Pieter Woudt, a graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, relocated to New York in 1988, where he worked for MTV as a senior designer for 5 years. During this period he received awards from the likes of Print, Communications Arts, and Broadcast Design Association.

212-BIG-BOLT is the New York design firm founded in 1993 by Pieter Woudt. Since 1998 Woudt has been designing products as well as running his design firm. Woudt and/or his work have been featured in magazines and books such as Dutch, Print, P-I-E Books and Unholy Alliance.

Clients include: Classic Sports Network, Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, ecount, Effective Brands, ESPN, Fountainhead, Gallery Spark, Jay-Vee Records, Jazz Foundation of America, Kikkerland, M/K Advertising, MTV, Museum at FIT, Photonica, Postworks, Relay, Rittor Music, Rock The Vote, Showtime, The Verbs, UNIF/X, USA Networks, VH1, VIACOM, Z100.



Besides designing Pieter plays the trumpet and has played on several records/cd’s, most popular one is with Matisyahu.

Pieter lives in Brooklyn with his partner Ulalume, daughter Anouk and son Maximiliano.