Design Context Blog: ZiNE / / Contemporary Reference

[ HeART&Society ]
Design for the 'young talent' issue of a magazine for and about
Dutch artists for Kunstenaars&CO (now Cultuur en Ondernemen).

circulation: 8000
client: Kunstenaars&CO
printing: Roto Smeets
size: 200 × 265 mm
techniques: offset print, uv spot varnish
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[ How to Survive... ]

How to Survive The Hague is a survival guide containing very useful
information for international students studying at the Royal Academy
of Art. Find out how our public transport works, how to find a job or
where to get drunk in The Hague.

circulation: 500
client: Studio KABK
pages: 80
printing: Veenman Drukkers
size: 105 × 148 mm
technique: offset print
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[ Design Mass ]

Book design for a book containing essays by three theoreticians who -
during the Dutch Design Week - brainstormed and developed ideas
about topics such as technology and aesthetics.
Essays by Florian Schneider (DE), Koert van Mensvoort (NL) and
Koen Vermeir (BE).
Published by Onomatopee.

i.c.w. Jeremy Jansen

circulation: 550
client: Onomatopee
pages: 112
printing: New Goff
size: 110 × 180 mm
technique: offset print
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[ Intimate stories on absence ]

Book designed and published in the aftermath of a one year AIR
program. Artists Tom Tlalim (II/NL) Lieven De Boeck (BE), Frank
Havermans (NL), Shinji Otani (JP) and Sachi Miyachi (JP) brought
about new perspectives on the Amsterdam Zuidas area; an enormous
urban project. The outcome was displayed in an exhibit; further
considerations are highlighted in a publication.

Torn front (2) and back (1) covers, futhermore the first 64 pages are
rainbow printed (grey-green-grey), 16 pages were printed using red
and opaque ink and the book also contains 8 torn pages wrapped
around different sections.All tearing was done by hand and each book
is unique.

Published by Onomatopee
i.c.w. Remco van Bladel

circulation: 750
client: Onomatopee
pages: 192
printing: Lecturis
publisher: Onomatopee
size: 170 × 240 mm
techniques: offset print, rainbow print
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[ Graduation Catalogue KABK 2009 ]

456 page catalogue containing all graduation projects of the students
of the Royal Academy of Art in 2008-2009.

One's graduation is an ending of one thing but at the same time - and
perhaps much more important - the beginning of something else. Something
new.
Besides that, we also asked the students to tag their work with predefined
and self-defined keywords, like: autonomous, conceptual, typographic,
emotional, colourful, decorative, etc.
These tags were presented next to their work but also as clear, informative
lists explaining how many times students from a certain course selected a
specific tag or how many times a tag was selected in total amongst the 200
raduates. This information gave more insight in how students of specific
courses think of their own work.
For example: 'conceptual' was the tag that was selected the most while almost
no one selected 'decorative'.

The tags also became navigational elements in the web-version of the book.

i.c.w. Mattijs de Wit