Lotte de Jong

Event & Exhibition design

Utrecht, Netherlands

Work Experience

STUDIO &lotte

Creative

STUDIO &lotte is a start-up studio focusing on concept design for event and exhibition. We combine scenographic principles with spacial technologies to create new experiences for clients, audiences and ourselves.

2015 - 2018 Netherlands

VAVE GmbH

Art Director

Art Director at VAVE studio, who explores fields of communication and architecture. As part of a multidisciplinary team we love developing individual design solutions for complex tasks concerning architecture, exhibitions, trade fairs, events, showrooms, interiors, and media installations.
2013 - 2015 Germany

PINXdesign

Interior designer

This interior architecture company works on business-to-business and business-to-consumer projects. Involved in a small company and working close with the principal and director. On the work floor there are all facets of work, projects are developed from start to finish.
2013 - 2013 Netherlands

Mbrela

Designer

Designed and commissioned by Mbrella, the design brief was to design a product related to the word ‘play’. Boksy was the end product, a simple polycarbonate/polyethylene box with a functional inner foam core. It responds to the multiple movements of the user. Boksy has been presented at the SaloneSatallite 2011 (Milano, Italy) and The National Centre for Craft and Design 2012 (Sleaford, UK).

September 2010 - September 2011 Lincoln, United Kingdom

EGM Architects

Internship

Internship in the interior architecture department let me deal with full-size projects, and enabled me to work closely together with a creative team of interior designers and architects. This experience taught me valuable skills in large scale drawing and detailing in AutoCAD, 2D and 3D.
January 2009 - July 2009 Dordrecht, Netherlands

Education

University Of Lincoln (England)

MA Design for Exhibition and Museums​

Thirteen months based on personal design development, particularly the relationship between the design processes, theories and how they are linked together. Personal interest was a design issue on the behavior and intellectual movement of visitors within spatial design. This research gives a better understanding of the communication between the designer and the visitor/user.
September 2011 - December 2012 Lincoln, United Kingdom

University Of Lincoln (England)

BA (hons) Product Design

Product Design gave me the chance to develop material knowledge this increased while designing Boksy. Understand the exploration of ergonomics and customer usage of a product.
September 2010 - August 2011 Lincoln, United Kingdom

SintLucas

MBO Interior Design

​Four years of training in interior design. Working with spatial design to enhance the feeling of a space through materials, lighting, colours and space layout.
A business related course incorporating life client presentations and projects.
August 2006 - August 2010 Boxtel, Netherlands

Languages

Dutch (Native),
English (Fluent),
German (Conversational),

Skills

3ds Max, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Autocad 2D/3D, Hand Sketching, Model Making, Presentation Skills, Technical Drawing, Vectorworks,