Bruno Ninaber van Eyben (born 3 November 1950) is a Dutch

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and

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. He designed the last series of

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s and the obverse side of all circulating Dutch euro coins.Bruno Ninaber van Eyben
. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.

Personal life

Bruno Ninaber van Eyben is born on 3 November 1950 in

Boxtel Boxtel () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands. The name derives from Buchestelle and is presumably a combination of 'stelle' (Dutch for stable, safe place) and (deer) deer, buck.2019. Etymolog ...

in the

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. He currently lives in

Delft Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, ...

Designer

In 1971 Bruno Ninaber van Eyben graduated

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from the College of Art in

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as a

designer. In the 1970s he designed a bracelet watch (1973), a pendant watch (1976), and a fluorescent lighting system (1977). In 1979 he received the Kho Liang Ie Award, a Dutch award for

industrial design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in adva ...

. In 1980 he designed the last series of

s, which were in circulation from 1982 until the introduction of the

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in 2002. In 1997 he started his own studio called Bruno Ninaber van Eyben design+production in

. In May 1998 he won the contest for the design of the reverse side of the Dutch euro coins. Since 2003 he is professor of Design at the

Delft University of Technology The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...

.Benoeming Ninaber van Eyben
Retrieved on 2007-11-19.

References

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Bruno Ninaber van Eyben design+production
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ninaber van Eyben, Bruno 1950 births Living people Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology Dutch currency designers Dutch industrial designers People from Boxtel