Postcards as catalogue for the exhibition Space Drawings in KAdE Amersfoort.

When we were asked to design an invitation for Lost & Found, the prolific ‘night for stray images and sounds’ in Amsterdam we just saw a Samuel van Hoogstraten letterrack in the Dordrechts Museum. We went to see it because of our interest in this type of trompe l’oeil painting, but it struck us  that it would also be perfect to convey the eclectic mix that is a night of Lost & Found. How better to show the varied collection of performances, talks and viewings than with a graphic interpretation of a letterrack? 

We put the pinboard, with several hints at the content of the evening, on the inside of a three-folded letter which was closed by a red sticker in another tribute to the 17th century letter as depicted on the paintings.

As a disclaimer we must add that we used a different painting than Samuel van Hoogstraten’s for the outline of the design. Instead we used a letterrack by Edward Collier, a painter that was influenced by van Hoogstraten and who applied himself exclusively on the painting of these type of letterrack paintings in his later years.

Leaflet and bookmark for Space Drawings, an exhibition regarding ‘freeing the drawing from spatial constraints’ in KAdE Amersfoort. The background consists of thousands of randomly dispersed black lines.

Website for De Stem van West, which translates to something like ‘The Voice of West’, although in English we miss out on the consonance in the title. De Stem van West is a web-radio station for an art in public space project in Utrecht West. It features radio-programmes by artists and makers like Tom Loois, Dirk van Weelden en Barbara Visser. For this project we have developed the name, the identity and this online platform. This website features an advanced audio-player that enables the radio-artist to insert images next in a time-slot related to the audio. Please visit the website at www.destemvanwest.nl. Listen too the winner of the jingle-contest here, to Tom Loois’s commercials and Elsbeth Dijkstra’s trailer for her program ‘Verlichting’.

For the plan to host a big Caspar van Wittel exhibition in Amersfoort in autumn 2015 we made a bidbook. This painter from Amersfoort is practically forgotten as he moved to Italy and made his career there with his landscape, or Vedute, painting. We aimed to emphasise his unique and peculiar pastel/gouache colour use for the picture backgrounds. By turning the orientation of the book we accommodate the dimensions of the painting but also play with the term ‘landscape’ as regarded in page-orientation.

A conditionally drawn background for the invitation for Space Drawings, an exhibition featuring 10 artists at Kade in Amersfoort.

The 19th of November 2012 or our entry in De Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender 2012. Hailing from our interest in the question of ‘display’ in general and Edward Collier’s letter racks in particular we are working on several prototypes of notice-boards. Please keep an eye out for any progress on the matter through this website.

Vkhutemas, ‘Model Construction’, c. 1925.
From the exposition ‘Dwelling Life of Man’, which shows ( a part of ) the collection of Mr. Martin Z. Margulies. See this and much more at KAdE in Amersfoort until January 6 2013.

Business-cards for De Stem van West, which translates to something like The Voice of West, although in English we miss out on the nice alliteration in the title. De Stem van West is a web-radio station for an art in public space project in Utrecht West. For this project we have developed the name, the identity and an online platform which will be released soon.

Series of cahiers for exhibitions in KAdE. A general cover, made of cardboard and a foil print, is combined with an A4 sheet for each edition. The second edition, the Francis Upritchard cahier, was designed by Abake. 

Design for the catalogue by the exhibition ‘Who More Sci-Fi Than Us?” in Kunsthal KAdE, curated by Nancy Hoffmann.

Werklandschap EET was an exhibition that was part of Utrecht Manifest.

Poster for the exhibition Sunset in TAG.

The Dots, magazine presenting Dutch designers at the Salone del Mobile Milan 2012.

Website haagsehavens.cc for Stroom the Hague at the IABR 2012.

Newspaper for the presentation Haagse Havens of Stroom den Haag for the IABR 2012.

Website for a new art space in the centre of Rotterdam, Garage Rotterdam.

Garage Rotterdam is a new gallery space for contemporary art in Rotterdam. The main feature of the identity is the logotype that is specifically designed to work as a large neon sign on the elevated wall facing the street. Curator Hans van der Ham has already put together five beautiful group-shows featuring artists like Nathaniel Mellors, Hans op de Beeck, Henk Visch, Georg Bohle and Marie Aly.

Promotion for the exhibition ‘Double or Nothing’ for TAG the Hague.

Catalogue published on the occasion of the solo exhibition of Henk Visch in KAdE.

Kokyogaien, Tokyo, Japan

Book scanner build on the occasion of the symposium ‘Rehearsing a conditional conjugation – from and towards the book’ at Jan van Eyck academy Maastricht.

The Dots, a magazine for promoting Dutch Design abroad. We focused on the functionality of finding a certain venue. With multiple maps, schedules and cross-references it should make it hard to get lost. In addition we added a visual essay contrasting designer furniture as depicted in original advertising with contemporary pictures on second-hand websites like eBay and Marktplaats.

For Connecting the Dots, published autumn 2011, with Anna Kraus.

Werkplaats Buijtenland is a project by Ester van de Wiel in the Polder Buijtenland south of Rotterdam. It aims to develop recreation in this area by connecting to existing activities. By setting up a cooperative and providing tools it tries to grow a recreative program that is supported locally. How the website looks is informed by the weather in Buijtenland. The different graphic elements on the website are variable depending on the actual temperature, windspeed and circumstances. 

Catalogue for the exhibition Meissen / SO-IL in KAdE.

Grimm-Bibliothek, Berlin

Website for The Institute of Ordinariness and Light.

Routing and lettering for Offspring 2012, the final show of renowned artist post-doc De Ateliers in Amsterdam. The lettering is derived from the idea that we had about De Ateliers as some sort of mashup of a wunderkammer and a doll house. Every letter represents an artist that features in the show.
Photography by Gert Jan van Rooij.

Catalogue accompanying the final show of the eight artist finishing De Ateliers 2010. 

Newspaper for the travelling exhibition ‘The Architecture of Consequence’ for the NAi. Editions were published in São Paulo, Moscow, Mumbai, Baku and Oslo.