Jessica Nielsen
40 // Jessica Nielsen grew up in the south of Spain and moved to the Netherlands when she was 10 years old. She studied Graphic Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and is now based there in a city-centre studio, which she shares with friends. Her work is mainly influenced by nature, which provides her with endless inspiration for shapes and colours. Jessica has designed for all kinds of products, from wrapping paper to homewares, for all kinds of clients, including magazines, architecture firms and even a wine store. Her ambition for the future is to collaborate with inspiring companies and see her patterns applied to different objects and products. Her dream commission would be to design for ‘a certain Finnish company...’
Design Heroes: Charles and Ray Eames
Hills 2, Hills Cushion
A classic scales design is given a fresh look as stylized hills. On a cushion, it looks striking when arranged in a broken stripe.
Graphic Flowers
Jessica has achieved a graphic clarity by reducing the natural shape of a flower to its simplest form.
Lotus
Criss-crossed lines make this stylized flower more textural.
Bundles
Bundles of gathered sticks arranged in alternating directions seem to form a square pattern.