Gijs Bakker

Gijs Bakker belongs to the select group of Dutch designers who have risen to international importance. His work is regarded as exemplary of the waywardness of Dutch design: modernistic and minimal, at times combined with an absurd sense of humour. Although it is his jewellery designs that have made the biggest splash, a major part of Bakker's design practice is geared to industrially produced objects for everyday use.
His influence as a teacher, his contribution to the often tumultuous debates in the Dutch design world and Bakker's most recent undertaking - setting up the Droog Design Foundation - have helped define the current quality and popularity of Dutch Design. In that sense Bakker's response, his design method and his ideas about the profession and the designer's social position are just as important as the resulting products.