About the studio
A small studio with a quiet mission.
REDiscora was founded on 28 February 2026 at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Venlo. What started as a student project quickly turned into a shared obsession: rescuing the millions of compact discs quietly heading to landfill.
Today we are a team of five. We restore each disc by hand, then use a precision flatbed printer to lay custom artwork directly onto the surface — turning anonymous silver circles into something made for your wall.
We are not a shop. Every piece is commissioned. Every disc is restored and printed in-house. We work slowly, on purpose.
- Founded
- 28 February 2026, the Netherlands
- Team
- Five — restorers, printer, composer
- Materials
- 100% salvaged CDs · UV-cured pigment print
- Studio
- Online only — workshop coming soon
- Next
- A make-your-own workshop in Venlo
What's next
A workshop in Venlo.
Today, every REDiscora piece is sold and shipped online. Soon, we're opening the studio doors.
Our planned workshop in Venlo will let you walk in, choose your discs, design your artwork and watch it print onto the surface — leaving with a piece that's truly your own.
Want to be first in line? Drop us a line and we'll keep you posted.
The five
Founders.
CEO
Karl Kaldenberg
Marketing Manager
Alexandra Lamers
Sales & Customer Relations
Paul Nießen
Operating Manager
Yizhou Zhang
Finance Manager
Kifir Alony
Principles
Salvage first
We never buy new discs. Every piece begins with something destined for a bin.
Printed with care
A flatbed UV printer lays each design onto the disc — sharp, durable, and uniquely ours.
Built to last
Sealed pigments and archival mounting. Designed to outlive the discs themselves.
Why REDiscora
Not another upcycling shop.
Plenty of brands sell mass-produced wall art and a few hobbyists glue old discs to a board. We sit between them — a small studio that takes restoration seriously, prints to gallery standard, and treats every commission as one-of-one.
We're not trying to be the cheapest or the biggest. We're trying to make pieces you'll keep — and that started life as something someone else threw away.