Uit de schaduw - Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen

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

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

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

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

Tangible Traces - catalogue

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