Dutch Design Week drew to a close this weekend and, as usual, the Design Academy Eindhoven exhibition was one of the highlights. Design editor Alice Morby has selected 10 of the most promising students from the show.
Design Academy Eindhoven is regarded as one of the most influential design schools in the world. As with previous years, the university's graduate show took place as part of Dutch Design Week at the Eindhoven campus, from 21 to 29 October 2017.
Here, over 175 projects were on show from Design Academy's undergraduate and postgraduate students, and ranged from practical products to more conceptual art-focused pieces.
Here are 10 designers we predict big things from in the coming years, following in the footsteps of alumni such as Maarten Baas, Hella Jongerius and Marcel Wanders.
Kostas Lambridis
Kostas Lambridis' monumental, maximalist cabinet was the last thing visitors saw before they left the show, and is based on the 18th-century Badminton cabinet that twice set the record for the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold.
Through his Elemental cabinet, Lambridis aimed to create a "non-hierarchical approach to design". So he made each level of the piece made from different materials, including stone, metal, wood, plastic and textile.

Alissa Rees
During her time at the university, Alissa Rees drew upon her own experiences as a cancer patient to create a project based on "humanising the hospital".
Among the different concepts she c...