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 |
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2010-2015 |
Design Academy Eindhoven |
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2013 |
Minor in ceramics |
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2009-2010 |
Photography course UCK |
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2008-2009 |
Design Academy Eindhoven |
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2008-2009 |
Minor in ceramics |
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2002-2008 |
Photography course UCK |
Projects |
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2023 |
Creative Residency Arita, Japan |
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2023 |
Series of Portraits (made from residual Vlisco material) |
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2023 |
Series of Post-Planets and Soft Stools (made from residual Vlisco material) |
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2023 |
Series of Cotton Cabinets (made from residual Vlisco material) |
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2022 |
Steptrack for Stichting Jarige Job |
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2022 |
Window display design, Hermès, Tokyo Ginza |
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2021 |
Four Tenths a collaboration with Seok Yoon (bouwen aan talent programma, Stimuleringsfonds) |
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2021 |
Complete make-over of exterior Vlisco headquarters Helmond |
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2021 |
Wildflowers Vlisco recycled series on show at Rademakers Gallery |
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2021 |
Lasting leather hides and bean bags |
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2021 |
New Old Chairs Multicolour series |
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2020 |
Lakenvazen together with Cor Unum Ceramics |
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2019 |
Sinuous, woven carpet design for Kvadrat |
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2019 |
Stripped Down Stripes, carpet made out of sportshoes in collab. with Adidas and I:CO |
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2018 |
New Old Chairs Black and White serie |
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2017 October |
Book Envisions ‘Wood in Process’ in collaboration with Finsa, Studio Aandacht, Tekst Floor Kuitert & Lauen Grieco, Drukkerij Zwaan, Preface Hella Jongerius |
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2017 October |
Post-Plastic a collaboration with plastic recycling company Eco-Oh |
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2017 September |
Turn Around, plaids and cushion for Return to Sender |
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017 January |
Printing blocks, Made in India |
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2017 April |
Book: Products in Process, part 2 in collaboration with Envisions |
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2017 |
Envisions | Wood in Process | In collaboration with Finsa |
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2016 |
RGB funfair, color installation with Envisions |
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2016 October |
Envisions | Products in Process part 2 (exhibition) |
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2016 |
Wood Weavings |
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2016 April |
Envisions | Products in Process part 1 (exhibition) |
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2016 |
Necklaces for the new fashion show by Liselore Frowijn |
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2016 |
Post-Vlisco the book, a book designed and produced by me containing the complete Post-Vlisco research |
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2015 |
Textielmuseum, design “The Teacher and The Taught” plaid for the ‘By Textielmuseum’ collection, mentored by Hella Jongerius/Jongeriuslab |
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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 |
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2014 |
Childlike, a research of products based on children’s drawings |
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2014 |
Hema, design ‘blijzetkruk’ taken into production Honourable mention, Hema Design Competition |
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2014 |
Nipple tassels for a Vengaboys video clip by Ine&Sanne |
Awards |
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2022 |
Rising Talent Award Maison et Objet Paris |
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2022 |
Dutch Design Award Best Commissioning for project with Vlisco. |
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2019 |
Winner Design Prize Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Noord-Brabant |
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2019 |
Nominee best emerging designer Dezeen, winner yet to be announced |
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2019 |
Winner Dutch Design Award, Young Designer |
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2019 |
Winner Creative Heroes Award scale 1:100.000 |
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2019 |
bi-annual DesignPrice 2019, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds |
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2018 |
Dezeen Emerging Designer of the Year 2018 with Envisions |
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2018 |
Design Talent of the year by Volkskrant, Dutch Newspaper |
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2017 |
Nominee Keep an Eye Grant with Envisions |
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2017 |
Nominee Dutch Design Award, Best Design Research with Envisions |
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2017 |
Nominee Creative Heroes Award with Envisions |
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2017 |
Winner Domotex Carpet Design Award, Best Studio Artist |
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2016 |
Nominee Dutch Design Award, Product, Post-Vlisco |
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2016 |
Nominee New Material Award 2016, Post-Vlisco |
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2015 |
Winner Keep an Eye Grant |
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2015 |
Winner Renee Smeets Award |
Exhibitions & Fairs (selection) |
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2023 3 – 7 May |
Kunstrai, Amsterdam |
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2023 18 – 23 April |
Basketclub, Salone del Mobile Milan |
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202318 – 23 April |
75 jaar Cor Unum, Milan |
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2023 5 – 10 April |
PAD Art/Design Paris, Rademakers Gallery |
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2023 8-10 Maart |
Material District, Utrecht, NL |
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2023 22-23 Jan |
ModeFabriek,Amsterdam NL |
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2023 8 -12 Jan |
Heimtextiel, Franklintill, Frankfurt, DE |
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2022 20 – 27 Nov |
Pan Amsterdam, NL |
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2022 Sept 15 – 18 |
Glue ism Kvadrat and Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam NL |
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2022 Sept 8 – 19 |
Atelier Neerlandais, Paris, FR |
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2022 Sept 8 – 12 |
Maison et Objet, Paris, FR |
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2022 July 8 – 10 |
North Sea Jazz, Womans platform Rotterdam, NL |
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2022 July – jan 2023 |
Knots & Knits Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale, Finland |
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2022 June 7 – 12 |
DAE, Milan, It |
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2022 May 20 – 22 |
Object Rotterdam, NL |
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2022 April 13 – 17 |
Kunstrai ism Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam NL |
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2022 April 5 – 7 |
Material District, Utrecht, NL |
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2022 Feb – April |
Candy window display, Hermes, Ginza, Tokyo ,JAPAN |
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2021 Sept 3 – Oct 31 |
No Waste’ solo at Rademakers Gallery Amsterdam |
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2021 Aug 21 – Sept 5 |
Selvedge World Fair – A celebration of cloth, culture and creativity, digital |
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2021 July 1 – 4 |
Lakenvaas & New Old Chairs – OBJECT Rotterdam |
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2021 July 1 – 4 |
New Old Chairs – Rademakers Gallery – Art Rotterdam |
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2021 June 10 – Oct 3 |
Vlisco Prints – Grassi Museum for Applied Arts Leizpig |
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2021 May 18 – Aug 15 |
Chintz: Cotton in Bloom – Fashion and Textile Museum London |
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2021 April 3 – May 23 |
Wildflowers – Rademakers Gallery Amsterdam |
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2021 April 28 |
WCC Europe Webinar: Craft and Sustainability |
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2020 Oct 02 – 2021 May 30 |
Fantastic Plastic – Moscow Design Museum |
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2020 Sep 8 – Nov 8 |
La Manufacture Labour of Love by Lidewij Edelkoort in Lille |
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2019 Sep 16 – 22 |
Materials’ Future Life by Material Sense, Tallinn, Estonia |
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2019 July 6 – 14 |
(NO) MORE WASTE, Gdynia Design Days 2019, Poland |
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2019 June 7 |
Envisions, Silver in Process, Silver Museum Schoonhoven |
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2019 June 1 – August 18 |
Designprijs Noord-Brabant 2019, Design Museum Den Bosch |
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2019 May & October |
Grand Designs Live – Green Heroes, London & Birmingham |
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2019 May 14 – 17 |
Urban Living forum at Techtextil/Texprocess 2019, Messe Frankfurt |
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2019 May 17 – 23 |
FUTURE DESIGN, Desa Potato Head, Bali |
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2019 March 12 – 14 |
Textiles & Fabrics Sector, MaterialDistrict Rotterdam |
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2019 March 6 – 9 |
New Materials & Applications Hall, NEUNI x Design Shanghai |
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2019 February 7-17 |
Envisions x Finsa, Madrid Design Festival, Spain |
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2019 February 5-7 |
Surface Design Show, London |
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2018 September 20-23 |
London Design Fair, Truman Old Brewery in London |
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2018 September 7 -11 |
Maison et Objet, Paris |
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2018 May 18 – June 30 |
Summershow, Rock Paper Salt Air Exhibition, Mint Gallery in London |
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2018 May 25 – June 22 |
We are HERE/NOW, an exhibition highlighting Dutch Design, Austria |
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2018 April 23 |
Utrecht Centraal Museum, exhibiting their new acquisitions, Utrecht |
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2018 April 5 – August 19 |
Design Histories between Africa and Europe, Museum of Ethnology Hamburg |
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2018 April 16 – 22 |
Envisions, Wood in Progress, Salone del Mobile, Milan |
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2018 April 16 – 22 |
Design Language Hotel, Human Nature, designing the equilibrium, Milan |