In creating an identity for UK based Ramp Recordings sub-label Fourth Wave Records, Alvin Toffler’s book ‘The Third Wave’ was drawn on for inspiration. The book describes the necessity for old societies to give way to the new whilst the Fourth Wave is a generation of people looking for a natural synthesis of nature, spirituality, and technology.

We discovered a method of making natural, organic images in a digital, high-tech manner and applied this method in the materialization of a series of record sleeves for artists like Presk, Gerry Read, Felix Lenferink & ΔΔ.

Fourth Wave records

.Unst, an organ within the Utrecht School of the Arts, sought a restyling for their identity, which we came up with, structured on and around a platform for students both digitally and in print.

We developed a website for students to publish their work and therefore receive exposure. Once every 111 days the website is emptied and refreshed. Some editorials and a selection of the best work is printed in the .Unst magazine.

.Unst

An Amsterdam-based DJ collective, Zick Zack’s music undulates from afro-deep to afrobeat. Coming full circle from heavy bass from the former British colonies to new electronic vibes straight from London’s soundsystems. Working as their designers, despite a limited budget we have enabled Zick Zack to enjoy high-profile parties in locations such as Canvas, Club Up, OT301 and North Sea Jazz Club.

Zick Zack

Throughout history, people have been showing off their wealth and have had it immortalized in paintings. These so-called Vanitas paintings showed both the extreme prosperity but also its empty and temporary nature. This behavior is still visible today by people photographing their (abundance of) food and sharing it online. This symbolizes capitalism in a traditional way that has been common to humanity for many centuries.

We illustrated the urgency of the capitalistic dilemma and the intangibility of the economy by using the visual language of infographics. By combining the Vanitas with infographics, a clash between traditional and contemporary capitalism takes place, resulting in a visual glitch.

http://vimeo.com/82191926

Impakt Festival

Bedford Pages is a series of four magazines, each issue edited by two different artists. The guest editors in charge of the first issue were Merijn Hos & Jeroen van Mourik. Despite being friends for over a decade, until this project they had never worked together. The custom made typeface translates Bedford's playful identity into a serious design magazine.

Bedford pages

The critically acclaimed Zwart Licht wanted a music video for their track Galtar Riddim on their second album ‘No Juju’. The video stemmed from a fusion of two salient themes. Juju is the collective term for West African religions in which sculptures and amulets are believed to have supernatural powers, so an enormous amount of laser cut sculptures were created for the video. In keeping with the themes of the video and voodoo, the method of animation, stop-motion, used in Hanna Barbara’s iconic Galtar breathed life into these sculptures.

http://vimeo.com/hoaxhoaxhoax/zwartlicht-galtar

Zwart Licht

Cinedans is an international festival for dance, movies and media. We're responsible for their promotional campaign, which consisted of posters, programmes, a catalogue, flyers, banners, all other promotional material and their corporate identity itself.

We adopted a photographic approach in order to capture the movement of the dancer in a cinematic way, therefore visually unifying all elements of Cinedans.

http://vimeo.com/63234088

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