This identity for the State of Fashion biennale 2022 is an ever changing Cadavre Exquis of images of the work of all participants. We designed a digital tool, together with Vera van de Seyp, that can generate an infinite amount of different posters.
visual identity
key visual video i.c.w. Vera van de Seyp
key visual sound by Ruben van Asselt
visitors guide i.c.w. Kai Udema
commissioned by State of Fashion
As part of the identity for the State of Fashion biennale we designed the graphic layer for the exhibition in the Eusebius church in Arnhem. The exhibition 'Fashion as Encounters' makes room for changes and additions, and this reflects in the typography that plays with open spaces for imaginary answers.
exhibition signage
curated by Not___Enough Collective
photos by Eva Broekema & Jeroen Verrecht
exhibition design by Studio L A
commissioned by State of Fashion
For a residential building in Rotterdam we developed a Jacquard woven curtain, sized 9,5m x 3,9m. We made a layered design, almost as if you’re looking through a space filled with columns and pillars. The somewhat hidden typography says: ‘Was it a cat I saw?’ — a palindrome, referring to the curtain that moves and slides from left to right and right to left.
curtain, Jacquard woven
developed at TextielLab, Tilburg
photos by Pim Top
The majority of the book Rollable Ramblings comprises reproductions of Koen Taselaars' elaborate tapestries, and zoom-ins on them. This visual component is complemented with essays shedding light on the textile works, and on the history of textile art in general. All image pages are printed on glossy paper, and text pages are printed on thin uncoated paper. The book has a Japanese binding and a silkscreened cover.
book
commissioned by Koen Taselaar
initiative by Block C, Groningen
text by Katalin Herzog
printed by Zwaan Lenoir
published by Jap Sam Books
Selected for Best Dutch Book Designs 2021
This publication shows an ongoing visual typographic research into city surfaces, that we started during our residency in Seoul. It is an assemblage of an ongoing and ever-expanding built set of letters. The text is written by artist Michiel Huijben.
220x305mm, 48 pg, soft cover, 4 pantone + black, ISBN 9789090345543. Available for purchase in our shop.
book
self-commissioned
text by Michiel Huijben
printed by Drukkerij Tielen
distributed by Idea Books
The exhibition Versatile Volumes in KF Gallery, Seoul, is an exhibition with the 33 Best Dutch Book Design books of last year and 18 Korean artists' books. We developed the Dutch part of the exhibition and the graphic identity.
exhibition
icw The Best Dutch Book Designs, Dutch Embassy Seoul, Korea Foundation, Art Book Press
Korean type & typesetting by Dongbin Han
photography prints in exhibition by Kyoungtae Kim
This book for Land Art Flevoland contains a collection of 10 iconic land art works (ao Robert Morris, Marinus Boezem), studies about them through interventions by a new generation of artists (a.o. Melanie Bonajo, Gilles de Brock) and texts (a.o. Floris Alkemade, Mariska van den Berg).
book
commissioned by Land Art Flevoland
printed by NPN Drukkers
published by nai010 publishers
photography ao Johannes Schwartz
A catalogue of this years selection of the 33 Best Dutch Book Designs of The Netherlands. Designed in lockdown, the book felt like an aerospace, with no top or bottom, front or back.
book
commissioned by Esther Scholten (The Best Dutch Book Designs)
photography of books in the catalogue by Kyoungtae Kim
This book contains an exploration of alternative models of architectural and urban thinking and representation – with projects by a.o. Le Corbusier, Constant, Archizoom, Superstudio and Rem Koolhaas. In the design we have woven text pages (white) and image pages (black) into each other, as if it were an assemblage of two separate books. Each 'enter' in the text is not a white space but consists of a full stop. These dots are like bread crumbs suggesting the grid throughout the book, as a small reference to concrete poetry.
book
commissioned by WAI Architecture Think Tank & nai010
In the newest book by Jeroen Junte, Do It Ourselves, he describes a new ‘post-crisis generation’ designers. We connected all projects in the book by turning them into a long scroll where the end is the beginning and vice versa, with the text pages inserted in between. The Whyte typeface is stretched here and there to make the letters fit imaginary A4 papers.
book
commissioned by Jeroen Junte & nai010
thanks to Dinamo
A publication with the works of Ide André, playing with repetition and rhythm of the content and the book itself.
book
commissioned by Ide André & Sieger White Stichting
published by Jap Sam Books
Selected for Best Dutch Book Designs 2019
Last week the Raketstart exhibition opened at Stedelijk Museum Breda: a selection of works by Breda-based artists. We warped the Lars typeface into space and used this as a base for the graphic identity.
visual identity
i.c.w. Kai Udema
commissioned by Stedelijk Museum Breda
thank you Bold Decisions
We designed the publication for this years edition of Archiprix, a selection of/prize for the best Dutch graduation projects in architecture and urban planning.
publication
commissioned by Archiprix
thank you Floor Weijs
On show until 8 December, The Right to Build at Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam just opened – an exhibition about self-built houses in NL. Deriving from logo's on isolation materials, we made an expanded stickerset to be pasted on the exhibition table.
graphic identity
exhibition design by Tomas Dirrix
commissioned by Mark Minkjan & Rene Boer (Failed Architecture)
photos by Maarten Nauw
Each year, we turn our class at ArtEZ Arnhem into a Character Club for 5 weeks. The students all get 1 letter to fall in love with, by only making this one letter, in every analog way possible, as many as possible. Out of all letters we collectively make a book, that can function as a catalogue of 700+ possible typefaces.
book
made with all first year students of GDA, ArtEZ Arnhem
Prospects & Concepts is an exhibition organized by the Mondriaan Fonds, taking place every year during Art Rotterdam and includes work of all artists who received a starter stipend in the previous year. For this seventh edition we designed a small sized catalogue, program flyers, signage, stickers & cards – all fully smudged with scribbles extracted from the previously designed typography for Prospects & Concepts.
visual identity
exhibition design by Tom Postma Design
commissioned by Mondriaan Fonds
Seoul based studio Corners asked us to design a poster for their Ink Village A2 risoposter exhibition. The letters are constructed out of patterned bricks we found in Seoul and the sound of the words is that of our favorite Korean dish: dolsot bibimbap. Available for purchase in our shop.
poster
thanks to Corners Studio Seoul
Together with Richard Niessen we made an exhibition for his Palace of Typographic Masonry. We made a brick tile game and a series of curtains forming a back drop to his wooden archive box filled with anecdotes and stories about Wolfgang Von Wersins ornament theory.
exhibition with Richard Niessen
for the Palace of Typographic Masonry
We're teaming up with Crimson Architectural Historians and ZUS Architects for the design of Independent School for the City, their new postmaster program in Rotterdam for post-graduate students from all over the world (in the field of design, planning, sociology, history,...). October 19th was the official kick-off with lectures and exhibitions and it was a blast. More coming soon.
visual identity
lecture photo by Maarten Laupman
commissioned by Crimson Architectural Historians
With winter coming up, we've printed a stack of TT sweaters (dark green & pink, sizes S/M/L) and are selling them for 25 euros. If you would like some TT to keep you warm, just send us a message (currently sold out).
The Dots magazine was spread during Milan Design Week 2018, and features interviews with Dutch designers, present at the design week, and a guide to (almost) all Dutch designer contributions. This years theme Human Nature is emphasized by the atmospheric optical phenomenons in the chapter pages.
magazine
photography by Boudewijn Bollman
commissioned by Connecting the Dots
House Crying Yellow Tears is a collaboration of theatre artists Suze Milius and Stefan Jakiela. Under one roof – based in Brussels – they join forces to work on theatre productions; together and individually, with people from different fields of art. Their identity consists of a flexible framework that functions as a container for all kinds of productions and can appear in a variety of media. In that way the identity evolves with every newly made item.
visual identity
commissioned by House Crying Yellow Tears
Every six weeks one of the members of Het Wilde Weten, an artist space in the center of Rotterdam, hosts a public event deriving directly from their artistic practice, under the name of Disclosed. The design of this riso-printed poster series is loosely based on emails we like to send: designing text as expressive as possible using the simple design merits of an email. In addition to this, we use no more than 3 layers, take no longer than 2 hours for the design and we don’t show the posters to Het Wilde Weten until after they’re printed.
posters
commissioned by Het Wilde Weten
For the sixth edition of Prospects & Concepts we sketched and scribbled in the space with the letters previously made for the exhibition. The catalogue becomes a small fully scribbled notebook, the carpet of the entrance is smudged and the workspace wall is smeared with shapes.
Prospects & Concepts is an exhibition organized by the Mondriaan Fonds, taking place every year during Art Rotterdam and includes work of all artists who received a starter stipend in the previous year.
visual identity
exhibition design Tom Postma Design
commissioned by Mondriaan Fonds
During our stay in Seoul we designed a mural for the newly constructed community youth centre in the neighborhood Changdong. We made an abstract typographic composition of the name of the building, WITH, on the staircase wall from level 1 to 4 and at the entrance. Being executed with Korean speed and in close collaboration with Shin Architects, it was almost finished when we left, but we hope to see the finished wall some time soon.
mural design
commissioned by Shin Architects
photos by Roh Kyung at ROH
We showed ‘Poster Polyglot’ at our studio space in Rotterdam – a presentation of 42 posters designed by 21 Korean designers we collected during our stay in Seoul.
With posters by Minkee Bae, Everyday Practice, Moonsick Gang, Hey Hey Joe, Hong x Kim, Jin & Park, Matt Kkal, Youngchan Kwon, Gunjung Lee, Hezin O, Ordinary People, Daeki & Jun, Dokho Shin, Sulki & Min, Shin Shin, Studio FNT, Jieun Yang, Workroom.
exhibition
photos by Koen Taselaar
thanks to all participating designers
An exhibition made during our recent residency at MMCA Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, South Korea. The starting point for the prints is the City Sample Database we made: a collection of pictures we took of surfaces such as bricks, facades, shop windows and patterned clothing we encountered on the streets of Seoul. This results in a series of five bojagi-inspired fabrics in which we combine the patterns with words, forming potentially new city facades.
exhibition
photos by EH (Kyoungtae Kim)
thanks to Stimuleringsfonds
During our residency in Seoul we were asked to design a steel installation for Ilsan Park, Goyang. Deriving from the flags we made previously (showing the word SPIELTRIEB), we translated the word into spatial steel ‘posters’. Later in the year it will be installed permanently in between the trees of the park.
steel sculpture
commissioned by Dong Yeon Koh
In the first week of our residency at MMCA Seoul we were commissioned to make flags for the MMCA Changdong entrance. We made a design reacting to the residency atmosphere and based on a bedcloth we previously made. The flags, spelling out the word SPIELTRIEB, were produced with Korean efficiency and finished before we knew it.
flag series
photos by MMCA / Koen Taselaar
commissioned by MMCA Seoul
From 2016 we’re working on the visual identity of TENT, a platform for contemporary art in Rotterdam housed in a previously squatted monumental school building in the Witte de Withstraat. This year, we’re treating TENT's entrance wall as an indoor billboard, where we can show various information about the current activities of TENT in- and outside its exhibition space. By pasting layers of posters on top of each other and cutting out peek holes, traces of former activities will be shown over time.
visual identity
photos by Aad Hoogendoorn
commissioned by TENT Rotterdam
Diptych of lyrical poems and sonnets by Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay; two well-known American poets. The poems are for the first time translated in Dutch by a female translator, Ans Bouter, who compiled and published the book herself. The book is divided in two halves and has two spines – if placed the other way around on a bookshelf, this one book appears to be two different books. Each poet has her own part, printed in one color. All mutual information is printed with a mix of those two colors.
poetry book
available here
commissioned by Ans Bouter & Benjamin Groothuyse
Selected for Best Dutch Book Designs 2016
Bronze Medal Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt 2017
Ongoing from 2012 we design the visual identity for the annual exhibition Prospects & Concepts, organized by the Mondriaan Fonds and taking place during Art Rotterdam. The exhibition includes work of all artists who received a starter stipend in the previous year. We've designed a lettering system that is adapted in a different manner every year. The identity consists of invitations, exhibition guides, animated type, signage and a catalogue for every edition.
visual identity
exhibition design Tom Postma Design
video teaser in collaboration with Alice Saey
commissioned by the Mondriaan Fonds
This book contains an anthology of new and older articles from online magazine Vers Beton about the changes and upturn of the city of Rotterdam through the past five years. The revival of the city is approached from a number of themes, supplemented with contributions of Rotterdam photographers and illustrators. Starting point for the design was the collection of photos we took over the years of stickers in public space, leaving marks and ‘labeling’ the city.
book
photos book launch by Victor Wollaert
commissioned by Vers Beton, nai010publishers
available here
nominated for Rotterdamse Persprijs 2017
Moving Futures is a traveling dance festival through 7 Dutch cities showing work of contemporary choreographers. Like the first edition of the festival, we designed a template poster with the information of all cities on it. This time, contrasting with the highlight-markers of last year, we censored the information that was not applicable to the particular city. During a drawing workshop in an empty dance studio, we manually manipulated all 2000 posters with black markers.
visual identity
thanks to drawing assistants Koen, Sander, Alice, Tijs and Twan
commissioned by Dansmakers Amsterdam
South Korean typography biennale Typojanchi invited us for the Small House Big Door project. We were asked to design an object that could be presented in a hotel room. This bedcover also functions as a tent and has some hidden typography in it.
bedcover
commissioned by Typojanchi Biennale Seoul
Granfalloon is the title of 2015s degree show of the Masters Art & Science, Fine Art and Photography of Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts in London. This word, introduced by Kurt Vonnegut, means "a proud and meaningless association of human beings". The catalogue shows the work of all graduating students of these three sections. We underlined the title by using one sheet of paper per student, and designed the whole catalogue in alphabetical order. Then we threw the whole stack of pages in the air, deciding the order of the book by how we picked them up. Therefore all pages are mixed and bound together again in random order. The perforations that came out of the binding were used as confetti at the degree show opening itself.
exhibition catalogue
photo exhibition by Dennis Vanderbroeck
commissioned by Central Saint Martins London
This tablecloth was originally made as an extension of the KWARTET II card game by Marijke Appelman & Koen Taselaar. It’s can function as a backdrop for an evening with friends, food and card games. The tablecloth is made of 100% cotton and silkscreened by hand. Available for purchase in our shop.
tablecloth
photos by Alexandre Furtado
Het Nieuwe Instituut organised an exhibition about the material plastic and its future; 3D-printing. The exhibition (or: docubition, as it was called, a combination between exhibition and documentary) focusses on the political and economic industry around plastic and poses questions about the critical point in time where plastic is at right now: is the future of plastic in our own hands or in the hands of big powerful cooperations? The design reflects the subjective tone of the docubition. Inspired by punchlines of American documentaries, we designed a selection of slogans, extracted from the narration, posing questions about plastic.
visual identity
in collaboration with Tal Erez, Submarine, Daphna Laurens
commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut
Moving Futures is a traveling dance festival through 7 Dutch cities showing work of contemporary choreographers. We translated the dynamic mentality of the festival by making a template tourposter with the information of all participating cities and the whole festival printed on it. On the posters we manually highlighted the information appropriate for the specific city, with a big red marker. We organized a workshop drawing week that resulted in a series of 2000 different posters.
visual identity
commissioned by Dansmakers Amsterdam
thanks to drawing assistants Bas, Ing, Koen and Thomas
winner second prize at International Poster Competition of Graphic Design Festival Scotland 2017
jury rapport
Publication for the Walls project of artist Thomas Trum. Folded A2 blueback posters compiled into a booklet with a silkscreened cover.
book
commissioned by Thomas Trum
Kwartet is a Dutch card game using the simple premise of collecting a complete family/set of four cards (a so-called kwartet) per given category. In this version, initiated by Marijke Appelman and Koen Taselaar, the fourteen families are formed by artworks grouped by their underlying subject matter or the formal principles used, like Doors In Doors, Over The Edge, Used To Skate and Watermelon. We designed a dazzle pattern for the cards, package, and a little pin brooche for the winner. To play the game in full effect, we made a matching silkscreened tablecloth.
card game
commissioned by Marijke Appelman and Koen Taselaar
available here
Artists Marije Vermeulen, Marieke Coppens, Annegret Kellner and Cindy Moorman each took over the space of gallery Outline in Amsterdam for one weekend with a solo exhibition. To take-over Amsterdams public space, we designed silkscreened stickers that were spread all over the city by the artists and their friends.
flyer
commissioned by Marieke Coppens
I Like To Watch Too is a contemporary dance and performance festival that turned Paradiso into a one weekend dance temple with performances not only on stage but in the hallway, on the stairs, and even in the toilets. We made a dazzle camouflage pattern for this ‘dance performance expedition’, based on movements of the body. Our workspace turned into a photo studio for several weeks – we shot a lot of images of moving body parts, dressed in graphic patterns and stripy fabrics.
visual identity
commissioned by Paradiso Amsterdam
We were invited to teach a one-week-workshop at Otis, College of Art & Design in Los Angeles. Together with a group of students we designed the visual identity for the symposium at the end of the week, where all workshop groups presented their work and each guest teacher gave a lecture. In the beginning of the week we placed a big billboard on the courtyard, functioning as an ongoing announcement of the symposium. Every hour and every day the announcement would look different. Next to that, our group designed the catalogue, silkscreened 200 bags and even invented special coffee ice-cream. We had a superb week with great Otis team spirit!
workshop
commissioned by Otis college of Art & Design, Los Angeles
thanks to Kali Nikitas
Graphic Design Festival Breda asked us to design an A0-poster for their Poster Project throughout the city of Breda. We took paper, scissors and some glue to make a manual composition and silkscreened the poster (which was pretty hard work during a hot summer day and using such a heavy machine). The quote ‘Count money till my fingers get the papercuts’ comes from a hiphop track by SL Jones and refers to the given theme: Greed is in, empathy is out.
poster
silkscreened at Amsterdam Grafisch Atelier
commissioned by Graphic Design Festival Breda
Video Vortex is a series of talks and workshops about online video in Trouw, Amsterdam. Geert Lovink writes in the Video Vortex reader: “We no longer watch movies, we watch databases.” Based on a filing and labeling system, we created a scanned and photocopied identity on scale 1:1, as a reference to the growing amateur YouTube culture.
visual identity
commissioned by Institute of Network Cultures
The exhibition To All Tomorrows Parties in TENT Rotterdam consisted of mainly performances and no static work, with the aim to put people in motion. The title was a reaction to the crisis and the financial cuts in the cultural field: Not only think, but act! The design shows a physical, festive demonstration as an identity: a manifesto as an invitation, pasted posters on the outside wall and portable wooden demonstration boards as signage inside the gallery.
visual identity
photos by Aad Hoogendoorn
commissioned by TENT Rotterdam
The Great Indoors Award is an international interior design award. The edition of 2011 with the theme IN BETWEEN wants to reflect on the importance of temporal solutions in a period of growing vacancy and the need for durable solutions. This temporality is reflected in the design by the use of solely paper in the exhibition design. One kilometer of paper was designed and used in the interior, as a reference to wallpaper and the constant change in identity. The action of tearing the paper comes back in the interior as well as in the award show itself. Instead of opening a golden envelope to announce the winners, we made five upscaled block calendars where pages could be torn off, eventually revealing the winner.
visual identity
interior design in collaboration with EventArchitectuur
photos by Bert Janssen
commissioned by FRAME Magazine, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture and NAiM/Bureau Europa