Can you develop products on a larger scale using industrial waste materials? Offsite is the design label of Joris Wintgens that explores exactly that question.
Using materials from the wood, steel and aluminium industries, Offsite creates furniture and objects with a clear formal language. It seeks a balance between aesthetics and a fundamental rethink of how we make things.
Lamps made from the offcuts of streetlight production, vases welded from leftover stainless steel. Every object starts with what happens to be available. The limitation guides the design. All of this comes together during Dutch Design Week 2025, where Offsite presents the exhibition Within Limits, an ode to working with what is already there. Because there is enough, if you learn to look differently.
To achieve this, Offsite collaborates closely with production partners such as Hydro, Staco Nederland, Brainport Assemblers and the Municipality of Eindhoven. Designers like Zowa Rindt and Structural Aspect also contribute to the development of the collection—not to create one-off pieces, but to build scalable designs that align with the available materials and the capabilities of the manufacturing industry.
Offsite shows that circularity isn’t just about reuse, but about creating new structures. And about designing without needing to define everything in advance.
