Team Thursday is a graphic design studio set up by Loes van Esch and Simone Trum, based in Rotterdam. They focus on the design of visual identities, books and spatial objects. They do so with a special interest for typography, a curiousness for materials and the possible performativity of an object. Looking for patterns in everything and all around them, they search for how they can transform these into designs. Next to that they irregularly give workshops (inter)nationally, teach Typography at ArtEZ Arnhem, and host exhibitions in the front part of their studiospace, TTHQ.
CONTACT
Gouvernestraat 234
3014 PX Rotterdam, NL
loes@teamthursday.com, +31 6 26 804 921
simone@teamthursday.com, +31 6 26 130 980
instagram, mailinglist
TEAM
Loes van Esch & Simone Trum
PREVIOUSLY
Alice Saey, Peter Palland, Anja Enders, Sander Molenaar, Hanne Gabrielsen, Clara Lezlakowski, Rebecca Joly, Floor Weijs, Laurens Borsboom, Kai Udema, Summer Lee, Marianne Noordzij, Saskia van der Meer
Team Thursday is member of AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale.
Solo exhibition at Asahiso Noma, Osaka, Japan, 2024
Exhibition Sungazing at Parco Gallery, Milano, Italy, 2023
Solo exhibition at Galerie Block C, Groningen, 2023
Palace of Typographic Masonry, Amsterdam, 2018
Sample Sequences, Gallery My Monkey, Nancy, France, 2018
All Possible Futures: Unrealized Archive 02, Institute of advanced Uncertainty, San Francisco, USA, 2018
Non-Conformist Form: Adaptable Typography in Poster Design, Draw Down Books, New York, USA, 2018
Seoul City Sampling, presentation Dutch Design Week as part of Envisions, Eindhoven, 2017
Seoul City Sampling, exhibition as part of residency at MMCA Changdong, Seoul, South Korea, 2017
010 2d, exhibition Gallery Vivid, Rotterdam, 2015
Typojanchi, exhibition typography biennale Seoul, South Korea, 2015
Means of Production, exhibition TYPO.Berlin, Germany, 2014
AWARDS
Rollable Ramblings selected for the Best Dutch Book Designs, 2021
Rattle! Rattle! selected for the Best Dutch Book Designs, 2019
Moving Futures 2nd prize International Poster Competition, Graphic Design Festival Scotland, 2017
Dwars Vers, bronze medal for Best Book design from all over the world, 2016
Dwars Vers selected for the Best Dutch Book Designs of 2016
Talk at HSLU Lucerne, 2024
Workshop at Graphic Matters Summerschool, Breda, 2024
Workshop at Osaka University of Arts, Japan, 2024
Talk at Forward Festival, Amsterdam, 2024
Talk at KASK Ghent, 2023
Workshop at Independent School for the City, Rotterdam, 2023
Talk at REDO Prishtina, Kosovo, 2023
Workshop at Fabrica, Treviso, Italy, 2023
Talk at Parco Gallery Milano, Italy, 2023
Talk at Palace Talks, Graphic Matters, Breda, 2023
Thursday Night Live, Team Thursday in conversation with Irma Boom, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2022
Pixel Show, talk, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2022
INTL graphic design festival, (online) talk, 2022
Workshop + talk at Abadir Academy, Catania, Italy, 2022
Store Store, workshop, Rotterdam, 2021
Fahrenheit 39, workshop + talk, Ravenna, Italy, 2021
TYPO.Berlin, talk, Berlin, Germany, 2018
MU, Women in graphic design, talk, Eindhoven, 2018
Willem de Kooning academy, talk + workshop, Rotterdam, 2018
Zefir 7, together with Koen Taselaar and Thomas Trum, talk, The Hague, 2018
University of Seoul, workshop, South Korea, 2017
Hongik University, talk, Seoul, South Korea, 2017
Otis College of Art and Design, workshop + talk, Los Angeles, USA, 2013
SELECTION OF INTERVIEWS
Graphic Support Group, podcast, 2023
Etapes #270, Studios Spécialisés Team Thursday, 2022
NRC interview 'Ten best typefaces', 2022
The Korea Times, 2021
It's Nice That, 2018
Etapes #232, European Creative Cities - Rotterdam, 2016
COLLABORATORS/CLIENTS
Kunstinstituut Melly, Thomas Trum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, State of Fashion Biennial, Koen Taselaar, Atelier Tomas Dirrix, Independent School for the City, nai010 publishers, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Falsework, Jeroen Junte, WAI Think Tank, Land Art Live, Vers Beton, Best Dutch Book Designs, Stedelijk Museum Breda, Mondriaan Fund.
INTERNSHIP APPLICATIONS
We are currently not looking for an intern and might not be able to reply to your request.
TT portrait by Liza Wolters
Basis Grotesque typeface by Colophon
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