48 Notable alumni of
Gerrit Rietveld Academy
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Gerrit Rietveld Academy is 1293rd in the world, 445th in Europe, and 11th in the Netherlands by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from Gerrit Rietveld Academy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Robbert Dijkgraaf
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- columnistmathematicianuniversity teacherinternational forum participanttheoretical physicist
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Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf FRSE is a Dutch theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theorist, and the current Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands. From July 2012 until his inauguration as minister in January 2022, he had been the director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a tenured professor at the University of Amsterdam.
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Lita Cabellut
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- paintercontemporary artistvideo artist
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Lita Cabellut is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands. Cabellut works on large scale canvases using a contemporary variation of the fresco technique.
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Rob Scholte
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- installation artistpainterphotographerartist
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Rob Scholte is a Dutch contemporary artist. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. His work consists of reproductions of images from the media and from art history. He lives and works in Den Helder.
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Wim T. Schippers
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- visual artistactorfilm directorprogram makerpresenter
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Willem Theodoor "Wim T." Schippers is a Dutch artist, comedian, television director, and voice actor. During the 1960s, he worked mostly as a visual artist, associated with the international Fluxus-movement. As a television writer, director, and actor he is responsible for some of the most notable and controversial shows on Dutch televisions from the 1960s to the 1990s, creating a number of lasting characters and enriching the language with terms and expressions first coined in his shows. In addition, he voiced the characters of Ernie and Kermit the Frog on Sesamstraat, the Dutch version of Sesame Street. For his shows, he has written over three hundred songs, and his reputation has changed from being Dutch television's "enfant terrible" to an acknowledged master in a variety of genres.
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Alex van Warmerdam
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- theatrical directordirectorfilm directorpoetstage actor
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Alex van Warmerdam is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter.
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Jan des Bouvrie
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- designerart collector
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Jan des Bouvrie was a Dutch architect, interior and product designer, best known for his 1969 "kubusbank sofa", now considered a design classic. Des Bouvrie was active as a distinguished lecturer at various design academies. The design college Jan des Bouvrie Academy, in Deventer is named in his honor.
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Rineke Dijkstra
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- video artistvideo installation artistphotographer
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Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award.
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Peter Klashorst
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- paintersculptorphotographer
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Peter Klashorst is a Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer.
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Phil Bloom
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- actormodelphotographer
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Phil Bloom is a Dutch artist, graphic designer and performer. She was the first person to appear completely nude on Dutch television, on 28 July 1967 during the show Hoepla, which caused scandal and controversy at the time. Afterwards, she followed a passionate career in painting, photography and performance art. She was a member of the Fluxus network in 1967. A notable performance of hers is titled "Lemniscaat" which takes place in Lapland.
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Ben van Berkel
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- architectuniversity teacher
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Ben van Berkel is a Dutch architect; founder and principal architect of the architectural practice UNStudio. With his studio he designed, among others, the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, the Moebius House in the Netherlands, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, Arnhem Central Station, the Singapore University of Architecture and Design, Raffles City in Hangzhou and numerous other buildings.
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Wim Crouwel
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- university teachertype designerdrawerdesignergraphic designer
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Willem Hendrik "Wim" Crouwel was a Dutch graphic designer, type designer, and typographer.
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Bob Noorda
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- architectgraphic designer
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Bob Noorda was a Dutch-born Italian graphic designer who lived and worked primarily in Milan from 1954 onwards. His works included design projects for major corporations and large-scale retail chains, publishing houses as well as public works such as the Milan Metro and NYC subway sign and image systems. During his career as a designer, Noorda created more than 170 logos for clients like Feltrinelli, Olivetti, Eni, Zucchi, Touring Club Italiano, Ermenegildo Zegna, and many others.
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Antonín Kratochvíl
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- photojournalistphotographeractorteacher
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Antonín Kratochvíl is a Czech-born American photojournalist. He is a founding member of VII Photo Agency.
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Ted van Lieshout
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- children's writerwriterscreenwriterpoetillustrator
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Ted van Lieshout is a Dutch poet and writer of children's literature. He has won numerous awards for his work.
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Charlotte Mutsaers
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- university teacherwriterdrawerpainterpolitician
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Charlotte Jacoba Maria Mutsaers is a Dutch painter, prose writer and essayist. She won the Constantijn Huygens Prize (2000) and the P. C. Hooft Award (2010) for her literary oeuvre.
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Rebecca Gomperts
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- writerphysicianwomen's rights activistabortion-rights movement
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Rebecca Gomperts is a Dutch physician and activist for women's rights, in particular abortion rights. She is the founder of Women on Waves and Women on Web, which provide reproductive health services for women in countries where they are not available. In 2013 and 2014, Gomperts was included in the BBC's 100 Women. In 2018, she founded Aid Access, which operates in the United States. A trained abortion specialist and activist, she is generally considered the first abortion rights activist to cross international borders.
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Hans Aarsman
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- lecturerteacherphotographerplaywrightwriter
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Hans Aarsman is a Dutch photographer, author, and lecturer at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Many of Aarsman's works are held in the collection of the Netherlands Photo Museum as well as the Rijksmuseum and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
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Saskia Noorman-den Uyl
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- politician
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Saskia Elisabeth Agatha Noorman-den Uyl is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).
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Gerard Unger
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- graphic designeruniversity teacherdesigner
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Gerard Unger was a Dutch graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963 to 1967, and subsequently worked at Total Design, Prad and Joh. Enschedé. In 1975, he established himself as an independent developer. A long-time guest lecturer at the University of Reading, he mentored many modern typeface designers. He lived and worked in Bussum, Netherlands.
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Renzo Martens
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- cinematographerfilm producerfilm directorvideo installation artistvisual artist
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Renzo Martens is a Dutch artist who currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Kinshasa. Martens became known for his controversial work, including Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008), a documentary that suggests that the Congo market their poverty as a natural resource. In 2010 Renzo Martens initiated the art institute Human Activities that postulates a gentrification program on a palm oil plantation in the Congolese rainforest.
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Trude Guermonprez
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- textile designertextile artistartistweaverprofessor
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Trude Guermonprez, born Gertrud Emilie Jalowetz, was a German]-born American textile artist, designer and educator, known for her tapestry landscapes. Her Bauhaus-influenced disciplined abstraction for hand woven textiles greatly contributed to the American craft and fiber art movements of the 1950s, 60s and even into the 70s, particularly during her tenure at the California College of Arts and Crafts.
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Dana Lixenberg
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- film directorphotographer
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Dana Lixenberg is a Dutch photographer and filmmaker. She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Lixenberg pursues long-term projects on individuals and communities on the margins of society. Her books include Jeffersonville, Indiana (2005), The Last Days of Shishmaref (2008), Set Amsterdam (2011), De Burgemeester/The Mayor (2011), and Imperial Courts (2015).
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Ger van Elk
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- painterconceptual artistfilmmakerdrawerphotographer
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Ger van Elk was a Dutch artist who created sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work has been described as being both conceptual art and arte povera. Between 1959 and 1988 he lived and worked in Los Angeles, New York City, and Amsterdam, except for a period of study in Groningen in the 1960s. In 1996 he won the J. C. van Lanschot Prize for Sculpture.
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Jos Stam
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- computer scientist
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Jos Stam is a researcher in the field of computer graphics, focusing on the simulation of natural physical phenomena for 3D-computer animation. He achieved technical breakthroughs with the simulation of fluids and gases, new rendering algorithms and subdivision surfaces, which are a mix between two previously incompatible worlds of Nurbs- and polygon-modeling in 3D.
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Ted Noten
- Enrolled in Gerrit Rietveld Academy
- Studied in 1986-1990
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- designervisual artistjewelry designeruniversity teacher
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Ted Noten is a Dutch conceptual artist. He is especially known for his Turbo Princess pendant featuring a mouse wearing a small pearl necklace, and his solid acrylic handbags and suitcases containing guns. A broad spectrum of galleries and museum collections all over the world represent his oeuvre. Since 2005, his design company Atelier Ted Noten, or ATN, has extended its jewellery creations towards (interior) design projects, installations and commissions for both private collectors, cultural organisations and art institutions.
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Herman Makkink
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- graphic artistsculptorphotographerillustrator
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Herman Makkink was a Dutch sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator.
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Edgar Vos
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- diaristfashion designer
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Edgar Vos was a Dutch fashion designer.
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Maria Barnas
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- columnistvisual artistfilmmakerwriterliterary critic
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Maria Barnas is a Dutch writer, poet and artist.
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Marit Törnqvist
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- children's writertranslatorwriterillustrator
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Marit Törnqvist is a Swedish-Dutch author, artist and illustrator. She was best known for her illustrations in the books of Astrid Lindgren.
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Guido van der Werve
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- visual artistperformance artistfilmmakercomposerphotographer
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Guido van der Werve is a Dutch filmmaker and visual artist.
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Gijs Bakker
- Enrolled in Gerrit Rietveld Academy
- Studied in 1958-1962
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- jewelry designerceramics designerdesigneruniversity teachersculptor
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Gijs Bakker is a Dutch jewellery and industrial-designer, educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Jet Boeke
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- writerillustrator
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Jet Boeke is a Dutch children's author and illustrator. She is a contributor to the Dutch version of Sesame Street, and is famous worldwide for her book series Dikkie Dik.
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Hellen van Meene
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- photographer
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Hellen van Meene is a Dutch photographer known especially for her portraits.
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Constant Dullaart
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- cinematographerinternet artistfilmmakerphotographernew media artist
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Constant Dullaart is a Dutch conceptual artist, media artist, internet artist, and curator. His work is deeply connected to the Internet.
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Floris Kaayk
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- visual artistperformance artistartistvideo artistnew media artist
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Floris Kaayk is a Dutch digital artist. He grew up in Tiel as the son of artist couple Coen and Guusje Kaayk. Kaayk graduated summa cum laude from the animation department of AKV St. Joost academy of Art and Design in Breda, and gained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. His work focuses on futuristic concepts and fantasies, and visualises technological progress, sometimes by demonstrating its advantages and at other times by presenting negative consequences.
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Abdul Vas
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- painter
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Abdul Vas is a contemporary artist. He grew up living between Suriname, Guyana, and Belgium. After studies at EAVRA in Maracay and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam he lives and works in Amsterdam and Madrid. He has created handmade books and zines, photographs, collages, drawings, paintings and murals.
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Guillaume Lo-A-Njoe
- Enrolled in Gerrit Rietveld Academy
- Studied in 1953-1958
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- sculptorpainter
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Guillaume Theodoor Lo-A-Njoe is a Dutch painter of Surinamese descent. He is married and has one son. He currently resides and works in Amsterdam where he celebrated his 60th anniversary as an artist in 2019.
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Saar de Swart
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- sculptor
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Elizabeth Sara Clasina de Swart, whose chosen name was 'Saar' de Swart, was a sculptor born to the Dutch painter Corstianus Hendrikus de Swart and his wife, Elisabeth Sara IJntema in Arnhem, Netherlands.
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Koert van Mensvoort
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- 1974-.. (age 50)
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- computer artistphilosopherartistperformance artist
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Koert van Mensvoort is an artist, philosopher and scientist best known for his work on the philosophical concept of Next Nature.
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Wietske van Leeuwen
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- ceramicist
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Wietske van Leeuwen is a Dutch ceramist, who lives and works in Monnickendam. Her works are constructed in a baroque style, with shells and fruit as recurring motifs.
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Barbara Nanning
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- sculptorceramicist
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Barbara Nanning is a Dutch sculptor, ceramicist and glass artist.
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Janne Kyttanen
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- designerartistsquash player
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Janne Kyttanen is a Finnish conceptual artist, designer, entrepreneur and investor who is best known for his work in design for 3D printing. He was the founder of Freedom of Creation, a pioneering agency that specialised in design for 3D printing. In 2011 Freedom of Creation was acquired by 3D Systems, an American-based manufacturer of 3D printers. He held the position of Creative Director at 3D Systems for four years. His work been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including the Stedelijk Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and at Design Miami, the global forum for design. His work is represented by Gallery All. He also used to be a professional squash player, having played in two individual world championships and two team championships.
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Hansje van Halem
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- graphic designertype designer
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Hansje van Halem is a Dutch graphic designer and type designer. Her work is typified by geometric, repetitive, sometimes almost psychedelic patterns. She works at the intersection of text, illustration, pattern, colour, texture, distortions, interruptions, variations, symmetry, systematic approach and irregularities. Van Halem combines the more open rules of patterns with the tighter ruleset of typography and explores the boundaries of type design. She uses the viewer’s distance to the work to move at the edge of legibility and non-legibility. In her understanding background and type should become one layer. Important to her are the process itself, “playing” around and working with trial and error. Her commissions rather revolve around the creation of identities, whole covers and patterns than individual fonts.
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Johan van Loon
- Enrolled in Gerrit Rietveld Academy
- Studied in 1952-1956
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- ceramicisttextile artisttextile designer
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Johan Gerard van Loon was a Dutch ceramist and textile artist.
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Hendrik-Jan Grievink
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- 1977-.. (age 47)
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- graphic designer
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HJ Grievink is a Dutch graphic designer and editor based in Amsterdam. He works on a range of commissioned and self-initiated projects positioned at the intersection of graphic design and visual culture research. Grievink is best known for designing and co-editing the book Next Nature: Nature Changes Along With Us, and for developing the memory games, Fake for Real and Brand Memory.
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Frank Tjepkema
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- jewelry designer
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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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Maria Lalou
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- performance artist
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Maria Lalou is a Greek contemporary conceptual artist, experimental filmmaker, architectural researcher, critical thinker and scholar. She explores the topic of viewing, incorporating cinematic apparatus and surveillance as part of her tools, with central references to the politics of the viewer. Her works negotiate about the notion of 'viewing' as a civic negotiation, by the means of a performative act, an active presence, an empirical duration, a filmic artefact and a political statement. Her artworks are on the edge of social experiments and practised rhetorics by staging art installations on the steps of theory of the spectacle. She includes the viewer's perspective in the completion of the works' significance, dividing her audiences into a specific audience as the chosen viewers participating in her works and a casual audience as the invited public to experience the works, results she has directed with the contribution of significant others. On the strong conceptual tracks that Stephen Willats has marked, her artistic practise is based on cognitive models in the spectrum installation art, performance art, art film and art publications, negotiating with rules of institutions.
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Simone Rossmann
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Simone Rossmann is an Austrian designer specialised in product design and concept development. Simone grew up in the town of the Alps - in Innsbruck. The surrounding of beautiful mountains and historical buildings influenced her keen sense of art and design. She has been the senior designer of Swarovski for 8 years. in Wattens in charge of Home Decor. With a strong taste for beauty, a focus into the functionality of the objects, and her unique charm have allowed her to collaborate with some of the best designers of Europe. She has also worked in Paris as accessories designer.
