All past attempts to set standards for good typography, all generalized and ‘objective’ statements about design have produced nothing but a lot of confusion, nonsense and gibberish. Whether one involves the ancient Greeks or the New Objectivity, the Golden Ratio, or God, Wittgenstein or Marx, designing is a personal activity. — Piet Schreuders (1997)
Murals Inc.
Murals Inc. is an agency specialized in contemporary murals and questions the role of murals in our current times. The office is broadly oriented and looks for connections between many painterly expressions, from ‘public murals’ to ‘urban art’ and from ‘text-based art’ to ‘(post)-graffiti’.
Rotterdam Vakmanstad
Rotterdam Vakmanstad is a bottom-up research model for urban revitalisation and renovation, focused on the specific social-cultural and socio-economic situation of Rotterdam. Rotterdam Vakmanstad tries to link cultural education and social skills in such a way that youth will be taken seriously for their skills and abilities.
Niet Normaal
‘Niet Normaal – Difference on Display’, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, 2010, sought to uncover normalization strategies in western society and its various technologies. It aimed for an inclusive, pluralistic society and offered the floor to a large diversity of artists without labelling them before they were allowed to speak.
