Scholarship

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Scholarship

Innovation and product development are paramount at Zuiver. Due to inspirational cross-pollinations with previous co-creators, the need grew for our own ‘breeding ground’ for up-and-coming designers, where we provide them with comprehensive opportunities and experiences and equip them with knowledge during the overall process from idea to production. We want to enable students, graduates, and young designers to develop their creativity in an international learning environment and jumpstart their career as a designer. And just like that, in 2017, the Zuiver Scholarship was born. The concept is simple: a student is placed with a Zuiver manufacturer for several weeks, to develop a product from scratch. Ultimately, the design will be included in the Zuiver collection, which is available for sale worldwide. Together with ELLE Decoration Netherlands, we will follow the design talents during their process and at the end of their scholarship, they will be fully featured in the magazine with their final product. The Zuiver Scholarship offers a one-of-a-kind stepping-stone experience, which created many opportunities for our graduates in the design industry. Our previous winners include:

Pepe Valenti (2023)

Pepe Valenti (2000), born and raised in Barcelona, graduated in 2022 from the Design Academy Eindhoven, with a Bachelor in Design. He is active in the fields of product and installation design with a strong focus on materiality. Pepe has an intuitive and hands-on approach, whilst exploring his fascination for materials. The designs result from a search to understand materials and production processes, by physically experimenting with them: thinking through making. His inspiration comes from raw and untouched matters surrounding us, while his work remains very polished and refined, creating an interesting contrast between the source and the outcome.

Sarah Roseman (2022)

Sarah Roseman is a Canadian designer and graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2021. She is passionate about creating a more beautiful world through materiality and works on the boundary of textile and object. Through her playful and imaginative pieces, she aims to evoke a sense of joy. She is radical in her material choices to achieve sustainability through unique processes and new materials. As a designer and material researcher she creates material archives which lead to the creation of unique objects or to be used as industry alternatives. She will be working at a Italian manufacturer and design a chair from scratch for the Zuiver collection.

Fransje Gimbrère (2021)

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Studio Époc (2021)

Baptiste Comte: is a French Designer who combines an experimental approach and an analytical discipline gained from his previous law studies for his design process. He graduated in 2020 with his Mementum project, during his studies he interned with Henrik Vibskov. Miles Le Gras: is a French Designer who sees design as a tool to bring elements of intrigue into our daily lives, as he questions the objects that surround us and the ways that they trigger our imaginations. Le Gras recently graduated in 2020 and interned at Jean-Sébastien Lagrange. For Zuiver, studio Époc developed the Balcony Sofa at a furniture manufacturer in Lithuania.

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