Nikol Petkova
Graphic & Motion
Designer

Hey! I’m 23 years old graphic and motion designer. Born in Bulgaira and based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I tend to make motion graphics, books and I love doing videos and photography. In my free time I tend to dance a lot and this connects me with the motion even more! I see design as a practice to move people in a certain way.

Education

2021-2025

2018-2021

Work Experience

01-06.2024

06.2024-ongoing

11.2019- 01.2020

Willem De Kooning Academie
Bachelor Graphic Design, Social Practice
Rotterdam, Netherlands

SoftUni Creative
Sofia, Bulgaria

Alt8, Internship

Freelancer, Studio Design Mooves

Post-Production Intern

For the last 4 years I worked on printed publications, motion graphics, creative coding and interactive design. I specialised with Social Design and my main focus was Editorial and Motion design.

I attended SoftUni Creative while doing my studies in high school. During the day I studied English literature and in the evening I was going to Softuni where we studied graphic and web design, video effects and video editing, 3D animation and visualization.

The internship taught me about presenting ideas, preparing different solutions and executing them. Since then, I developed a better structure throughout my projects and a stronger level of concept development.

While being a freelancer, I had the opportunity to work on Social Media content for Rechten van de Natuur. I had a pleasure working together with Sascha Vreekamp. Alongside that, I’ve been working on branding, film title designs and social media content.

The ministry of education wanted to make series of interviews of professionals from different fields . My task was to assist during filming and work on the post-production.

Exhibitions

11.2025

Shortlisted, Publication Design
ADCE Europe Student Awards , Barcelona, Spain

07.2025

Graduation Show, WdKA
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

05-09.2025

Chamount Graphic Design Biennale
Chamount, France

2018-2019

Short film competition 1st Place
Huawei Short Film Festival 3rd Place
Sofia, Bulgaria