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September 27, 2007
Gijs Bakker, Droog Design
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Established as a design collective in 1993 by Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers, Droog incorporates the work of an international cadre of contemporary designers working with low-cost industrial or recycled materials to create a broad assembly of international designs that are plain and practical. With more than 150 diverse objects whose only criteria is that they must be informed by cultural developments and by the designer's intuition, Droog advises its designers to act more as fine artists, developing concepts that make people think.
Supported by UM Ross School of Business, and the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA).
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Selected Bibliography
- Droog / Design Collective - Design/Designer Information. 28 August 2007 http://www.designmuseum.org/design/droog.
- Droog Design. 28 August 2007 http://www.droogdesign.nl/.
- Droog Design: Spirit of the Nineties. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1998. Art Architecture & Engineering - Basement | NK 1535 .D82 A25 1998
- Lorenz, Trish. “European capitals of culture turning to design.” Design Week. 19 (2004): 7. http://searchtools.lib.umich.edu At the "Find e-Journals" tab, just type in the name of the journal, click on it, and then select the correct volume/issue.
- Ramakers, Renny. Less + More: Droog Design in Context. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2002. Art Architecture & Engineering - Basement | NK 1535 .D82 R53 2002
- Simply Droog - Museum of Arts & Design. 28 August 2007 http://www.madmuseum.org/site/c.drKLI1PIIqE/b.1321465/k.9943/Simply_Droog.htm.
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