Graphic design, etc.: below
Publishing: TRUE TRUE TRUE
Wibautstraat 150-1 unit 48
1091 GR Amsterdam, NL
— Distributing Zack Sternwalker
— Perdu
— The Grand Domestic Revolution
— Talks/performances 2009
— Silk Handkerchiefs
— The Power of Listening
— Extended Caption (DDDG)
— Andy de Fiets: Letter to Robin Kinross
— Nescio in English
— 20.15 hrs & 21.15 hrs
— When the Cathedrals Were White
— Show Me What
— XFF
— de Veemvloer
— Academiegalerie
— BUTTONS
— Blue Velvet
— Der Lauf der Prims
— La forma del futuro
— SPRING IS PRESENT or VICTORY OF THE SUN
— Unsolicited Advice
I Don’t Want to Find a Cure: Ten Easy Pieces (opening of Motto Mitte at Artnews Projects, Berlin, 9 February)
When Sam Met Samantha (stand-up comedy at I’ve Never Done This Before Pt. 2 at Delicatessen, A’dam, 26 February)
That’s right, distributing! Zack’s books are funny and profound and I’ll do my best to spread them throughout Europe. BUY BUY BUY
De Fraktie, monthly programme for Amsterdam literary center Perdu. Loose leaves held together by one staple, a different format each month.
Card and website for a year-long domestic project by Casco (Utrecht, NL).
How to Become a Publisher (followed by How to Become a Distributor by Alexis Zavialoff; W139, A’dam, 19 May)
How to Brew Ginger Beer in Your Very Own Kitchen (Pop-Up Café, A’dam, 25 June)
An Evening with Paul Haworth & Sam de Groot: How to Paint & How to Dress (Delicatessen, A’dam, 29 October)
The Fetish and the Hero: Eight Easy Pieces (at the 2. Zürcher Zine Sezession, Zürich, 13 December)
I became a big fan of this book when I read the first drafts a few years ago. Like all of Paul Haworth’s work, it storms head first into life’s inescapable anxieties and sorrow, offering consolation and insight through slapstick comedy and joyfully dense wordplay. A privilege to design and publish. The typeface on the cover is by Phil Baber. Buy the book from TRUE TRUE TRUE.
Poster announcing a theatre performance directed by Nicoline van Harskamp, as part of the work she produced for her shortlist nomination for the Prix de Rome 2009. (She won!)
Catalogue for an exhibition of the same name, displaying 43 objects that were once featured in Dot Dot Dot. The catalogue reproduces the 43 articles sparked by the objects, as extended captions to the exhibition. Published by Roma Publications, production/design with Roger Willems.
22-year-old Andy de Fiets, on the verge of graduating from his graphic design studies, writes to his hero: Hyphen Press publisher Robin Kinross. Andy offers unsolicited advice, seeks much-needed guidance, and shares his thoughts on matters such as typography, The Smiths, Islamic fundamentalism, proper clothing, the homeless, dust covers.
Andy spots every comma but misses every point. A delightful typographic comedy!
Written with Paul Haworth. See & buy at TRUE TRUE TRUE.
Sharing the Dutch writer Nescio (1882–1961) with those unable to read Dutch. First for an audience of one, then a handful, now a few hundred. Translations mostly done together with Ian Adams. See Little Titans and And yet, and yet... at TRUE TRUE TRUE.
As part of her project Any Other Business, about verbal political interaction in the Netherlands, Nicoline van Harskamp asked three debate moderators to discuss their practice. In an attempt to find out to which extent moderators can control a debate, immediately after they were asked to repeat the discussion as closely as possible from memory.
This booklet compares the two discussions. The transcriptions were cut up, repasted and underlined. Bound into the journal Open as an artist’s contribution, and stapled with cover as a companion to a two-screen video installation. Dutch and English versions.
A weekly attempt at flawed sound. Broadcast on Radio Rietveld. Font: a digitization of Futura by Letrayón (Spain, 1970s?). Thanks for listening!
21 weekly film nights at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, organizized in collaboration with Radim Peško and ±51 others. Custom font.
Business card for my friend and then-classmate Xavier. Designed with sticker letters (Triunfo by Letrayón, Spain, 1970s?); printed in gold foil block on single-coated card.
Invites for this Amsterdam art space. Set in Prędko 1000, a custom font based on Polish traffic signage. Website made with Thijs Gadiot.
(Prędko was used by Roel Wouters for the credits of this very nice short film.)
Some of the invites (and three award certificates) for the gallery space of the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht that I made with Simon Burer and Thijs Gadiot.
For the Amsterdam screening of Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica documentary, my class at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie was invited by our teachers Experimental Jetset to make posters for our favorite movies, using only Helvetica. Also check out Alexander Shoukas’s.
Chain reactions in Second Life, made with Thijs Gadiot.
Trailer for the typeface Eurostile (Aldo Novarese, 1962).
Pamphlet to counter/complement/compliment Victory over the Sun, made out of fragments of other texts. Custom fonts.
