Researcher Design / Press Room / The Annex
01.11.07 – 31.10.09
I am fascinated by the experience I can get from an unexplored book, and how its form and respective content can create a relation between the reader and the book. I could get the same information from online resources, so what is it about the book that makes it special? For me, it has a lot to do with its physical appearance. A book is information, which is organised and structured by a designer, where decisions about the cover, size, paper, structure and so on influence the way we perceive the content of a book. How can the form of a book affect how we read it? Do we perceive a large book as more important than a small book, or is it the other way around?
In a work by Marcel Broodthaers, Un coup de dés, based on a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, the text is replaced by black blocks, leaving only the form. The work deals with the narrative of the space between the black blocks, and becomes content in itself. Thus, form is also content.
When you have the content from your client as well as the form-generated content, design produces a double layer. How does a designer take responsibility for the extra layer of content that the form produces? Does the designer become an author
The two focal points of my research are ‘form versus reader’ and ‘form versus content’. I will approach the medium of the book with practical experiments by testing its formal possibilities. I find it important to apply this approach and this research also to actual publications and given content, since a ‘real life’ situation is a very good parameter for what works or what doesn't.
Copenhagen, DK
Graphic design. Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL.
Graphic design. The Scandinavian Design High School, Randers, DK.
Sculpture and installation. Billedskolen, Copenhagen, DK.
Research on research III. Design practice research. (7 December). With åbäke, David James Bennewith, Ksenija Berk, Sara De Bondt, Katja Gretzinger, Christoph Keller, Luna Maurer & Daniel van der Velden. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Hello scanner. With Indrek Sirkel. Self-published.
A newspaper. Self-published.
Our daily debates. In: Hard School Books. Rotterdam, NL: Veenman Drukkers.
About the book design. In: Opening week 2008. (7 – 11 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Informance. (7 December). With David James Bennewith, Katja Gretzinger. In: Research on research III. Design practice research.Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Cultural engineers. (8 May). Presentation of the game Hydrophilobic. Amsterdam, NL: Mediamatic.
(Untitled). (7 December). In: Research on research III. Design practice research. With åbäke, David James Bennewith, Ksenija Berk, Sara De Bondt, Katja Gretzinger, Christoph Keller, Patrick Lacey, Luna Maurer, Benjamin Reichen, Kajsa Ståhl, Maki Suzuki & Daniel van der Velden. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Formatting utopia. From Paul Otlet to the Internet. (17 November). With Marjolijn Dijkman. Mons, BE: Mundaneum.
Blind spot. Eight hours of work, eight hours for own infrastructure, eight hours for repose. (19 – 21 March). With åbäke, David James Bennewith, Sara De Bondt, Ruth Buchanan, Katja Gretzinger, Jens Schildt & Indrek Sirkel. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Love is like oxygen. (1 – 31 September). With the Rainbow Soulclub. Amsterdam, NL: W139.
Graduation exhibition. (28 June – 1 July). Amsterdam, NL: Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
The library of Babel. (16 December). Look book. Amsterdam, NL: Gallery Punt WG.
Leadership in complex environments. With Dag Henning Brandsæter. (2 November). Laren, NL: Singer Museum.
Nya former och uttryck för designat papper och kartong. [New forms and expressions with designed paper and paperboard]. With Joan Christensen, Julie Rindung. (9 – 26 October). Huddiksvall, SE: Gallery Kubic.
Jan van Eyck Academie programme brochure 2009. (institutional publication). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
More than a lot. Displacements in ontology. (poster). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Reclamation. (poster). Almere, NL: Museum de Paviljoens.
Politics & thought. (poster). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
New Swiss graphic design. (exhibition design). With Indrek Sirkel. Tallinn, EE.
The artist-mullah-construction-essay. (book). Rotterdam, NL: Veenman Publishers.
Act. (Poster for the performance Act by Alexandra Bachzetsis and Lies van Borm). With Claus Eggers Sørensen. Amsterdam, NL: De Appel.
Act. Poster for the performance Act by Alexandra Bachzetsis and Lies van Borm. With Claus Eggers Sørensen. Amsterdam, NL: De Appel.
Gimme shelter issue 2. (newspaper). Amsterdam, NL: The Rainbow Organization.
Sign system for De Princenhof. Made during the workshops Let’s make signs in MAKOM. With Linn Eriksen & Alexandar Todorovic. Amsterdam, NL: The Rainbow Organization.
Look book for Japanese fashion designer Q. Amsterdam, NL.
Playtime. (6 April). Performance/presentation of the game Hydrophilobic. Amsterdam, NL: Stedelijk Museum at 11.
Koppensnellers. (8 April). Presentation of the game Hydrophilobic.