I teach sketching classes and workshops to help aspiring and professional designers unlock their creative superpower.
I have been teaching for over twenty-five years at various institutes including: TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, Royal Academy of Art (KABK), Hague University of Applied Science, Imperial College London, Umeå Institute of Design and SVA New York.
I have also worked as a professional designer at several international firms and now run my own studio.
I strongly believe that our hands hold creative superpower. A well trained hand can truly perform design magic ✨.
I look forward to seeing you unleash your superpower in one of my courses or workshops!
Martijn van de Wiel
Contact me for inquiries about guest lectures, keynote talks, teaching jobs, course development, licensing content or custom workshops for your organisation.
Design schools Martijn has worked with include:
The Design Sketching™ label was founded by Martijn van de Wiel to promote sketching as a vehicle to support visual thinking and unlock creativity.
Here on this platform, Martijn aims to make his content available for other creators and design professionals. With his online courses, hands-on workshops and other recourses he aims to help you develop your sketching skill and unleash your creative superpower!
Teaching from experience:
Check out how Martijn uses his sketching skill professionally to design real life products.
People I love to work with!
Kevin is a brilliant author, designer and educator affiliated with the University of Illinois in Chicago.
He teamed up with Martijn several times to co-teach a series of remote and onsite workshops at various design schools including SVA New York and Imperial College Londen.
Kevin is also the first guest on the brand new Design Sketching Podcast!
Kevin's first book:
http://drawingforproductdesigners.com
Maarten is a hyper creative exhibition designer with an appetite for curiosity.
He has collaborated with Martijn many times on both spatial design as well as educational (design) projects.
Maarten is also co-host on the weekly sketchTV series that he produced together with Martijn for the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University Delft.
Maarten's design studio:
https://www.evenmore.nl
Edwin is a self educated super talent doing amazing design projects for major Dutch clients including KLM and Fokker Next Gen.
Over the years Martijn and Edwin have collaborated frequently in industrial design projects as well as in teaching design sketching classes at The Hague University of Applied Science.
Edwin's proficiency in 3D modelling and rendering capabilities are simply amazing!
Edwin's design studio:
http://studio-oso.nl
These three sketching heroes have been instrumental in co-hosting and assisting Martijn's live sketch-along sessions simultaneously to three full lecture rooms, each one of them supporting ±50 students individually at the Technical University Eindhoven.
They have recently also joined Martijn to assist in the development and implementation of new workshop materials based on sketching in VR!
Philip: https://www.instagram.com/philvanveel/