Graphic design, etc.: below
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— Teaching
— Reading
— Are We Gonna
— Performances/talks 2011
— Jan de Groot schildert
— Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere
— I’m sayin’
— THE PAIN
— Motto Brooklyn
— Girls in pink stetsons, Boys in dream westerns
— I’m not on fire
— Glory
— Never Apologise Never Explain
— Drinnen & Draussen
— Performances/talks 2010
— Perdu
— Still Ill
— Henk Metselaar
— Distributing Zack Sternwalker
— 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
It was my privilege to design a birth announcement for Noam Mateo van den Dorpel.
Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
What Was the Hipster? by n+1
Halt! What’s that? Lies reign like rain
Train child soldiers, we’re all just stardust
The third single by Paul Haworth and myself. Listen here.
Photo by Harsh Patel, Kreuzberg 2010.
Siôn Parkinson & Sam de Groot Are Mighty Engines (music with Siôn Parkinson, M4gastatelier, Amsterdam, 20 December)
Designers Are From Venus, Editors Are From Mars (talk with Binna Choi and Axel Wieder, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, 20 October)
Let My Heart Repeat Without End (music with Paul Haworth and Kasia Fudakowski, as part of a book launch for Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere, Motto Berlin, 2 April)
Night Before Valentine (music with Paul Haworth, as part of a book launch for Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere, De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam, 13 February)
The Pain (installation/music with Paul Haworth, as part of the group show If It’s Part Broke, Half Fix It, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania, 28 January)
We Made It (music with Paul Haworth, as part of the band night Soirée Poirée #7, Pakhuis Wilhelmina, Amsterdam, 22 January)
Website for my father’s paintings.
Paul Haworth’s great new novel (the sequel to Silk Handkerchiefs). Get it at TRUE TRUE TRUE.
Installation and performance with Paul Haworth, as part of the group show If It’s Part Broke, Half Fix It (Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania, 28 Jan till 13 Mar 2011), curated by Margit Säde Lehni.
Promotional material for Motto’s temporary bookstore in a rapidly gentrifying part of Downtown Brooklyn. Images and text were appropriated from the website promoting the newly built building in which the storefront is located.
Screenprint with Paul Haworth. 84 × 59 cm, matt black and gloss black ink, numbered/signed edition of 35, €50. if you want one.
Design of a little book with writing by visual artist Carsten Tabel, published by Lubok Verlag as part of Carsten’s show The difference between you and me is that I’m not on fire. The cover type is foil-blocked on Elephantenhaut.
Picture the earth from the distance as a big ball
Little lives, big love, little hurt, big fall
Paul Haworth raps, I make beats. Check it out.
Not the last!
Postcard for the Unter dem Motto 2010 postcard set. With Paul Haworth.
Catalogue for the group show Drinnen & Draussen at Chert, Berlin. Printed in Nina Reisinger’s living room on the hottest day of the year.
The Great Intoxication: Fourteen Easy Pieces (lecture at the Basel School of Design, 22 December)
TooToo MucMuhch ToTooo LiLtitttlele TToooo LLaattee (micro-DJ’ing at The Mushroom Collection closing party, A’dam, 18 December)
The J&L + TRUE TRUE TRUE Variety Show (videos and music with Jason Fulford and Paul Haworth, at PrintRoom, Rotterdam, 10 December)
Sexual Healing (music with Paul Haworth as part of Maybe I Was a Pilot at W139, A’dam, 27 November)
The Last of the Great Romantics (songs and monologues with Paul Haworth at Unter dem Motto 2010 at Motto Berlin, 4 September)
Making Life is Making Trouble (song with Paul Haworth at I’ve Never Done This Before Pt. 4 at Delicatessen, A’dam, 4 June)
Like a Vat That’s Overflowing: Six Easy Pieces (finissage of Motto Stuttgart at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 27 April)
Trust Me, Men Do Get Weary (at I’ve Never Done This Before Pt. 3 at Delicatessen, A’dam, 23 April)
STIIIIIILL IIIIIILL (as part of The Happy Children Nuancing Down the Hall at Residence Botkyrka, Stockholm, 13/14 March)
When Sam Met Samantha (stand-up comedy at I’ve Never Done This Before Pt. 2 at Delicatessen, A’dam, 26 February)
I Don’t Want to Find a Cure: Ten Easy Pieces (opening of Motto Mitte at Artnews Projects, Berlin, 9 February)
De Fraktie, monthly programme for Amsterdam literary center Perdu. Loose leaves held together by one staple, a different format each month.
Three postcards. The color one is published by Sister. You can get that one there, and you can get the other two .
Website for painter Henk Metselaar, made with Thijs Gadiot.
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
Card and website for a year-long domestic project by Casco (Utrecht, NL).
The Fetish and the Hero: Eight Easy Pieces (at the 2. Zürcher Zine Sezession, Zürich, 13 December)
An Evening with Paul Haworth & Sam de Groot: How to Paint & How to Dress (Delicatessen, A’dam, 29 October)
How to Brew Ginger Beer in Your Very Own Kitchen (Pop-Up Café, A’dam, 25 June)
How to Become a Publisher (followed by How to Become a Distributor by Alexis Zavialoff; W139, A’dam, 19 May)
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.
