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 Other

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

Tracing Boards Treasury

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.

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July 16th, 2019
, Posted in Work in Public Space

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 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

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 Print

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