Don’t Frighten the Horses
Wouter Klein Velderman. Meyrkoet (left) and Zwarte Ooijevaar (right), 2018. Blow-dried PVC fabric, wood.
Text Harmen Liemburg. The sixth in a series of short articles on art and design written for Maharam.
The Palace of Typographic Masonry
Text Harmen Liemburg for Richard Niessen – The 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!
WPA National Park Posters
Doug Leen and Brian Maebius. Hawaii detail, 2007.
Text Harmen Liemburg. The sixth in a series of short articles on art and design objects written for Maharam.
Vlisco
Ted van de Ven, La Famille, 1952.
The fifth of a series of short texts on design objects written for Maharam. Text Harmen Liemburg.
Europa
Europa figurehead starboardside. Photography courtesy of Annalies Liemburg.
Europa by Harmen Liemburg.
The fourth of a series of short texts on design objects written for Maharam.
Roadside Silhouettes
The third of a series of short stories on design objects written for Maharam. Text Harmen Liemburg.
Fluo Husky
Fluo Husky is the first of a series of short texts on design objects written for Maharam.
Nederlands Steendrukmuseum
Lithographers at work, around 1890. Image from Het Nederlands Steendrukmuseum.
Text Harmen Liemburg (in Dutch) for Items 1/2012.
Kleur in het alledaagse leven
Vanaf de uitvinding van de machinale produktie van papier en het drukken door middel van losse letters rond 1400, werd voor de produktie van drukwerk voor bijna 400 jaar overwegend gebruik gemaakt van hoog- en diepdruk. In 1796 komt daar verandering in als de 25 jarige Aloys Senefelder, zoekend naar een manier om teksten voor een toneelstuk in eigen beheer te vermenigvuldigen, de ‘chemische drukkerij’ ofwel de vlakdruk ontdekt.
Interview with Almanak
Full Focus on Items
Interview with Almanak, responsible for the new looks of Items magazine.
Text Harmen Liemburg (in Dutch) for Items Magazine 1/2012.
Barbara Hennequin, Jeremy Jansen en Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen zijn samen Almanak, de nieuwe ontwerpers van Items. Vanuit hun studio in het oude depotgebouw van het voormalige Gemeentearchief aan de Tolstraat in de Amsterdamse wijk De Pijp, werken ze zowel individueel als collectief aan uiteenlopende ontwerpprojecten. Almanak, zeggen ze nadrukkelijk, is geen bureau. Harmen Liemburg zocht hen op.
Bison bison
Bison bison fenced in near Badlands National Park, South Dakota 2006.
Text Harmen Liemburg, published in Objects in Mirror, The Imagination of the American landscape.
Bison bison
On a visit to the United States you will inevitably come across it at some point: the American bison or buffalo pictured at the bottom of the National Park Service emblem. I have often wondered why he (sorry ladies, his crown jewels are clearly visible) stands brooding, his head turned westwards. It must be dark memories of a time when nature conservation was not yet part of the collective consciousness.