Hansje - portfolio

2011-09-12T16:40:00.004+02:00

I've stopped updating this blog.

Please visit

www.hansje.net

for portfolio, sketches and updates.

Sandberg Instituut - Diploma

2011-07-11T10:46:00.009+02:00

For the Sandberg Instituut I designed the new diploma.

Diploma in a folder (open)

Folder when closed

Specifications
Print: Robstolk®, Amsterdam
Edition: 300
Type: Spikes, Verlag, Archer

Dutch Design Awards Finalist

2011-07-07T14:09:00.005+02:00

The silk screened posters I've made to announce the Schrank8 exhibitions were selected as finalist for the Dutch Design Awards in the category Best Graphic Design.
From the jury report: "The posters for the bimonthly changing cabinet exhibitions at the designer’s home balance on the borderline between autonomous and communication design. The research in this border area results in stunning posters and is the innovation-oriented drive in the professional field."
www.hansje.net

The posters are in good company with Rop van Mierlo - Niels Schumm/Anuschka Blommers & Experimental Jetset - Jop van Bennekom - Floor Wesseling - Michiel Schuurman - Lernert & Sander as other finalists.

Pictures by Rebke Klokke

Zuiderzee Museum - NIJVER|heden

2011-06-01T21:19:00.009+02:00

Please check this entry to see what we did for the exhibition NIJVER|heden by Studio Makkink&Bey at the Zuiderzee Museum.

Signage in the exhibition / yarn on wood
picture taken from www.edhv.nl

Uit de schaduw - Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen

2011-04-04T10:49:00.022+02:00

Together with Chang Chi Lan-Ying and Uitgeverij De Buitenkant we've been working on a book for the Dutch Organization of Bibliophiles to celebrate their 20th anniversary. For the bibliophiles of course only the best of the best was good enough. Full colour interior with, black and silver endpaper, 2 bookmarkers and a cloth bound cover with foil print.

It's quite extraordinary to get to design a 4 colour foil print for the cover (back, front and spine), which is 10 print runs in total...

Specifications
Size: 17x24 cm, 432 pages, full colour, cloth bound, 4 colours foil print
Type setting: Chang Chi Lan-Ying / Photography: Rebke Klokke / Typeface: Collis by Mathias Noordzij / Printed by: Lenoirschuring i.c.w., Offsetdrukkerij Jan de Jong / Bound by: Binderij Van Waarden / Print run: 1.000, ISBN 978 94 903 13 07 6, price: € 29,50

The poster announce the exhibition matches the cover design of the book. The exhibition runs until June 19th at Museum Meermanno, The Hague (NL).
Poster, A2 - printed in 5 colours including gold and silver

Museum De Lakenhal - identity

2011-02-17T18:59:00.016+01:00

For the past months we've been working on the identity for Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden. The first exhibition under the new identity opens March 19th. The invite we've designed is an all-in-one enveloppe which folds out to a letter which folds out to a mini-poster.

News letter, brochure and folder

Posters and banners

For this project I was assisted by Babette Zijlstra and Nienke Kersten
Printwork by Drukkerij Robstolk®

Schrank8 - Posters

2011-02-02T14:14:00.010+01:00

For over a year I've been running a home gallery in my livingroom called Schrank8. These are the posters I've designed and silk screened to promote the exhibitions. I've made the posters into a typographic playfield. I like use the silk screen to print on textured materials.

Schrank8 #6 - Pinar & Viola - Fluor pink and purple on pearl crocodile paper

Schrank8 #5 - Johann Kauth - Black and white on silver

Schrank8 #4 - Miek Zwamborn - Mint green on mos green metallic paper

Schrank8 #4 - Michiel Schuurman - Purple with transparant crocodile texture on card board

Schrank8 #2 - Job Wouters - White on textured black paper

Schrank8 #1 - Bart de Baets - Type face Marker Dots, printed black and white on blue paper.

Thanks to Michiel Schuurman who introduced me to silk screening at Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier.
Pictures by Rebke Klokke

New studio

2010-12-21T15:47:00.007+01:00

This month I moved into a new studio space together with friends, designers and typography freaks Michiel Schuurman and Job Wouters. We will continue to work as separate designers, but I bet each others presence will have some influence...

March 2011 - Studio visit from Otis with Coma

update: February 2011

December 2010
On top of that: My lovely former-intern, loyal Schrank8 bartender, slam poet and graphic designer Babette Zijlstra will be assisting me for the next couple of weeks.

The Best Dutch Book Designs 2009

2010-10-11T18:12:00.009+02:00

Cloth bound with foil print in two colours.

Design for the catalogue of the annual Best Dutch Book Designs. The book starts with a 40 page bi-lingual index, listing formal and non-formal topics. In 96 pictures you browse through a stack of books, constantly showing a book in the context of the other prize winners.

Specifications
- cloth bound with foil print in two colours
- 320 pages, full colour
- Dutch / English
- 2 bookmarkers
- printed by various printers in the Netherlands
- paper
- typeset in Archer and Verlag by Hoefler & Frere Jones

Revealing the Invisible - Book

2010-08-26T13:07:00.022+02:00

Book for multimedia artist-duo Stansfield/Hooykaas. In the course of 336 pages the spine of the book changes from a red to green to blue shade, as a reference to screen colours. The cover is clothbound in a cobalt blue linen with a sparkle. The RGB theme is translated to op-arty endpapers, sparkling moiré DVD-slip and a brochure.

Images have a shade to make them float on the page.

Endpaper made from broken lines in RGB colours.

The book and DVD will be presented in September at NiMK.

Specifications book
- Revealing the Invisible
The Art of Stansfield/Hooykaas from Different Perspectives
- www.stansfield-hooykaas.net
- ISBN 978 94 90913 03 8
- Eds. Madelon Hooykaas and Claire van Putten
- Clothbound hard cover book with a ribbon bookmarker
- 336 full colour pages and a DVD
- 11 essays (English)
- Published by Uitgeverij De Buitenkant
- Type face: Whitney from Hoefler & Frere-Jones
- Paper: Lessebo Design smooth, 150 grs
- Printed by Lenoirschuring, Amstelveen
- Bound by Van Waarden, Zaandam

Endpaper collection

2010-08-25T13:58:00.018+02:00

An overview of pattern designs that have been used as endpapers of hardcover books. I consider it a to be a little anarchy within book design.

2011 - Jaarboek Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen 2010, Uitgeverij De Buitenkant (excl. book design)

2011 - Uit de Schaduw, Uitgeverij De Buitenkant (incl. book design)

2010 - Best Dutch Book Designs (incl. book design)

2010 - Revealing the Invisible - Uitgeverij De Buitenkant (incl. book design)

2010 - Stad van verf - Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (incl. book design)

2010 - Jaarboek van het Nederlands Genootschap Bibliofielen - Uitgeverij De Buitenkant (excl. book design)

2009 - Notebook for Igepa - Uitgeverij De Buitenkant (excl. book design)

2009 - Ophelia - Uitgeverij De Buitenkant (incl. book design)

2008-09 - Trifle / Tubutsch / Consider the Oyster - a book series for Pels&Kemper Publishers (incl. book design)

Old Stamps / New Stamps

2010-07-01T12:09:00.007+02:00

After 3.5 years and after a print run of millions and millions of stamps I have to say good bye to my two good friends. My stamp design from 2007 is being replaced on the 1st of July 2010. I feel lucky, because I also got to design the replacement of these stamps for TNT Post.

Postcard Old design / New design with 4 stamps.

Specifications
- client: TNT Post, Netherlands
- released on 1 July 2010
- 2 stamps of 25.3 x 20.8 mm
- 3 colors per stamp

Schrank8 poster for Michiel Schuurman

2010-05-31T18:06:00.000+02:00

To announce the third exhibition of Home Gallery Schrank8 I made this poster. Although I'm quite enjoying myself with this project, I was more nervous than ever. As an inexperienced poster designer and with just as little experience in silk screening, I found it quite a big challenge to make a silk screened poster for the exhibition of silk screened posters by Michiel Schuurman. I hope I did him some justice with the outcome.

Poster is printed in a layer of purple on gray card board. Although quite invisible online, there's a second layer printed with a fine crocodile-like texture of high gloss varnish.

Specifications
- poster 75 x 50 cm
- silk screened in an edition of 55
- printed at Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier (AGA) together with Michiel Schuurman

Lakenhal - Hot Item Card

2010-05-30T11:00:00.002+02:00

Lakenhal - Book

2010-05-30T10:47:00.035+02:00

The book Stad van verf (City of Paint) gives you delightful stories by author Onno Blom. He brings a city to life over the course of 25 paintings and painters. The stories are a lovely mix of his personal perspective, facts, historical gossip and anecdotes. All to shine a different light on the city of Leiden between 1510 and 2006.

I wanted the book to be a look-book as well as something that would seduce you to start reading. When designing it I was thinking of an old fairy tale book I used to have. I remembered it was a large heavy thick book, loads of white around a block of text, set in large sized typography.

The book is part of a larger project Stad van verf in which the author Onno Blom combines his forces with the Leiden's local news paper and Musem De Lakenhal.

Specifications
- commissioned by Musem de Lakenhal, Leiden
- published by HDC-Media
- hard cover book, with book marker, 21.5 x 28 cm
- 256 pages, full color
- printed by Drukkerij Slinger, Alkmaar
- paper: Arctic Volume
- about a work of Cornelis Engebrechtsz, Lucas van Leyden, Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg, David Bailly, Jan van Goyen, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Lievens, Gerrit Dou, Jan Steen, Hendrik van der Burgh, Frans van Mieris de Oude, Frans van Mieris de Jonge, Edward Collier, Paulus Constantijn la Fargue, Nicolaus-Joseph Delin, Mattheus Ignatius van Bree, Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff, Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, Harm Kamerlingh Onnes, Floris Verster, Willem Hendrik van der Nat, Theo van Doesburg, Bram van Velde, Hendrik Valk and Jan Wolkers.
- book is available online for 29,95 euro via www.boekenvandekrant.nl
- ISBN 978-90-77842-45-4

W139 - Book

2010-05-20T19:04:00.036+02:00

These books were designed for W139 art space. In the briefing for this assignment the director Gijs Frieling asked me to design a small gesture, not a big book. I chose thin paper to keep the volume of the book modest. All is bound in a floppy linen cover.
I hand-dotted all the photographs that represent the exhibitions into illustrations. This way the 60 grams paper is kept free of too much ink. (Also see the sketches.)

- Le Madison, Annja Krautgasser

- Colored, Jonas Ohlsson / Ontferm U, Maartje Folkeringa

- The Breakers, Zoro Feigl

For the content of the book I was given a chaos of texts for exhibitions, invites, press releases, interviews and letters that were written in the four years that Gijs Frieling was director of W139. We decided to put an editor to work and rearrange these texts into an encyclopedic A-Z of all the events, articles and people. The book includes 167 portraits.

Specifications
- commissioned by W139 and Gijs Frieling
- made possible with supportive effort by Femke Gerritsma, Marleen van Weerd and Hendrik Folkerts
- book (12 x 17 cm) with soft linen cover and gold colored imprint
- NL (300 copies) and EN (200 copies)
- 174 pages, with 12 full color and 169 black & white illustrations
- paper: 60 grs Elementa Opaque
- drawings with Stabilo point 88 file liner
- printed by LenoirSchuring, Amstelveen (NL)
- bound by Patist, Den Dolder (NL)
- available at W139 in Amsterdam for 19,95 euro

GDFB - Poster

2010-05-10T22:06:00.021+02:00

The Graphic Design Festival Breda invited 49 designers to make a poster with the theme Decoding. This was my contribution.
Also see the post at my other blog.

A0, edition 1, inktjet, blue and red lines. (Poster was hung upside down.)
Thanks to Maartje and Job for taking a picture!

Poster Project, with posters by 50 designers: Rogério Lira (BR), Slang international (DE), Yomar Augusto (BR), Pierre Vanni (FR), Karl Grandin (SE), Katrin Schacke (DE), Axel Peemoeller (DE), Benoit Lemoine (FR), Julie Joliat (CH), Olivier Ratsi (FR), Romain Tardy (FR), Ibraheem Youssef (CA), And Melbourne (AU), Christopher West (SE), Julian Bittiner (US), TOKO (AU), Bart de Baets (BE), Sulki & Min (KR), Ed Nacional (US), Harmen Liemburg, Perongeluk, Silo, Lesley Moore, Solar, Eric de Haas, Job Wouters, Lowman, Michiel Schuurman, Hey Hey Hey, EDHV, Pierre Derks, Karin Mientjes, Trapped in Suburbia, Maartje van Nimwegen, Underware, Hansje van Halem, Eric van den Boom, Jacques Le Bailly, Autobahn, Studio Spass, COUP, GVD, Stoer Ontwerp, Hedof, Bela Zsigmond, Staynice, Yurr, Sander Veill, Zenk One and 21Bis.

Schrank8 - Poster for Job Wouters

2010-03-18T17:39:00.033+01:00

To announce the exhibition of Job Wouters in Schrank8 Home Gallery, I designed this poster. An inverted fine liner drawing is silk screened with white ink on black textured paper.

- poster 50 x 70 cm
- silk screening at Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier.
- edition of 50
- Thanks a million to Michiel Schuurman who is trying really hard to infect me with his silk screen virus...

- invite A3, folded
- laser and inkjet print
- edition of 200

Show & Tell - invites

2010-03-17T14:36:00.028+01:00

Lately I'm into promoting my friends. Although they don't really need my promotion because they are great inspirational designers, I try to find good reasons to do it.
For the short period I have been teaching the first year's students at the HKU, I invited Michiel Schuurman, Simon Wald-Lasowski and Bart de Baets to show their work to the students. These designers all have been my class mates and I thought it was nice to show (off with) how different we all turned out.

- mini posters (A4)
- invites (A5)
- laser and inkjet print
- editions of 50
- Next time I'll be a better girl and ask a student to design the announcements. For now it were spontaneous plans which left me with no time for didactic thoughts.

Contribution Igepa

2010-02-07T15:24:00.005+01:00

I was asked to design the end papers for a notebook by paper company Igepa. The pattern is constructed out of two colors of dots.

- commissioned and printed by drukkerij Jan de Jong
- printed in 2 colors on Igepa paper

Teaching

2010-02-04T20:59:00.001+01:00

Every now and then I teach at an art school. To compensate for the fact that I'm a designer and not a trained teacher, I sometimes make booklets to hand out to students. The booklets present a new assignment, give information and/or show scans of things I find useful or inspirational.
I tend to give short examples of my experiences of learning how to love type and typography. I'm not sure if it is of any educational use to share these anecdotes with students. But I like personal stories and I just try to give the students something for the road. Here you can see the booklets more specified.

Schrank8 - poster for Bart de Baets

2010-01-29T03:42:00.007+01:00

To announce the exhibition of graphic designer Bart de Baets in my own home gallery SCHRANK8 I silk screened a poster. I used the alfabet Marker Dots which is composed out of two printed layers. Also see Marker Dots sample.

The poster (65 x 53 cm) is silk screen printed at the Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier under the kind guidance of Michiel Schuurman. Printed with black and white ink on blue paper in an edition of 55.

Invite (21 x 27,5 cm) for SCHRANK8, exhibition of Bart de Baets. Combination of inkjet print and laser print in an edition of 100.

- SCHRANK8 is self initiated, started in 2010
- poster and invite
- opening on friday Januari 29th, 17.00 - 20.00 hrs
- open on saturday January 30th, saturday february 6th, sunday february 7th from 15.00 - 18.00 hrs

File

2010-01-28T20:54:00.000+01:00

A review of my work is posted at File-magazine.com.

Phantom City - a photo novel - Kim Bouvy

2010-01-22T03:39:00.001+01:00

Kim Bouvy had been working on her book for over two years before I got involved. She had a clear vision of what it was supposed to become: a novel, not a picture-book. We chose for a rigid classification to divide her photography, found footage and text. With the beautiful lithography and print work by Calff&Meischke Printers it all came together in a clear, simple, but beautiful pocket-size novel. The book tells a story about the history, presence and possible future of the main character of the book: a city. It ends with a photo index revealing the identity of the city Rotterdam.

"Outside, the city has ceased to exist. From this point on, I will be able only to evoke it from my memories, to see it in these few photos I managed to bring with me. When my own memory eventually abandons me, this collection of yellowing newspaper cuttings, crumpled snapshots and torn out pictures will continue to remind me of how the city was before everything changed. From this dusky non-space with no night or day, I shall attempt to constantly reconstruct my city out of ever less clearly defined memories."

- commissioned by Kim Bouvy
- published by Pels&Kemper
- 12 x 19 cm, 276 pages
- black and white photography
- type: SangBlue Sans
- print and lithography by Calff&Meischke, Amsterdam

Don't Believe (song titles)

2009-11-06T12:52:00.009+01:00

As a contribution to the exhibition Don't Believe the Type (in the Ship of Fools Gallery by Trapped in Suburbia) I made a 2.5 meter banner. It's a type specimen of the Doily type summing up a large list of songs that start with Don't believe. The poster is for sale for 60 euro's (excl. shipping).

picture from Trapped in Suburbia's Flickr

W139=30 - birthday poster

2009-10-13T03:35:00.001+02:00

For the 30th birthday of W139 thirthy designers were asked to make a poster. Everybody was given the same restriction: only use the colours green and orange. For this birthday present I started working on Doily Type. The 175 x 120 cm poster was drawn by hand on a 1:1 scale. Because it took me weeks and weeks of drawing this type, I was (happily) forced to use this type for a few project in a row.

Photo by Bettina Neumann

- poster made for W139
- size of the poster: 1,2 x 1,75 meter
- 30 posters by Kasper Andreasen, Bart de Baets, Halvor Bodin, Julia Born, Jozee Brouwer, Thomas Buxo, De Designpolitie, Gijs Frieling, Hansje van H alem, Hijack Your Life, Ad de Jong, Experimental Jetset, Floor Koomen, Esther Krop, Simon Wald Lasowski, Joris Lindhout, Mannschaft, Leendert Masseling - studio Illurama, Coen Mulder, Erwin Sliegers, Felix Weigand, Roger Willems and Job Wouters.

Go Slow - Droog Design, New York

2009-09-11T03:27:00.003+02:00

The first edition of Go Slow by Droog Design took place in Milan (Italy) in 2004. The presentation went on a re-run in New York. I used my type design Doily for the signage for this second edition.

Picture by Raphael Brion.

Princess Máxima meets one of the servers at Go Slow cafe by Droog Design with Marije Vogelzang, sloom.org (Rianne Makkink and Herman Verkerk) and Hansje van Halem. Pictures by Isauro Cairo

- commissioned by Sloom (Herman Verkerk / Rianne Makkink) and Droog Design
- type design Doily, hand drawn with 0.3 mm Steadler fineliner
- laserprint on paper
- with thanks to Babette Zijlstra
- www.pioneersofchange.com
- pictures via www.eatmedaily.com (Raphael Brion) and www.pioneersofchange.com (Isauro Cairo)

Tangible Traces - catalogue

2009-07-08T03:22:00.002+02:00

For the traveling exhibition Tangible Traces, I had already designed the signage, exhibition books and brochure in 2007. In 2009 I also designed the catalogue. It consists of an essay and the portfolio's of the five designers and architects that were part of the exhibition.

Sheep portraits for Claudy Jongstra by Marcel van der Vlugt.

Blommers/Schumm photographers made a beautiful contribution for Alexander van Slobbe.

- 14,8 x 21 cm, full color
- 248 pages
- English
- about Frank Havermans, Hella Jongerius, Claudy Jongstra, Onix and Alexander van Slobbe
- cover photo by Blommers/Schumm
- type: Joanna en Humanist
- paper: Royal Print 90 grs, Tatami White 130 grs
- cover title with relief spot-varnish
- printed by NPN drukkers Breda
- ISBN 987 90 5662 328 9

КООСЬЕ / Coosje - birth card

2009-06-30T03:21:00.001+02:00

Coosje was born on June 30th in Moscow and this is her birth card.

The card was sent in transparent bag, addresses were printed individually on each card.

- commissioned by Wendel and Sjeng
- folded card, 12 x 17 cm
- 160 cards, self produced
- Laser- and inktjet print

Teylers Museum - Beeldspraak

2009-06-12T03:15:00.001+02:00

The 21 members of De Amsterdamsche Prentkring each chose a special work from their private collection. The curators of Teylers Museum reacted on this work with works from their collection. These combinations were published in a book. The book is bound in portrait. After the introduction the pages flip and the book is used as a landscape format, to make more space for the images. The pages for each image have a background color in gradient, matching the color of the image.

- commissioned by Teylers Museum and Amsterdamsche Prentkring
- 96 pages, full color on Arctic Volume Ivory 115 grs
- in Dutch only
- type Fairfield, Nobel
- print and lithography by Lenoirschuring, Amstelveen
- bound as Schweize brocure by Binderij Ebbinge, Amsterdam

Moniek Toebosch

2009-05-29T03:12:00.001+02:00

- Als zodanig niet herkenbaar, is dat duidelijk?
Moniek Toebosch is a Dutch visual artist, perfomer and singer. This book is a categorized travel through 40 years of her texts, images and work.

Hard cover from leatherlook material, with the title imprinted.

Title page

The book shows personal and performance pictures throughout the years.

- commissioned by Moniek Toebosch
- published by Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, Amsterdam
- type: Albertina and Gill Sans
- printed by Drukkerij Lenoirschuring, Amstelveen
- bound by Binderij Van Waarden, Zaandam
- 448 pages text, photography black&white and colour
- language: Dutch
- ISBN: 978 90 76452 78 4
- on sale online

Pels&Kemper Publishers

2009-03-26T03:09:00.001+01:00

The book series I designed for Pels&Kemper publishers is based on a series of patterns. This is a lead for every visual outing of the Publishers. Three series of books have the same cover design, but have a different book size and colour scheme.

2009, 'Consider the Oyster'- MFK Fisher, part II from the serie De eetlezer. Illustration by Marijtje Overduin. / Inside cover pattern

First design sketches

Business card

Pattern designs, used for the first brochure.

- commissioned by Pels&Kemper
- Drukkerij Tielen, Boxtel and binderij Van Mierlo, Nijmegen
- paper Munkenprint
- print run 1.000
- illustrations Trifle: Teun van den Wittenboer
- illustrations Tubutsch: Peter Koene
- illustrations Hoe een parel te maken: Marijtje Overduin

Lanskip - Hotel Mariakapel

2009-03-04T03:08:00.002+01:00

For the exhibition 'Lanskip' by Rebecca Birch and Charles Danby I drew this landscape as a invite design.

Detail / The front is printed in black, white and silver ink on gray cardboard.

- invite for Lanskip, commissioned by Hotel Mariakapel
- printed by Drukkerij Jan de Jong, Amsterdam
- size: 22.5 x 16 cm

Ophelia - Sehnsucht, melancholia and desire for death

2009-02-21T02:58:00.003+01:00

For the exhibition Ophelia. Sehnsucht, melancholia and desire for death I designed this publication. The book contains articles on the theme of Hamlet's Ophelia from different perspectives and contains images of all the artworks in the exhibition.

For the design I chose to make a small, chubby book on bible-like thin paper. I gave all the pages a blue gradient, referring to the water in which Ophelia drowned. To put Ophelia in a broader perspective, I added spreads with found footage of Pets named Ophelia, Ophelia in the bad tub, hurricane Ophelia Ophelia graves and historical Ophelia.

Cover, image on dust-cover: Gerard Holthuis

Linnen hard cover with copper-coloured imprint

Spread with work from the exhibition, image Elly Strik

Spread with found footage > hurricane Ophelia

Layout of articles and columns, Dutch/English

Inside cover, pattern made with differently scaled typographic dots.

Detail of inside cover

- commissioned by Krien Clevis, Flos Wildschut and Uitgeverij de Buitenkant
- publication for exhibition with the same title in MMKA, Arnhem (Feb. 21st - May 10th 2009)
- Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, Amsterdam / Printed by Lenoirschuring, Amstelveen / Binding by Binderij Van Waarden, Zaandam
- ISBN 978 90 76452 50 0, for sale at the MMKA and bookshops
- 512 pages, 12 x 17.4 cm, Dutch/English, 70 grs Reference paper, linnen cover and foil imprint with dust cover
- With works of Erzsébet Baerveldt, Wout Berger, Krien Clevis, Delphine Courtillot, Gregory Crewdson, Anouk De Clercq, Amie Dicke, Desiree Dolron, Iris van Dongen, Marlene Dumas, Guido Geelen, Marnix Goossens, Gerard Holthuis, Tom Hunter, Izima Kaoru, Juul Kraijer, Justine Kurland, Erik Odijk, L.A. Raeven, Pipilotti Rist, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Sissi, Elisabet Stienstra, Elly Strik and Anne Wenzel.
- With contributions of Maria Barnas, Bernlef, Kiene Brillenberg Wurth, Krien Clevis, Maria van Daalen, Wessel Krul, Solange Leibovici, Ninie, David Rijser, Hedwig Saam, F. Starik, Alexander Venetis and Flos Wildschut.

Land Art

2009-02-04T02:53:00.002+01:00

This brochure was designed for 'Het Groene Woud' (The Green Forest), a nature area in the south of Holland. The brochure consists of short descriptions of ten LandArt projects that are going to be realized in the park, also it contains general information on the park and a map of the area. All these three items are designed as seperate booklets, joined into one. All the three booklets have a seperate design and cover.

Brochure, three different covers together are the cover-design. Booklet comes in a plastic cover

- assigned by NBKS, Breda
- printed by Calff&Meischke, Amsterdam
- 32 + 16 pages with map in plastic cover
- size 21 x 10,5 cm
- different kinds of paper, under which moss green nacre paper by Gmund, Conqueror and Hi Speed Opaque 70 grs
- On the works and/or concept presentation of Irene Fortuy (i.c.w. Arjan Karssen), Margriet Kemper, Kees Wevers, Xavier de Richemont, Wineke Gartz, Mariëlle Lapidaire, Frank Havermans, Marcel Smink, Jusuck Koh / Anemone Koh-Beck and Thomas Stricker
- With text by Margriet Kemper and poetry from Victor Vroomkoning

Ymere - glass facade

2008-12-10T02:48:00.001+01:00

For a housing block at IJburg (Amsterdam) I was asked to 'provide visibility' for a glass facade of 12 x 6 meters, which separates the communal garden from the street. The facade consists of more than 20 windows, including the main entrance to the building.

Together with glass studio Van Tetterode I transferred the design onto the glass, after which it was be sand-blasted.

Facade seen from the inside outwards, at night.

Facade seen from the outside inwards, by day.

We interpreted my original computer-drawing by setting up a pattern of lines with tape.

- Glass Facade, Blok 58 / IJburg, Amsterdam
- commissioned by Ymere, Ineke Brunt
- with the financial support of the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten (AFK)
- realized at the glass atelier Van Tetterode

Design your own stamp

2008-10-22T09:05:00.004+02:00

I participated on a educational clip for children about designing your own stamp. It was made for the Graphic Design Museum, Breda by Niels Mud.

ExperimentaDesign - Come to My Place

2008-09-14T02:44:00.022+02:00

For the exhibition Come to My Place by ExperimentaDesign Festival I was asked to design the invite, brochure and signage. I had already designed a teaser for the festival. This teaser was the starting point for the rest of the design.

Brochure and invite

The typeface was constructed after measurements by Dom Hans van der Laan. I used it as reference to the 3D signage of the exhibition.

- commissioned by ExperimentaDesign, (Wendel ten Arve) Amsterdam
- brochure of 32 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm, stapled
- black & white, Dutch and English
- inside paper: Royal Print 80grs, cover paper: Emotion

ExperimentaDesign - Come to My Place - signage

2008-09-14T02:30:00.005+02:00

This is the design of the signage for Come to My Place exhibition during ExperimentaDesign Fesival. I used the patterns I used for the printed matter and made 3D lettering of card board.

These are the sketch models, not much different from the final ones.

The letters were placed in a cupboard, part of the overall exhibition design by EventArchitectuur.

Phoebus Galery

2008-09-07T02:46:00.002+02:00

For an ongoing project at Galerie Phoebus, I was invited to fill a drawer in their cabinet. I made a series of postcards: 'a-z' and '0-9' in 50 different versions of the Scratched Letter, 1.800 different cards in total. On the backside of this card you can find the amount of different layers of the Scratched Letter (2003).

- self initiated for Galerie Phoebus
- 36 x 50 cards, ready to send, double sided and all unique
- laserprint, A6 200 grs Colorcopy paper
- cards are for sale for 1 euro each or 25 euros for a set alphabeth+numbers

Fifty / 50 - Bag

2008-05-22T02:45:00.001+02:00

Wieki Somers invited me to design a text for her bag-design for the 50th anniversary of the Textile Museum, using the emboidermachine of the TextileLab. After many experiments my design for the Wire Letter worked best. The simple bag, made of a paper-like textile has '50' stitched on the front and 'vijftig' (fifty) on the back and was for sell at the museum shop.

Prototype of the bag, black embroidery on Tivec

Detail embroidery

Presented in the museum

- Wieki Somers i.c.w. Hansje van Halem
- commissioned by the Textile Museum Tilburg

Experimenta Design - teaser

2008-04-14T02:43:00.002+02:00

The Portuguese Design Festival Experimenta visited Amsterdam in September 2008. To get some attention for the festival, the organisation decided to commission several Dutch graphic designers to design a teaser to send around. My teaser only had to reveal the date and website of the festival. I designed a postcard/envelope . When unfolded, a ladder of patterns falls out of the envelope.

Scenes from urban caves - Pim van Halem

2008-04-01T02:17:00.000+02:00

From 2006 onwards I worked on analysing two series of Pim van Halems ink drawings. The result is a book which will be presented on March 1st 2008 during the opening of Pims exhibition in Gallery Phoebus in Rotterdam.

You can purchase the book for 50 euro ex. postage by e-mail hansje@hansje.net.

Cover, black paper, titled by a sticker.

Chapter: 'Originelen/Originals', 2 series of 16 pen drawings, scaled and printed.

Chapter: 'Identificeerbaar/Identifiable', recognizable elements indexated per drawing.

Chapter: 'Niet identificeerbaar/Non identifiable', indexated per drawing.

Chapter: 'Punten/Dots', all dots and ink blobs indexated per drawing.

- Hansje van Halem for Pim van Halem
- 164 pages, self published in an edition of 100
- 164 pages, 21 x 29 cm
- laserpint
- 3 kinds of paper, from the Papier Toko, Enschede
- binding by Binderij Amsterdam
- with thanks to Noa Segal

It starts with housing - Ymere

2008-03-04T02:23:00.002+01:00

The original assignment was to design a square, hard cover, coffee table book. In my opinion, the pictures of over 360 monument building sneeded something else. I thought this much content could use a little clarity. I made the book into a handy size, easy to flip and easy to navigate. The area codes of the locations are used as a ordering system.

The book is titled by pasting a sticker with typography around the entire photo cover.

The monument index is separated from the introduction pages by a thick page which functions as a tab.

- commissioned by Ymere (Ineke Brunt) and Thoth
- 780 pages in semi-hard cover
- printed by Bema-Graphics, Wommelgem (BE)
- binding by Binderij Van Waarden
- paper: Satimat, Royal Print and Ajax grijs
- typeface: Johnston
- size: 15,2 x 21,4 cm, 780 pages, Dutch/English
- print run: 3.500
- ISBN: 978 90 6868 477 3
- With photography by Janine Schrijver
- texts by Bas Haring, Lex Pauw, Roel Steenbeek and Mascha van Damme

Dom Hans van der Laan - NAI Maastricht

2008-02-23T02:11:00.002+01:00

For the exhibition on the monk/architect Dom Hans van der Laan I was asked to design two invites and three booklets. As a startingpoint I took the typeface constructed by Van der Laan according to his 'Dynamic number'-theory. I ended up not taking it as strict as he did and started playing around with the theme.
When a visitor comes into the exhibition he has to choose from which point of view he'd like to experience the exhibition. The three booklets 'Tijd' (Time), 'Kunstnijverheid' (Crafts) and 'Het verblijf' (The residence) give similar information from a different perspective.
The booklets and invites have been printed with different background colours, corresponding Van der Laans colour-theory, they have round corners and are bound with a blue piece of rope.

Two invites (left and right) and three booklets (middle).

I made a different interpretation of the typeface for each printwork.

Each booklet is written in a different way, that way you experience the exhibition from a different point of view.

- Dom Hans van der Laan - Het menselijk verblijf - invites, brochures
- commissioned by NAI Maastricht
- curated by Wendel ten Arve
- printed by Drukkerij Rosbeek, Nuth
- 2 invites, 3 brochures of 16 pages
- type: Humanist
- size 12,3 x 20,6 cm

Architecture Bulletin - magazines

2008-02-14T01:33:00.017+01:00

I designed the NAi Architecture Bulletin from 2006 - 2008. By the choices in size, paper and typography this magazine I tried to give this magazine some book-like qualities. Due to the binding system, I wanted each article to be fit on 8 pages. It brought nice typographic variations, because the length could differ a lot per article.

The cover is printed on gray cardboard and has a typographic front and a photographic backside.

The articles are printed on novel-paper, the photo-essay on glossy paper.

- commissioned by NAI and NAi publishers
- around 80 pages per issue
- Royal Print, 80 grams paper for full color images / King paper for text pages
- printed by Calff&Meischke
- Type: Spectrum, Johnston
- Issue #4 was made by Hilje Oosterbaan Martinius

Orson+Bodil - Alexander van Slobbe + Fransisco van Benthum

2008-01-23T02:02:00.000+01:00

Fashion designers Alexander van Slobbe and Fransisco van Benthum celebrate their 20 and 5 years in business. The combined show of their winter collections on February 11th 2008 called for a combined invitation. Two invitations folded into one, create a separate side to the invite for each designer.

Two invites in one.
Left: Francisco van Benthum, right (the flip-side): Orson+Bodil

Invite, opened at the Francisco van Benthum-side.

Invite, opened at thee Orson+Bodil-side.

- commissioned by Orson+Bodil and Francisco van Benthum
- size: 12,5 x 18,5 , print run: 700
- paper: Bedalitho and Chromolux
- typefaces: Johnston and Kepler
- Printed by Drukkerij Veenman, Rotterdam

CO-OPs - catalogue

2007-11-29T01:52:00.001+01:00

CO-OPs - Interterritoriale explorations in art and science was an art and science project in which 7 teams of artist and scientist/scholars worked together to see if this collaboration could bring an extra value to art or science. This is a Work in Progress book of 416 pages. It shows their progress in text and image. It was a whole lot of work to bring together all these different articles, images and persons together into one logical book. Thanks to Uitgeverij de Buitenkant, Drukkerij Lenoir Schuring and the binder, we succeeded. The book won a prize for being one of the Most Beautiful Books of 2007.

- Hansje van Halem commissioned by NWO Humanities
- uitgeverij De Buitenkant, Amsterdam
- size: 16 x 22 cm, full colour, 416 pages
- ISBN 978 9076 4520 98
- type Big Vesta, Capitolium by Gerard Unger
- This CO-OPs book was selected as one of the 33 Most Beautiful Books of The Netherlands of 2007.
- With work, contributions and/or text by Jeroen Werner / Geert Somsen, Krien Clevis / Peter Hagoort, Ni Haifeng / Kitty Zijlmans, Edith Abeyta / Judith Thissen, Mieke Van de Voort / Ab Osterhaus, Janneke Wesseling, Irène Hediger, Ingeborg Reichle, Mirjam van Rijsingen, Robert Zwijnenberg, Annemarie Bos and Edwin Jacobs.

Tangible Traces

2007-11-09T01:58:00.002+01:00

Tangible Traces, Dutch Architecture and Design in the making was a traveling exhibition, premiered at the Sao Paolo, November 10th 2007. The exhibition will show work by Alexander van Slobbe, Claudy Jongstra, Hella Jongerius, Frank Havermans and Onix. Craftmanship and tradition are seen as their connecting aspects.

Signage
The five separate spaces that were created for this exhibition were built up out of wooden A3-grid, thus creating an inner space and an outer space for each of the five participants. The A3-grid was covered with A3-papers. The papers were handdrawn with showing the title on the outer-space, and a drawing by Yke Schotten of the participants original work-area. It only takes 480 A3's to build an entire exhibition.
For this travelling exhibition it was impossible to show a lot of 'real' work. As part of the exhibition an A3 portfolio-book was added for each participant.

Book
NAi publishers published a catalogue for this traveling exhibition. See here for more images.

- commissioned by NAI, Rotterdam / Linda Vlassenrood
- exhibition design: Studio Makkink&Bey
- illustrations*: Yke Schotten
- graphic design: Hansje van Halem
- Work by: Claudy Jongstra, Alexander van Slobbe, Frank Havermans, Hella Jongerius and Onix
- Exhibition has traveled to Sao Paulo, Wenen, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Vienna and Arnhem

A-Ymere - dictionary for a day

2007-05-24T01:50:00.006+02:00

With no budget, no time and no content I was asked to make a 'souvenir' for the art- and architecture excursion by housing company Ymere. In an edition of 40 I produced a pocket-dictionary from all the words out of their day-program. It were either short pieces on the makers of artworks they were to visit or the meaning of their tour guide's first name.

- commissioned by Ymere, Wendel ten Arve
- laserprint in an edition of 40
- 10 x 16.5 cm, 16 pages

Collecting Today - W139

2007-05-11T02:06:00.001+02:00

Design for the symposium 'Collecting Today: Private Passions, Public Benefits' about the possibilities and necessity for private support of the contemporary arts in W139. The invite is a folded A3 poster. Later I also produced the entrance tickets.

- commissioned by W139, de Appel and Kunst&Zaken
- printed by Atlantic
- laserprinted entrance tickets

Flevoland Collection

2007-05-11T01:44:00.012+02:00

This book contains an overview of art in public space in the provence of Flevoland. It is designed as a small pocket book with a fold-out map of the aera, so you can visit the art works.

- commissioned by Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
- Dutch/English
- printed by Calff&Meischke
- Type: Cronos, Stone Serif
- ISBN- 978-90-806595-4-4 / sold out

Moving announcement

2007-02-01T02:03:00.000+01:00

I worked on the Wire type for quite some months. After a while I realised I'd never used it. At the same time I had forgotten to announce that I moved to a new house. A good reason to make this announcement. It was laser printed on thin paper and I sent it around to a few friends and relatives.

Illegible typography can cost you money:
It turned out that my grandmother had sent me birthday cards for two years in a row and included money as a present. In stead of sending it to house number 331, she read 33-1 on the moving announcement. When I visited my far-neighbors, they remembered the mail, but had thrown it away.

Stamp - 44 cents and 88 cents

2007-01-01T01:38:00.008+01:00

I was commissioned to design one of the most printed and most used stamps of The Netherlands: the business stamp for TNT post. It was a delight to work a big project on such a small piece of space.

Sketches for the stamp

Translated from the TNT-website:
For the design of the new business stamps on role for 2007, TNT post chose graphic designer Hansje van Halem. According to Van Halem a design preferably has a certain 'roughness': in many designs each detail is over developed and has been polished. As a result, a certain detachment arises. "I try to emphasise the handcraft part of the design, as a result of which the distance to the user becomes smaller and the picture more accessible."
The business stamps on role are characterised by a typographical picture in which its value dominates. The design of Hansje van Halem is appropriate in that tradition. Van Halem has started with the shape of the numbers of the value. A particular circumstance of the new postage stamps is that the value is expressed in two the same figures, 44 and 88 eurocents. Hansje van Halem: "The two eights can be mirrored and still read as 88. By reflecting and to tilting the not entirely symmetrical figures it felt like the stamp got something 'naughty'. From the edges of the postage stamp I experimented with lines which have the numbers as a disappearing point. The lines determine the shape of the edges of the 44 and 88, which as a result get their irregular, individual form." By use of a light grey colour the structure of the lines remains open and the stamp remains light of tone. For the lettering of portrait stamp of 0.88 eurocents Hansje van Halem used the typeface 'Spectrum' by Jan van Krimpen, which connect well with the round forms of the 8. The lettering of the landscape stamp of 0.44 eurocents has been set in the 'Johnston', by Edward Johnston.

Here you can find a nice post about the stamps. (in Dutch)
Here you can find a clip that was made by Nils Mud / Graphic Design Museum for kids.

- commissioned by TNT Post, Den Haag
- Postage stamp of 44 cents and 88 cents
- In shops from December 11th 2006
- printed by Royal Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem
- Type: Spectrum, Johnston

Jac. P. Thijsse - Prospektor

2006-11-01T01:28:00.001+01:00

This booklet is a subsidy request for a documentary series by Prospektor. The series is inspired on old collector albums on the changing environment of Holland from the early 1900s. Besides the content of subsidy request, original intro's from the Jac. P. Thijsse collector albums are being used. The illustration pattern derived from the contour of The Netherlands.

- commissioned by Prospektor, Amsterdam

Orson+Bodil - Alexander van Slobbe

2006-10-12T01:30:00.002+02:00

To accompany the presentation of the new summer collection of this fashion label, I designed this eight page press leaflet in a little cover. In the same series I desiged a invitation.

- commissioned by fashion label Orson+Bodil by Alexander van Slobbe, Amsterdam

10th International Architecture Biennale, Venice

2006-09-08T01:17:00.003+02:00

EventArchitectuur (Herman Verkerk/Paul Kuipers) designed the interior for the Architecture Biennale in Venice. The theme was 'perspective' - the chosen material for the interior was felt. The title words for the signage were constructed out of seven layers black and grey felt. By taking a growing ouline for each layer of the word, the seven layers glued on top of each other have a perspective effect

Detail of the felt signage

Brochure and 3d viewer

- commissioned by the NAI, Rotterdam and in cooperation with EventArchitectuur, Amsterdam
- Seeing is Knowing - perspectives in Dutch architecture, 10th International Architecture Biennale, Venice 2006

Letter Sketches 2

2006-07-28T01:13:00.002+02:00

Letter sketches in a cahier with a compilation of typographical tests and letter sketches which usually start within commissioned work, but not always find their place in the end result.

- self initiated
- laser print in an edition of 35

Prospektor

2006-07-04T01:11:00.002+02:00

This brochure with interviews, portraits and a dvd appeared for the 'National Dementia Plan' in Groningen. Shape of the booklet and cover-design refer to old-fashioned pattern with a wink to the psychedelic effect.

- commissioned by Prospektor, Amsterdam
- photography Anoek Steketee

Mondriaan Foundation - annual report

2006-06-18T01:06:00.002+02:00

Design of the annual report 2005 for the Mondriaan Foundation. To reveal the system of the chapters in one glance, a diagonal tab-system was cut into the pages. The inside of the book remains natural. The text area grows with the increasing available space of the pages.

Dutch report (large) and English version (small) in two different shades of blue/green.

- commissioned by the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam
- with thanks to Marijke Cobbenhagen

Archiprix

2006-06-18T01:01:00.002+02:00

23 Graduation projects brought together in an annual book. Focusing on prizes and prizewinning itself, the titling typography refers to 'rosettes'. Images are placed in a round-cornered decorated border.

- commissioned by 010 publishers and Archiprix
- printed by Die Keure, Belgium
- Type: Kepler
- ISBN 90-6450-570-5

Witte de With - report

2006-04-08T00:58:00.002+02:00

The annual report for Witte de With became a magazine-like format, in which text and images are designed as two separate pages of different formats, placed on top of each other.

- commissioned by Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

Geborduurd - Embroider

2006-02-18T00:53:00.005+01:00

The exhibition 'Geborduurd' showed that embroidery in now-a-days art is used as a conceptual design tool. In aiming for a combination between old-fashioned vs. modern and handcraft vs. digital I tried to refer to embroidery without using it. I constructed a typeface inside the computer, but drawn by hand. Used lines as thread almost as if I was making stitches. I wanted the design to look high-tec, punky or even aggressive and soften this by the light pink background color. The participants are printed in handwritten type: a traced italic typeface, which looks more classic. Both these two 'typefaces' are referring to digital crafted and handcraft. For type experiments see here.

Poster 125 x 175 cm, silkscreen

A3 poster, invite and brochure

Signage for the exhibition

The digitally designed type is drawn by hand with black marker on wood.

- commissioned by the Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg
- Publicity material for an exhibition
- signage executed by Michiel Schuurman
- Type design: Embroider

Smeedwerk

2006-01-11T00:49:00.003+01:00

For a transparent storage inside the building, filled with seven artworks in edition, made on invitation of Margriet Kemper, this box was made. The box contains the four elements of the art-project: (The Introduction, The Interviews, The Art Works and The Storage) as four separate publications. The four publications on top of each other show the title of the project Smeedwerk and are held together with a metal clip.

Box with publications

- commissioned by Margriet Kemper and Rijkswaterstaat Lelystad
- Smeedwerk ('to forge things together') and is an art project by Margriet Kemper for the opening of the new building called 'Smedinghuis' for the Rijkswaterstaat in Lelystad
- Photography by Bob Negrijn
- type: Forge Type

Nachtpodium - on tv

2005-10-30T00:43:00.001+02:00

For a Dutch late night cult(ural) programme Nachtpodium I was asked to talk about books and graphic design. Hoping to relativate the value of graphic design, I sold my beloved works to a second hand book store in Amsterdam. It was filmed and aired on VPRO's late night cult(ural) programme 'Nachtpodium'.

Nachtpodium doesn't exist anymore, the fragment can still be seen online.

Grey Tones - contribution

2005-10-08T00:35:00.001+02:00

For the second edition of the GreyTones book in which graphic designers invite other graphic designers, I filled my eight pages with quotes from my all-time-favorite book Tijl Uilenspiegel. Starting with "Ik stel me voor" ('I imagine' or 'I present myself'), it becomes a dream of an ideal place to be.

- GreyTones - Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven 2005
- invited by Eric de Haas
- a publication of the Design Week, Eindhoven

Dicht aan het IJ - poem

2005-10-07T00:29:00.001+02:00

Poets and designers were invited to write and design inspired on poetry by Paul van Ostaijen. The poem was send to me as an mp3-file. The quality of the sound file was not very good. I tried to translate this in this type-drawing.

Detail

- a poem by Koen Bauwens
- 'Dicht aan het IJ'-festival ('Poetry at the IJ river'), stichting Perdu/Loods6, Amsterdam

Roof of Heaven - Misha de Ridder

2005-10-06T00:25:00.002+02:00

Misha de Ridder took pictures of churches in Dordrecht, Holland's most ancient city. The pictures don't show a traditional view on the churches, but atmospheric attributes are shown. This publication became a series of sixteen cards, showing the picture on the front side, and additional information on the backside. The cards are held together by a rubber band tied in a cross shape.

- Dak van de Hemel (Roof of Heaven)
- commissioned by Misha de Ridder and the City of Dordrecht
- publication for photography exhibition, photography by Misha de Ridder
- printed by Calff&Meischke
- type: Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk

Maria Goos - Gouden Ganzenveer

2005-10-05T00:24:00.002+02:00

The play writer Maria Goos received the Gouden Ganzenveer, a cultural prize for her contributions to the Dutch culture. The book that accompanied the prize containes a list of all the characters she created in her plays. The book only consist of type. To give it a personal touch every single letter is drawn by hand.

Type sample

- commissioned by Grafische Cultuur Stichting, Amstelveen and Gouden Ganzenveer
- ISBN 90-807238-4-3

Jan Rothuizen

2005-10-04T00:19:00.002+02:00

This novel by the visual artist Jan Rothuizen contains images that the artist collected from newspapers and magazines based solely on the criteria that the portrayed men look like him. When starting on this project the artist described that the story was on things you know are there but that aren't visible. The pictures are placed on top of the text, revealing the edges of type but excluding the reader of information.

- commissioned by Jan Rothuizen and Artimo
- printed by Drukkerij Veenman
- type: Granjon
- published by Artimo, Amsterdam
- distributed by Idea Books
- ISBN 90-8546-059-x

Pim van Halem / Mia van der Burg

2005-10-03T00:17:00.002+02:00

My father and his girlfriend (both artists) spent a period of three months in a studio space in Spain. It resulted in an exhibition in the CBK, Rotterdam. The guest in the house next door of Pim and Mia's studio space in 'Callosa d'en Sarria' was a Dutch writer. In a story she wrote on her stay in Spain she wrote that the three of them made a trip into the mountains only using a hand drawn map of the area. When designing this exhibition invitation I tried to imagine what this map could have looked like.

- Hansje van Halem for Pim van Halem and Mia van der Burg

Stereo magazine - La Revolution c'est Chic

2005-10-02T23:57:00.001+02:00

Stereo an independent magazine published in Rotterdam. With a warm heart for the founders of this Rotterdam initiative we worked on bringing together the different range of illustrations and texts for this magazine. With in the back of our heads a 'revolution in style', we found a solution by using the designed grid as a dictator on top of the participants, and using the participants as revolutionairs to the grid. Titling disappears underneath the images, and the lines of the grid interferes with the images.

- commissioned by Stereo Magazine, Rotterdam
- in cooperation with Eric de Haas, Eindhoven

Punt uit - contribution

2005-09-10T00:37:00.002+02:00

For the heartwarming initiative in a Rotterdam backyard called 'De Vrije Schuur', thirteen graphic designers were asked to design a '.' (period).

The dot

The dot used in a sentence. (Translates into something like: He spoke slow and slimey as if he had wool in his mouth...)

- PuntUit - de Vrije Schuur
- The 'De Vrije Schuur' (the liberated garage) is an exhibition place by the initiative of Arnold Schalks. For every event, a new version of 'Schuurpapier' (Sandpaper) is released.

Do It Yourself - Gerrit Rietveld Academie

2005-07-06T23:59:00.001+02:00

For the occasion of adding a new building to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (the Amsterdam art school) a book had to be designed on the connection between the old building (1967) and the new building (2005). Sadly the users of the new building had a lot of critiques to the new school, this couldn't be left unnoticed.
The pictures in this book are accompanied with text from a Readers Digest 'do it your self'-book from the same period of the old building. Sharing tips on how to improve you space. The front cover shows a slice of the old building, the back cover shows a slice of the new building.

- commissioned by Gerrit Rietveld Academie
- photography by Johannes Schwartz, Jannes Linders, Hans Vroege, Nadine Hottenrott, Emmelien Kramer and Jurriaan Langstraat
- printed by Calff&Meischke

PrintROOM - signage

2005-04-03T09:49:00.009+02:00

For a project with Room in Witte de With, centre for contemporary art (Rotterdam) I made signage for the project space. The type is 'printed' on the wall scratching the letter on carbon paper.

Picture by Bob Goedewagen

- PrintROOM team: Karin de Jong, Daniëlle van Zuijlen, Miek Zwamborn, Kirsten Leenaars, Maarten van Schaik, Wouter Stoter and Kim Bouvy

Room - invites

2004-10-11T23:47:00.002+02:00

Room is a artist run space, with different projects and exhibitions. PrintRoom is, a segment of room, is a growing collection of artist publications. The invitation for PrintRoom makes space with print. Lines are drawn from the corners and middles of the page. The line ends where the letter shape starts, leaving blank for text.

The system for this invitation follows a similar system as the PrintROOM invite. This one works on the level of letter shapes in stead of the paper edges. Within vertical and diagonal lines letter shapes are left blank. It's a complementary type. Diagonal and vertical lines are separated on either front or back of the thin paper.

Sample of frontside, backside and total view

- commissioned by Room, Rotterdam
- printed by Drukkerij Heijt
- type: self made

Thinking Forward - report

2004-10-01T23:53:00.002+02:00

Thinking Forward was a six month European cultural festival to celebrate the Dutch presidency of the EU. This report was published as a closure of the festival. The report consists of two booklets folded into a green dust cover. The pink booklet contains the complete network of participants and employees. The blue booklet contains the closure text of the festival. On the chapter pages are designs constructed from European country shapes.

- commissioned by Thinking Forward festival
- printed by Calff&Meischke
- type: Electra

Mark - municipal art acquisitions

2004-09-04T23:24:00.002+02:00

The Municipal Art Acquisitions occur yearly, with a focus on one art discipline at a time. The Stedelijk Museum is responsible for collecting and selecting works with the help of an external jury. In the catalogue for the 'Municipal Art Acquisitions, Graphic Design 2003-2004' all 84 entries were placed. The 64 entries that weren't selected for the acquisitions were punched out of the catalogue, leaving a frame for the ones that were selected.

- commisioned by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- with thanks to Michiel Schuurman
- type Granjon
- printed by Calff&Meischke
- binding by Van Lith, Amsterdam
- The Mark-Catalogue won the Dutch prize for Most beautiful book 2004 in 2005.
- ISBN 90-5006-167-2 / sold out

Mark - Exhibition Signage

2004-09-04T23:15:00.001+02:00

In the design for the Mark-exhibition EventArchitecture used wooden pallets. For the signage I burnt the names of the exhibitants into this wood.

Oilily - No Address

2004-08-18T23:40:00.002+02:00

For the presentation of the new Oilily collection Sloom designed the interior. I designed and realized signage out of wood with carved type.

- commissioned by Sloom: Herman Verkerk/Rianne Makkink and Oilily

Adviezen voor de Kunstraad - report

2004-06-27T23:18:00.002+02:00

A report containing advises for subsidizing Amsterdam cultural / art initiatives. The weight of the content forced the design attention to legibility and feel of the booklet. Printed on very smooth and thin paper, the report is almost fluid. The typographical visual addition on the inner and outer sides of the page were taken from the text itself. The words are the complete alphabetical vocabulary of the book.

- in cooperation with Gerard Unger
- printed by Calff&Meischke, Amsterdam
- type Big Vesta, Capitolium by Gerard Unger
- This book won the Dutch prize for Most beautiful book 2004 in 2005 and the international honorable mention in 'Schönste Bücher aus Alle Welt 2004' in 2005, Leipzig.

Go Slow - Droog Design, Milano / signage

2004-04-14T23:40:00.003+02:00

The exhibition Go Slow was constructed out of the building material perforated hardboard. For the idea of slowness we embroided type on the grid of this hardboard with large stitches.

- commissioned by Sloom: Herman Verkerk/Rianne Makkink and Droog Design
- in cooperation with Nadja Hanke

Go Slow - Droog Design, Milano

2004-04-14T23:38:00.009+02:00

After making the signage, Droog Design approached us for designing the invitation. The system we used for embroidery on this perforated hardboard was translated for print. We translated the system of stitching into a double sided type-face, showing the front and back of embroidery in line drawing.

Invitation for Go Slow, Milano 2004

Hand-out at Go Slow, Milano 2004

Front side of the typeface

Back side of the typeface

- commissioned by Droog Desing and Sloom: Herman Verkerk/Rianne Makkink and Droog Design
- in cooperation with Nadja Hanke
- type Stitch Unsewed

Lost&Found - invite

2003-10-17T23:10:00.001+02:00

Lost&Found is a stage for lost and found sound and image. For the design of their radio-evening this folded invitation radio samples of the entire Dutch FM and AM frequency were translated into text. The lost audio parts within the text are written as '[...]'.

- commissioned by Lost&Found, Amsterdam
- printed by Drukkerij Heijt
- type Candida

Hapax Legomena - Arnon Grunberg

2003-06-27T23:02:00.004+02:00

A novel written by Arnon Grunberg re-designed as 'Hapax Legomena', a Latin term for when words only appear once in a text.
This graduation project started with the knowledge that you only need 200 words for basic communication in a language. I was curious how much words a novel needs to tell a story. It became a visual research of the use of language by only letting every word appear once. Double words are replaced with white space. Slowly the text eats itself away. The book ends with a frequency index.

All the work was done by endlessly 'find' and 'replace' words. After the book was finished, Dion Nicolaas heard about the project and did some programming.

Even after years, I sometimes get an e-mail from an Arnon Grunberg collector, who would like to buy the book. It's sold out. I did find it at an online bookseller for 180 euros. That's 1200% of the original price!

- self initiated
- graduation project Gerrit Rietveld Academie
- also see http://www.hapax.nicolaas.net/

VPRO - annual report

2003-06-27T23:01:00.001+02:00

In 2003 the VPRO (a Dutch broadcasting company) decided to commission their annual reports to graduation students of Dutch art academies. The Rietveld Academie was first, and I was the lucky one to design it. It was my first real assignment and very educational.

The theme 'Internal Messages' was given by the commissioner and had to cheer up a boring report. The internal company e-mails, slightly odd or funny and the report are designed as two separate books of different sizes and were shoved inside of each other. In between the plain text for the annual report, every now and than a couple of internal messages show up.

- This report won the Dutch prize for 'Most beautiful Annual Report 2002' in 2003.
- commissioned by VPRO
- with thanks to Marieke Stolk.
- type Perpetua
- printed by Robstolk

War in Irak

2003-06-27T22:57:00.001+02:00

An incomplete and uncorrected overview of the NOS news reports during the second war in Iraq.

This book is a transcription of five days / 24 hours a day Dutch television journalism. It started as a way to document and translate temporary, spoken information into more permanent information. It ended in amazement of news reports, lied facts and war itself. The book stops where the 24/7 news reports end, that was when the war was no longer a hot topic.

Book was made in a small edition, laser print, 486 pages

Scratched Letter

2003-06-27T22:44:00.002+02:00

For my gradution I designed the Scratched Letter. It started while making my first try-outs using a Wacom Tablet. I tested this mouse pen by scratching within the outlines of a piece of text. Then I collected all the different version of a's, b's that I had been drawing and put them on a pile. This typeface now exists as a digital illustrator file. For my graduation I made two publications as type specimens for the Scratched Letter.

Letter Sketch Book
The sketch book of the design process of 'The Scratched Letter'.Letter shapes are scratched in the computer, but by hand. By stacking 1 up to 200 different scratched versions of one letter, the letter gets thicker and more black.In the picture: left are 50 layers of the 'd', right is built up from 100 different scratched layers of the letter.

Flip Book
'The Scratched Letter' in use in a letter flip book. The book zooms in on a specific type characteristic of the Scratched Letter: the difference when it's used small (black) and if used big (the chaos of lines show).

Reader Magazine

2002-10-11T22:26:00.003+02:00

While being students at the Rietveld Academie Michiel Schuurman and I initiated a magazine about books. It all started with the question if books would survive in the digital age. Interviews, editing, design, production and distribution was in hands of the enthusiastic designers, who were not always competent on every level...

For the content of the magazine we had interviews with second hand bookshop Joot, poet K. Michel, book- and paper conservator Benita Jansma, type designer Gerard Unger, online story teller Nobody Here, and graphic designer Barbara Hermann.

Reader #4

- Reader #5 is still available (in Dutch), 10 euro's ex. postage, mail to hansje@hansje.net
- laser print on 70grs paper, glue bound in an edition of 200

Fanzine for grandmother

2000-09-08T13:06:00.000+02:00

In 2000 we had Experimental Jetset as teachers. For their assignment we had to make a fanzine about something we were fanatic about, I chose my grandmother (b. 1922).
Even though this work is already 10 years old, I still show it to students. Not only to show off, but also because it was the very moment I got a click with graphic design. We had to produce this fanzine in a print run of at least 30. For the first time I understood the importance of reproduction. I couldn't hide my design skills by coming up with impossible materials and complicated techniques. Graphic design had boundaries because it had to be reproduced, had to be affordable and in the end still be good.

I used school cahiers with recycled paper, which I managed to feed into a copy machine.

For the content I used my grandmothers photo-album and official documents like her marriage license.

I had asked my grandmother to write down the alphabet, which I made into a working typeface. I used that typeface to write her a letter. The letter is the content of the booklet.

In the end I gave her this booklet. I don't think she really understood it. Although she got pretty concerned about me, because there's a part where I write about being drunk...

Teaching - Copy books II

1980-02-27T10:40:00.001+01:00

For the 2010 first year's students at the HKU, I recycled a part of the 2009 work-shop assignment. The assignment was made a bit more exciting and I added some more content to the booklet.

14 x 21 cm, 44 pages, laserprint, edition of 65

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The assignment
I was taught writing two times. The first time was when I was six. We had to write upright letters. If you did your writing well, you would get a curl, your cahier stamped or you had the privilege to use the teacher's red pen. When I was seven I changed schools and I was taught to write a joined script letter. I remember being very much intrigued by the copy books we had which were supposed to teach you how to write a certain handwriting. They were filled with beautiful italics, a variation of lines and random words. During the past few years I came across some other types of copy books. Some are to teach children how to write. A lot of these copy books were published to promote a specific type of pen. I'm very much intrigued by the simple beauty of these books.

Speedball Text - lettering - poster desing - for pen or brush, by Ross F. George, 16th edition 1952. (Book found in the trash in Algutstorp, Sweden.)

Ten alphabets for writing. (Present from my father.)

Copy books with Russian type, issue 1 and 2, 1997. (Found at the Russian market in Tallinn, Estonia.)

Series of three copy books from Heintze & Blankertz, Berlin for Redis and Ato pens.

Guide to shorthand writing. (Book bought in bookstore in Tallinn, Estonia.)

C.C.F van der Laan - writing course. A modern re-issue copy book. (Bought in bookshop in Amsterdam.)

The briefing
Because a lot of these copy books were published to sell a specific type of pen, I asked the students to design two types of writing tools: one to write big type with and another for small type. In the end they have to make a copy book with exercises to promote their new writing tool.
(My father recently sent me this picture, it all starts to make sense now...)

Teaching - Hardcore Slow

1980-02-26T10:30:00.000+01:00

At the WdKa in Rotterdam I was invited to do a workshop for their theme week Slow. I had recently finished the Doily type for Droog Design's Go Slow. Because the type is drawn by hand, it connected to the theme. They suggested to do something similar for the workshop.
I brought fine liners and made this workbook for the students to follow my way of working. The booklet provides the skeleton of a letter per page. Students were invited to start drawing patiently. On this Flickr-page and this one, you can find scans of letters made by students. In they end they all made a poster out of the letters.

'(I) use time to practise an operation.'

21 x 29.7 cm, 40 pages, laserprint, edition of 50

Teaching - ABC Copy Books I

1980-02-25T10:20:00.000+01:00

In the beginning of 2009 I gave a one-week workshop at the graphic design department of HKU, in Utrecht. To accompany the assignment I made this booklet. It contains scans of some of my favorite Copy Books which was an introduction to the assignment. I asked the students to design a writing system, and make a booklet with exercises to teach the system. Although it was really a short workshop students made very nice projects. I will surely give this assignment another go when there's more time.

Teaching - Canary books

1980-02-24T10:10:00.000+01:00

In 2006 I was teaching at the EKA in Tallinn for a few weeks. For the assignment I introduced the students to a little 8.5 x 12.5 cm Dutch phenomenon called Canary Books – The yellow success-book, a home-university for the practical life.

During the assigment I made this is the hand-out for the students. It's filled with practical information about making simple books. It covers my personal tips on picking paper and simple tips.

8.5 x 12.5 cm, 48 pages, laserprint, edition ± 30
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The assignment - Canary Books
From 1935 on a little book called ‘Canary Book’ appeared periodically. It was a self-help book, a guide to the growing amount of different subjects in life. The content was short and super-positive. The aim seemed to be not to warn people for danger, but to take away fear and make people into self confident, socially armed beings, coping with their jobs, the upbringing of children, financial state, teaching them hobbies, or becoming a better car driver. Through every-day examples it gave tips on ‘how it was supposed to be done’. Reading the content now, is quite hilarious. Next to the design, the list of titles that appeared (below) in this series is a source of inspiration...
There's a very sweet website (in Dutch) dedicated to the books www.kanarieboekjes.nl.

8.5 x 12.5 cm, 64 pages, inside: black & white, cover: yellow with print, Images from www.kanarieboekjes.nl

The briefing
Pick a title from the list and make a book for this ‘Canary book - home university’ series. You might pick a title because you already have affection with the subject, you could also pick a title without knowing what it could be about.
In this assignment I’d like you to take responsibility for content and design. On the one hand I’d like you to start making actual physical try-outs for the shape / feel / size / system / rules / paper of your book, while on the other hand you start working on your approach of the content. It doesn’t mean you have to write a book. Finding your way into content sometimes follows the same rules as finding the right design.

(original list can be found here it even includes PDF's to scans of original booklets)
1. Education and choice of profession / 2. Applying for a job successfully / 3. Getting ahead at own powers / 4. Organize yourself / 6. Taking an exam successfully / 7. What an office clerk should know / 8. This is how you to apply for a job / 9. More orders for the salesman / 10. Doing business by phone / 11. Selling through writing letters / 13. This is how a girl makes more money in business / 16. How to be sociable / 17. How to speak in public / 18. Being in charge of a meeting / 19. Making money with a little shop / 20. This is how to make your office efficient / 23. This is how a girl succeeds in the office / 24. This is how to write texts and brochures / 26. This is how a young salesman succeeds / 27. This is how to make a company efficient / 28. This is how to relieve efficiently / 29. This is simple shop-accountancy / 30. This is how to economise in business / 31. This is how salesman get contact / 32. This is how to get courage and confidence / 33. This is how a shop keeper makes more profit / 34. This is how a MAN succeeds / 35. This is how a shop gets more customers / 36. This is how to comprehend characters / 38. Making money in writing press articles / 40. This is how to make money with vendor machines / 41. Getting more out of life / 42. Good manners / 43. Making money using a typewriter / 44. This is how you become a good skier / 45. This is how you become a good boxer / 46. This is how you become a good draughts player / 47. This is how you become a good bridge player / 48. This is how you become a good korfball player / 49. This is how you become a good hockey player / 50. This is how you become a good soccer player / 51. This is how you become a good sailor / 52. This is how you become a good table tennis player / 53. The Hunt for Miss Hinch - detective novel / 54-5. The Mystery of the Desert Gap - detective novel / 56-7. The Silver Dollar - detective novel / 58. This is how you conqueror shyness / 59. This is how to do everything right / 60. Making money in teaching / 62. This is how to get a fuller and better figure / 63. This is how you become a good cycle racer / 64. This is how you become a good sport aviator / 65. This is how you become a good baseball player / 66. This is how you to make working capital / 67. This is how you become a good tennis player / 68. This is how you become a good glide flyer / 69. This is how you become a good chess player / 70. This is how you become a good athlete / 71. This is how you use the power of psychology / 72. Application letters that draw attention / 73. This is how you become a good motor driver / 74. What boys growing up should know / 75. This is how you become a good camper / 76. This is how smoking becomes a joy / 77. Making money in concluding life insurances / 78. About falling in love and getting engaged / 79. House keeping without financial worrying / 80. Gaining friends and relationships / 81. The secret of a long life / 82. Gaining the power of concentration / 83. Teach yourself to swim / 84. Making and keeping a speech / 85. Beauty secrets from Hollywood / 87. Starting a business with ƒ 250,- / 88. What working girls should know / 89. To conqueror fear and worries / 90. Thomas Ba’at - the biography of the shoe king / 91. Enhancing your personality / 92. The adventures of ‘Prikkebeen Jr.’ in 50 funny images, that can be coloured by the youth / 93. H. Colijn - the life and works of an energetic man / 94. Smooth conversation / 95. Madame Curie - a remarkable woman / 96. How to get what you wish / 97. Edison - the wizard of Menlo Park / 98. How the unemployed get to work / 99. Sven Hedin - a persistent adventurer / 100. The career of Mr. W. A. Deterding / 101. What does Oxford want? (Moral and spiritual renewals) / 102. Learing languages easily / 103. Lord Leverhulme - the king of Sunlight Soaps / 104. The art of keeping order to students, children, inferiors and followers / 105. Andrew Carnegie - the gentle king of steel / 106. Making better snap shots / 107. This is how to help out in small accidents / 108. Practical guide to baby gymnastics / 109. What you should know of England / 110. How to hoard safely / 111. Safe and cheap holiday trips per cargo boat / 112. A happy life as a single woman / 113. Tasteful dishes: fifty tasty tomato dishes / 114. From the life of Princess Juliana / 115. Fifty games, indoors and outdoors, for young and old / 116. Your dog as a healthy and pleasant comrade / 117. Pasteur, the big benefactor of mankind / 118. How a girl can do a good marriage / 119. What you should know about our country’s defense system / 120. What girls growing up should know / 121. How to conqueror nervousness and bad digestion / 122. Happy marrying on a small income / 123. Seventy-five laugh pills / 124. How to prevent children’s diseases / 125. Making good snacks from left-overs / 126. Learning pleasant dancing / 127. Raising of your baby / 128. This is how you learn Jiu Jitsu / 129. Better eyes without glasses / 130. Economical and efficient cooking / 131. Handwriting and character / 132. Enjoying your holiday / 133. Practical letter-writing book / 134. How to predict the weather / 135. Learning German fast / 136. Growing vegetables in a small garden / 137. A trip to Germany - German conversation book / 138. A book filled with cross word puzzles / 139. German pocket dictionary / 140. Learning French fast / 141. Astrology and horoscopes / 145. Learning English fast / 148. Carpentry for joy / 149. Getting past marital troubles and conquer them / 150. Developing a good memory / 152. Growing plants without soil / 154. How clubs and societies grow and flourish / 155. Raising the toddler / 156. Tasty dishes / 157. Bathing and swimming safely in the sea / 154. The miracles of the starry sky / 155. Inventing as a profession / 156. Finding and eating mushrooms / 162. Making money in your free time / 163. The art of making phone calls / 168. The new spelling - with extensive word list / 170. Guessing, calculating, magic and cutting / 171. Drawing course head and figure drawing / 173. Making friends / 175. Utopia, the promised country / 176. Success - the inspiring lecture by Taylor for young people / 177. This is how parents should associate with children / 178. This is how to be successful in your job / 179. Diamond fields are waiting for you / 180. This is how to become a better car driver / 181. Starting a business of your own / 182. Marshall and his plan - biography / 183. Churchill - biography / 184. This is how you become a good office chef / 185. This is how to do maths faster / 186. You are the smith of your own happiness / 190. Six hundred questions and answers - How much do you do you know? / 191. Becoming a mother / 192. Learning Spanish quick - grammar / 193. Learning Spanish quick - conversation / 194. Learning Spanish quick - dictionary / 195. The 10 basics to your success / 197. This is how you get healthy through psychology / 198. The shape of your hand and character / 199. This is how you learn to play draughts / 202. Guide to The Hague / 204. Guide to Rotterdam / 205. Success through the power of imagination / 215. Getting by on a small salary / 219. What young married couples should know / 220. This is how I should dress / 245. Tricks with cards / 254. This is how you collect stamps / 259. Making good friends by giving little gifts

NOTE - Some title-numbers are missing: the probably weren’t on the list I was using because they were sold out, some others I couldn’t manage to translate. Even titles in the original language have a funny sounding to it, that’s one of the reasons the translations could seem a bit strange. For other oddities, it’s me to blame.

Teaching - Typography

1980-02-23T10:00:00.000+01:00

When I was first teaching in 2005, it was typography classes for the 2nd year at Artez, Arnhem. Standing in front of the class I vividly remembered how much I used to dislike typography. I think I mainly blame the teacher I had, who wasn't able to bring his passion across. In this booklet I gave short examples of my experiences of learning how to love type and typography.

I try to never leave out samples of the Speedball Text Book.

In 1998 Frank Blokland was our teacher type design in The Hague at the KABK. He was very strict and he could almost see what music you were playing while doing your calligraphy homework. I had no clue what he was trying to teach us, but I wouldn't mind going back to those classes since I'm more into letters. In the booklet I describe an embarrassing naive moment, asking him if type design was the mathematics of graphic design.

In 1999 Peter Verheul (also in The Hague) introduced us to using Fontographer. That's when type and typography became more attractive and playfull. I listened to Eurythmics and Kraftwerk while finding the joy of type for the first time.

In 2000 I switched to the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where we taught typography by the God of type design Gerard Unger. His lessons were nothing like what I was used to. His goal was to interest students for the subject. For the ones that found a click, he wouldn't mind giving extra attention. With him you could have a serious talk about type made out of cheese, if you wanted to. In this booklet I tell a story about how he tried to hunt me down after I had spread a cd with illegal type. Still sorry for that...

Also in 2000, we had class by Danny and Marieke of Experimental Jetset. We fell in love with them. They were young, they were cool, they were insecure, their work rocked and their assignments were cool. Most of all they were human. They were open about their daily life as a graphic designer, which made everything a bit more realistic for us as students.
In this booklet I show how I used my Fontographer-skills for digitizing my grandmothers handwriting for the design of a fanzine (an assignment by Experimental Jetset).

Shop

1978-08-13T20:42:00.025+02:00

Here's an overview of items that I can sell, or that are available otherwise.
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SELF INITIATED
If you have any interest in buying something, let me know by e-mail.
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Poster, Schrank8 presents Job Wouters
- price: 50 euro (ex. shipping)
- 50 x 70 cm
- silk screened, white on black paper
- editon of 55
- frame not included

Poster, Schrank8 presents Bart de Baets
- price: 50 euro (ex. shipping)
- 60 x 50 cm
- edition of 55
- silk screened, white and black on blue paper

Poster, Don't believe (song titles)
- price: 80 euro (ex. shipping)
- 80 x 250 cm
- print on demand

Book, Scenes from urban caves
- price: 50 euro (ex. shipping)
- an analysis by Hansje van Halem of 32 drawings by Pim van Halem
- 21 x 29 cm
- edition of 100
- 164 pages, black&white laser print

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COMMISSIONED WORK
Work available through other parties
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Book, Stad van verf - Onno Blom
- available online via www.boekenvandekrant.nl
- language: Dutch
- hard cover book, 21.5 x 28 cm
- 256 pages, full color

Book, Artists do what they want
- available at W139 in Amsterdam for 19,95 euro
- language: two seperate editions, English and Dutch
- soft linen cover and gold colored imprint, 12 x 17 cm
- 174 pages, with 12 full color and 169 black & white illustrations
- drawings with Stabilo point 88 file liner

Book, Phantom City - a photo novel by Kim Bouvy
- available through Kim Bouvy
- 12 x 19 cm, 276 pages
- black and white photography
- language: English and Dutch
- published by Pels&Kemper

Book, Tangible Traces
- available online via www.naipublishers.nl
- about Frank Havermans, Hella Jongerius, Claudy Jongstra, Onix and Alexander van Slobbe
- cover photo by Blommers/Schumm
- language: English
- soft cover book,14 .8 x 21 cm
- 248 pages, full color

Book, Als zodanig niet herkenbaar, Moniek Toebosch
- available through www.uitgeverijdebuitenkant.nl
- 448 pages text, photography black&white and colour
- language: Dutch
- ISBN: 978 90 76452 78 4
- commissioned by Moniek Toebosch
- published by Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, Amsterdam

Book, Ophelia. Sehnsucht, melancholia and desire for death
- hard cover, linen bound and foil imprint with dust cover
- 512 pages, 12 x 17.4 cm, Dutch/English
- publication for exhibition with the same title in MMKA, Arnhem (Feb. 21st - May 10th 2009)
- available at Uitgeverij De Buitenkant
- ISBN 978 90 76452 50 0

Books, Pels&Kemper Publishers
- Tubutsch
- language: Dutch
- available online
- Trifle
- Alan Davidson & Helen Saberi
- language: Dutch
- available online
- Hoe een parel te maken
- language: Dutch
- available online

Magazine, NAI Architecture Bulletin
- available online at NAI Publishers

Book, CO-OPs catalogue
- available online at Uitgeverij De Buitenkant

Stamps, 44 cents and 88 cents
- business stamp on a role
- available at TNT post office
- available online at TNT post

Book, In een pretpark tegenover de hemel
- novel by Jan Rothuizen
- available online

1978-08-12T10:25:00.025+02:00

Hansje van Halem
independent graphic designer
1978, (female) Enschede - NL

drawing type in 1984 with my childhood friend Marieke (right)

Contact
Marcusstraat 52 - 2f
1091 TK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
t: 00316 - 412 415 46
hansje@hansje.net
www.hansje-portfolio.blogspot.com
www.hansjevanhalem.blogspot.com
(www.hansje.net - old site)

Education
2000 - 2003: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam - NL
Graphic Design, diploma 2003
1998 - 2000: Royal Academy of Visual Arts, The Hague - NL
Graphic and Typographic Design

Teaching / workshops:
2010: HKU, Utrecht - NL - teaching graphic design
2010: ArtEZ, Arnhem - NL - external examinator
2010: KABK, The Hague - NL - teaching graphic design
2009-10: HKU, Utrecht - NL - teaching graphic design
2009: WdKA, Rotterdam - NL - workshop
2009: WdKA, Rotterdam - NL - external examinator
2008: ArteZ, Arnhem - NL - workhshop type design
2005: Eesti Kunstiakaademie, Tallinn / Estonia - 5-week workshop graphic design
2005/6: ArteZ, Arnhem - NL - teaching typography

Exhibitions
2011, Sept:, Deep Surface, Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina – USA
2011, Jan: The Way beyond Art - Wide White Space, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco - USA
2011, Jan: Connecting the Past and the Future, Graphic Design Museum, Breda - NL
2010, Dec Grafische grafiek, 's Hertogenbosch - NL
2010, Oct: Melvin the Machine, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven - NL
2010, March - Aug: Museum Hilversum - NL - Een Mooi Ding exhibition
2009, Nov: Ship of Fools Gallery, The Hague - NL - Don't Believe the Type exhibition
2009, Oct: W139=30, poster exhibition
2009, June: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - NL - Most Beautiful Books 2008, Dreamed Books - books that were never realized
2008, Sept: Galerie Phoebus, Ladenkastproject, Rotterdam - NL
2006, Jan: Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam - Inside Out, new years exhibition - NL
2005, Oct: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - Most Beautiful Books 2004 - NL
2005, Oct: Loods 6, Stichting Perdu, Amsterdam - Dicht aan het IJ - NL
2005, Oct: Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven - GreyTones - NL
2005, Apr: Witte de With, centre for contemporary art, Rotterdam - Printing Matters, participant PrintROOM - NL
2004, Sept: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - Mark, Municipal Art Acquisitions 2003 - 2004 - NL
2003, Sept: Dutch Architecture Institute (NAI), Rotterdam - School's out!, Items end exam selection - NL

Prizes/Nominations
2010: Best Photography Books of the Year - Photo España - Phantom City / Kim Bouvy
2008: Most Beautiful Books 2007 - CO-OPs / Interterritoriale explorations in art and science
2005: Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt 2004, Leipzig, honourable mention
Adviezen ter Voorbereiding van het Amsterdams Kunstenplan 2004 - 2008
2005: Most Beautiful Books 2004 - Adviezen ter Voorbereiding van het Amsterdams Kunstenplan 2004 - 2008
2005: Most Beautiful Books 2004 - Mark, Municipal Art Acquisitions 2003 - 2004
2003: Most Beautiful Annual Reports 2002 - VPRO Annual Report 2002

Over the years I've worked for
Wendel ten Arve, Amsterdam
Archiprix, Rotterdam
Stichting Best Verzorgde Boeken, Amsterdam
Guus Beumer, Amsterdam
Onno Blom, Leiden
Kim Bouvy, Rotterdam
Mia van der Burg, Rotterdam
Uitgeverij de Buitenkant, Amsterdam
Krien Clevis, Amsterdam
Droog Design, Amsterdam
Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg
EventArchitectuur, Amsterdam
Experimenta Design Festival, Amsterdam/Lissabon
Francisco van Benthum, Amsterdam
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Grafische Cultuur Stichting, Amstelveen
Graphic Design Festival, Breda
Graphic Design Museum, Breda
Pim van Halem, Rotterdam
HDC Media, Alkmaar
Margriet Kemper, 's-Hertogenbosch
Museum De Lakenhal, Amsterdam
Lost&Found, Amsterdam
Misha de Ridder, Amsterdam
Mondriaan Stichting, Amsterdam
NAiM, Maastricht
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam
NBKS, Breda
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Rotterdam
NWO, Leiden
Oilily, Alkmaar
Orson+Bodil, Alexander van Slobbe, Amsterdam
Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
Uitgeverij Pels&Kemper, 's-Hertogenbosch
Prospektor, Amsterdam
Jan Rothuizen, Amsterdam
ROOM, Rotterdam
Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
Michiel Schuurman, Amsterdam
Stansfield/Hooykaas, Amsterdam
Sloom: Herman Verkerk/Rianne Makkink, Amsterdam/Rotterdam
Wieki Somers, Schiedam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Thinking Forward Festival, Amsterdam
TNT Post, Amsterdam
Moniek Toebosch, Amsterdam
Gerard Unger, Bussum
VPRO, Hilversum
W139, Amsterdam
Flos Wildschut, Rotterdam
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Ymere, Amsterdam

Press
2011, Summer; Handmade Type Workshop. Techniques for Creating Original Characters and Digital Fonts - Charlotte Rivers - Thames & Hudson Publishers - UK
2010, December; Items, magazine (cover image) - NL
2010, December; Etapes Magazine - FR
2010, October; Graphic Design for Fashion, Jay Hess and Simone Pasztorek, ISBN 978 1 85669 693 7 - Lawrence King Publishing - UK
2010, August: Los Logos, R. Klaten, A. Mollard - Gestalten - DE
2010, August: Graphic, magazine, Mark Catalogue - KR
2010, summer: Elephant, magazine, interview, London - UK
2010: By Invitation Only, book, Viction:ary, Hong Kong
2010, March: Een Mooi Ding, exhibition catalogue, Museum Hilversum - NL
2010, March: Hollands Diep, dubble portrait with Gerard Unger - magazine, interview - NL
2010, February: work published on Arteko website - NL
2010, January: review of work featured on File-magazine.com, online magazine, interview - UK
2009: 1000 Ideas by 100 Graphic Designers - Matteo Cossu - book - Rockport Publisers - USA
2009, June: Art Collection + Design - magazine - CN
2009: Capsule - over kunstboeken - book - Valiz - NL
2009: Clubblad - catalogue - Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht - NL
2009: New Normal - CCA Graphic Design - Investigative Studio - NL - book - California College of the Arts - USA
2009: O2 - Cross over, creative magazine - The opening issue - magazine - CN
2009: Spark - Inspirational Graphic Design - book - Page One Publishers - SG
2008: Aera2 - 100 graphic designers, 10 curators, 10 design classics - book - Phaidon Press - USA
2008: De Best Verzorgde Boeken - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - catalogue - NL
2008: Graphic Design Museum, mini tutorial for kids on designing a stamp, see clip here
2008: Items #4 - portfolio - magazine - Bis Publishers - NL
2008: Super Holland Design - New Graphics - Actar Publishers - book - ES
2008: Typomofo - Type morphing into forms - book -Page One Publishers - SG
2007: DA - issue 8 - Design 21 - 21 graphic designers - magazine - TW
2007: Emergence 6 - magazine - Pyramid - FR
2007: Mister Motley - Taal - magazine - NL
2007: NeoGeo - A new edge to abstraction - book -Die Gestalten Verlag - DE
2007: One Hundred at 360º - Graphic design's new global generation - book - Laurence King Publishers - UK
2007: Present: percentage for art in the Netherlands, 2004-2006 - catalogue - Episode Publishers - NL
2006: Building Design Portfolio's - Sara Eisenman - book - Rockport Press - USA
2006: Experimenta 54 - magazine - ES
2006: Geborduurd - catalogue - Nederlands Textiel Museum - NL
2006: Look at this, contemporary brochures, catalogues & documents - Adrian Shaugnessy - catalogue - Laurence King Publishers - UK
2006, Nov: MetropolisM - magazine - NL
2005: De Best Verzorgde Boeken - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - catalogue - NL
2005, March: Design 369 - Dutch Graphic Design takes over - magazine - KR
2005: GreyTones - Volle Kracht - catalogue - NL
2005: Nachtpodium, VPRO television, interview - NL
2005: Quarantine Series - Nina Folkersma / Luna Maurer - catalogue - NL
2005: Step Inside Design - Design from the inside out - magazine - USA
2005: Type Specific - Designing custom fonts for function and identity - Charlotte Rivers - book - Rotovision - USA
2005: VPRO's Nachtpodium, television show, see item here.
2005: Yearbook Dutch Design 05 - catalogue - NL
2004: Creatie - magazine - NL
2004: Mark, Municipal Art Acquisitions 2003-2004 - catalogue - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - NL
2003: Items - eindexamen selectie - magazine - Bis Publishers -NL

Extra
- 2009, January: founded Home Gallery Schrank8
- 2005-2006: Received a Start Stipendium in 2005-2006 from Fonds BKVB

Work in the collection of
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
- Museum De Paviljoens, Amsterdam (NL)
- Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
- Graphic Design Museum, Breda (NL)

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Hansje van Halem, Hansje van Haalem, Hansje van Haarlem, Hansje van Haarlen, Hansje van Halen, Hansje van Haalen, Hansje van Hamel, Hansje van Baren, Hansje van Haren, Ansje van Halem, Fransje van Balen, Hansje van Walem, Hansjie van Halem, Hansje van Keulen, Hansey van Halem, Hanje van Halem, Hantse van Halem, Hansje van Haelen, Ms. van Harem