Detail from The Stec presents Food To Be Expo, Klokgebouw Eindhoven
Signage & typographics for 10 Years of Thomas Eyck curated by Jules van den Langenberg at Atelier Clerici for the Zuiderzeemuseum.
Photography by Lonneke van der Palen
Exhibition Design for Project Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Photography by Lotte Stekelenburg
Exhibition design for De Nieuwe Smaak at Rijksmuseum Twenthe.
Ubiquist, Ted Noten
Images for V-V-V for Vitrine, Macguffin #2, The Window
Art In The Age Of…, catalogue for Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art
Exhibition (typo)graphics for ‘Danger & Beauty, Turner and the Tradition of the Sublime’ in Rijksmuseum Twenthe. Based around a unique assembly of works by William Turner it shows the interrelations between predecessors and artists related to Turner’s topics or methods. Quotes and works by the artist are underlined and accompany the thematic groupings.
Coloured vinyl lettering, large coloured paper sheets, hardwood and brass flathead slot screws.
Ted Noten: Ubiquist is Ted’s latest and yellowest monograph. The book maps his practice into four distinct ‘spaces’, The Cube, The Stage, The Square and the Market, that stand for different types of capital as coined by Pierre Bourdieu. The book tracks Ted Noten’s work as it ranges from highly luxurious commercial goods to socially engaged game changers.
Text by Gert Staal and Jennifer Allen
Published by Barbera van der Kooij of nai010
Photography by Johannes Schwartz a.o.
‘GLASS, The Engine of Progress’ is an exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut about how glass extends the eye into the heavens, around the world, through the human body and down into the depths of the microcosmos. Wonder about the material that developed along with our curiosity to spur on progress and topple world views.
The show features great work by Sabine Marcelis & Brit van Nerven, Phil Procter, heirs Bouvy, Arnout Visser, Overtreders W, John Dollond, Arnout Meijer, Duran Group, Andries Copier, David Derksen, NEXT architects, Heinrich Geißler, El Ultimo Grito, Bertjan Pot, Hella Jongerius, Experimental Jetset, Raw Color and many more.
The exhibition is on until the 23d of August 2015 at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.
Koehorst in ‘t Veld curated and designed the exhibition, production by Babette Zijlstra and text by Gert Staal.
Plan of the Glass: Engine of Progress exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut. The modular exhibition design is based on four different types of wooden planks and two types of steel trusses that are riveted together. By combining and placing these elements in combination with large sheets of glass and luxaflex diverse structures appear that define the space and function as walls, displays and vitrines.
For the exhibition ‘Glass: Engine of Progress’ we asked type designer Benjamin Sporken to design a custom font that is a contemporary re-imagination of 19th century grotesk types.
Paxton is conceived to be the work-horse for the exhibition, having to convey captions as well as large introductory texts and (sub)titles. The font features a large set of glyphs, including very specific typographic marks like a No sign, Roman numerals and special ligatures for all these th’s in ‘19th century’.
As the visual research for the font started of by carefully examining a range of examples of types that were being used in the exhibits of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of the Nations of 1851, we thought it apt to name it after the architect of its pavilion, the Crystal Palace: Joseph Paxton.
Objects from the ‘Glass: Engine of Progress’ exhibition. Following our idea that the exhibition should really try to express its ideas through objects we went of to find pieces that would embody the story of how glass extended the eye and consequently made the modern world. This made us turn to the depots of famed scientific museums like Teylers Museum, Museum Boerhaave and University Museum Utrecht to gather historical objects that resonate in contemporary design and society.
Next to this we were interested in lifting the hierarchies between different types of makers. Historical objects sit next to experiments by contemporary designers across an industrial product. The objects are related through matching material properties or how they have been worked, hardly ever through purpose.
Among the highlights are a quartet of Blaschka glass-models. A pure silicate glass preform that is used in the industry to pull thousands of kilometers of optical fibreglass and Hella Jongerius’ Knitted Lamp experiments.
For the images in the ‘Glass: Engine of Progress’ exhibition we delved into a diverse group of international archives. Ranging from the corporate Carl Zeiss Archive, to the International Institute of Social History and from the Vatican Archives to the impressive Science and Society Picture Library as well as the National Glasmuseum Leerdam among others.
Next to these ‘institutional’ sources we have a profound interest in images produced and collected outside of professional systems. This resulted in us being able to show a couple of images by an employee of the Caltech optical shop and the research work done on the classified Keyhole satellites by ‘amateur’ astronomers.
Move On!, exhibition design for KAdE Amersfoort
In collaboration with David Derksen & The Incredible Machine
Photography (picture b-e) Mike Bink
Exhibitions
Dijken van Nederland is the definitive book on the Dikes of the Netherlands. LOLA Landscape Architects produced a staggering amount of research on dikes including the first definitive map showing all the dikes in the land and a detailed taxonomy of every type of dike.
Awarded Best Verzorgde Boeken 2014
Honourable Mention Gouden Tulp 2015
D&AD Pencil Winner 2015
Realgar, Minerals and Gems Cabinet, American Museum of Natural History, New York City
HOUT/WOOD is an exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut about the material and the site it originates from: the forest. Our roles in making the exhibition ranged from spatial and graphic design to being editors and providing objects and materials to support the narrative.
HOUT/WOOD showcases works by Aldo Bakker, Eelco Brand, Charles & Ray Eames, Ernst van der Hoeven, Chris Kabel, Lex Pott, Cedric Price, Bethan Laura Wood, Lukas Oleniuk, Onix, SeARCH, Hendrik Wijdeveld, James Wines and others. Their work is presented in a context of historical, cultural and societal references.
The exhibition is on until the 10th of August 2014 at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.
With: Dan Handel, Babette Zijlstra, Wendel ten Arve, Guus Beumer and Gert Staal.
Views of WOOD, impressions of the forest of wooden sheets we layed-out in Het Nieuwe Instituut in the summer of 2014. The whole principle of the exhibition design was to cover the room in long strips of wooden sheets (Radiplex) and to fold these sheets to create spaces and routings.
Means of Production as installed at Haus der Kulturen der Welt for TypoBerlin 2014. Means of Production is a travelling exhibition about designers that features works by graphic designers that question the tools and materials they use to produce their work. By coming up with experimental methods and custom machinery they push for unexpected outcomes that result in new forms and meanings.
Means of Production features work by Catalogtree, RAW Color, Hansje van Halem, Letterproeftuin, Moniker, Karl Nawrot, Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, Our Polite Society, Bertjan Pot, Hamid Sallali and Team Thursday.
We curated and designed Means of Production for The Dutch Embassy in Berlin.
Lost Landscapes is LOLA Landscape Architects’ philosophy on Landscape, Leisure and Nature, the publication is part of the Maaskant Prize that Lola recently won. Next to the trade edition there is also a special edition where the sides are printed with photos of landscapes. The sides make for a sort of triptych/polyptych depicting the different aspects of the landscape that Lola distinguish.
For Lola Landscape Architects and nai010 publishers.
DAM Architectural Book Award 2014 Winner
Books
For Lost Landscapes we produced a series of panorama’s featuring elements of their practice.Such as lists of endangered and invasive species, dead landscape architects, expressive types of leisure and landscape manipulation techniques. Together with Lola Landscape Architects.
Catalogue for Now Japan, showcasing contemporary Japanese art at Kunsthal Kade in Amersfoort. Printed on thin paper with only every other page full-colour.
A selection of our photography as used in the upcoming NOW JAPAN catalogue for Kunsthal KAdE. This series functions as a soft outro in the book. As the book concerns contemporary Japanese art and the notion of ‘superflat’ that artist Haruki Murakami coined to describe Japanese society we thought it a stirring gesture to also add, in the form of this set of holiday pictures, a western gaze that is practically only able to skim the surface of things.
Flag for Ester van de Wiel's de Tuinfabriek at Call of the Mall at Hoog Catharijne in Utrecht.
‘Framing Perpetrators - A Proposal’ is a booklet made in honour of Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan who was artist in resident at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam in the Fall of 2012.
Eyal Sivan is concerned with the representation of the perpetrator and the project aims to frame the figure of ‘the perpetrator’ beyond geographies, cultures, political regimes, historical events, and faith. We took the notion of a physiologicalblind spot as a visual metaphor to either obscure the perpetrator or the context where he or she is in in a picture.
A series of different perps is used as a stand-alone visual essay to accompany the interview Suzanne Wallinga had with Eyal Sivan in Paris.
Books
Jardin des Plantes, Paris
Poster for the exhibition Sunset in TAG.
Identities
Stamp design for the ‘Muziek in Nederland’ sheet. The subject of this half is singing in relation to Europa Cantat in Utrecht that was held in 2009. We didn’t want to express singing through an illustration and instead opted to forego the briefing a bit and proposed a typographic design that featured three starting sentences of well-known songs. Hopefully the user of the stamp finishes the song herself.
Miscellaneous