Education:

2010-2012; HDK school of design and crafts Gothenburg Sweden
Master of Child Culture Design Department

December 16th 2008; Graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven
Under the title of Bachelor of Design (BDes)


Experience:

2014; Art of toys exhibition and event, Istvan Gallery Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA

2014; Freelance work for wood and bamboo toy company Hape international

2014; PICTOPLASMA MEXICO character portrait group exhibition, MARCO
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico

2014; The Pictoplasma Portrait Gallery Kaufhaus Jandorf , Berlin Germany

2013; Exhibition Lexus Design Awards 2013 in Garage gallery Intersect by Lexus, Tokyo Japan

2013; publication of my first e-book fully illustrated novel 'The Nonoton' on major platforms

2013; ART OSAKA 2013 via OTO–Gallery and HENGE , Osaka Japan

2013: My project Calm Kayak has been selected among 12 winners of Lexus Design Award and has been exhibited in Musea della permanente Milan ,Italy

2012: Collaboration-Exhibition Met in Sweden for Tokyo Designer's week, Tokyo Japan

2011; Collaboration with BRIO for improvement of their wooden blocks

2011; solo exhibition with the theme of robots and workshop with children of international school in Gothenburg Sweden

2011; collective Exhibition Garden and play in city museum of Gothenburg Sweden with the collaboration of KOMPAN

2011; collective Exhibition Story Telling and Gothenburg in city museum of Gothenburg Sweden

2011; collective Exhibition PLAY in Rosska museum Gothenburg Sweden

2009; freelance project for fashion designer Pauline van Dongen (developing a fully 3d printed shoe for her collection)

2008; Being selected between ten best design in (un)limited design contest category best product design (The Netherlands)

2007; Working in a group of 12 and re-designing an existing electric small sized truck for Spijkstaal B.V. ( The Netherlands) .the one to one model were presented at dutch Design week 2008.

2007; 4 month internship in Enthoven Associates Design Consultants
in Antwerp, Belgium

2006; Redesigning a proposal product for Solland solar Company for
Promotional reason (Solar mobile charger) The Netherlands


Publication and Awards:


2014; Character portrait book, Pictoplasma publishing,
ISBN: 978-3-942245-06-7 Germany

2013; One of the twelve award Winners of Lexus Design Award 2012 for my Calm Kayak project

2012; My ‘Nolanders’ wooden figures has received numerous written articles on different design blogs and design news websites around the world

2011; I received a grant from ‘otto and charlotte mannheimers fond’ for my solo exhibition Robot self- confident

2010; My cushion lamp was featured in a book titled ‘Open Design Now’ (Open Design Now is a Collaborative effort of Creative Commons Netherlands, Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion for Waag Society.) http://opendesignnow.org

2008; Interview by ‘Shapeways’ about my Rosekeeper published on Shapeways blog

2008; Interview by ‘De Ingenieur magazine’ (The Netherlands) about my graduation project Office-van