Natassia Jacobs was born in the Netherlands in 1968. She studied industrial design and engineering at the technical university of Delft, where she completed her masters in Design.

While graduating she was asked to join Philips Design where she worked on several design projects. She went independent 4 years later, completed a new study about crafting leather and specialized in creating leather bags.

She has a longstanding teaching relationship with the Design Academy Eindhoven where she teaches since 2000.