North South East West
Text for Fabrica
In August 2004 we were asked by Fabrica, an art academy based in Italy, to write a short text for a book they wanted to publish to celebrate its 10-year-anniversary. Entitled 'Fabrica 10', the subtitle of this book was 'From chaos to order', and the theme revolved around the idea of antithesis. We were specifically asked to write a text entitled 'From North to South'.
In our own naive way, we feel really inspired by the philosophy of dialectics (to put it simply: thesis, antithesis, synthesis), so we found it quite int...
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Pop-Art Pantyhose
Textile print for Ryuko-Tsushin
There are days that you are asked to participate in a bizarre project. Then there are days that you are asked to participate in two bizarre projects.
The same day that we were approached to participate in a group exhibition on the subject of garden gnomes (see White Dots), we also received a fax from an editor of Japanese magazine Ryuko-Tsushin, who approached us about a project on the subject of pantyhoses.
In short, Ryuko-Tsushin asked us to design a pattern for a pair of stockings. How we understood it,...
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DTC / Ajax
DTC / Ajax
De Theatercompagnie
The play Ajax, based on the classic Greek text by Sofokles, was a co-production between two Amsterdam theatre groups: De Theatercompagnie and Toneelgroep Amsterdam. It toured through the Netherlands throughout October, November and December, 2007.
The posters we designed for Ajax were quite atypical compared to the other posters we did for De Theatercompagnie. As a matter of fact, we don't consider Ajax to be part of the actual series at all. (To see the 'proper' series, as a whole, visit Gilgamesj, The Pil...
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Happy Xmas
Stickersheet / Christmas card
Joana Niemeyer, student at the design department of the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London), approached us to ask if we wanted to contribute to a fund-raising event where 'one-off' christmas cards, designed by various artists and designers, would be auctioned. Proceedings would go to the Central St. Martins graduation show. The auction would take place December 7th, 2004, at the Notting Hill Arts Club (NHAC).
Requests like these are always difficult to turn down, but since we had simpl...
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