Good Vibrations
Ceramic tiles bij Studio GdB. Image courtesy Studio Gdb.
Good Vibrations: The ceramics of Studio GdB. Text for Maharam Stories (2022) by Harmen Liemburg. Text editing Ella Christopherson.
Sensory impressions
Kustaa Saksi, In the fishstrap, 2013. Image courtesy Kustaa Saksi.
Kustaa Saksi: Sensory Impressions. Text for Maharam Stories (2019) by Harmen Liemburg.
Don’t Frighten the Horses
Wouter Klein Velderman. Meyrkoet (left) and Zwarte Ooijevaar (right), 2018. Blow-dried PVC fabric, wood.
Wouter Klein Velderman: Don’t Frighten the Horses. Text by Harmen Liemburg for Maharam Stories (2019).
The Palace of Typographic Masonry
Text Harmen Liemburg for Richard Niessen – The Palace of Typographic Masonry, A guided Tour by Dirk van Weelden.
Ed Fella: The Joy of Making
Sixty years in the profession – of which the first thirty were spent working as a commercial artist in Detroit, and the second as a lecturer and artist in Los Angeles. A huge body of work. And I only have a few paragraphs to explain why every graphic designer should know him: self-described ‘exit level designer’ Ed Fella… But what the hell, let’s give it a try!
WPA National Park Posters
Doug Leen and Brian Maebius. Hawaii detail, 2007.
Text Harmen Liemburg. The sixth in a series of short articles on art and design objects written for Maharam.
Vlisco
Ted van de Ven, La Famille, 1952.
The fifth of a series of short texts on design objects written for Maharam. Text Harmen Liemburg.
Europa
Europa figurehead starboardside. Photography courtesy of Annalies Liemburg.
Europa by Harmen Liemburg.
The fourth of a series of short texts on design objects written for Maharam.
Fluo Husky
Fluo Husky is the first of a series of short texts on design objects written for Maharam.
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.
De Visuele Achtbaan van Ed Fella
De Visuele Achtbaan van Ed Fella
Text (in Dutch) Harmen Liemburg for Items 4/2011