Together with Jonmar van Vlijmen.

After three years of weekly mayhem, Katapult was arriving at its’ end. To make sure our beloved clubnight would end with a bang, I decided to put in some extra love by silkscreening the last posters. Keeping the style of the previous artworks —only adjusting the lay-out for the silkscreen technique— the special edition series was born. Misprints were used to cut out text and create digital flyers for online weekly promotion.

Bye bye Katapult…

silkscreen on paper
various inks (including metalic gold, opaque white and fluorescents)
differing paper types
limited editions, hand numbered

collaboration with Jasmijn Visser

The installation consists of five, short stop-motion movies that run simultaneously. They are shown on small screens next to one another, and work together as a five-screen splitscreen.

The character in the movie, an anonymous dictator, travels through different iconic locations in Amsterdam and Moscow. He repeats formal routines, which slowly devolve and become more and more informal and cheerful, building towards a extatic climax. The video loops to create a constant transition between grandeur and decay, rise and fall. The character is trapped in this tragic pattern. The clumsiness of the stop-motion and the iconic backgrounds emphasize the slapstick, theatrical feel of the work.

We developed this work in both Amsterdam and Moscow, as a special addition to Jasmijns’ participation in VoTH, a Dutch-Russian cultural exchange project. The installation was shown at the Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch.

Together with photographer Tjebbe Venema.

offset printed flyers and posters
flyers on uncoated recycled paper
sticker: silkscreened gold and black on transparent vinyl

Thanks everybody who attended for a very nice opening!!

[Bread and Games]

Contribution for a contest of the Dutch

newspaper ‘NRC’.

The contest asked for a spread-filling short graphic novel. I was curious to see if –without text and constructed so it could be read in different ways– a cohesive story could be told. The basic story loops a anonymous man’s daily life. Other story elements mirror eachother and form sub-narratives that address bigger social issues.

The narrative is inspired by a German bakery’s unique bread making procedure. As with most supermarket-based bakeries, it’s common practice to have a large variety of freshly-baked breads until the last minute before the shop closes. This results in many loaves not being sold, which go to waste at each day’s end. Bakeries have different ways of getting rid of this waste, but a ‘sustainable’ procedure was developed by this German bakery: using old bread to feed the flames of ovens, which bake new bread…

 
De Tribune is situated on the balcony inside an active, daily church. Contemporary artists are invited to react to the church’s practice. At the same time, the church influences the way in which the art is perceived. As a result, De Tribune provides equal grounds where non-religious art and Christian culture meet, interact and discuss.

The logo reflects the concept behind De Tribune, which consists of three elements: the art, the space and Christian religious culture. Also, the logo refers to the special brick patterns the church is famous for.

photography by:

Desiré van der Berg

and the Fotomeisjes

for the club night Vedetta

at Westerunie Amsterdam.

For the new WKND series, I was asked to develop a cheerful and friendly image, with the DJ line-up taking center stage in the promotion. The design took an oldschool approach, featuring my own hand-writing.
hand written logo, line-up and graphics

offset printed posters and flyers
offset printed tickets with fluorescent ink and spot colors on uncoated paper

sticker: fluor / blue ink on white vinyl

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Western popular culture flirted exuberantly with the aesthetics of old ideologies, rebels and revolutionaries. Nerds, punks and hippies: groups considered rebellious against society were recycled into one eclectic reference to the underground–yet without any clear sign of deeper meaning. Nevertheless, the aesthetics of rebellion are still incredibly appealing.

concept, editing and design
with contributions of Jasmijn Visser, Joost Vandebrug, Krimo Benlaloua, Idan Shilon, Maarten Steenhagen and myself

offset printed at Drukkerij Slinger
partly full color / partly black and purple spot color
differing paper types, gold foil on cover
folded and stapled

This series was developped evolving around the same subject as the Anticult publication. It consists out of four big drawings. Since the’re really hard to photograph, for now just some sketches and a part of one final drawing…

Soon more!

 
During the renewal of Stedelijk Museum’s building, they were not able to publicly showcase their collection. As an alternative, they asked different artists and designers to think of ways to exhibit their most iconic pieces in public spaces. Of course the original pieces could not be exhibited, so participants interpreted them in new ways by experimenting with mimicry and appropriation.

 
For my work I used reproductions of the work ‘Kolobrzeg, Poland 26 July 26th (1992)’ by Rineke Dijsktra, found in magazines, newspapers, books and on the internet. The reproductions were not edited; their original sizes were depicted. By putting them next to each other it became visible how much the sizes, colors and quality of the prints differed. Sometimes the reproductions showed the original mirrored or partly cut off. All of a sudden the absence of the original becomes painfully clear.

screen printed black and blue ink

300 grams uncoated paper

100 cm x 140 cm

Here we shot half of the scenes for our video installation ‘Dictator Practice’.

We had a wonderfull Russian professor to show us around, ate amazing food and saw the most interesting collection of plants in the Tretyakov State Gallery (which was by far the best ‘work’ although unintended)…

And YES, it was cold.

The second series’ design is defined by Katapult’s emerging music and atmosphere. Newbee DJs found their way into the club-world through the Katapult mixtables, and with the addition of bands to the line-up it felt like a rock‘n’roll homebase for the music and fashion minded crowd. The new and unusual square format for the flyer formed a visual reference to vintage record covers, which suited the developped atmosphere very well.

 
off set printed flyers and posters
flyers on uncoated paper

Together with Matthias Schreiber I am designing the poster for the final exam exhibition of the Sandberg Institute called ‘Utopian Grids’.

In Maria Causa Salutis, Pavèl van Houten retells the biblical story of Maria by combining Biblical quotes, everyday texts from blogs, as well as self-written texts and poetry. Together, we developed an editorial framework for the texts. By ignoring the different ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultural sources, the texts were designed according to the narrative’s sequential plot. The size and aesthetics of the book are inspired by pocket-size Bibles.

offset printed black and white at Robstolk
folded and stitched, softcover

 
The black and white image on the poster is a photograph from a hand-made paper installation.

poster A2, folded into an invitation at A5
offset printed at Robstolk
black and Pantone fluor
on uncoated white paper

The clubnight started as the follow-up of Studio 80′s infamous Wednesday-night Fucking Pop Queers. The crowd stayed the same, with a core of open-minded and fashion-oriented artistic youngsters and models. Super heroes from old comic books and the loose and enthousiastic DIY feeling of old punk flyers were my inspiration for the designs. Since the crowd played such a big part in defining the atmosphere and making the party into a succesfull night, the designs were often based on pictures shot from the public.

off set printed flyers and copyshop printed posters

uncoated paper

sticker: silkscreen on silver vinyl