Sketch-up publication and tourist guide, going deeper into the Vegas-fication of Detroit. Accentuating the details of the neo-classicist buildings in the city.

All the cards in the deck.

All the cards in the memory game contain some duality. It is up to the players to find the right cards and connect the political situation to the country.

Final posters for the Destructive Character! What I did was as following: I printed out all the captions which were relevant, I taped of every word wasn't statisfying to my approach I than linked the words again to the resembling figures in the book. So the end result as a poster series about the "DC" book and the books I collected.

The box contains explanation leaflet and 20 cards/stamps.

Well, here they are, the Stamps of Conflict in a unique airmail box.

A1 size posters about the Destructive Character, these ones didn't pass the test but I like 'em anyways.

Another upcoming project: Grüssen aus Schmallenberg.

Learning from Detroit. An upcoming project, still in progress about the revaluation of the Motor City Detroit.

The unfolding of the Destructive Formation pamphlet reveals step by step more information, it also creates a distance between the here and there while doing that.

Spreads from the essay Graphic Dada Today, about the influence of Dadaism on contemporary typography.

Pamphlet about the first paragraph of Dick Raaijmakers's observation on the Destructive Character. The first paragraph talks about the Here and There of the destructive formation, so my pamphlet infolds into two seperate issues, one here and the other one there.

Stamps of Conflict

Stamp collectors know the world like nobody else knows it. You often hear, that in North Korea only Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un are depicted. Stamp collectors know better: North Korea circulated specimen with capitalist Princess Diana who died in a car accident. There are a few million collectors worldwide who purchase every North Korean Lady Di and in this way send hard currency in the direction of Pyongyang.

Stamps can therefore form an entrance to closed societies. That is a fact since the middle of the 20th century. Communist countries then threw series onto the market at high speed, because they needed hard currency. Record-holder is the Soviet Union with almost 7000 stamps and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea passed the amount of 6000.

At the moment the world is in crisis, the economy seems less stable than expected and western countries must watch their steps. In case of extremity the demand for hard currency seems to rise. Stamps are stable enough to bring some extra money in. Fortunately collectors search for unique stamps with an unusual character.

Such a unique stamp from which a collector can make a living, can give a country an new zeal. Unknown are stamps of countries which fall out with each other, with other words, countries with a disagreement or conflict. Therefore countries circulate these stamps in honour of their “enemies”. “Connoisseurs” among collectors purchase these stamps like wildfire. They have never seen such a peculiar stamp before.

Keeping these ludicrous facts in mind, we release the memory game “Stamps of Conflict”. This game is based upon the ambivalent relations between countries on an world wide scale. Imagine relations between the US and Afghanistan, but also political and economic dispute between Greece and Germany.

Players try to link these conflict situations and at the same time to decipher visual culture and symbols of these countries to collect pairs. The game’s challenge is recognizing “sworn” enemies, their motivation and learning to penetrate the recent geopolitical situation.

A is Arnhem is a typedesign started in 1st year, I made some minor changes on the glyphs and there are a little more than before. All this is silk-screen printed in a booming and flashing color.

The cover of the What If? Journal, central theme USPI Coëstate, Son that's where the Wall used to be.

Spreads from the book, the logo has the copyright and copyleft logo sealed together.

The journal is divided into two parts, the design follows this principle, so when reading you need to flip the book to continue with the other part of the story.

Spreads from the USPI journal, the United States of Palestine-Israel is a project where fiction and reality are mixed in a contemporary myth. The journal tells a (possible) story when these states in conflict finally unite. Uniting brings a lot of utopian dreams to reality but the out come is a dystopian totalitarian state. Parallel are side-stories about the increasing self-awareness of the inhabitans of this new country.

This GWulden, has a negative connotation because when the Gulden will be reinstated; the economy will feel the consequences. The flw 10,- bill has the theme the failing real eastate market and the flw. 25,- bill has the unemployment rates.

The Euro crisis reaches a point where the PVV and it's leader GW are suggesting to replace the Euro for the old Gulden. So my suggestion is that it will be renamed into GWulden after the initials of the PVV leader. The logo is a new "Florijn" sign with the w crossing it.

Proposal for the Unified Jerusalem Memorial, the star and triangle are the symbiotic shapes in this design.

The covers are based on proverbs, like "Where there's will there's a way". Instead it becomes "Where there's will there's a Kabel" etc. The typespecimen are based on the same proverbs but it becomes more like a rebus. The shapes used on the covers and in the specimen indicate what you can find back in the proverbs, like glitter is a asterisk.

Framework of the inside of the booklet with typespecimen, covers and articles on typography.

Upper & lowercase magazine was a magazine about typography by the ITC Foundry. Our assignment was to redesign the magazine and to fill it with other articles, I picked essays from the book Unjustified Texts by Robin Kinross.

The website I made had to do with the five senses. I explored my childhood because it was in the 90's and full of "gabber" scene like people. I was enormously fascinated by these people their way of living and the way they act. The website tells the story of five children who grew up in the 90's and affected by the gabber scene. I questioned how they were doing back than and how their situation is right now. It appers that they didn't come out of the 90's that well.

Some more close-ups of the expo scale model!

This video-poster is a fictional advertisement for the "Introdans" dance company in Arnhem. The play is about heaven, it's a part of their 40 year anniversary. I tried to describe what heaven is, according to me not them. For me it is mostly hidden and only small parts become visible in our lives (sometimes). So I worked with fabric that was set in motion by fans, than I projected typography and dancing people on that piece of fabric. In that way the typography gets only partly visible and the structure is ripped apart. Just like heaven!

The final folded newspaper.

One page filled in and the other blank. Later on the newspaper will be folded into a readable end product.

The final newspaper design is specifically made for the tables on the picture. The Daily User Generated Content newspaper is filled in by it's users/readers, they can react on the topics or on other reactions. But it is also possible to make your own topics, this way the newspaper gets really user generated.

My typographic toolkit derives inspiration from the architectural sketches of the Modulor Man by Le Corbusier. The basic forms of circles and squares are the principles to create the shapes of the glyphs. The quote used in the video says: "To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects." This modernist approach makes the system very flexible and multiple letterforms are possible.

Some photographs from the actual "in use" of my toolkit, quoting Le Corbusier.

So more sketches of the same newspaper where I took the HTML and CSS of various news websites to show the complexity and talks that took place at that certain moment.

Assignment: criticast the contemporary newspaper, on it's content/form etc. It is not meant to design a newspaper for the future (there is any) but rather a critical newspaper. So what I did was a reflection on the internet, user generated content, citizen journalism, the blogosphere etc.

Eventually the story is packed into a small booklet with on one page the photo/video stills and the other side the typography. Godard's typography is one of his signatures, in his title scenes.

The basic character set can be extended by the user, the only limit is your own imagination. Combine round shapes with square shapes and so on...

The TT v1.3 KH type specimen delivers various weights: bold & light with a round & square variations. But the possibilities are really uncountable with this grid.