From now on all my illustrations will be available at my new blog. All the beasts, anatomical rarities and typographical mutants can roam free there. A selection of my illustration work will still be available on the projects page of this website. Enjoy the blog!

DUF2 will be in stores in November. It is a 300 page antidote to boredom. Captivating subjects and interesting information written and visualized by proud young writers, designers and illustrators. See my contribution to an article about divorce by Jaap Robben here.

International illustration collective Le Grand Crew is proud to present ‘La Grande Boucherie’.
The exhibition features work from nine artists, illustrators and designers from five different countries. It’s held at butcher shop turned gallery: VillaNuts, Westeinde 60A, The Hague.
Open Monday to Saturday from September 20th to October 21st from 12.00 to 18.00
The opening was fun and so busy someone saw the chance to steal one of the works.
Come visit before everything has been looted! See the poster I made for the show here.

A practical book for people that take care of sick or disabled family members. Commissioned by Setola & Gille for the GGD (public health service), Rotterdam. The agenda is part of a campaign to raise awareness for this subject. Twelve people that live with disabled family members were interviewed. Their stories are included in high-gloss center-folds with portraits by Bob Vlist. More images here.

Last week I worked on a small silkscreen print project devised for testing color combinations and overprinting with varying colors and print runs. A set of eight cards will be for sale at La Grande Boucherie.

A few Cultuurnacht posters will be part of the exhibition at the tenth annual conference presented by the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA): TypeCon2008. Ben van Dyke, design history and typography teacher at The State University of New York at Buffalo, has invited NLXL to give a workshop at TypeCon2008. The posters (made with & at NLXL) will be shown at the UB Art Gallery.

The book for the Rabobank, designed in collaboration with Nana Manojlovic, is finished.
It is an account of several years of scenario-thinking workshops conducted by DTN for the Rabobank Group. More images here.

Today the presentation of the best Dutch book designs 2007 took place in the Stedelijk Museum CS in Amsterdam. Ingeborg Scheffers designed the catalog and asked me to write all the titles of the books by hand.
You can go and see all 33 beautiful books at the Stedelijk until Augusts 3rd.

The launch parties in Arnhem and Amsterdam for the first O.K. Periodical were a great success. We sold four boxes of numbered copies and there are orders for many more. You can order your copy online now, or you might find one at your local bookstore. Be sure to get one before stocks run out! See sample spreads here.

Following the success of the OK-blog, OK-Periodicals is a collaboration with William van Giessen, Joost van der Steen and Jeremy Jansen. The first issue will hit the streets on May 30th, 2008. The theme is collecting. It will include contributions from Bob van Dijk (NLXL), LUST, Pierre Derks, BibliOdyssey and many others. The image above comes from Ralf Steegs collection of bread-bag-clips sorted by date.
The Amsterdam launch-party will be held at Westerdokskade 10 on Thursday June 5th.

Hesign publishers have asked me to be part of their new book “Small Studios”. The book will be available early next year. Anneke Hymmen took some beautiful pictures of my studio. Check out her website here.

As part of this research group, I’m looking into cross-cultural visual communication. In cooperation with the Municipality of Amsterdam research has been done concerning the effectiveness of campaigns aimed at local minorities. I’m now working on a video regarding this subject.

The next issue of O.K. Periodicals themed failure will be in stores early 2009. Submissions are no longer accepted.