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Hannah Kansy (she/her) works as a Graphic Designer, Artistic Researcher, Educator and Printmaker. With a multidisciplinary approach, her work ranges from the conception, design and production of publications, posters, visual identities, digital experiences, interior objects, and exhibition spaces. Alongside the client-based projects, she dedicates time to a personal practice in illustration and printing. She is currently based in Rotterdam, NL. Feel free to reach out via hello@hannahkansy.com

︎︎︎Fields of work
  • Editorial Design
  • Branding & Identity
  • Spatial Installations
  • Signage & Wayfinding
  • UI & UX Design
  • Illustration
  • Printmaking


︎︎︎Education


︎︎︎Collaborators
  • Foundation We Are
  • IABR, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
  • Panorama Ukraine
  • Archiprix
  • Koehorst in ’t Veld
  • Concrete Culture
  • PlaceBased
  • The New Raw
  • A House For Home
  • Monika Huber
  • Design Academy Eindhoven
  • Podimo
  • Bureau Johannes Erler
  • Heine/Lenz/Zizka
  • Hirmer Publishers
  • Deutscher Kunstverlag
  • De Rotterdammer
  • Engage Rotterdam
  • Bauhaus Dessau
  • Kooperative Grossstadt
  • Super Glue Gallery
  • Meisje in het Wit
  • Eat Your Feelings
  • KETTER&Co


︎︎︎Talks / Workshops
2025
  • Speculative City Futures, Print Workshop, Engage Rotterdam, NL
  • Graphic Design Lecture, Archiprix, NL

2024

2022
  • Ecological Domination, Talk, Dutch Design Week, NL

2021
  • After-Monument, Moderation, Dutch Design Week, NL


︎︎︎Exhibitions / Design Markets
2025
  • Give Print a Chance, Print Workers Barcelona, ES
  • Design Market Delfshaven, NL
  • Design Market, Sun Studio, NL
  • Spuren der Demokratie, Neue Galerie Landshut, GER
  • GRAW, Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend, NL
  • Graphic Design Fair, Nieuwe Instituut, NL
  • The Usual, with De Rotterdammer, NL
  • La Bru, with De Rotterdammer, NL

2024
  • Print is not that, International Poster Festival, GER
  • Design and Craft Market at Huidenclub, NL
  • Design Market, Zoho, NL
  • GRAW, Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend, NL
  • Pressing Matters, with whywhynot, Milan Design Week, IT
  • Pressing Matters, with whywhynot, Art Week, NL

2023 – 2020
  • Vrouwen en het veen, Arti et Amicitiae, NL
  • The Crowded Sea, Dutch Design Week, NL
  • Scales of Access, Dutch Design Week, NL
  • Internationals In The City, Van Abbe Museum, NL


︎︎︎Founder
  • whywhynot, Interdisciplinary Art/Design Collective, NL
  • De Cheap Journal, Student-run Magazine, Design Academy Eindhoven, NL

︎︎︎Nominations / Awards / Grants
  • German Design Award Newcomer Nominee, 2025
  • Building Talent, 2023