Michiel van den Brink is a Dutch design artist, born in Barneveld at 23 october 1977.

After his study Industrial Design at the Delft Technical University he started working as an industrial designer, expressing a strong passion for everything mobile, pure, simple and efficient. Combining these characteristics with clear and simple shapes into a beautiful and useable product is Van den Brink’s strength and true passion. Whether he works on cars, bikes, furniture or sculptures, Michiel strives to create objects of timeless beauty.

The ultimate combination of mobility, simplicity, low weight and optimal efficiency can be seen in bicycle design. Michiel’s insight in this matter resulted in the ‘MITKA‘, a new mobility concept for individual transport, and a collection of racing and touring bicycles for Jan Janssen; the first Dutchman ever to win the Tour de France (1968).

Michiel began his career as a car designer in 2005 at Spyker Cars NV in The Netherlands, where he created the exterior and interior styling of the D8 Peking to Paris SSUV, which was first shown at the 2006 Geneva Autosalon.

In 2006 Van den Brink teamed up with entrepreneur Ir. Robert C.A. Koumans to start his own automotive design company Vandenbrink Design. The company was set up to design and produce custom coachwork for highly exclusive sports cars, of which the first was Van den Brink’s design for a new Ferrari GTO. Designed as a tribute to the 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO, the Ferrari 599 GTB-based Vandenbrink GTO received much acclaim by press and public and has been awarded the GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2008 by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.

In April 2010, the time came for Van den Brink to continue his business as an independent designer, leaving Vandenbrink Design to his business partner Robert Koumans. Vandenbrink Design continues the development of the GTO, while Michiel will create new designs under the “Atelier Michiel van den Brink” name.