Jan Hoekstra Description

Jan Hoekstra was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 1964. Trained as an industrial designer at the University of Genk, Belgium, graduated in 1989. Until 1997 he worked at Flex\theINNOVATIONLAB, a design team in Delft. He was responsible for the design and development of several successful consumer products.

In 1993 Hoekstra joined a team of masters lead by Gijs Bakker (founder of Droog Design) at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. He was supervising design students on a regularly base until 2004.

Since 1997 Hoekstra is working as a designer for Royal van Kempen & Begeer and responsible for product development of BK and Q-linair, popular Dutch cookware brands and the international brand RoyalVKB. Since 2001 he joined the marketing team of multinational UNILEVER as well, designing packaging, premiums and managing branded concepts for (inter)national food brands.

Recently he started his own studio Jan Hoekstra Industrial Design Services in Rotterdam and is currently working on projects for Droog Design.

Several products Hoekstra designed are in permanent collection of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MOMA New York and Chicago Museum of Architecture and Design.

Awards:

2004
Grand Prix (F), design Cookware Master
DesignPlus award (D), design Kitchen Organiser

2003
Red dot award (D), design Cookware Master

2002
DesignPlus award (D), design Cookware Master

2000
GIO award, design Cable turtle
GIO award, design disposable plastic cutlery

1999
DesignPlus award (D), design Cable turtle
Good Design award (USA), design children’s cutlery Smile

1998
British Design Award (GB), design cookware Q-linair
GIO award, design children’s cutlery Smile

1997
Zilveren noot, design detergent packaging
Zilveren lamp, design detergent packaging
IF award (D), ‘Best of category’ design detergent packaging
IF award (D), ‘Best of ten 1997’ design Cable turtle

1996
ID-NL award nominee, design Cable cover
Medaille d’or (CH), design Cable turtle

1995
ID award (USA), design Nine o’clock clock

1994
GIO award, design Focus cookware

1992
GIO award, design bottle opener

1989
Best student 1989 University of Genk

Web-Site from Jan Hoekstra: http://home.hetnet.nl/~julia97/default.htm