Gerrit turns 50, Willem only 28


A poster from my graduation project (left) is on display at the Gerrit turns 50, Willem only 28 anniversary exhition.

Graduation Show Posters 1987–2018
From ’90s boy bands, shocking signatures, world maps, peckish beaks, and magic mushrooms, visit the basement of the Rietveld (RV) Building to view the physical archive of the Academie’s graduation posters, the earliest from 1987 and the most recent from last year. Produced using an array of print methods across time—Screen Printing, Book Printing, Offset, Digital—these posters are visual marks in the illustrious history of the Academie.

The graduation show poster archive was earlier compiled by Henk Groenendijk.

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November 3rd, 2018
, Posted in Rietveld, Group Shows

Gräphic Giant

Title Gräphic Giant stationary cards
Year 2018
Size A5 (8x on printing sheet)
Technique 4 colour screenprint on coloured cardstock
Edition 100 cards

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October 30th, 2018
, Posted in Printing

Dutch Posters 1997-2017

Work featured in Dutch Posters 1997-2017 A selection by Anthon Beeke

In 1997 Anthon Beeke (1940 – 2018) published Dutch Posters 1960-1996. Meanwhile this book has become a collecters item. Since then, no other overview on Dutch posters design has been published. According to Janneke Smale en Omar Saiid, the initiators of this publication, A good moment to come up with Part 2.

More information: dutchposters.nl

October 28th, 2018
, Posted in In the Press

The Palace of Typographic Masonry

Text Harmen Liemburg for Richard NiessenThe Palace of Typographic Masonry, A guided Tour by Dirk van Weelden.

Ed Fella: The Joy of Making

Sixty years in the profession – of which the first thirty were spent working as a commercial artist in Detroit, and the second as a lecturer and artist in Los Angeles. A huge body of work. And I only have a few paragraphs to explain why every graphic designer should know him: self-described ‘exit level designer’ Ed Fella… But what the hell, let’s give it a try! 

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October 22nd, 2018
, Posted in Stories

Paradiso 50

Title Rock On! Paradiso 50 poster
Year 2018
Technique Screenprint
Size A2 – 42 x 59 cm
Colours 2
Printing Kees Maas zeefdruk, Ruinen
Edition 20

An homage to the most basic tool of rock ‘n roll music, on the occasion of Paradiso’s 50 years anniversary.

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September 22nd, 2018
, Posted in Posters, Group Shows

Flyways – 3/3 – Open


Flyways, part of the Noord/Zuidlijn is now open! Photography Q Kunst.

Title Flyways
Project Design for subway station platform
Client Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Metro en Tram
Location NoordZuidlijn, station Noord, Amsterdam
Size L 130 x W 13 meters
Technique Inlay of ceramic tiles cut by aquajet

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July 22nd, 2018
, Posted in In Architecture

Somalgors 74 Engadin Mix


Façade near entry.

Somalgors 74 Engadin Mix posters. Made for and with Curdin Thones, promoting his alpine art projectspace Somalgors 74, located in Tschlin, Switzerland.

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June 15th, 2018
, Posted in Posters

Dichterbij

Typographic components (rotated -90 degrees) + CMY + overprinting… A starting point for one day festival ‘Dichterbij’ at the Dichterswijk neighbourhood, Utrecht, June 3, 2018.

June 3rd, 2018
, Posted in Illustration

Flyways in NRC

Hij zag Waterland en het station kreeg vogels, text (in Dutch) Kester Freriks in NRC Handelsblad, 20 mei 2018.

May 20th, 2018
, Posted in In the Press

Flyways – 2/3 – realization


Watch timelapse of making the floor (middle section) by photographer Gé Dubbelman.

Title Flyways
Project Design for subway station platform
Client Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Metro en Tram
Location NoordZuidlijn, station Noord, Amsterdam
Size L 130 x W 13 meters
Technique Inlay of ceramic tiles cut by aquajet

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April 19th, 2018
, Posted in In Architecture