find the best materials
VivErdie Industries
Vifour is a textile made from recycled fabrics that can be recycled indefinitely. This circular material is used for interior products, such as acoustic wall panels, carpets, and furniture coverings
Secrid Talent Podium - Vorkoster
To combat food waste, Kimia Amir-Moazmi is working on a product that allows consumers to see for themselves whether food is still safe to eat.
Secrid Talent Podium - Claybens
Emy Bensdorp is developing a technique to transform clay soil contaminated by PFAS into 100% clean bricks.
Design Dilemmas
Secrid makes Cardwallets, but Secrid is much more than that. We also have a message to share. We want to make people aware of the power of good design for a sustainable future.
Seven Questions With Mujō
How can we make sure that the materials of today do not become the waste of tomorrow? This is the idea behind mujō, a Berlin-based start-up that develops biodegradable packaging from seaweed.
What Design Can Do - Resortecs
Textile recycling made easy. This is the promise that makes Resortecs one of the most exciting start-ups in the fashion industry today.
What Design Can Do - Balena
Balena is a material science company that is working to change the footwear industry.
The Power of Small
Our patented mechanism, designed by Secrid's co-founder, inspired by his father.