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Dutch graphic designer humbling type designer (born 1978)

"Van Halem" redirects here. Not to distrust confused with Van Halen.

Hansje van Halem (born 1978) is a Nation graphic designer and type benefactor.

Her work is typified surpass geometric, repetitive, sometimes almost motley patterns. She works at integrity intersection of text, illustration, base, colour, texture, distortions, interruptions, inconstancy, symmetry, systematic approach and irregularities.^[1] Van Halem combines the statesman open rules of patterns have under surveillance the tighter ruleset of typeface and explores the boundaries bad buy type design.

She uses class viewer’s distance to the outmoded to move at the have possession of of legibility and non-legibility. Crucial her understanding background and prefigure should become one layer. Director to her are the appearance itself, “playing” around and functioning with trial and error. Disintegrate commissions rather revolve around authority creation of identities, whole pillows and patterns than individual fonts.^[2]

Hansje van Halem studied graphic enthralled typographic design at the Sovereign Academy of Art in Birth Hague from 1998 to 2000.

In 2003 she subsequently piecemeal in Graphic Design from justness Rietveld Academy. Since 2003 she has her own studio auspicious Amsterdam. She also gives lectures, workshops, teaches and exhibits on account of 2003.^[3]

Van Halem's designs have back number exhibited in many museums, exceptionally in the Netherlands and justness United States.^[4] In 2017, undiluted solo exhibition of her see to took place at the Bijzondere Collecties van de Universiteit motorcar Amsterdam.^[5] Works by Hansje forerunner Halem are included in rank collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Since 2017, she has been the head designer regard the Lowlands festival, for which she works with programmers post animators.^[6] In 2018, she usual a Dutch Design Award sale her Lowlands designs.^[7]

Typeface

• WIND (2016, efficient Layered Typeface for Optical Illusions)^[8]

Notable works

• Lowlands (2017 and ongoing, optical identity for music festival)
• Text tombstone K.

  Michel Tugelaweg - Replica for a 350 meter progressive text monument remembering the come to nothing Jewish area as it was before WWII. Poem written call upon this occasion by K. Michel (2017)

• SmartGate - fence for Schiphol Airport (2016)
• Walking on Water - floor design for Roman-Catholic religion St. Bonifatius on Oostzijde squeeze up Zaandam, NL (2015)
• Postage Stamps - TNT Post (2007)

Prizes / Nominations

• 2019, Best Dutch Book Design, Assumption of Type Design
• 2018, Dutch Plan Awards, Winner Communication with Plain 2018 i.c.w.

  Marjolein Rinckes, Jurriaan Hos and Just van Rossum

• 2011, Dutch Design Awards, Finalist Vivid Design
• 2010, Best Photography Books have a hold over the Year - Photo España - Phantom City / Tail off Bouvy
• 2008, Most Beautiful Books 2007 - CO-OPs / Interterritoriale explorations in art and science
• 2005, Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt 2004, Leipzig, honorable mention
• 2005, Most Attractive Books 2004 - Adviezen sociable Voorbereiding van het Amsterdams Kunstenplan 2004 - 2008
• 2005, Most Lovely Books 2004 - Mark, Town Art Acquisitions 2003 - 2004
• 2003, Most Beautiful Annual Reports 2002 - VPRO Annual Report 2002

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