Home Field

Title Home Field
Year 2012
Size H 841 x W 1189 mm
Technique 2 colour screenprint on 120 grams/m2 Natronkraft paper
Edition 20 signed and numbered prints out of 60 prints total

Made for the FotoDok – Objects in Mirror, The Imagination of the American Landscape exhibition. Centraal Museum Studio, Utrecht, 11 March – 8 April 2012.

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March 14th, 2012
, Posted in Posters, Group Shows

Objects in Mirror

Title Objects in Mirror
Year 2012
Size H 841 x W 1189 mm
Technique 3 colour screenprint on 120 grams/m2 Natronkraft paper
Edition 20 signed and numbered prints out of 60 prints total

Made for the FotoDok – Objects in Mirror, The Imagination of the American Landscape exhibition. Centraal Museum Studio, Utrecht, 11 March – 8 April 2012.

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March 12th, 2012
, Posted in Posters, Group Shows

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.

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March 11th, 2012
, Posted in Stories, Group Shows

Fit to Page Show at AGA


Camouflage Club posters designed and screenprinted by Zsuzsanna Ilijin.

Fit to Page – Utalitarian prints printed at Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier
Show February 2 – April 30, 2012

Compiled and curated by Carolien Glazenburg (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and Harmen Liemburg. Installation by Christina Hallström (AGA) and Harmen Liemburg.

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February 2nd, 2012
, Posted in Group Shows

200 grams

Title 200 Grams
Year 2012
Size H 70 x W 50 cm
Technique 8 colour screenprint on 300 grams/m2 Hahnemüller
Edition 12

Custom made print (detail) as a present (to be raffled off) for Oomen architecten clients.

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January 3rd, 2012
, Posted in Printing

Interview with Hans Gremmen

Interview with Hans Gremmen
Text (in Dutch) Harmen Liemburg for Items 6/2011.

Intro
Items zocht Hans Gremmen op in zijn nieuwe studio die hij deelt met Roma Publications, ontwerper Radim Pesko en beeldend kunstenaar Batia Suter. Bedachtzaam en zorgvuldig praat hij over zijn werk als grafisch ontwerper en initiator van gedrukte publicaties die vaak een link hebben met fotografie. In het Nederlands Fotomuseum was deze zomer The Mother Road te zien, een virtuele reis over de legendarische Route 66 via stills uit Google Streetview.

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December 5th, 2011
, Posted in Interviews

Hello Kitty – Hello Holland


Still: Loraine from video about Dutch Hello Kitty collectors.

Hello Kitty – Hello Holland, SieboldHuis, September 10 – November 30, 2011. Text (in Dutch) for Items magazine blog.

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November 15th, 2011
, Posted in Show Reviews

Grafisch Geluk Show & Lectures

Billboard at Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Title Lectures Around Grafisch Geluk
Year 2011
Client Museum Hilversum
Size H 1189 x W 841 mm
Technique 1 colour screenprint on top of CMYK offset poster by Trapped in Suburbia
Edition 30 for promotional purposes

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November 11th, 2011
, Posted in Group Shows

Ready To Print

Text (in Dutch) Harmen Liemburg for Items 5/2011.

Linking analogue printing techniques to current digital tools, this publications replaces may outdated handbooks.

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October 15th, 2011
, Posted in Techniques, Book Reviews

Graphic Detour


Tod Hanson and Vlisco

Vluchtige ontmoetingen
Text (in Dutch) Harmen Liemburg for Items 5/2011.

Graphic Detour – Crossing Borders in European Design
Graphic Design Museum, June 11 June – November 27, 2011

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September 20th, 2011
, Posted in Show Reviews