Katja Gruijters

Katja Gruijters

Katja Gruijters is Food & Beverage Designer and the first food designer in the Netherlands. Katja graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 1998. During her time there, she had already started to specialize in designing food and drink. As part of her final project she looked at different ways of designing meat substitutes. Her high-protein dough balls and filled seaweed rolls actually led to her first job in the food sector. She soon decided to call herself a fooddesigner, explaining at the same time that she worked on concepts for both food and drink. She develops her own products and ideas. In recent years she has regularly exhibited her work in the Netherlands and other countries. Katja also gives workshops and works as a visiting lecturer.