The Best Dutch Book Designs 2009

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

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

Old Stamps / New Stamps

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

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

Lakenhal - Book

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

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

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

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

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

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

Schrank8 - poster for Bart de Baets

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

Phantom City - a photo novel - Kim Bouvy

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