VANTOT is the collective title for the works of Esther Jongsma and Sam van Gurp. Both Eindhoven based designers graduated at Design Academy Eindhoven. Operating from The Netherlands VANTOT focuses on autonomous product design and commissioned work. The Studio Designs and develops works which include new experiments based on curiosity, context, graphical elements, new production methods, mathematics and physics.
VANTOT focuses on the experiment in the design proces, the workshop is one of the key elements of the studio. This is the place where an idea takes shape, where a basic sketch or idea can be converted into samples or working prototypes. In our opinion a good idea not only arises just in your head or behind the computer; the workshop gives you the chance to dive fully into a subject; how does it look? how does it work? how do you make it yourself? So we can add an extra layer to the idea. Later, these may be optionally carried out in serial production elsewhere. This is in our opinion the ideal way to achieve and deliver a product.
The workshop is located at Sectie C, Eindhoven. The old industrial site offers a creative breeding ground where a workplace can grow, creatives can work together and the lines within different disciplines can be kept short. Sectie C provides different experts in woord, ceramics, metal, graphics to collaborate with. The studio works on commission, but is also working on their own collections to sharpen their design philosophy thought new discoveries.
