THE BODY
(SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE ARTS)
(STORIES OF VETERANS)
This site will give you an overview of my work. Many of the projects are made in collaboration. The website will not function as a complete archive(!) but acts as a personal overview.
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2006/2007.
(Various Research-images)
Logo Parc. Research on Public Space. In februari 2006
I joined the project, advised by graphic designer Daniel van der Velden at the Jan van Eyck Academy.
Fellow researchers are Katja Gretzinger, Gon Zifroni and Matteo Poli.
(Re)search. Poster A2 & Brochure A4.
Campaigndesign@Jan van Eyck, 2007. In cooperation with Jean Baptiste Maitre.
Bookdesign@Jan van Eyck, 2006/2007.
Posterdesign, 2007. Poster & program-brochure in one. Folded from A3 > A4.
Posterdesign@Jan van Eyck, 2006. Invitation & program-brochure. Folded from A4 > A2.
2000. Poststamps, in which the style of the Dutch stamps of Peter Struijcken is used to tell a new story. The portrait of Queen Beatrix is replaced by those of several dubious worldleaders. Rebel-leader of the Kurdish Abdullah Öcalan, President Mobutu of Zaïre, Yassar Arafat leader of the Palestinians and Ayatollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of Iran.
Posterdesign@Jan van Eyck, 2006
Recruitment and invitation.
2002. The content of the book, the student-projects, are placed in a broader cultural frame, which contextualise the projects. This frame was not required, but self-initiated.
The images which are brought together create an extra editorial layer within the design.
2004. Corporate identity for ‘CityJam’ , a project by Hooghuis, Arnhem.
The identity is formed by a collection of images brought together on an associative base. Sometimes directly related, sometimes with the blink of an eye ;-) , sometimes extremely serious.
The A2-poster can be printed directly, but is also designed with the possibility to cut it up in four pieces. Each piece (A4) tells a part of the bigger story. These pages can be used as stationary. Maximum effect is created by the use of fluor colours.
2005. Brochure and Publication. In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
2004-2006 Corporate Identity-Design within an existing framework. In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
2004-2006. Corporate Identity-Design for Danthe (support, counseling, training and advise for works councils). In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
Graphic contours from actual ‘situations’ in the Danthe-trainings are used for the identity.
Website+print (3 fluor-colours).
Indexnumber ‘Tien Jaar de Kunsten’, magazine of the HkA. 2001.
In cooperation with Floor van Essen.
The idea behind the design for De Kunsten issue is an enormous index-list. The index is put together out of names of employees, writers etc., who have worked together on the magazine in the past decade. We used the index as a list of honour. The issue starts with the index which covers the first pages. We emphasised the idea of an index by using the typography which is standard for indexes. It almost resembles a phonebook. Previous issues are copied 1:1 and are integrated in the design.
2001. Commissioned by Felix Janssens and the Observatorium. (Foundation for the arts. Developing Art projects in relation to urban planning and landscape.) Proposal for a new website. In cooperation with Maarten Verweij.
Main goal of the website is the function as archive for the observatorium and its work. The design moves around a ‘simple’ but effective 3x3 grid in which all information can be obtained. Important aspect is that the complete archive is photographed and at the same time functions as site-navigation. Certain objects filmrol, script, photo and scrapbook functions as main theme headers. The theme contains similar objects. Due to this header, searching is no longer just a effective act to a certain point but the act becomes an investigation. Surprises popping up, and unexpected confrontations.
2004. Muzieklab Brabant. In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
Poster of a series of public concerts performed by an ensemble of Dutch and Chinese musicians. The first designs had too much ‘layers’. There were many Chinese musicians which where dissident and which could not and would not be confronted with images of the Chinese party or images of upcoming western commercialism in the Chinese cities.
In the end we decided to make a gesture by making a ‘wallpaper’, which is sort of anonymous. The flags are used as a logo / trademark which is repeated indefinetely which makes a kind of ‘dessin.’
Poster and website (www.stadindewolken.nl). 2004. In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
Stad in de Wolken is a series of debates by the stage LUX in Nijmegen. In this debate high-rise building is discussed in the region Arnhem-Nijmegen. (KAN-Area). Beside the debate films and excursions are part of the series. For the visual identity we created an image which refers to ‘The Tower of Babylon’. An accumulation of excisting and famous buildings from the international ‘discours’ form the ultimate architectural design. Within the design of the website we used the single parts of the collage in a playful way, as layers who interact with the mouse.
2004. Visual Identity for a six-day debate on the influences of 9/11 on art and design.
Underneath the information-layer lies a CNN-NEWS-stream of news coming in while the disaster was happening. Within the website this layer is animated. Typography is set in IBM Orator, a classic matrix typeface. In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
2004. Architectural office website. In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
It’s all about pop-ups!
Term paper Graduation 2002. The visual term paper functions as upbeat for my graduation. Executed on actual newspaper size (A2).
The term paper functions as a research for cultural/typographical qualities in newspaper design. I have carefully studied en described both european, arabic and eastern newspapers. Interesting part is the search for differences in typographic and editorial design in which cultural differences can be interpreted. But also a world in which cultural differences are becoming less and less visible.
The newspaper as cultural phenomenon and blueprint of a culture.
Academical Project. 2000. Felix Janssens.
Assignment: Design a naturalisationguide for newcomer in The Netherlands.
Within this assignment different parts which interest me as a graphic designer come together.
Startingpoint is an image-novel in which the image describes the story.
In this book I searched for images which describe The Netherlands in the form of a collage. Certain concepts as ‘commercial spirit’ , ‘public sphere’ and the ‘dutch landscape’ have been put into place. Not only recent material but also historical images. The images interact with each other. By almost arbitrarily cutting up the images, sideconnections are made and The Netherlands gets an associative sight. No pictures of tulipfields or paintings by Van Gogh, but pictures of children playing in a new (housing) estate in Almere combined with Constants‘New Babylon’ ‘Endemols market introduction’, alongside ‘De Staalmeesters’ by Rembrandt. A photograph by ‘Rineke Dijkstra’ alongside Pieter Breughels ‘Babylon’.
2002. Advertisments HkA.
2003. Proposal for a new design. (Not executed.) In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
GonzoCircus is a bi-monthly magazine in which there is room for experimental en relatively unknown alternative music, alongside contemporary music.
We placed the actual magazine on a layer of recent and actual articles, directly copied from other music-magazines. This layer interactis directly or indirectly with the specific article. Also the music is placed into a broader perspective. Indirectly the magazine is no longer focussed on one specific target group, because every single relevant musical tendency gets its own place within the design.
Bookdesign. 2004. In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
A project at a high school in Enschede is described in this book.
Important aspect of the design is the fact that several people (teachers, students, assistents, head of the school) shared their opinions and experiences about this project.
For the cover we used clusters of festive confetti which are filled with pictures of people. It’s a metaphor for different stories of different people.
8.2002-8.2006. Website of the office Plein Publiek, established in 2002 by me and Gerco Hiddink. Weblog.
2005. A publication about veterans (the young and the elderly) who are put in public education. Veteran-stories are told, and the youth is taught to be aware of the recent and past war-history of The Netherlands.
The cover is designed as a ‘collage’ in which recent and past pictures of war veterans, on the battlefield and in the classroom are put together. This collage is copied to a poster which is folded around the publication. In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem 2002.
Part of my graduation in which any possible doubt about ‘The Netherlands as a Multicultural Society’ is dispelled. On different levels symbols are exchanged and appropriated. The entrance of the Lower House is covered with stickers as a metaphor in which appropriation and integration are expressed.
Alongside the stickers I also made a publication about exchanging and appropriation of cultural characteristics. This publication describes the exchange on a smaller and larger scale. Streetpictures, magazines, my stickers and ‘objects trouvés’ express the feeling of a multicultural country and maybe even the feeling of a multicultural world. Regardless the fact if it is Piet Bloms architecture (which has a visual link with Arabic patterns), Chinese filmposters which resemble western filmposters or a Japanese character (Hello Kitty) which resembles our Nijntje.
Academical Project. 2000.
Startingpoint is the personal research of the expressive qualities of statistics and graphs.
The idea behind the design is a graph which slowly rises on the one side. (The profit of environmental pollutioning companies rises.) On the other side the graph goed down. (The condition of the environment becomes critical).
Besides the story of this graph, the main target of the assignment is a personal search for alternative ways to represent ‘hardcore graphs data’. The graph in this plan is represented in a series of personal collection of objects.
Poster Merleyn, cultural stage, Nijmegen. In cooperation with Gerco Hiddink.
A selfinitiated form, in which the program of Merleyns ‘SofaSalon’ is placed in a broader cultural frame, but in which diverse opinions and arguments can be displayed. First poster and start for a series of posters. The posters are stenciled; a special printingprocedure which has a high ‘do it yourself’-quality and is a kind of anti-establishment-experience.