Hello.
My name is nick mattan.
b. 1987 in Lokeren, Belgium.
Antwerp based graphic designer
contact
nickmattan01@gmail.com
T +0498 36 18 80
beeld Joëlle Desmet
EDUCATION & WORK
2018 - 2023: teacher Luca - C-mine, Genk
2016 - current: teacher graphic design Sint-Lucas, KdG Hogeschool, Antwerp
2016 - current: graphic designer at Ontroerend Goed
2012 - current: freelance graphic designer
2012 - current: graphic designer at ONBETAALBAAR
2012 - 2016 graphic designer at Tonijn
2012 Internship at studio Bolster
2008 Internship at ZAP
2012, master in graphic design at KASK, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent.
2011, bachelor in graphic design at KASK, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent.
2008, bachelor in Communication at Artevelde Hogeschool, Ghent
SELECTED BLOGS & PUBLICATIONS
Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2024, der Katalog
Cut That Out: Contemporary Collage in Graphic Design, Thames and Hudson
It's Nice That
Typographic Posters
We Occupy
People of Print
Low Country
Lions & Vultures
Kwintessen, Class of 2012, 80 graduating projects
AWARDS / NOMINATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
selection, “most beautiful German books” with “An Rändern”, 2024
Official DocLab Selection for TM at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival), 2021
Billboard Project Antwerpen, 2020
Norwegian pavilion at The Inaugural International Autonomous Biennale at The Research Pavilion, Venice, 2017
Cut That Out, KK OUTLET - London, 2016
Typographic Posters, a curated platform with a focus on typography and pure forms of graphic design, 2016
selection Mad Suprize! Young Belgian Design Award 2015
Young, Creative, Chevrolet, 2012 (2nd place)
CLIENTS
CAMPO, GRIP, B&L, Berlin, KMSKA, VI.BE, Kunstwerkt, Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, LUCA, HISK, OBERON books, De Standaard, Flanders Fashion Institute, de Beurschouwburg, Flanders Image, BELGIUM BOOMS, Platvorm K, KunstWerkt, Ontroerend Goed, Stad Antwerpen, Compagnie Barbarie, Designregio Kortrijk, ONBETAALBAAR, Vooruit, Sint-Lukas Academie, Red Fish Factory, Wies Hermans, Sonic City, Action Zoo Humain, theater tartaar, Lumière, Maria Scarpulla, Het Oude Badhuis, KdG, Toneelacademie Maastricht, Alex Verhaest, zap, Tonijn, Big in Belgium, the other shop, A Private View, de Wereldvrede, Bokrijk, stadsdichter Maud Vanhauwaert, Nico Boon, de foodarcheoloog, Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains, Atelier in Beeld, deAuteurs, Het Wilde Westen, De Standaard, ...
2018 - 2023: teacher Luca - C-mine, Genk
2016 - current: teacher graphic design Sint-Lucas, KdG Hogeschool, Antwerp
2016 - current: graphic designer at Ontroerend Goed
2012 - current: freelance graphic designer
2012 - current: graphic designer at ONBETAALBAAR
2012 - 2016 graphic designer at Tonijn
2012 Internship at studio Bolster
2008 Internship at ZAP
2012, master in graphic design at KASK, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent.
2011, bachelor in graphic design at KASK, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent.
2008, bachelor in Communication at Artevelde Hogeschool, Ghent
SELECTED BLOGS & PUBLICATIONS
Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2024, der Katalog
Cut That Out: Contemporary Collage in Graphic Design, Thames and Hudson
It's Nice That
Typographic Posters
We Occupy
People of Print
Low Country
Lions & Vultures
Kwintessen, Class of 2012, 80 graduating projects
AWARDS / NOMINATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
selection, “most beautiful German books” with “An Rändern”, 2024
Official DocLab Selection for TM at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival), 2021
Billboard Project Antwerpen, 2020
Norwegian pavilion at The Inaugural International Autonomous Biennale at The Research Pavilion, Venice, 2017
Cut That Out, KK OUTLET - London, 2016
Typographic Posters, a curated platform with a focus on typography and pure forms of graphic design, 2016
selection Mad Suprize! Young Belgian Design Award 2015
Young, Creative, Chevrolet, 2012 (2nd place)
CLIENTS
CAMPO, GRIP, B&L, Berlin, KMSKA, VI.BE, Kunstwerkt, Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, LUCA, HISK, OBERON books, De Standaard, Flanders Fashion Institute, de Beurschouwburg, Flanders Image, BELGIUM BOOMS, Platvorm K, KunstWerkt, Ontroerend Goed, Stad Antwerpen, Compagnie Barbarie, Designregio Kortrijk, ONBETAALBAAR, Vooruit, Sint-Lukas Academie, Red Fish Factory, Wies Hermans, Sonic City, Action Zoo Humain, theater tartaar, Lumière, Maria Scarpulla, Het Oude Badhuis, KdG, Toneelacademie Maastricht, Alex Verhaest, zap, Tonijn, Big in Belgium, the other shop, A Private View, de Wereldvrede, Bokrijk, stadsdichter Maud Vanhauwaert, Nico Boon, de foodarcheoloog, Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains, Atelier in Beeld, deAuteurs, Het Wilde Westen, De Standaard, ...