Rop van Mierlo studied at Design Academy Eindhoven and graduated cum laude in 2008. He works with various mediums but starts his process mostly with drawing or painting. Control – or the absence of it – is an important part of his work.

He is best known for his picture book ‘Wild Animals’, which won a Dutch Design Award in 2011.

His books are sold in MoMA in New York, Design Museum London and (late) Colette in Paris, amongst others. Van Mierlo has collaborated on projects with Hermès, Marni and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

In 2019 Van Mierlo received the Vimeo Best of the Year Award in New York for his work Trippy Isolator / Dances with Wolves, a music video for DJ and producer Young Marco. Van Mierlo works and lives in Amsterdam.

For his Wild Animals project, Van Mierlo experiments with his paintings in new techniques and materials. The first result is a Panda rug, handtufted in collaboration with TextielLab (which is specialised in textile research and production) at the TextielMuseum, located in a former textile factory in Tilburg, The Netherlands.