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DTC / Graphic identity

DTC / Graphic identity
De Theatercompagnie

'Graphic identity' might be not the right word for this chapter. Truth is, in the case of De Theatercompagnie, we never really designed a logotype. If De Theatercompagnie ever had an actual graphic identity, it can be found in the posters: the use of quotations taken from the theatre plays, set in lowercase Helvetica, placed in specific typographic compositions. That is the graphic identity of De Theatercompagnie. What we are about to show here is just the stationery.

We kept the stationery...

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A Thousand Things

Mu / Eindhoven
Full story will follow later.

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NAiM The Edible City 2

NAi Maastricht
The Edible City / De Eetbare Stad
Part 2

This post is about the sign system we designed for The Edible City, an exhibition that took place at NAi Maastricht in 2007. To see all the other printed matter (posters, brochures) that we created for that same exhibition, go to NAi / The Edible City 1. There you can also read more background information about the NAiM as an institute.

The Edible City / De Eetbare Stad was an exhibition that took place at the NAiM between March 3 and June 22, 2007, guest-curated by Hans Ibelings, ...

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Helveticanism

Interview for Emigre
Rudy Vanderlans

For issue 65 of Emigre magazine, editor Rudy Vanderlans interviewed some designers about their use of Helvetica. To be honest, we really dislike that question: "Why do you always use Helvetica?". It's a way of approaching our work that is completely alien to us. Although most of our work deals with text, we are usually more interested in words than in letters. To try to see our work as nothing more than a manifestation of a certain typeface seems absurd to us.
(Also, the suggestion that we always use ...

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