LOVE NON STOP 2.0 – New Edition

Title Love Non Stop 2.0
Year 2021
Size  H 700 x W 500 mm
Technique 4 colour screenprint on black 300 grams/m2 paper
Edition 30 signed and numbered prints (with slight improvements)

Previous edition printed by HL at Kapitaal Utrecht Open Print Studio, this one was printed by HL at Kees Maas zeefdruk, Ruinen.

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March 31st, 2021
, Posted in Print

Theofanie mural painting

Theofanie Up and Out, a mural by artist Gijs Frieling & team, Schunck Heerlen, Augustus 18 2020 – July 6, 2021.

Making a mural in one week’s time at the ‘Glaspaleis‘ (Glass Palace) in Heerlen, NL. A true troupe artistique consisting of members of Gijs Frieling’s son Daan’s band the Koalaz, two other children Eva and Job, plus a couple of others including me. Most of us never touched a brush before in our lives, so paiting on walls was a bit exiting, to put it mildly…

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August 20th, 2020
, Posted in Other

HNI webcover

Every week during summer 2020, Het Nieuwe Instituut invites a designer to create a cover for the website in response to the question: What’s occupying you now? This week: Harmen Liemburg.

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July 2nd, 2020
, Posted in Illustration

Modest Master – Poster

Title Modest Master
Year 2019
Size  A0 = 84 x 120 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint (black, metallic gold) on 120 g/m2 Natronkraft paper
Edition 20 signed and numbered prints out of 30 total
Printing HL at Kees Maas zeefdruk

Made for the Modest Master’s Mesmerizing Screenprint Shop event, November 2, 2019,

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November 4th, 2019
, Posted in Posters

The Modest Master’s Mesmerizing Screen Print Shop


Stills from a movie by Meeuwsontwerpt showing Interbellum Grafiek editions screenprinted by Kees Maas with a large variety of artists.

Exhibition & presentations From 2 to 17 November at Nautilus Expobar, Zeeburgereiland, Amsterdam. Co-curated together with Richard Niessen for the Palace of Typographic Masonry, celebrating the work of master screenprinter Kees Maas.

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November 2nd, 2019
, Posted in Shows/Installations

Secret Creatures

Title Secret Creatures of the Temple 
Year 2019
Size  H 700 x W 500 mm
Technique 3 colour (white, metallic silver, black) screenprint on black 270 grams/m2 Rainbow paper
Edition 20 signed and numbered prints
Printing HL at Kees Maas zeefdruk

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October 4th, 2019
, Posted in Posters, Shows/Installations

All-over MKG


Opening All-over show, Museum Kunst und Gewerbe

For the first time after ending our collaboration as Golden Masters (1998 – 2002), Richard Niessen and me are exhibiting together at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg.

Show All-over – Neues Grafikdesign aus den Niederlanden
Dates September 13 – January 5, 2020
Curator Jürgen Döring

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September 13th, 2019
, Posted in Shows/Installations

Böcke & Bären – Virtual sgraffito


View of Somalgors74 project space façade. Photography Curdin Thones.

Title Böcke & Bären (Rams & Bears)
Year 2019
Technique  To be viewed through smart phone or tablet
Programming Jan Robert Leegte

Alpine project space Somalgors74  (village of Tschlin, canton of Graubünden, Switzerland) developed an application that allows the experience of virtual sgraffito.

The project aims to give a new impuls to this visual tradition by what is going to be an ongoing series of proposals bij various artists and designers. After a visit to Tschlin and the area summer 2018, the first design was made by me spring 2019.

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July 16th, 2019
, Posted in Work in Architecture

Love Non Stop

Title Love Non Stop
Year 2019
Size  H 700 x W 500 mm
Technique 4 colour screenprint on black 300 grams/m2 paper
Edition 40 signed and numbered prints
Printing HL at Kapitaal Utrecht Open Print Studio

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February 6th, 2019
, Posted in Posters, Print

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 Academie, Shows/Installations