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Pepijn Martens

Owner at S.PP.RT Design / Lead Designer at Cycleur de Luxe / Zen Running Club / Premium Inc
About

Designer / Design Director, specialised in Footwear Design. Worked internationally at Nike/Converse, Footlocker, Kalenji, Kipsta (Decathlon, FR), Patrick (Cortina, BE), Dita(NL) and Cycleur de Luxe(BE) in the total Footwear process from Trend/Consumer analysis to Conceptualisation, Development (China, Vietnam, Portugal), Brand Identity and Global Team management. Frequently asked Coach for professionals striving to make clear and successful leaps towards their career and/or personal goals, and Speaker at elementary and high-schools, passionate about inspiring kids through Design Workshops Contact me on: pep@spprt.com

Previous Brands
Converse
Cortina NV
Cruyff
Cycleur de Luxe
Decathlon
FABRIQUE
Lets-Make-it-Happen.nl
S.PP.RT
Zen Running Club
Work Experience
Senior Footwear Designer
Feb ‘23 - Now
Cruyff

Mens Footwear designer for Lifestyle, Casual, Sports and Football collections.

Owner
Jan ‘22 -
Lets-Make-it-Happen.nl

Supporting starters and dreamers with fast & fitting graphic identities, teams with logo design workshops, individual coaching and facilitating business development trainings

Partner / Lead Designer
May ‘20 -
Zen Running Club

Zen Running Club - Made from good decisions.

Lead Designer
Jan ‘18 -
Cycleur de Luxe

Lead designer of the Men's, Women's and kids footwear collections, graphic design for branding and apparel, development support.

Owner / Designer
Jan ‘17 -
S.PP.RT

>Footwear Design> Supporting international companies in creating commercial and innovative footwear. I love sinking my teeth into complete collections and processes from market&trend analyses, through design concepts and presentations, to tech-packs, blueprints and development support. But also available for partial projects; i can support brainstorm sessions, ideation, color&material, design-direction, innovation and development. >Graphic Design and Strategy> Supporting Start-ups in creating their visual brand identity and graphics. >Footwear Design Workshops > Educating teams and students about design process, footwear buidling, circularity/sustainability Minder weergeven

Lead Footwear Designer EMEA
Jan ‘12 - Dec ‘17
Converse

Senior Footwear Designer PATRICK / SAFETY JOGGER
Jan ‘08 - Dec ‘12
Cortina NV

Design & development of Patrick Soccer / Lifestyle / Safety footwear collections + private label sports-lifestyle ranges.

Brand Design Manager
Jan ‘04 - Dec ‘07
Decathlon

Brand Design Manager for Decathlon teamsports brand KIPSTA. Design Director, Team manager, Brand Identity Manager

Senior Footwear Designer
Jan ‘02 - Dec ‘08
Decathlon

Senior Designer, Performance Running and Urban Kids

Product designer
Jan ‘02 - Dec ‘05
Decathlon

Footwear, Luggage, Goalkeeper gloves and shinguards, Graphics

Designer
Jan ‘01 - Dec ‘02
FABRIQUE

Interior design projects, Signage, Corporate Identity

Languages
Dutch - Fluent
French - Fluent
German - Basic
English - Fluent
Education & Training
Design Academy Eindhoven
‘94 - ‘00
Bachelor
Delft University of Technology
‘93 - ‘94
prop
Lage Zwaluwe, Netherlands