W139 is a modern independent art space in the centre of Amsterdam that is now 30 years old and still up and running. To celebrate this, they asked a whole bunch of designers to come up with a poster design. Each design is offset printed and will be on show somewhere in Amsterdam City from October 28 — November 10, 2009.

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client: hong kong design centre, designex’08
year: 2008
what: a 70 x 100 cm poster ‘to promote cross cultural design’

“designex’08 is a bodw 2008 event, the annual flagship event of hong kong design centre, of which the netherlands is the partner country of this year. a series of design exhibitions will be staged at designex’08 at innocentre,hong kong, featuring dutch design across various design disciplines. amongst all, a cross-cultural poster exhibition of hong kong and dutch designers will be curated to display cultural diversities of two places and reflect the impact of design in our everyday life from a graphic design perspective. through these posters, we will be given lots of new insights, contributing to the understanding and appreciation of the urban interweaving of art, media and culture.”

“each designer will choose one theme and design a 700 x 1000mm poster of his/her personal interpretation from his/her cultural upbringing. hkdc will be responsible for the production of the poster (inkjet output) and the poster will be displayed at designex’08, concurrent event of bodw 2008. a half-size poster book will be printed (limited edition of 1000 sets) as collectables of this project. each participating designer will get 20 complimentary copies.”

“target audiences include art and design lovers, architects, designers and students, and the general public. guided tours for senior highschools and teritary institutes plus art & design lover group will be arranged to further disseminate the impact of cross-cultural design.”

a country’s culture reflects itself in many words, names, terms and sayings.

our brainstorm session about the given subject ‘living environment’ lead to a rich collection of the items mentioned above. some dutch words don’t even need to be translated, because they are so close to the ‘universal’ english language. some need an explanation. altogether the result is a very subjective dictionary in associated word chains.

client: stedelijk museum education department
year: 2008
illustrations: robert vulkers

this is part 4 and 5 of a series of educational books aimed at teenagers dealing with various subjects, like photography, design and video art. the ones shown here are ‘first aid with drawings’ (holy fire special) at the occasion of the ‘holy fire’ art show in the nieuwe kerk, amsterdam, and ‘first aid with paintings’.

below part 3: first aid with video art

client: Het Blauwe Oog
year: 2008

The illustrations were used to acquire a new client.

client: de baak
year: 2008

de baak campaign for their special event called ‘i love your work’.
illustrations by jan rothuizen, in collaboration with mo veld

client: ourselves
date: december 2007
execution: a5 double sided, folded card on Invercote, printed by Terts Printers

client: stedelijk museum education department
year: 2006

educational brochure for the blockbuster exhibition ‘airworld’.
illustrations by robert vulkers.

client: black tulip hotel
year: 2006
illustrator: robert vulkers

client: xxx leather parties
year: 2005, 2006
series of a2, a3 posters and party flyers

year: 2005
client: directswiss
year: 2005

never realized, client walked away without paying us. that’s why we show it here.