Bart de Baets teaches at the Bachelor Graphic Design programme of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK).
Bart de Baets (1979, BE) is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam. His design for the Sandberg Institute’s temporary master programme The Radical Cut Up was nominated for a Dutch Design Award. PostNL commissioned him to design a series of stamps for PostNL which he titled “Talk to the Hand”. Together with Sandra Kassenaar he designed the exhibition design, campaign and catalogue for “Circulate”, an exhibition on photographic art acquisitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The two also design the graphic identity of Kunstmuseum Bochum. “On the Necessity of Gardening. An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation” has been published by Valiz Publishers as part of the exhibition “The Botanical Revolution” in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht. In 2022, the Stiftung Buchkunst awarded “On the Necessity of Gardening” with the Goldene Letter, the highest prize in the category Best Book Design from all over The World. A sequel on Motherhood (“On Art, Birth and Care”) came out in 2025. Next to being a part time teacher at the Royal Academy of Art’s Graphic Design department for years, De Baets taught at the Gerrit Rietveld academy in Amsterdam for fifteen years.
In possession of the Certificate Basic Qualification Didactic Competence and Examination (BKE).