Interview with Almanak

Full Focus on Items
Interview with Almanak, responsible for the new looks of Items magazine.

Text Harmen Liemburg (in Dutch) for Items Magazine 1/2012.

Barbara Hennequin, Jeremy Jansen en Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen zijn samen Almanak, de nieuwe ontwerpers van Items. Vanuit hun studio in het oude depotgebouw van het voormalige Gemeentearchief aan de Tolstraat in de Amsterdamse wijk De Pijp, werken ze zowel individueel als collectief aan uiteenlopende ontwerpprojecten. Almanak, zeggen ze nadrukkelijk, is geen bureau. Harmen Liemburg zocht hen op.

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March 15th, 2012
, Posted in Interviews

Home Field

Title Home Field
Year 2012
Size H 841 x W 1189 mm
Technique 2 colour screenprint on 120 grams/m2 Natronkraft paper
Edition 20 signed and numbered prints out of 60 prints total

Made for the FotoDok – Objects in Mirror, The Imagination of the American Landscape exhibition. Centraal Museum Studio, Utrecht, 11 March – 8 April 2012.

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March 14th, 2012
, Posted in Posters, Group Shows

Objects in Mirror

Title Objects in Mirror
Year 2012
Size H 841 x W 1189 mm
Technique 3 colour screenprint on 120 grams/m2 Natronkraft paper
Edition 20 signed and numbered prints out of 60 prints total

Made for the FotoDok – Objects in Mirror, The Imagination of the American Landscape exhibition. Centraal Museum Studio, Utrecht, 11 March – 8 April 2012.

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March 12th, 2012
, Posted in Posters, Group Shows

Bison bison

Bison bison fenced in near Badlands National Park, South Dakota 2006.

Text Harmen Liemburg, published in Objects in Mirror, The Imagination of the American landscape.

Bison bison

On a visit to the United States you will inevitably come across it at some point: the American bison or buffalo pictured at the bottom of the National Park Service emblem. I have often wondered why he (sorry ladies, his crown jewels are clearly visible) stands brooding, his head turned westwards. It must be dark memories of a time when nature conservation was not yet part of the collective consciousness.

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March 11th, 2012
, Posted in Stories, Group Shows

Fit to Page Show at AGA


Camouflage Club posters designed and screenprinted by Zsuzsanna Ilijin.

Fit to Page – Utalitarian prints printed at Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier
Show February 2 – April 30, 2012

Compiled and curated by Carolien Glazenburg (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and Harmen Liemburg. Installation by Christina Hallström (AGA) and Harmen Liemburg.

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February 2nd, 2012
, Posted in Group Shows

200 grams

Title 200 Grams
Year 2012
Size H 70 x W 50 cm
Technique 8 colour screenprint on 300 grams/m2 Hahnemüller
Edition 12

Custom made print (detail) as a present (to be raffled off) for Oomen architecten clients.

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January 3rd, 2012
, Posted in Printing