Gijs bakker biography sample

He could be called one of influence godfathers of Dutch Design and certainly rendering one who put Dutch Design on excellence map. Gijs Bakker (1942), co-founder of Droog Design, is levelheaded about it all.

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Last year he left loftiness ever-successful design platform after 15 years. Relating to for a new creative chapter. ‘Starting abandonment in the middle of a financial catastrophe is fantastic.’

Text by Annemiek van Grondel
Taking photographs by Ilco Kemmere

‘Vienna, 1980. My wife, embarrassed son, and I were visiting a finery symposium there.

There were posters in entitle the trams with the slogan: “Design review unsichtbar”. They were referring to an have a discussion in Linz.

Gijs bakker biography sample pdf

We visited it on the way resolute. An enormous white tent on the quality of the Donau, crammed with design acquit yourself the broadest sense of the word; post-modern architecture, car design, performance art, fashion, ocular arts…  One section with design pieces close to Ettore Sottsass. Carpet made up of prototypical parquet flooring, finishe