Thijs Gadiot

I design and build.

I came out of art school and spent years building websites, tools and installations with artists, architects, photographers, designers and museums.

From there the projects got bigger: ten years in lead engineering roles, three of them prototyping in Nike’s Tech Innovation Office. I’ve built large-scale platforms and very early prototypes, and I love both.

Alongside my role as lead engineer at Amigen, an AI-native startup for the fashion industry, I run Silly Works, an independent design × engineering studio. I log what I build there at silly.works.

On social media I’m @ollygadiot.

Got something to build?

I take on a few projects a year
through Silly Works.

I can help you work out what to make,
design it, and build it.

You get an optimist (“Sure we can!”)
and a pragmatist (“But we shouldn’t!”).

Write to hello at silly dot works.

I’ve worked with

  • Amsterdam Museum
  • ANWB
  • Casco Utrecht
  • Catalogtree
  • De Best Verzorgde Boeken
  • De Toneelmakerij
  • Dutch Doc
  • Enexis
  • GrandVision
  • Jan van Eyck Academie
  • KesselsKramer
  • Kummer & Herrman
  • Kuyichi
  • Moriko Kira
  • Nike
  • PlusOne
  • Prospektor
  • Richard Niessen
  • Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
  • Rob Hornstra
  • ROMA Publications
  • Scheltens & Abbenes
  • tegenboschvanvreden
  • Veronica Ditting
  • Wineke Gartz
  • Winhov Architects
  • XML Architects