14 Notable alumni of
Design Academy Eindhoven
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Design Academy Eindhoven is 2992nd in the world, 942nd in Europe, and 24th in the Netherlands by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Design Academy Eindhoven sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Marcel Wanders
- Occupations
- ceramics designerjewelry designergraphic designerarchitectindustrial designer
- Biography
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Marcel Wanders is a Dutch designer, and art director in the Marcel Wanders studio in Amsterdam, who designs architectural, interior and industrial projects.
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Hella Jongerius
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- ceramics designeruniversity teacherindustrial designertextile designerdesigner
- Biography
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Hella Jongerius is a Dutch industrial designer.
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Piet Hein Eek
- Occupations
- furniture designer
- Biography
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Piet Hein Eek is a Dutch designer. He is known for designs which require significant time from craftspeople, despite using very inexpensive, found materials.
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Ton van de Ven
- Occupations
- art director
- Biography
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Ton van de Ven was a Dutch industrial designer. He is best known as the creative director at the Efteling theme park.
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Helen Berman
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- textile designerpainter
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Helen Berman is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands. She created modern and postmodern art and has engaged in realistic impressionism and lyrical abstract expressionism.
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Christien Meindertsma
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- photographerartistdesigner
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Christien Meindertsma is a Dutch artist and designer.
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Dave Hakkens
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- 1988-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- designertelevision producermanufacturer
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Dave Hakkens is a Dutch industrial designer. He gained fame with his two graduation projects: Phonebloks, a concept for modular telephones, and Precious Plastic, a movement to develop and promote machines and organizations for plastic recycling. Hakkens is seen by many as an example of a new generation of designers who have set themselves the goal of improving society by sharing knowledge.
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Richard Hutten
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- postage stamp designerglass artistdesigner
- Biography
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Richard G. J. Hutten is a Dutch industrial designer, art director, and artist who is active in furniture design, product design, interior design, and exhibition design.
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Dror Benshetrit
- Occupations
- designer
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Dror Benshetrit is an American artist, designer, and inventor based in New York City and Miami. He established his studio, Dror, in 2002 in New York, focusing on product, interior, installation, and architectural design. His major works include the structural support system named Quadror, the Galataport Masterplan in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Cappellini Peacock chair. His studio has partnered with companies, developers, and institutions such as Alessi, Bentley, Tumi, Levi's, Boffi, Louis Vuitton, and Target. Dror's work is in the permanent collections of major museums in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Marije Vogelzang
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- artistdesigner
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Marije Vogelzang is a Dutch "Food Designer" or an "Eating Designer", to be expressed more specialized. Her name is considered among the pioneers of the field of Food Design, along with names such as Marti Guixe and Francesca Zampollo. In the late 1990s, Marije presented her "White Funeral Meal" project at the Design Academy Eindhoven, while food was not yet considered as a material for design. This project was subsequently shown at Slaone del Mobile in Milan and was featured in all kind of magazines.
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Frans Schrofer
- Occupations
- furniture designer
- Biography
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Frans Schrofer is a Dutch furniture designer and industrial designer based in The Hague, Netherlands. He received a technical education in Leiden and then studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven, graduating in 1983 and founding his own design studio, Studio Schrofer, in 1984. He is known for a sculptural approach to furniture design, conscious use of materials, practicality, ergonomics, technical knowledge and for pioneering a modern, design-led approach to garden furniture styles.
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Frank Tjepkema
- Occupations
- jewelry designer
- Biography
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Frank Tjepkema is a Dutch designer based in Amsterdam. He works in interior design, architecture, product design, visual design and jewellery. He is most known for his collections, Bronze Age, Future Nostalgia, Clockwork Love, and his interior design projects. In 2014, at the Amsterdam Light Festival, he installed Light Bridge on a bridge along the Amstel river that received considerable media attention.
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Dwinita Larasati
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- civil servantcartoonistindustrial designerlecturer
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Dr. Dwinita Larasati, who also uses the diminutive Tita Larasati, is an Indonesian industrial designer and cartoonist. She is a lecturer in industrial design at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and her design work focuses on sustainability and the use of bamboo. As an artist and publisher, she is a pioneer in the "graphic diary" genre of autobiographical Indonesian comics.
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Mienke Simon Thomas
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Enrolled in Design Academy Eindhoven
- Studied in 1972-1976
- Occupations
- writercurator
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Margaretha Wilhelmina Francina Simon Thomas (born 1954) is a Dutch art historian, curator and author, working as a senior curator at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. She is known for her works on the development of Dutch applied art and design.
