Illustrations for corporate identity of the German Design Agency Magma Brand Design, Karlsruhe.
Nov 2008
In November 2008 I gave an interview about my work and my role as a designer to journalist Gabrielle Kennedy, for the online magazine design.nl. She wrote an article where she analyzes the connection between my work and Dutch Design in general. You can read the entire article here.
Pecha Kucha
In October 2008 I was invited to present at Pecha Kucha Volume 7, in Amsterdam, during Experimenta Design.
Best Before October 26, 2008
The box of Roze Koeken (pink cookies) is a contribution to Best Before October 26, 2008. An art piece by Daniel Eatock for the exhibition Daniel Eatock: Extra Medium. In Philadelphia, USA.
Thisisamasterpiece.com
Intervention
2008
This domain name was created with an artistic purpose. A web domain is a unique piece, we pay for it so we make sure that it stays unique. Nobody can actually reproduce it and everybody can look at it. It is exactly as an art piece, and this one is a masterpiece.
Marginais
Video (1 min)
2008
Contribution to the project Gneisenau 64, a series of 64 videos, each one of 64″, shot and edited in Gneisenaustraße, in Berlin.
When I walk in the streets, I am fascinated by the plants that grow on pathways, and in the corners. They are invisibly growing without permission. Because they are not included in urban planning, they don’t exist, but still they live there, against the authority. The title Marginais, in Portuguese, has the meaning of marginals, discriminated.
I Have Something To Hide
Intervention in the public space
Digital Video (20 mins)
2008
This symbolic action is a poetic response to our problems concerning privacy nowadays. For The Privacy Project, originally initiated by the VPRO and Holland doc, we at the Design Department of the Sandberg Institute were asked to realize a project about Privacy. We chose to step outside of the system and to communicate in the most radical private way which, to our knowledge, exists. On the roof of the Post CS, we have built a giant inbox where our homing pigeons lived from April till July 2008. For one month we comunicated only using the pigeons instead emails and mobiel phones. Read about the project on Vrij Nederland.
The logo of the project, the emblem of the group, is designed by graphic designer Isabel Lucena and it is inspired on the logo of a group of activists which also had the need to act underground, hiding from those in power, the Black Panthers.
Our operative base, built by Kamiel Vorwerk, was standing at the 11th floor of the Post CS, the former Central Post Office of Amsterdam, close to the Central Station. After the project was terminated, in july 2008, this building has been demolished.
The documentary about the project, together with other artworks and the outcomes of the research were shown during Experimenta Design Amsterdam, in September 2008 at our operative base on the canal, close to Amsterdam Central Station.