Our design team

Our creative team collaborate with young designers across Europe, embracing partnerships with local design studios, eco-conscious companies, and our Scholarship’s designers of tomorrow. Together, we challenge ourselves for a better tomorrow by meaningful designs that help live our best life and maintain lasting relevance.

Laurie Roijackers is an industrial designer, focused on lighting design. Laurie loves to blend form, function and materials into the design of a product. While minimalism is key she also likes to add a playful touch.

Dutch design studio Suolle, founded by Tom Dissel and Timon Scholten, is located in Zwolle. A direct reference to the Germanic origin of the word ‘Suolle’, which means an elevation or hill that rose so far above the marshland to keep the feet of residents dry. The name of “their” city Zwolle is also originated from this Germanic term. So giving design and interior design a literal pedestal is what captures their work the best.

Nadine Kümmel Design is a creative studio, with a focus on furniture design, spatial conception and sustainable development, founded in 2015 in Mainz Germany. Particular attentian is placed on user-based functionality and emotionally appealing aesthetics. "For me, good design is still very classically defined by Dieter Rams' standards and design principles, whereby I would add to the all known "form follows function" and say that emotional aesthetics is also a function for me. A function that, in addition to the technical aspects, often decides whether the user uses a product or not. With good design, everything has to work together.“

Erik Sluijs is a designer from Utrecht, the Netherlands. He graduated in 2021 as a product designer from the University of the Arts in Utrecht. His work varies from designs for large-scale production to self-made wall pieces for art galleries. The origin of all his works comes from experimenting with materials, with a particular predilection for plaster. His designs are constantly evolving because of his constant search for new materials and techniques.

Studio JOACHIM-MORINEAU is a design studio founded by Carla Joachim and Jordan Morineau, based in Eindhoven. Carla and Jordan intend to produce a modern language at the edge of Collectible design and functional objects. They believe having influences from the past creates emotional and visual links with the users. By reflecting on their current design practice and studying more crafts and industrial techniques, they pursue their research for new aesthetics and surprising outcomes. Carla and Jordan first worked together during their studies in Paris at ENSAAMA. They moved to the Design Academy in Eindhoven and graduated with honours from Man and Activity in 2018. Their graduation project was the starting point of the company.