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Bastiaan van DrutenGraphic designer

Bastiaan (Bas) van Druten is a graphic designer at Waag Futurelab. His work contributes to the accessible and attractive visual communication of Waag's programming and research. He likes to be on the cutting edge of communication and surprise. In doing so, he tries to use techniques and tools that make the design process both transparent and accessible.

Bas studied graphic and typographic design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and graphic design at the University of Lincoln in the UK.

In recent years, Bas has lived in Aotearoa, New Zealand where he worked as a freelance designer for museums. Besides graphic design, he has many interests and a real maker's mentality. For example, he has founded a sustainable skateboard brand, built and used tattoo machines and has been an analogue photographer for over 20 years.