Image of Bart Ruijpers
Jury

Bart Ruijpers
Director of Industrial Design
Karim Rashid Inc.

NEW YORK, USA // For over 10 years Bart has been working as Director of Industrial Design with Karim Rashid. Starting at the New York office, and having set up Karim's European studio in his home town of Amsterdam, Bart is now back in New York full time to continue his work as creative lead and key liaison for many of Karim's clients including Pepsico, Bump, eos, Fontana Arte, Gorenje, Sustain, and SirinLabs. He leads the crew of industrial and graphic designers as well as consults for the team at Karim Rashid China.

Backed up by a Masters Degree in Industrial Design Engineering from the Delft University of Technology Bart translates Karim's sensual minimalistic vision into workable, award winning products - contributing to Karim's legacy of over 3,000 designs in production and 300+ awards.