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
Education
 

2010-2015

Design Academy Eindhoven

2013

Minor in ceramics

2009-2010

Photography course UCK
Christelijk Gymnasium Utrecht (A-levels equivalent

2008-2009

Design Academy Eindhoven

2008-2009

Minor in ceramics

2002-2008

Photography course UCK
Christelijk Gymnasium Utrecht (A-levels equivalent

   
Projects
 

2023

Creative Residency Arita, Japan

2023

Series of Portraits (made from residual Vlisco material)

2023

Series of Post-Planets and Soft Stools (made from residual Vlisco material)

2023

Series of Cotton Cabinets (made from residual Vlisco material)

2022

Steptrack for Stichting Jarige Job

2022

Window display design, Hermès, Tokyo Ginza

2021

Four Tenths a collaboration with Seok Yoon (bouwen aan talent programma, Stimuleringsfonds)

2021

Complete make-over of exterior Vlisco headquarters Helmond

2021

Wildflowers Vlisco recycled series on show at Rademakers Gallery

2021

Lasting leather hides and bean bags

2021

New Old Chairs Multicolour series

2020

Lakenvazen together with Cor Unum Ceramics

2019

Sinuous, woven carpet design for Kvadrat

2019

Stripped Down Stripes, carpet made out of sportshoes in collab. with Adidas and I:CO

2018

New Old Chairs Black and White serie

2017 October

Book Envisions ‘Wood in Process’ in collaboration with Finsa, Studio Aandacht, Tekst Floor Kuitert & Lauen Grieco, Drukkerij Zwaan, Preface Hella Jongerius

2017 October

Post-Plastic a collaboration with plastic recycling company Eco-Oh

2017 September

Turn Around, plaids and cushion for Return to Sender

017 January

Printing blocks, Made in India

2017 April

Book: Products in Process, part 2 in collaboration with Envisions

2017

Envisions | Wood in Process | In collaboration with Finsa

2016

RGB funfair, color installation with Envisions

2016 October

Envisions | Products in Process part 2 (exhibition)

2016

Wood Weavings

2016 April

Envisions | Products in Process part 1 (exhibition)

2016

Necklaces for the new fashion show by Liselore Frowijn

2016

Post-Vlisco the book, a book designed and produced by me containing the complete Post-Vlisco research

2015

Textielmuseum, design “The Teacher and The Taught” plaid for the ‘By Textielmuseum’ collection, mentored by Hella Jongerius/Jongeriuslab

2014 – now

Post-Vlisco, designing new applications for Vlisco’s waste material. The industrial production process is being set up in collaboration with LABEL/BREED

2014

Childlike, a research of products based on children’s drawings

2014

Hema, design ‘blijzetkruk’ taken into production Honourable mention, Hema Design Competition

2014

Nipple tassels for a Vengaboys video clip by Ine&Sanne

Awards
 

2022

Rising Talent Award Maison et Objet Paris

2022

Dutch Design Award Best Commissioning for project with Vlisco.

2019

Winner Design Prize Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Noord-Brabant

2019

Nominee best emerging designer Dezeen, winner yet to be announced

2019

Winner Dutch Design Award, Young Designer

2019

Winner Creative Heroes Award scale 1:100.000

2019

bi-annual DesignPrice 2019, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds

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 with Envisions

2017

Nominee Dutch Design Award, Best Design Research with Envisions

2017

Nominee Creative Heroes Award with Envisions

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

Exhibitions & Fairs (selection)
 

2023 3 – 7 May

Kunstrai, Amsterdam

2023 18 – 23 April

Basketclub, Salone del Mobile Milan

202318 – 23 April

75 jaar Cor Unum, Milan

2023 5 – 10 April

PAD Art/Design Paris, Rademakers Gallery

2023 8-10 Maart

Material District, Utrecht, NL

2023 22-23 Jan

ModeFabriek,Amsterdam NL

2023 8 -12 Jan

Heimtextiel, Franklintill, Frankfurt, DE

2022 20 – 27 Nov

Pan Amsterdam, NL

2022 Sept 15 – 18

Glue ism Kvadrat and Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam NL

2022 Sept 8 – 19

Atelier Neerlandais, Paris, FR

2022 Sept 8 – 12

Maison et Objet, Paris, FR

2022 July 8 – 10

North Sea Jazz, Womans platform Rotterdam, NL

2022 July – jan 2023

Knots & Knits Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale, Finland

2022 June 7 – 12

DAE, Milan, It

2022 May 20 – 22

Object Rotterdam, NL

2022 April 13 – 17

Kunstrai ism Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam NL

2022 April 5 – 7

Material District, Utrecht, NL

2022 Feb – April

Candy window display, Hermes, Ginza, Tokyo ,JAPAN

2021 Sept 3 – Oct 31

No Waste’ solo at Rademakers Gallery Amsterdam

2021 Aug 21 – Sept 5

Selvedge World Fair – A celebration of cloth, culture and creativity, digital

2021 July 1 – 4

Lakenvaas & New Old Chairs – OBJECT Rotterdam

2021 July 1 – 4

New Old Chairs – Rademakers Gallery – Art Rotterdam

2021 June 10 – Oct 3

Vlisco Prints – Grassi Museum for Applied Arts Leizpig

2021 May 18 – Aug 15

Chintz: Cotton in Bloom – Fashion and Textile Museum London

2021 April 3 – May 23

Wildflowers – Rademakers Gallery Amsterdam

2021 April 28

WCC Europe Webinar: Craft and Sustainability

2020 Oct 02 – 2021 May 30

Fantastic Plastic – Moscow Design Museum

2020 Sep 8 – Nov 8

La Manufacture Labour of Love by Lidewij Edelkoort in Lille

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 & October

Grand Designs Live – Green Heroes, London & Birmingham

2019 May 14 – 17

Urban Living forum at Techtextil/Texprocess 2019, Messe Frankfurt

2019 May 17 – 23

FUTURE DESIGN, Desa Potato Head, Bali

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, Spain

2019 February 5-7

Surface Design Show, London

2018 September 20-23

London Design Fair, Truman Old Brewery in London

2018 September 7 -11

Maison et Objet, Paris

2018 May 18 – June 30

Summershow, Rock Paper Salt Air Exhibition, Mint Gallery in London

2018 May 25 – June 22

We are HERE/NOW, an exhibition highlighting Dutch Design, Austria

2018 April 23

Utrecht Centraal Museum, exhibiting their new acquisitions, Utrecht

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

2018 April 16 – 22

Design Language Hotel, Human Nature, designing the equilibrium, Milan