About
Simone Post (*1990, Utrecht, the Netherlands) is a Dutch textile and product designer based in Rotterdam. She graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven with honors in 2015 and has won several international awards. Post’s work delves deep into color, surface, and print, and she has collaborated with companies such as Adidas, Kvadrat, and Vlisco. For Simone the finished product is not necessarily the most interesting aspect of the design process. She has a penchant for the process itself, experimenting to discover the hidden potential of materials and techniques. This always results in surprising outcomes exceeding the boundaries of materials, craftsmen and manufactures.
Her focus is on bold and unexpected usages of materials, striving to preserve crafts and promoting sustainability. Her work has been exhibited worldwide from Brasil, China, Italy, US, to Moscow, and has been acquired by multiple museums, including the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, and the Cooper Hewitt, New York
Awards
2019 | Winner Creative Heroes Award |
2019 | Design Prize Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Noord-Brabant |
2018 | Dezeen Emerging Designer of the Year 2018 with Envisions |
2018 | Design Talent of the year by Volkskrant, Dutch Newspaper |
2017 | Nominee Keep an Eye Grant |
2017 | Nominee Dutch Design Award, Best Design Research |
2017 | Nominee Creative Heroes Award |
2017 | Winner Domotex Carpet Design Award, Best Studio Artist |
2016 | Nominee Dutch Design Award, Product, Post-Vlisco |
2016 | Nominee New Material Award 2016, Post-Vlisco |
2015 | Winner Keep an Eye Grant |
2015 | Winner Renee Smeets Award |
2013 | Honourable mention, Hema design competition, ‘blijzetkruk’ was taken into production |
2010 | Nominee Alexander van Slobbe Design Competition, by Centraal Museum Utrecht |
2010 | Nominee The Art of Fashion Design Competition, by Museum Boijmans van Beuningen |
Exhibitions & Fairs
2019 Oct 19-27 | RE-source, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
2019 Oct 19-27 | Lasting Leather at De Kazerne, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
2019 Oct 21-23 | Material Sense x Lasting Leather at Plug in City, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
2019 Oct 19-27 | Dutch Design Awards at Veem Gebouw, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
2019 Oct 9-13 | Green Heroes, Grand Designs Live, Birmingham |
2019 Sep 16-22 | Materials’ Future Life by Material Sense, Tallinn, Estonia |
2019 July 6 – 14 | (NO) MORE WASTE, Gdynia Design Days 2019, Poland |
2019 June 7 | Envisions, Silver in Process, Silver Museum Schoonhoven |
2019 June 1 – August 18 | Designprijs Noord-Brabant 2019, Design Museum Den Bosch |
2019 May 17 – 23 | FUTURE DESIGN, Desa Potato Head, Bali |
2019 May 14 – 17 | Techtextil, Messe Frankfurt |
2019 May 4 – 12 | Green Heroes, Grand Designs Live, ExCeL London |
2019 April 5 – May 26 | The Blind Spot. Women Designers of the Bauhaus and today, Designhaus Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt |
2019 March 12 – 14 | Textiles & Fabrics Sector, MaterialDistrict Rotterdam |
2019 March 6 – 9 | New Materials & Applications Hall, NEUNI x Design Shanghai |
2019 February 7 – 17 | Envisions x Finsa, Madrid Design Festival |
2019 February 5 – 7 | Surface Design Show, London |
2019 February 8 – 10 | OBJECT, Haka Building Rotterdam |
2018 December 7 – 9 | See All This! Haarlem |
2018 September 20 – 23 | London Design Fair, Truman Old Brewery in London |
2018 September 7 – 11 | Maison et Objet in Paris |
2018 May 18 – June 30 | Summershow, Rock Paper Salt Air Exhibition, Mint Gallery in London |
2018 June 6 – June 8 | Design District, Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam |
2018 May 25 – June 22 | We are HERE/NOW, an exhibition highlighting Dutch Design, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Austria |
2018 April 23 | Utrecht Centraal Museum, exhibiting their new acquisitions |
2018 April 5 – August 19 | Design Histories between Africa and Europe, Museum of Ethnology Hamburg |
2018 April 16 – 22 | Envisions, Wood in Progress, Salone del Mobile Milan, Zona Tortona |
2018 April 16 – 22 | Design Language Hotel, Human Nature, designing the equilibrium |
2018 January 23 – 2020 January 23 | ‘Block Printing’ at Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, The Hague |
2018 January 9 – 12 | Heimtextil, The Future is Urban curated by Franklintill, Messe Frankfurt, Germany |
2017 November 30 – 2018 January 27 | Envisions, Plymouth Art Gallery |
2017 October 14 – 2018 January 14 | Post-Vlisco ‘Change the System’ Museum Boijmans van Beuningen |
2017 October | ‘This is Kogei’, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Japan |
2017 October | ABN AMRO Hotspot, curated by Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe, Veemgebouw Dutch Design Week 2017 |
2017 October | Post-Plastic at the Ketelhuisplein Dutch Design Week 2017 |
2017 October | Envisions taking over the VDMA building, Dutch Design Week 2017 |
2017 October | Nouvelles Vies Exposition, Galeria VIA Paris |
2017 October | Envisions, Beyond Generations Van Abbemuseum 2017 |
2017 October | In No Particular Order, Van Abbemuseum 2017 |
2017 September 30 – October 15 | Vlisco Recycled, Taiwan Design Expo – ‘’Betwin Ocean’’ |
2017- September 26 – October 26 | Vlisco Recycled, Beijing Design Week |
2017 April – Now | Vlisco Recycled at the Vitra Design Museum |
2017 September | Utrecht Centraal Museum, acquired for permanent collection |
2017 April 4 – 9 | Vitra stand, Vlisco Recycled, Fuori Salone, Salone del Mobile Milan |
2017 April 4 – 9 | Envisions, Wannabe Wood Palazzo Clerici, Salone del Mobile Milan |
2017 April 4 – 9 | New Material Award, Palazzo Clerici, Salone del Mobile Milan |
2017 March 11 – September 10 | Friesmuseum, Chitz, Cotton in Bloom, ‘Printing Blocks’ |
2017 march | Fall Winter Paris F/W17 COSMOS, by Liselore Frowijn including my textile designs. |
2017 Feb 03 – March 12 | Flow of Forms, Museum Fünf Kontinente München , Germany |
2017 January 20-24th | Maison & Object, Paris, Vlisco Recycled |
2016 Oct 22-30 | New Material Award 2016, Post-Vlisco, Kazerne, Eindhoven |
2016 Oct 22-30 | Dutch Design Awards, Post-Vlisco, VeemGebouw, Eindhoven |
2016 Oct 8 – Nov 11 | Envisions, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, RGB Funfair |
2016 Oct 22-30 | Envisions | Products in Process, part 2, VDMA-Gebouw, Eindhoven |
2016 Sept 2-6 | Maison & Object Paris, together with Label/Breed, Vlisco Recycled |
2016 April 12-17 | Post-Vlisco with LABEL/BREED, Ventura Lambrate, Milan |
2016 April 12-17 | Envisions | Products in Process, Ventura Lambrate, Milan |
2016 March 1 | Fashion Show Liselore Frowijn, Atelier Néerlandais, Paris |
2016 February 27-April 30 | Recent Dutch Design Museu Casa Brasileira, Sao Paulo, Brasil |
2016 February 21 – September 30 | NEXT UP | Jeroen Junte, at Kazerne Eindhoven |
2016 February 16 – May 15 | ABN AMRO Hotspot, Eindhoven, curated by Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe |
2016 February 11 -14 | OBJECT, SS Cruiseship Rotterdam |
2015 October | DDW Eindhoven Snelkookpan, By Textielmuseum, “The Teacher and The Taught” |
2015 October | DDW Eindhoven Graduation Show Design Academy, “Vlisco Recycled” & “Layered Lamps” |
2015 September | VT Wonen & Design Beurs, “The teacher and the Taught” |
2012 October | Schellens Fabriek, Film and Fashion “wooden puppet” |
2012 October | Bijenkorf Eindhoven, Our work is worth, “Wooden Chair” |
2010 April | Centraal Museum Utrecht, Fashion Show, design competition, Alexander van Slobbe Fashion Exposition |
2010 January | Art of Fashion, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, temporary exhibition nominees of ‘The Art of Fashion” design contest |
Lectures/Presentations (selection) |
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2019 June 1 | Panel Post Design, Path Festival São Paulo, Brazil |
2019 May 24 | Late Night Lecture, Designhaus Damstadt |
2019 May 16 | Techtextil, Messe Frankfurt |
2019 March 14 | Material Experience, Textiles & Fabrics, MaterialDistrict Rotterdam |
2019 March 8 | New Material Forum, NEUNI x Design Shanghai |
2018 December 20 |
BNO IMG LAB, Colour, Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam |
2018 December 11 | MaterialDistrict Meet Up, Broeinest Amsterdam |
2018 March 22 | New Material Award 2018 Launch, Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam |
2018 March 15 | Round table Expert panel discussion, Interface, QO Hotel Amsterdam |
2018 March 1 | International Symposium, The Values of Crafts, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
2017 November | Judging Design Contest, Reinventing Textiles, Textielmuseum Tilburg |
2017 October 9 | Dutch Design Awards preview 2017, Dutch Design Daily, Pakhuis de Zwijger |
2017 June 14 | ArtEZ, Future Makers, Arnhem |
2017 May 11 | The New Normal’ – Biblioteca Marciana,Venice (together with Dirk van der Kooijand Lidewij Edelkoort) |
2017 May 9 | Best of Milan, Design Matters at Pakhuis de Zwijger |
2016 Sept 28 | Lecture at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen |
2016 July 12 | Lecturing at Essen, Folkwang Universität der Künste |
2016 April 2 | Presenting at Vriendendag Textielmuseum |
2016 February 23 | Press conference about Envisions with ‘Organisation in Design’ at Lambrate, Milan |
2016 February 13 | Interview at BNR Newsradio, FD Persoonlijk on air |
2016 February 12 | Interview on stage by Harm Tilman, editor in chief of magazine ‘de Architect’ |
2015 November | Elle Decoration live, lecture ‘The teacher and the Taught’ |
2015 November 24 | Pakhuis de Zwijger, lecture at Future Serie ‘What if’ #5 with Jurgen Bey |
2015 October | MU, Create Out Loud, lecture about Vlisco Recycled |
2015 October 27 | Kunstuur television interview about Vlisco Recycled |
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