SHD: HOLLAND DESIGN - Softcover

Sakamoto, Tomoko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8496954196 ISBN 13: 9788496954199

Publisher: Actar, 2007

Synopsis

The anxiously awaited follow-up to Holland Design, Super Holland Design explores new functionality in contemporary Dutch design. Featured designers transform concepts into strong messages, using new techniques and technologies. Dutch designers are inspiring exciting interactions between design and its users, compelling us to re-think the meaning of design itself. They question every aspect of design, creating new concepts, processes, and formats, bravely pushing the limits of user participation and the designer's role.



Featuring: Herman van Bostelen, Catalogtree, Office of CC, De Designpolitie, Experimental Jetset, Hans Gremmen, Arjan Groot, Atelier van GOG, Hansje van Halem, Studio Kluif, Julia Müller, Dennis Koot, Koehorst in't Veld, Harmen Liemburg, Luna Maurer, Lesley Moore, Lust, Machine, Meta Haven, Richard Niessen, Ping-pong Design, Sander Plug, STAR, Strange Attractors Design, Roger Teeuwen, Minke Themans, Thonik, Toko, Werkplaats Typografie, You & McCuskey, Zeloot.

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Review

A stunning compendium that delves into the work of Dutch designers such as Experimental Jetset and Sander Plug. --joshspears.com

Fresh on the tail of the Netherlands trailblazing design book Holland Design comes Super Holland Design, bigger, better and perhaps wetter than its forefather. The tome celebrates the views and concepts of 31 pioneering creative types straight out of the land of tulips, cheese and clogs. Attitude loved the Actar publication so much we had to chat to its editor Tomoko Sakamoto... Tell us a bit about the basis of the book. We already had a relationship with the participants from Holland Design, so finding the designers was not difficult. We also searched for new, up and coming designers. Several were friends of the designers from the first Holland Design. Also, Actar is a graphic design studio itself, so many of our in-house graphic designers (from Spain, Germany, Austria), including the (German) graphic designer of this book, Martin Lorenz, knew many brilliant Dutch designers. And you asked the designers to send you - by snail mail - a postcard, bought or hand-made, with a small message on it? Why postcards? Dutch designers are often commissioned to design stamps and we wanted to see them in use . We also wanted to leave the concept of the postcard very open, so that they didn t even have to design the card if they didn t want, but just buy a card they selected. The designers fully interpreted the creative meaning of the postcard and sent us many fascinating and original conceptions. Give us three good reasons why we should buy this book. 1. This is not a catalogue of current Dutch designers, but rather a book of a variety of concepts and views on graphic design from the Netherlands. 2. For any designer, it is very important to see and be inspired by the wide capacity of work by graphic designers internationally. 3. You can invent an entire world through graphic design. You can make a potent statement or strong action through a simple piece of paper. That is what we have learned and what this book celebrates. --ATTITUDE Magazine

SHD is one of those nice books you come back to again and again when you are looking for inspiration. --We Make Money Not Art-- ... Supremely intelligent and witty. This tome on the highly advanced world of Dutch graphics features a caped superhero on the cover -- in case you didn't know that designing denizens of the Netherlands are reinventing, with crusading zeal, the way mere mortals engage their surroundings. --Metropolitan Home

Edition details

• Publisher: Actar
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8496954196
• ISBN 13: 9788496954199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416