Wolterinck

Wolterinck is a high-end design agency in the fields of architecture, interior, styling, art, gardens and products. Total concepts and a lot of attention for the relationship between inside and outside make Wolterinck unique in its kind.

Wolterinck asked for a complete restyling of their branding, including a design for a remarkable coffee table book. Their high quality and the use of natural materials were the starting point for our design in order to connect seamlessly with the extraordinary Wolterinck style.

Scenic Biotech

Scenic Biotech are pioneers in identifying genetic modifiers, which are genes that suppress or completely block the effect of a pathogenic mutated gene. They have now been able to map this for more than a dozen hereditary diseases, bringing the treatment of these diseases one step closer.

Scenic Biotech is a company with a creative pioneer mentality and the branding fits in seamlessly with this. The branding system we have devised is extremely flexible and colourful in approach. Inspired by the quest for genetic modifiers, we zoom in on the Scenic Biotech logo. This results in playful shapes with endless possibilities.

Forty

Forty supports companies by creating a culture where employees have a real sense of belonging. Where they excel at what they do, and where they positively impact the business and community they are a part of.

The name Forty comes from the song ’40’ by the band U2. It refers to psalm 40, ‘I will sing, sing a new song’. With a new name, of course, there had to be a catchy identity that clearly shows that Forty is there especially for you.

Graphic Matters 2

Graphic Matters is a biennial graphic design festival in Breda that shows how designers can shape and influence people’s perspective on current issues.

The 2019 theme was Information Superpower. From visual statistics to interactive data visualization; designers use their super powers to make the world transparent. Automatically generated graphs and bar charts are no longer sufficient. Designers, together with programmers, journalists and researchers, develop new ways of imagining complex situations, mountains of data and complicated systems.

Photography by: Edwin Wiekens/ Rosa Meininger / Almichael Fraay

Wolterinck – Designing Your World

The latest inspirational book from Wolterinck (Publisher Terra). A classy edition suit to fit your coffee table, with no less than 352 pages full of amazing photos of their most stunning projects – from the interior design of an exclusive yacht to the styling of a villa in Greece and from the latest products designed by Wolterinck to the layout and planting of impressive gardens. Including a separate booklet (40 pages) with in-depth texts about the disciplines in which Wolterinck works, supplemented with before and after photos, maps and design drawings.

Fotografie: Peter Baas en Marco Peters.

Contagious!

Contagious! in Rijksmuseum Boerhaave shows an intriguing balance between health and real risk and between social exclusion and empathy. How did we deal with epidemics such as plague and smallpox in the past? What insights do historical epidemics offer for the present and the future?

This exhibit was designed before the Corona outbreak. In the original design, the common thread was the outbreak of an as yet unknown disease X and you were guided through the exhibition on the basis of this disease. Unfortunately, this was overtaken by reality and a lot had to be adjusted to content and design last minute. Visual language that we deliberately used before the pandemic has been given a completely different context during the duration of the exhibition.

VPRO Annual Review

The theme of this VPRO annual review 2019 is Future Builders. Shaping and wanting to help build the future is a fixed value in the stories and programs of the VPRO. During the Dutch Design Week, VPRO already collected future questions from the public. Questions that VPRO should work with, whether for research or otherwise. It yielded them many hundreds of responses, written on large colored cards.

These cards were the inspiration for the design of the annual overview. Not a bound book, but a stubborn box with loose cards. With a bit of a nod to the old-fashioned videotape. The first card is a blank card for members to send their own future question to the VPRO.

Laboratory Rembrandt

In the exhibition Laboratory Rembrandt; Rembrandt’s technique unraveled, visitors step into the shoes of the scientists. Think about the dilemmas of researchers and conservators. All this in the place where Rembrandt created his artworks almost 400 years ago at the Rembrandt House museum.

Rembrandt’s former studio was specially transformed into a laboratory-like setting, in which the new insights and secrets of the master are revealed step by step. The Rembrandt Laboratory is not an exhibition where you just look, it is an exhibition where you really have to work! This exhibition is for everyone, young visitors from the age of 6 receive a special clipboard with a research kit. On the basis of questions and assignments you will investigate the exhibition yourself.

Additional photos by Billie-Jo Krul

The Ghosts of Sunday Morning

Design Museum Den Bosch together with guest curator Glenn Adamson are paying tribute to the expert advisers at the European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC, now known as Sundaymorning@ekwc) with the exhibition The Ghosts of Sunday Morning. For fifty years now, the EKWC has brought together knowledge, design and imagination in the field of ceramics. Thirty key works from the EKWC’s history have been reinterpreted and executed in white clay, creating an exceptionally beautiful and ghostly spectacle, in which past and present overlap.

The ghostly white pieces are displayed on perspex stands filled with slowly moving clouds of smoke. As visitors move around the exhibition, the stands slowly light up, and the experience is completed by an enigmatic soundscape formed by the delicately tinkling sound of clay cooling down after firing in the kiln.

Seriously Funny

Sharp, groundbreaking or lighthearted? What are you allowed to joke about in satire? Where is the limit of the joke? In the exhibition Seriously Funny at the Institute of Sound and Vision, you will discover how satire makes you laugh, while exposing serious subjects, and why satire is so important.

Satire also gives a bit of friction. And Seriously Funny does not only gives friction figuratively but also literally because the walls are made of sandpaper. Through interactive elements and viewing fragments, objects and cartoons, the visitor discovers where his own satire boundaries lie. There are stools that turn out to be weighing scales, video screens that require you to put your head in a trash can, you can record your own satirical speech from the throne, test how quickly you are stepped on your toes, what your aftertaste is on this exhibition and your neatly completed visitor survey immediately get passed through the shredder. Let’s see what your sense of humor is about 😉

Additional photos by Jorrit Lousberg