Piet Stockmans was an industrial designer at the Royal Mosa porcelain factory in Maastricht from 1966 to 1989. In 1989 he became a freelance designer, in addition to his free work as an artist.

Between 1969 and 1998, he taught industrial design in the product design department at the Stedelijk Hoger Instituut voor Visuele Kommunikatie en Vormgeving, later the Media & Design Academy in Genk, and from 1983 to 1985 taught ceramic design at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

As a designer, a retrospective exhibition of his work was on display at the Design Museum in Ghent in the fall of 2010. His creations are regularly used by media figures as star chef Sergio Herman or the Prince and Princess of Monaco use Stockmans' porcelain tableware.

Work
As an artist, he is present in several public collections of Boards. His free work is included in numerous domestic and foreign museum collections such as V&A London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Metropolitan New York. Dinnerware designed by him is or was used in the Provinciehuis in Hasselt, in metro station Georges Henri in Brussels, the Elisabeth Gasthuis in Haarlem, the UFSIA in Antwerp and Le Meridien Hotel in Minneapolis (USA).