Four Random Files

Dark Side of Bauhaus

Dark Side of Bauhaus
Rocket Gallery / Jungle LP Show

In the mid of 2003, Tokyo art space Rocket Gallery approached us to contribute to 'Jungle LP Show', a group exhibition of record sleeves. Taka Kawachi, the curator of the show, had asked the involved artists and designers to create work inspired by existing record covers. In other words, the work had to be a homage or tribute to an already existing record sleeve.

Our contribution to this show was a series ('triptych') of three empty cardboard gatefold record sleeves, based on the ...

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Everything That Exists

Print Run
Charity no. 1046584

In the summer of 2007, we were approached by Chris Allen, who was organizing a poster show as a fundraiser for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation; the name of this exhibition was 'Print Run for Charity no. 1046584'.
A group of twenty designers and artists were asked to design posters revolving around the theme of health. Participants included Anthony Burrill, A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL), Bibliotheque, Spin, Build, James Goggin (Practise), etc. These posters were screenprinted in an edition of...

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DTC / De Wilde Eend

DTC / De Wilde Eend
De Theatercompagnie

De Wilde Eend (Originally 'Vildanden', in English 'The Wild Duck') was a theatre play that ran at Het Compagnietheater in Amsterdam from February 16 to March 28, 2008. The piece, originally written by Henrik Ibsen in 1884, was directed by Maaike van Langen for De Theatercompagnie.

As with the previous posters we designed for De Theatercompagnie (see for example DTC / Driekoningenavond and DTC / De Vrouw van Vroeger), the whole concept behind the printed matter revolved around the idea of takin...

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SMCS / Banners

Stedelijk Museum CS
Banners

Note: this entry is part of a larger group of texts about the SMCS assignment. To read the full story about this project, start at SMCS / Introduction, and click through all the successive pages from there.
On another note – we wrote the texts below quite a while ago. We just reread them, and noticed some of them seem a bit outdated, and might need to be rewritten. Some of the used images need some reworking as well. We'll do this in the near future.

Next to all the other items we designed for SMCS (see the ...

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