Baker was born in
Kingston, Ontario. He is the son of the late Judge P.E.D. Baker. Baker is a former student of
Queen's University where he studied visual art. Until the
Tragically Hip's fifth release,
Day for Night, he was credited in the liner notes as
Bobby Baker. Baker designed many of the Hip's T-shirts and album art. He was inducted—as a member of the Tragically Hip—to the
Canadian Music Hall of Fame in
April 2005 at the Juno Awards in Winnipeg,
Manitoba. He was also one of the winners of a
1999 Juno Award for Best Album Design, for The Tragically Hip release
Phantom Power. On June 15, 2017, it was announced that Baker, along with the other members of The Tragically Hip, would be appointed to the Order of Canada for "their contribution to Canadian music and for their support of various social and environmental causes." In one of his first musical projects since the end of the Tragically Hip, he played guitar on much of singer-songwriter
Justin Rutledge's 2019 album
Passages. His son Boris Baker is a member of the rock band
Kasador. In 2023, Baker endorsed and co-chaired the campaign of his local MPP
Ted Hsu in the Ontario Liberal Leadership race. ==Gear==