Zmatek

Zuzana Zmateková is a freelance textile and print designer and an independent textile artist currently based in Helsinki. Her work is inspired by topics and issues such as consumerist society, sustainability, tradition versus innovation, new media, digital aesthetics and material innovation. Zuzana has earned her Master’s degree at Aalto School of Art, Design, and Architecture in Finland, where she studied Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design. There, she has developed  her competencies in textile techniques such as surface design, digital and screen printing and weaving specialising in jacquard. Her design style has been further developed during an exchange program at the Lodz University of Technology and later in the Textile Design Innovation Studio at the Nottingham Trent University. Besides these study visits, she participated in a long-term internship in a Volkswagen Colour and Trim design studio in Wolfsburg, Germany and in the renowned fashion studio Alexander McQueen in London. Moreover, using digital programs and different new media, she has been experimenting and reaching beyond the boundaries of the conventional reception and understanding of textiles as well as the message it may convey via such a strong communication medium as design.