Good Vibrations
Ceramic tiles bij Studio GdB. Image courtesy Studio Gdb.
Good Vibrations: The ceramics of Studio GdB. Text for Maharam Stories (2022) by Harmen Liemburg. Text editing Ella Christopherson.
Sketches Introduction
Sketches- Edition #4 cover. Image courtesy Hansje van Halem.
Introductory text for Hansje van Halem Sketches – Edition #4.
Interview met Kees Maas
Vouwvel door Meeuwsontwerpt met interview Kees Maas als uitnodiging voor tentoonstelling/ mini symposium op 2 november 2019
De betoverende zeefdrukwerkplaats van de bescheiden meester.
Interview met meester zeefdrukker Kees Maas/ Interview with master screenprinter Kees Maas (text in Dutch).
Sensory impressions
Kustaa Saksi, In the fishstrap, 2013. Image courtesy Kustaa Saksi.
Kustaa Saksi: Sensory Impressions. Text for Maharam Stories (2019) by Harmen Liemburg.
Don’t Frighten the Horses
Wouter Klein Velderman. Meyrkoet (left) and Zwarte Ooijevaar (right), 2018. Blow-dried PVC fabric, wood.
Wouter Klein Velderman: Don’t Frighten the Horses. Text by Harmen Liemburg for Maharam Stories (2019).
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!
Dusky Bird – 1/3 – Research
Nachtzwaluw, image from Burton P. (1977). Het vogelboek. (Illustraties Peter Hayman et al).
Research for Dusky Bird, part of the 2016 Grind the Gap project.
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.
