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Nicky Vollebregt is a hands-on textile, object, and product designer researching textile craft and industrial textile techniques while uncovering innovative and unconventional applications. This exploration of form, structure and colour results in intricate materials, objects and installations -- ranging from functional to sculptural -- which highlight material appreciation and the personal stories they carry.

Studio Nicky Vollebregt advocates emotionally sustainable design, or design to cherish, as an investigation-worthy approach towards a more sustainable future. Studying how material properties can nurture a personal connection between product and owner, thereby extending product lifespan, the studio initiates design projects (such as Pollia↗ and Uncover↗) and multidisciplinary research (see Creative Connectors↗). 

 

Open to collaborations and commissions.

Studio Nicky Vollebregt is based in De Wasserij in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

programmes + courses + residencies

Driving Dutch Design, BNO + Dutch Design Foundation + Stichting Stokroos, 2024

Advanced Textile Program, Textielmuseum|Textiellab, Tilburg, 2023

→ Dutch Invertuals Academy, Dutch Invertuals, 2020

awards + grants

→ Talent Development Grant, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, 2024-2025

nomination WdKA Bachelor Research Award 2020

 nomination Drempelprijs Autonomous Practices 2020

education + internships

→ BA Product Design, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, 2016-2020

 internship Adrianus Kundert, Rotterdam, 2019

 internship Elvis Wesley, Rotterdam, 2019

points of sale

 The Frozen Fountain, Amsterdam, NL

Image credit Evy Hachmang

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