Greenpeace

Failed Architecture

Miracle Outlet

Smooth City

Guest Crit

Clothes for Progress

Cinespécimen

Tools for Action

Greenpeace Failed Architecture Miracle Outlet Smooth City Guest Crit Clothes for Progress Cinespécimen Tools for Action

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

Creative direction, photography and brand identity for PneuWorld, an Amsterdam based hand made hat brand by Bastiaan van Zadelhoff. In close collaboration with Chloe Struyk.

Pneuworld

The Pneuworld logo, set in Optima

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

  • Eddy Varekamp

  • Pop Trading Co.

  • Souvenir Official

  • Better Together

  • Eddy Varekamp

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

People vs Polluters is a sub-campaign by Greenpeace organizing big-scale actions to take on polluters like Tata Steel. Ongoing project. Creative direction and graphic design.

Greenpeace

Specs:
Poster, flag, shirts, stickers

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