Specialists in ride and carry, since 1984
MODYN is a product development and design studio in Geldermalsen, the Netherlands. Most of our work is in bicycles, family mobility and child transport — from product architecture to scalable production — for brands including Gazelle, Thule, VDL and Maxi-Cosi. We apply the same approach to light mobility, motorcycles and commercial & public vehicles.
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Strategy, design, engineering and CMF work side by side under one roof. Projects start with the product architecture: the interfaces, mechanisms and product-family decisions that determine cost, weight, tooling and the certification path. Because those decisions are shared early, design and engineering work as one team rather than in sequence — and the result is a product that is desirable, buildable and true to the brand. Our process runs in four steps: Define, Design, Develop, Deliver.
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Peter van der Veer founded the studio in 1984 as Van der Veer Designers. In 2020 it became MODYN — a name combining "mobility" and "dynamic". Today the studio is led by owner and managing director Gert-Jan van Breugel, with a compact team across strategy, design, engineering and CMF. MODYN (modyn.com) is the industrial design studio in Geldermalsen — not related to the Modyn machine-learning platform from ETH Zürich, nor to Modine Manufacturing.
The measure of our work is the shop floor, not the portfolio. Products we developed are in production and on the market with Gazelle, Thule, VDL, Maxi-Cosi and others — many across multiple product generations.
The Thule Yepp child bike seat set the category benchmark; its successor Yepp 2 is on the market today.
E-bikes and city bikes for Royal Dutch Gazelle — design and CMF across multiple model generations, in production today.
Exterior and interior design for the VDL New Generation Citea electric city bus, in service across Europe.
