This September, ND Selects arrives at Kachette, Shoreditch, from 15 to 17 September as part of Shoreditch Design Week.
A new partnership for 2026, the showcase brings together a carefully selected group of emerging designers working across furniture, lighting, product and contemporary design. For the first time, ND Selects moves beyond its July edition, creating a fresh opportunity to discover the next generation of independent talent. Visitors can register for a free visitor badge through the Shoreditch Design Week website, giving access to the festival app and full programme.
“We are thrilled to be bringing ND Selects to Shoreditch this year,” says New Designers director Sally Bent. “It is a wonderful opportunity to introduce our community to a new audience and celebrate designers who are pushing contemporary practice forward.”
At the heart of the showcase is a shared curiosity about material, making and the possibilities of design. The selection moves between disciplines and approaches, but each practice feels rooted in an instinct to question how objects are made.
Dan Davies Design
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Dan Davies Design presents Hem, a collection shaped by a thoughtful relationship with material and making. A recent Furniture Design graduate from Nottingham Trent University, Davies explores sustainability and circular principles alongside honest manufacturing. His work is refined without feeling removed from the process of making, balancing the realities of production with a desire to create durable, functional pieces with a sense of permanence.
Studio Soldout x LightOn Lighting
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Istanbul based Studio Soldout, founded by industrial designer Ibrahim Fatih Satılmış, works across lighting, furniture and objects. Shown with LightOn Lighting, the studio’s work has a calm, pared back quality, but there is plenty going on beneath the surface. Metal, glass, stone and ceramic are used to shape light and atmosphere, with projects such as Crackdown and Moonside showing a particular sensitivity to how an object changes the space around it.
Jasmine Prime Designs
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London designer Jasmine Prime works mainly with wood and other natural materials, allowing the material itself to lead. Her practice brings traditional techniques into contemporary furniture, finding new uses for ways of making that have been passed down through generations. The result feels warm and direct, with the character of the material left visible rather than hidden.
Nic Stace Ceramics
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For ceramic sculptor Nic Stace, clay is a more personal medium. Based in North Wales, his work looks at identity, emotion and the effects of time and experience. His hand built figures, with interchangeable abstract heads, can feel playful one moment and more introspective the next. Oxides, underglazes and scratches are layered across the surfaces, giving the sculptures a sense of touch, history and imperfection.
Kirti Jalan Design Studio
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Kirti Jalan Design Studio brings a strong connection to Indian craft. Working across furniture, lighting, interiors and installations, the studio uses bamboo and rattan alongside contemporary forms. Traditional making is central to the work, but the approach is far from looking backwards. Instead, familiar materials and techniques are given a new context.
Riolab Ceramics
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Riolab Ceramics, founded by Chilean designer Paulina Moreno Rios in London, also looks at the meeting point between old and new. Her porcelain pieces combine digital design with hand making, including small objects finished with handmade terrazzo patterns. Each is slightly different, with glazed interiors contrasted against the natural texture of unglazed porcelain.
Taken together, the designers at ND Selects offer a snapshot of where independent design is now: personal, material led and made with care. Each has a story to tell.
Register for your free ticket here.
