Dutch coastline / Nederlandse Kustlijn

From an application to the Berlage Fonds in January 2011: "[Framing the coast.] Not a golden frame nor a Hema frame. The coast is a public space, it is mostly used as vacation melting pot in the summer time. Our common balcony at the country border, with the view on the open sea and nothing infront of us but the horizon. Evidence of our cultural point of views are buildings in the dunes and at the beach. How does the coast now actually look like. Google street view doesn’t deliver images from sea perspective. This documentation is as well interesting in times where the rising ocean level is known as an issue in the Netherlands." [...]

The photographic documentation of the complete Dutch coastline - seen from the sea - began in Spring 2011 as an unconventional graduation project. It is simple in its thought, monumental in its content and abstarct in its final form: a stack of individual postcards (166 x 125 mm). 60 of 370 km of the Dutch coastline are already currently recorded: The first boat trip between Bloemendaal and Wassenaar on Sunday the 3rd April is documented in 140 postcards. Second boat trip between Bloemendaal and Bergen aan Zee on Sunday the 10th April is documented in 87 postcards. Each photo is described with a serie number and correct location.

The production is digital print and self-published. The postcards are available for 2 Euros each. With thanks to Ruud Cloeck and Sanne van Pommeren of the Bloemendaal aan Zee rescue team.

Dutch coastline / Nederlandse Kustlijn

Dutch coastline / Nederlandse Kustlijn

Archive space during The Show.

Rietveld book binding workshop

We took on this project because we wanted to spread and unveil the possibilities of bookbinding that are available at the Rietveld. To show people from other departments what we at graphic design took for granted. By listing and explaining the small but important things you have to think about to get the desired result. And by making and documenting the different techniques available in blank and basic way to emphasizing the function, whereby techniques can be chosen which relate to the content. (Collaboration with Christofer Goertz)

Book design and poster „Short stories & no letters.“ by Sandra Walusimbi Nanteza.

This publication is an applied and collaborative graduation work between Sandra Walusimbi Nanteza (VAV department) and myself. It began with a collection of personal letters from Sandra to her closest relatives, dealing with the impressive clash of Ugandian and European mindsets. In unannounced performances, Sandra reads these letters to people she knows, and people she doesn‘t know. (The letters remain unpublished and can only be discovered through direct communication with Sandra.)

Following each reading, a short story is written concerning the qualities of the setting of the 12 letter readings. The shape of every story - all of the same length - is a folded sheet that also acts as a take-away at public readings. The collection of all stories comprises the publication. The inside of the book can be called content, as no extra pages were added. The covers, containing the background information, can be called the context.

The edition of 300 handmade books is self-published by Sandra.

The Amsterdam Art/Book Fair

We wanted to visualize the AA/BF as a contemporary book fair its –focus being on reflecting on emerging practices and developments in art. The fair is divided into two parts: lectures and exhibiting publishers. Our green image, which is the base of the fair’s identity, consists of two objects, a dustcover placed within a grid. The dustcover represents the many publishers and the empty space they will fill. The grid represents the lectures which gives everything a perspective and places it in a context. (Collaboration with Christofer Goertz)