René van Geer

The Dutch wallet brand Secrid is expanding its collection of luxury wallets with the launch of three new versions: Pebble, Vintage Traceable Leather and Glitter.

Innovative designers show how we can evolve industries to make better products at Dutch Design Week ‘24

For 15 years, our teams in sheltered workshops have been central to Secrid’s wallet-assembly operations. But where society tends to fixate on their disabilities, we see their capabilities.

Secrid collaborates with Dutch artist Maayke Schuitema on five Limited Edition Miniwallets

How Secrid helps Sheltersuit Foundation spread the story of homelessness.

Luc van Hoeckel designs solutions for the 90% of the world's population without access to decent basic facilities.

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.

Our colleagues there need tailored environments to be able to work, because they have autism, for example, or a physical disability.

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 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.

Sunflowers can help to reduce our dependence and the environmental damage of cotton in the fashion industry.

Entrepreneur Frans van Rooijen and scientist Dr. Michael Sailer are launching a varnish made from natural raw materials.

Solarix designs and produces aesthetic solar panels as façade cladding.

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.

Huub Looze and Margreet van Uffelen create items such as embankment tiles and birdhouses that help restore soil and biodiversity after use.

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.

Milou Voorwinden is innovating the existing fashion and textile industry by developing 3D weaving techniques.

Pauline van Dongen has developed a lightweight, solar-powered textile called SUNTEX.

Boey (Bo) Wang is dedicated to creating fully inclusive products for performing everyday tasks.

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.

Luisa Kahlfeldt markets a high-performance diaper that reduces a baby's diaper use from about 5,000 to 25 diapers.

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.

A TPU Bandwallet é inovadora e durável, inspirada no vestuário de trabalho e concebida com uma soldadura sólida sem costuras. A funcionalidade e a estética fundem-se literalmente na nova TPU Bandwallet.

A Secrid é um negócio familiar e a 100% pertencente à família Van Geer. A empresa foi fundada por René van Geer e Marianne van Sasse van Ysselt.

Emy Bensdorp is developing a technique to transform clay soil contaminated by PFAS into 100% clean bricks.

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.

Está na hora do almoço. O René, co-fundador da Secrid, não está hoje na sede com a sua equipa, mas na sala de estar com os seus pais, Gerrie (81) e Joop van Geer (91). Falamos sobre a relação entre pai e filho, sobre como o pai inspirou o filho, e sobre o design da mola na carteira.

Em 2009, a indústria do couro tinha praticamente abandonado os Países Baixos em favor de países de rendimento baixo. A Secrid trouxe esta indústria de volta ao nosso país de origem.

Está na hora do almoço. O René, co-fundador da Secrid, não está hoje na sede com a sua equipa, mas na sala de estar com os seus pais, Gerrie (81) e Joop van Geer (91). Falamos sobre a relação entre pai e filho, sobre como o pai inspirou o filho, e sobre o design da mola na carteira.

Está na hora do almoço. O René, co-fundador da Secrid, não está hoje na sede com a sua equipa, mas na sala de estar com os seus pais, Gerrie (81) e Joop van Geer (91). Falamos sobre a relação entre pai e filho, sobre como o pai inspirou o filho, e sobre o design da mola na carteira.

Em vez de "mais baratos e piores", têm de ser desenvolvidos novos produtos que sejam intrinsecamente "melhores, mais sustentáveis e mais valiosos" do que os produtos que vieram antes.

During Dutch Design Week we presented the Secrid Talent Podium. An exhibition with designs from 11 promising talents in the field of evolutionary product design.