Andries Van Onck was born in 1928, Amsterdam, and studied Industrial Design at the Royal Dutch Academy at The Hague from 1952-1954. From 1954-1959, he studied at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany. Andries Van Onck worked as industrial designer at Olivetti Italy from 1959 to 1965. In 1976, he became a member of the Board of the ADI (Italian Designers Association).

He participated in many international design exhibitions and some of his designs are in the permanent collections of the museums of modern art in Chicago, London, Amsterdam and at the Louvre in Paris.