Danish designers

Ole Kirk Kristiansen (7 April 1891 – 11 March 1958) was a Danish carpenter. In 1932, Kristiansen founded the Danish construction toy company The Lego Group.

Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a well-known Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural Functionalism, and for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple, but effective, chair designs.

Kay Bojesen (15 August 1886 – 28 August 1958) was a Danish silversmith and designer. He is best known for creating wooden animals, especially his wooden monkey which was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert museum in London in the nineteen-fifties, and which today is considered a design classic.

Martin Masai Andersen (born 1972) is a Danish photographer, art director and designer, based in South London. He also lectures at a number of universities. Andersen has made long-term documentary photography projects on football fans and dog shows, and made music videos for The Breeders, Lush and Iceage. His animation work has won a Clio Award and been shown in group exhibitions at Manchester Art Gallery and at SeaCity Museum in Southampton.

Niels August Theodor Kaj Gottlob, usually known as Kaj Gottlob, (9 November 1887 – 12 May 1976) was a Danish architect who contributed much to Neoclassicism and Functionalism both as professor of the School of Architects at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and as a royal building inspector.

Thomas Dam (May 15, 1915 – November 12, 1989) was a Danish woodworker and fisherman who designed and invented the original troll doll also known as the "Good Luck Troll". He created the toy during a period of financial distress, and carved it from wood. Soon, the family had started up a new business and Dam earned enough to buy himself a small factory where the dolls were produced in plastic. Dam created many different trolls as well as plastic baby dolls. Dam formed "Dam Things" to market the dolls. Dam trolls are now considered collectors' items.

Kristian Solmer Vedel (2 March 1923 - 5 March 2003) was a Danish industrial designer and part of the Scandinavian Design movement.

Tage Frid (1915–2004) was a Danish-born woodworker who influenced the development of the studio furniture movement in the United States.

Birte Stenbak née Jensen (born 1938) is a Danish goldsmith and jeweller. After an apprenticeship with Poul Bang in the 1950s, she worked in Bent Stålgård's workshop. In 1975, together with her friend Birthe Jørgensen, she established a studio and shop in central Copenhagen, where she created imaginative jewellery consisting of gemstones, silver, gold, pearls and other materials. From 1983, she ran the business alone in what became known as Aladdin's Cave. Collaborating with the artist Tage Andersen, in 1988 she created a large table decoration for Rosenborg Castle. Since the mid-1970s, her work has been exhibited at home and abroad.

Johannes Torpe (born 5 January 1973 in Skanderborg, Denmark) is a Danish designer, musician, producer, and former creative director of Bang & Olufsen (2011-2015). Currently, he is the CEO and creative director of the design company Johannes Torpe Studios based in Copenhagen, Denmark.