.Periods
For his graduation project, Keun Pyo Ahn made a series gigantic ‘periods’ of various typefaces, that were printed at at Gerrit Rietveld Academie shop for screenprinting on paper.
Marble Billboard
Drawings: Nina Paim, graduation student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graphic Design Dept.
Printing & billboard compilation: Nina Paim & Harmen Liemburg
Speed Is What We Need
Speed Is What We Need
Workshop at Institut Supèrieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon (ISBA), March 25-30, 2012.
OTIS at Rietveld
Printing a 2 colour poster during a fun one-day-workshop with a group of MFA students from Los Angeles’ OTIS College of Art and Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie screenprinting shop for paper.
This collective piece was previously made together during a intense two weeks of Dutch art, culture and design, organised by COMA.
Nederlands Steendrukmuseum
Lithographers at work, around 1890. Image from Het Nederlands Steendrukmuseum.
Text Harmen Liemburg (in Dutch) for Items Magazine 1/2012.
Kleur in het alledaagse leven
Vanaf de uitvinding van de machinale produktie van papier en het drukken door middel van losse letters rond 1400, werd voor de produktie van drukwerk voor bijna 400 jaar overwegend gebruik gemaakt van hoog- en diepdruk. In 1796 komt daar verandering in als de 25 jarige Aloys Senefelder, zoekend naar een manier om teksten voor een toneelstuk in eigen beheer te vermenigvuldigen, de ‘chemische drukkerij’ ofwel de vlakdruk ontdekt.
Ready To Print
Text (in Dutch) Harmen Liemburg for Items 5/2011.
Linking analogue printing techniques to current digital tools, this publications replaces may outdated handbooks.
Summer Masterclass
Summer Screenprinting Masterclass in 4 modules: Inspiration; PrePress; Practise & Bookbinding. Various locations in Amsterdam, July – August, 2011. Organised with Joke Mestdagh.
EHEC Billboard
EHEC Billboard Series
Design: Nora Halpern & Julia Künzi, both students at the Rietveld Academie Graphic Design Dept.
Print: Harmen Liemburg
Lezard Graphique
In the back, double A0 posters by the crème de la crème of French desginers, printed MUPI (Mobilier Urbain Pour l’Information = informational street furniture, coined by JCDecaux) size. This format you’ll see on the streets of major cities, is mostly used for outdoor publicity in special backlit boxes. Width 120 x Height 175 cm.
A working visit to Lezard Graphique, THE cultural screenprinter in France, located in Brumath, France.
Zines to Screens Workshop
Zines to Screens Workshop
With students Visual Communication, Kunsthochschule Kassel, May 10-12, 2011