Maxim Velčovský (born 17 September 1976 in Prague) is a Czech designer and educator at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He has exhibited both in the Czech Republic and internationally, and his works are represented in the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, and mudac – the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne.
His work focuses primarily on glass and porcelain. He is currently the Creative Director of Lasvit.
He was born in Prague in 1976 into the family of academic painter Josef Velčovský. From 1991 to 1995, he studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště, and from 1995 to 2002 at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, in the Ceramics and Porcelain Studio under Professor Václav Šerák.
In 2002, together with Jakub Berdych, he founded the Qubus design studio. In the following years, he pursued independent artistic work and exhibited extensively. He also collaborated on furniture design for UP závody. In 2007, he received the Designer of the Year award at the Czech Grand Design Awards.
Since 2011, he has served as Art Director at Lasvit, where, at his initiative, the company established collaborations with figures including René Roubíček and Bořek Šípek. Since the same year, he has also headed the Ceramics and Porcelain Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
In his designs, he works primarily with glass and porcelain, often operating on the border of pop art. Among his best-known works are porcelain cups inspired by the shapes of PET bottles and disposable cups (2000), vases shaped like rubber boots (2001), and a bowl in the shape of the Czech Republic (2003).
In 2010, he collaborated on the installation of the Czech Pavilion for Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
He also occasionally works in graphic design and other creative fields. Among other projects, he designed the seating composition for Kino Oko in Prague and the booklet for Racek, an album by Czech singer-songwriter Tomáš Klus.