Serpentine London
Greenpeace
Failed Architecture
Smooth City
Cinespécimen
Serpentine London Greenpeace Failed Architecture Smooth City Cinespécimen
In cities around the world a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push for ‘perfection’, efficiency and control and the active eradication of any aberration, friction or alternative. Book design and visual essay (smoothscapes). Published by Valiz Amsterdam.
Smooth City
Specs:
Book, 12x19cm, 272 pages
René Boer, 2023
The Red Light District Under Control. The Red Light District (‘Wallen’ in Dutch) is a unique part of Amsterdam. No other neighborhood is so diverse, layered and lived. Over the last few years, however, the neighbourhood has been given the image of being “out of control” and in need of large-scale intervention.
Failed Architecture
Specs:
Map, 50x70cm, double sided
Also: website, flag, podcast visuals.
icw René Boer & Mark Minkjan 2022
Failed Architecture (FA) reconnects architecture with the real world. Through articles, podcasts, Situations, a Twitch stream and more, we support an international network of writers, editors and critics committed to challenging dominant spatial narratives and exploring alternative realities.
Failed Architecture
Specs:
Podcast visuals
Also: website, flag, map.
icw René Boer & Mark Minkjan 2022
Clothes for Progress is an ongoing fundraising platform, raising money for different BLM related charities. Creative direction, graphic design and photography. On close collaboration with Chloe Struyk.
Clothes for Progress
Shuv means Again. All jewelry is produced from second-hand, vintage, and antique jewels from all around the world and is constructed entirely of recycled materials. Creative direction, graphic design and photography.
Shuv
The Shuv logo
Upcycled from Olivetti
BlackRock is the world's largest asset firm, with almost $7 trillion that they invest in fossil fuel companies (like Exxon), in coal manufacturing, and in companies responsible for worldwide deforestation including the destruction of the Amazon. Identity for worldwide campaign and projector action.
All Eyes on BlackRock
Specs:
Projector action London
Koen Bolhuis is Child & Adolescent Psychiatry resident & postdoc at Erasmus MC. Psychiatric disorders in adulthood, including severe mental illnesses, commonly have antecedents in childhood or adolescence. Book design.
On Psychotic Phenomena
Specs:
Book, 17x24cm, 272 pages
Koen Bolhuis, 2020
The globalized world seems at once transparent and opaque. The exhibition project “Transparencies” examined the cultural facets and atmospheres of these (non-)transparencies. Exhibition identity design, book and poster. Designed at Metahaven.
Transparenzen
Specs:
Book, 24x34cm, 162 pages
Metahaven, 2018
Sternberg Press