NICO SMEENK

DESCRIZIONE PROFILO: Nico Smeenk studies industrial design at the ‘Technische Universiteit’ of Delft, Holland. As part of these studies, in 1983 he does a stage in the...

Nico Smeenk studies industrial design at the ‘Technische Universiteit’ of Delft, Holland. As part of these studies, in 1983 he does a stage in the studio of Andries & Hiroko van Onck in Milan, where he collaborates on the design of the folding step ‘Step’ for Magis. In 1985, after his degree, he settles definitively in Milan. He works untill 1991 with studio van Onck, designing - among many other products - electrodomestic appliances for Zanussi/Elettrolux, furniture pieces for Magis and Kartell, electronic equipment for Pantec and Amplivox. From 1991 to 1995 he is senior designer in Design Continuum Italia, operating mainly in the electro-medical sector (Boehringer Mannheim, Haemonetics). After two years as in-house designer in Girmi, where he works with Luca Meda on the design of a series of small electrodomestic appliances, he founds his own studio in 1998. The studio has since designed products for numerous clients in different sectors: AceaManodomestici, Indecasa, Cla hospital, Cefla, Geca, ACI Farfisa, Kimaldi, Famatel. In 1994 he starts teaching design methodology at the “ISIA” in Rome and from 1998 onwards he teaches industrial design at the Instituto Europeo in Milan.