Type design

BIGWRLD (UK)

Web design & development for bigwrld, a creative communications agency that specialises in printed press, digital and radio promotion for musical artists. I was asked to develop a miniature identity + create a digital presence for the agency. The website of bigwrld branches out to individual social media of the artist roster represented by bigwrld - a name that inspires a large part of the design decisions.

Web design / development, identity

Logo: Stefan Stefansson

bigwrld.co

Perzia Malayeri (NL)

Branding for Perzia, a fashion brand from Perzia Malayeri that breathes its Iranian heritage into leather. The idiosyncrasies of the creator's own handwriting were the basis for the treatment of lettering into a wordmark to instill the personal approach she takes to crafting the products. The design is used for imprinting on her handcrafted products, for digital marketing and as part of collaterals.

Lettering, wordmark

Script and direction: Donnya Zidan
Art direction: Perzia Malayeri
Photography: Perzia

perzia.nl

Estonian Public Broadcasting (EE)

Visual dentity, screen graphics, studio concept, infographics for full HD LED + tablet app design for controlling the graphics on the screens, made for the 2014 European Parliament elections live broadcast by Estonian national TV station ETV

Visual identity, motion graphics, environment, infographics, interface, interaction

With:
Erik Heinpalu
Henno Luts
Uku-Kristjan Küttis

2014 GOLD, Environment Design, Estonian Design Awards
2014 BRONZE, Screen Graphics, Estonian Design Awards
2014 SILVER, Design, BalticBest 2014

Fatype (CH)

Responding to a desktop-first brief, the redesign and web development for a Swiss type foundry, specializing in retail and tailored type design, took inspiration from its modernist catalogue. The redesign comprised of conceptual re-evalutation of the approach toward the font library, content creation, typography, web design and web development. A coherent editorial typographic language across all families was introduced. Each typeface is displayed based on its characteristics and metrics while maintaining a unified visual narrative. The redesign was executed within the technical limitations of an existing legacy content management system and the CMS itself redesigned in part as a component of the overall project. This to accomodate the requirements of management of the catalogue and to mirror the needs of new front-end features. New icon families, responsive layouts, OpenType type testers and a bespoke menu were designed and developed in addition.

Editorial, typography, web design / development, (CMS) interface redesign

With:
Yassin Baggar
Anton Koovit

fatype.com

ARCHIS (NL)

Trust in the Blockchain Society is a smartphone documentary that brings together a diverse group of perspectives from design, cryptography, economy and more, to shed a light upon the future of the blockchain society. Taking advantage of the interactive capabilities of smartphones, the documentary invites you at the centre of the current debate around blockchain making you experience the conversation at your own pace. Every time a new technology is announced one question arises: can we trust it? The topic of trust hardly makes the headlines, but our interpersonal relations depend on it as much as trade deals among countries. And when one factor lays at the foundation of both civilization and economy, there are few doubts: trust is the currency of our times. So, when blockchain made its appearance with the claim of being trust-less we could not help but wonder: how is this going to change the shape of trust? Trust in the Blockchain Society is a documentary about how we trust technologies, and how these technologies shape the way we trust each other. Through the voices and insights of a diverse group of experts, Trust in the Blockchain Society explores the many ways in which blockchain is changing how we organize information, how we build consensus, and ultimately how we design the future of our social institutions.
We call it smartphone documentary because every interaction has been designed from the smartphone up.
When people experience content through a mobile device, the information they retain is very different from other media: they do learn faster, but as long as the experience is absolutely seamless. Every second of lag, every unnecessary interruption may cause attention to drop and jeopardize the understanding. This is why we crafted the experience around two pivotal aspects: making the topic accessible, and the specific experience of content on a smartphone.
The interface uses familiar interactions – scrolling and tilting – now combined together to enhance comprehension. The intuitive interaction with your device becomes an elegant transition between reading and watching, a seamless flow of information creating a tailored rhythm in the person’s hand: whether the linear narrative we curated, or the non-linear storylines that users can create for themselves.
Translating a highly abstract topic into a compelling story, our goal is to bring the viewer to the centre of the conversation, to discuss the present and future of this Revolutionary technology.

Art direction / design

Directors:
Leonardo Dellanoce
Francesco Deglinnocenti
Producers:
Lilet Breddels
Bruno Felix
Femke Wolting
Creative Producer:
Remco Vlaanderen
Web Developer:
Jon Dujaka
Video editor:
Stefan Pavlovic
Camera:
Jaspen van Doeselaar
Sound:
Dario Giustarini
Jaap Willen Sijben
Kamilla Wojcik
Production:
Jael Ragowan
Production assistant:
Nola van der Weduwe
Marketing:
Yassin Karmoudi
Laura Urbonaviciute
Copy editor
Zachary Sweeney-Lynch

Website
Vimeo

Graphic Magazine

Publisher: Propaganda (Seoul, KR)
300 pages
23 × 30 cm
softcover

Editorial design
Photography
Writing
Typography

In collaboration with Manon Bachelier(FR), Robin Brass(DE)

GRA, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)

In January, February, and March 2018, through talks, performances, film screenings, reading groups, discussions, an exhibition of student works, and a conference-festival at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie and Rietveld Uncut collaborated on an extensive, artistic research trajectory. Studium Generale and Rietveld Uncut 2018 focus was on touch in artistic, philosophical, and political terms to conceive how the haptic – relating to or based on touch – is thought and experienced in life, art and design, and theory. For this series of events, my team created an extensive campaign consisting of video animations, vinyl messaging, supporting website, lexicon, signage and printed program. The design of the custom furniture for the guest speakers followed the visual guidelines of the identity. The mobile website featured a scroll-less design, the information was navigable through changing the position of the body of the person holding the device. The unique art direction informed the simplicity of the visual language, unburdening the viewer from complex typography in favor of introducing a digital surface that left no other option than for the viewer to navigate the site by completely novel gestures.

Art direction, identity, web design and development, print, motion, interface

With:
David Bennewith
Zuzana Kostelanska
Laslo Strong

Website
Trailer "Digital Dust"
Conference ident

La Fam Amsterdam (NL)

Direction and product animations for La Fam Amsterdam, a streetwear and lifestyle apparel brand with a bold voice and a sharp rise. For this project, La Fam collaborated with Tears on a necklace/chain. I modelled it and took it for a virtual out-of-town trip to the countryside where it could twirl and present itself without having to feel too self-conscious, leaving behind the urban social pressures.

Art direction, 3D modelling, moving image

lafamamsterdam.com
tears.rip

Self initiated

Type design

Lyubov Matyunina (RU)

PostMetaNeoMythology is a project of L. Matyunina, a Netherlands-based visual artist. The web design compresses her audiovisual material, composed of found footage and video interviews. TikTok fairytales, neo-folk and online mythologies create a parallel timeline and get reshuffled on the website. Since fairytales are often associated with forests, the first images returned from a Google search for the keyword “forest” were used as links leading into the video chapters. Navigation through the site takes place along the Z-axis, moving the viewer deeper into a digital forest structured as an infinite scroll of links.

Digital, web

Supported by:
AFK
Mondriaan Fonds

De Reünie (NL)

De Reünie (en: The Reunion) is a label run by CYBERSEX, a dutch electronic music group. De Reünie debuted above the underground landscapes of Amsterdam only recently but quickly made a name for itself through events at Radion, a well-known venue in the heart of Amsterdam.
The new event series that considers itself a platform for expression for it´s residents and the community has enjoyed success in bringing together some of the new sounds from the Dutch techno scene.
This project utilises bespoke letterforms that articulate a subjective form of the ´other-worldly´ in motion and digital posters.

Motion, type design

Self initiated

Type design

Fatype (CH)

Digital, motion

Julia van Mourik

Lost & Found Rituals was one edition of an event series that uses the artist's process as a curatorial model. Contemporary artistic practices merge found and stray content into events in the Waag.
Rituals edition was part of the 2019 programme, which aimed at looking for realities by using the Dionysian as a counterforce to the computative & calculable. I was commissioned a design for an invitation and a leader. Aside from the content, the brief included that the invitation must fit in an A6 envelope. The decision to design a poster instead of something more dimensions-appropriate for a small envelope, fittingly conveyed the personality of Dionysos, the Greek god of irrationality. The empty frontside and the abstract backside that folded out from the envelope, presented the whereabouts and details of the event. Coupled with a see-through 90gsm paper, they referenced the name of the event series.

A3 folded to A6, print by Robstolk
2880x1920px

Graphic design, printed matter

Self initiated

Type design

De Reünie (NL)

Merchandise

Fatype (CH)

Writing, typesetting and motion design for the release of Make Way, a contemporary serif typeface by Fatype. I wrote and developed harmonious word-shapes and a visual sequencing that help express the abilities of the typeface in its full extent, across the whole family, in all 6 styles. The design can be seen in context used on the dedicated family page at fatype.com

Writing, typesetting, graphic design, motion

fatype.com/make

Fatype (CH)

Digital poster featuring States Grotesk for Slanted Magazine. The typeface is a quintessential grotesque with a few surprises under its hood, released in two versions: States Grotesque and States Rounded. A selection of alternates turns the imperfection of physical printing into standout features, while celebrating grotesque eccentricities that undeservedly ended up in the dustbin of history. For the design, a somewhat rustic printing method was chosen - a low dpi black and white Hewlett Packard homeoffice printer that rhymes well with States Grotesk's design features. Layers of common issues found in metal casting coupled with notes from diaries of typesetters of the time that inspires the typeface were overprinted, composing the content of the poster. The released typeface is called "...Grotesque" instead of "...Grotesk", a working title shift which, if intentional, would be undoubtedly a conceptual bullseye.

Printed matter, digital, typography

ISOTOOP

Study
Projection mapping

De Reünie (NL)

De Reünie (en: The Reunion) is a rave society primarily run by CYBERSEX, a dutch electronic music group. De Reünie debuted above the post-industrial underground landscapes of Amsterdam only recently but quickly made a name for itself.
The new event series that considers itself a platform for expression for it´s residents and the community has enjoyed success in bringing together some of the new sounds from the Dutch techno scene, some of who often prefer the vivace spectrum (156-176 BPM) as a distinguishing factor.
The organizers wanted to create a stream of revenue that would support their activities and decided to produce merchandize. I started by setting the boundaries of the assignment, such as clarifying the formal requirements as well as articulating the wider purpose of the brand – the intention of the space to function as a ground for identity formation. As the amount of design objects was unspecified, only the edition, the initial sketches were distilled into a dialogue of two concepts. The first idea was the bespoke letterforms that articulate a subjective form of the ´otherworldly´ in order to provoke an ambience of the imaginary and to visually distinguish the brand [DR Apparel 1] The second design was crafted from the material found from the history of dance notation. "THE UNION" (a fitting selection for "THE REUNION") – a 1707 English ballroom choreography by Isaac Asimov, was deconstructed and reassembled to form the fictional "new dance".

Merchandise, graphic design

Fatype (CH)

Digital, motion

Self initiated

Type design

Erik Blits Architect (NL)

Web design and development for the dutch architect and interior designer Erik Blits. Erik creates private and public spaces, including interiors and furniture.

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Web design, web development

Cathy Vivies (FR)

Identity

Fatype (CH)

Motion

ISOTOOP (NL)

Stage design

Coen de Haan
Production: Rabaa Rahmoudi
Photography: Angelina Nikolayeva

Self initiated

Type design

Fatype (CH)

Pia Hinz (DE)

Borrowing from the aesthetic of Pia Hinz, a german-born artist living and working in France and Netherlands, the website leaves an unpolished feeling. Disappeared margins, ubiquitous placeholder typography paired with stacking images on top of text mirrors her temporal, layered language of material.

Web design , web development

http://piahinz.com/

De Reünie (NL)

De Reünie (en: The Reunion) is a rave society primarily run by CYBERSEX, a dutch electronic music group. De Reünie debuted above the post-industrial underground landscapes of Amsterdam only recently but quickly made a name for itself.
The new event series that considers itself a platform for expression for it´s residents and the community has enjoyed success in bringing together some of the current sound from the Dutch techno scene, some of who often prefer the vivace spectrum (156-176 BPM) as a distinguishing sound.
The organizers wanted to create a stream of revenue that would support their activities and decided to produce merchandize. I started by setting the boundaries of the assignment, such as clarifying the formal requirements as well as articulating the wider purpose of the brand – the intention of the space to function as a ground for identity formation. As the amount of design objects was unspecified, only the edition, the initial sketches were distilled into a dialogue of two concepts. The first idea was the bespoke letterforms that articulate a subjective form of the ´otherworldly´ in order to provoke an ambience of the imaginary and to visually distinguish the brand. The second design was crafted from the material found from the history of dance notation. "THE UNION" (a fitting selection for "THE REUNION") – a 1707 English ballroom choreography by Isaac Asimov, was deconstructed and reassembled to form the fictional "new dance" [DR Apparel 2]

Merchandise, type design

Self initiated

Type design

Self initiated

Type design

Fatype (CH)

Typography

GRA, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)

Exhibition design made for the group exhibition of the graphic design department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. “Always in Risk Yet Never in Danger” at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam showed a wide variety of works from over 70 students. Deriving from the opposing feelings of struggle and surprise during the course of the studies, a structure was designed and built, combining negative and positive spaces.

Conceptual development, exhibition design, spatial design

Group project
Made in collaboration with the graphic design department of the GRA

www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions...

Fatype (CH)

Social media campaign assets designed for the release of Make Way, a serif typeface from Fatype type foundry.

Digital, motion

fatype.com/typefaces/make

Self initiated

Type design

Fatype (CH)

Graphic design

Cathy Dupeyrat Vivies (FR)

Having graduated from the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles in 2010, garden designer, Cathy Dupeyrat-Vivies took home the top prize at the 2011 Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival. Her entry, 'l'Envers du décor' ('Behind the Scenes'), which was inspired by Gustave Courbet's 'l'Origine du Monde' ('The Origin of the World'), had a precautionary message. The mid-19th century painting is a warning against our impulsion when faced with temptation and that which we risk if our cravings are not tempered by our conscience. She was also awarded with an honourable mention by the 'Victoires du Paysage' 2016 jury for her 'Hanging Garden', commissioned by AXA. Cathy is passionate about urban vegetalisation and is always finding new ways and concepts to incorporate vegetation into cities with limited ground space and whose inhabitants are increasingly busy. She specialises in the development of new techniques, allowing her to breath new life into disused spaces by suspending ambitious plant structures and harmoniously vegetalising the most austere of places, working in close collaboration with architects, landscape companies and consulting engineers responsible for ambitious renovation projects. In partnership with architectural firms working on urban renewal or construction projects as well as office block regeneration, Cathy creates gardens for corporate entities. MT Grotesque was chosen as the primary voice for presenting all the plant life found in each individual project of Cathy.

Web design, web development, identity

www.cathydupeyratvivies.com

GRA (NL)

144 pages
9 x 15 cm
Softcover
Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam)

Writing

Written and compiled at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, this pocket-size book comprises an alternative graphic design lexicon of offhand witticisms, twists on technical jargon, and humorously accurate (mis)appropriations. Taking references from insider lingo, pop culture, and formal parlance, an amusing, informative, and surprisingly sharp take on how we “talk about” graphic design is created. The book is the outcome of an assignment by Phil Baber, a book designer, editor, and writer who teaches graphic design at the school. Published by Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam).

Self initiated

Printed matter, editorial

Self initiated

Type design