Hansje - Sketches

2011-09-12T07:45:00.001-07:00

I've stopped updating this blog.

Please visit

www.hansje.net

for portfolio, sketches and updates.

Bramble / Brummel

2011-08-06T08:08:00.001-07:00

Mix of 0.2, 0.5 and 0.7 mm fineliner

Spikes

2011-05-31T12:14:00.001-07:00

Type was applied in diploma design for Sandberg Instituut.

Trying to figure out how to make a working alphabet.

Zuiderzee Museum - NIJVER|heden

2011-05-24T13:36:00.000-07:00

For the exhibition NIJVER|heden: Industrious Artefacts, the evolution of crafts we've been working on the signage and a booklet. The show runs from May 27th 2011 - February 12th 2012 at the Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen.

For the design the Scratched Letter from 2003 was revived. We constructed the main titles of the show from yarn on wood.

Signage in the exhibition / yarn on wood
picture taken from www.edhv.nl

Booklet / laser print on paper
For the booklet we made the digital letter into a working typeface with a lot of weights and alternates.

Inkjet print on wood / test

NIJVER|heden: Industrious Artefacts, the evolution of crafts:
May 27th 2011 - February 12th 2012, Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen
Curated by Studio Makkink&Bey: with Klaske Oenema (introductory animation), Atelier NL, Maarten Kolk, Lucas van Vugt, Florian de Visser, Studio FormaFantasma, mischer 'traxler, Kieren Jones, Jetske Visser, Merel Karhof, Raw Color, Marloes ten Bhömer, Dirk van der Kooij, EDHV, Mark Braun, ZIETA Prozessdesign, Will Shannon, Unfold & Tim Knapen, Trikoton, Jelte van Abbema, Sonja Bäumel, Elisa Strozyk, Studio Glithero, Greetje van Helmond.

With thanks to Michiel, Amber Vork, Babette Zijlstra and Nienke Kersen to help make this project happen.

Endpaper

2011-05-02T04:58:00.000-07:00

For a client I trade endpaper designs for a stack of printed endpapers. I use the paper for correspondence or wrapping paper. Curious how this design will turn out in two colours + silver.

Accent - Bijenkorf

2011-04-27T01:09:00.001-07:00

For the magazine Inspiration of warehouse Bijenkorf I was asked to make a typographic page on the theme of accent. To avoid the accent in a fashion way, I used a sentence which served as a speech exercise for pure Dutch by B. Faddegon (1874-1955) to get rid of a speech-accent.

Branches

2011-04-16T11:07:00.000-07:00

Print is Dead

2011-04-08T03:51:00.000-07:00

Contribution for a campaign by JongeMeesters

Endpaper printed

2011-03-10T03:00:00.000-08:00

Endpaper for my latest book design just came from the printer.
Printed in black & silver.

Sketches:

Scratched Letter - version 2.0 / Signage Sketches

2011-02-28T09:23:00.001-08:00

In 2003 I graduated with the Scratched Letter. We are currently trying to revive the digitally drawn typeface in an analogue way with yarn to use for exhibition signage.

Thanks to Nienke Kersten, who is my intern from KABK.

Test Sheet

2011-02-02T11:15:00.000-08:00

Gradient printer test sheet.

Cover

2011-01-04T07:03:00.001-08:00

I was happily surprised to find Items magazine in my mailbox this morning. I had no clue that my sketch made it to the cover.

Here you can see the sketches I made trying out my new Pentel Japan Chinese Kanji GFKP Fude Brush Pen.

Prehistorie

2010-12-21T09:34:00.001-08:00

Detail of a poster made together with Miek Zwamborn with her text 'Prehistorie'. The poster will be added to the Belgium magazine NY.

Champagne

2010-12-13T05:15:00.000-08:00

Laser engraving of a Champagne bottle for They.

Test

Final

Branches

2010-12-09T13:04:00.001-08:00

Schijf

2010-11-11T01:10:00.001-08:00

Sketches for Studio Wieki Somers

2010-10-10T10:10:00.000-07:00

Four of many try-outs for a logo made with my new favourite pen.
(Pentel Japan Chinese Kanji GFKP Fude Brush Pen)

Sketch made it to magazine cover for Items #6 2010

Endpaper sketches

2010-09-07T12:55:00.000-07:00

It's that time of the book again...

Lace Doodle - Table Sheet

2010-08-09T01:51:00.001-07:00

Currently filling a 70 x 100 cm sheet with a fine liner drawing. It's hard to keep up with the symmetry when the shape gets this big and the drawing sure has its stages of ugliness. But after drawing for a week, stopping is just not an option...

In progress 1

In progress 2

Detail

Rotring Tikky Graphic - pigmented ink - fine liners (0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 mm)
Atlanta 80 grs coated paper, 70 x 100 cm

Lace Doodle

2010-08-02T15:16:00.001-07:00

Can't seem to stop drawing as I did for Doily Type.

It's like ice skating on paper with my new set Rotring Tikky Graphic - pigmented ink - fine liners (0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 mm) on slippery Atlanta 80 grs coated paper. Original drawing size about 28 x 28 cm.

Schrank8 - Miek Zwamborn

2010-08-02T09:15:00.001-07:00

Although my aim was to draw inspired on Isopleth maps, these sketches came out more like Petasites Hybridus.

See here for the silk screened end result.

First sketches, with white as ink silk screened on moss green paper.

RGB Endpaper

2010-07-25T08:57:00.001-07:00

Currently finishing the design for a hard cover book. It's always nice to take a break from correction rounds and play around for the design of the endpapers for the book. See here for the end result

Pebbles

2010-07-05T13:25:00.001-07:00

detail

click to enlarge

Cadavre Exquis - Pen Pals

2010-07-04T03:27:00.000-07:00

I met Mathias Reynoird in my livingroom when he came to visit Schrank8 in April 2010. Mathias is a graphic design student from France who was in Amsterdam for his internship at Lesly Moore. I had already seen his work online and was especially charmed by his alphabet. I was very honored when he e-mailed me a few weeks later and asked me to do an alphabet co-operation with him. He proposed to draw letters together Cadavre Exquis style.

We met up at an art supply store to find the perfect fine liner and over coffee we set the boundaries for our project. Mathias designed a charming ABC-base to draw from. We couldn't decide who should start drawing the first step, so we both did. We work on two alphabets simultaneously. We each draw a layer and pass it back. I find it really exciting.
Because Mathias has left Amsterdam and moved to Berlin for another internship, we have to continue our Cadavre project using the post. Guess that that makes us Pen Pals in more than one way...

Micros

2010-06-19T06:14:00.000-07:00

Waves

2010-06-02T04:09:00.000-07:00

Poster (detail)

2010-05-19T08:18:00.001-07:00

Sketch for a new poster for Schrank8 Home Gallery.

Detail of a sketch, 0.35 mm Rotring Rapidograph pen.

Detail of a silk screen print. Purple on grey card board.

Kool

2010-05-13T12:07:00.001-07:00

I started drawing this letter to use on a silk screen poster. I got a bit carried away on the thin-lined details. On top of that I had to scale them down for the poster. These letters didn't make it to the poster. I finished the alphabet anyway, and will figure out a purpose for them at some point.

I'm trying out a Pilot 0.4 mm G-Tec-C4, which somebody gave to me after a lecture I held in The Hague. (You see nothing of the pen since I scanned it in Bitmap, but it's nice to have a sharp line and be able to press really hard while drawing without damaging the nip of the pen like you do with fine liners.)

Dots

2010-04-28T13:47:00.000-07:00

For a book project. Also see CMYK dots.

Blue and Red

2010-04-08T06:06:00.000-07:00

End paper sketches for a book.
(Also used for a poster.)

Doing maths

2010-04-08T05:22:00.000-07:00

A counting system with changing amount of lines per square end up in (an overheated computer and) countless possibilities to build patterns.

I used (a simplified version) of this system for an end paper of a book. See here.

Update - Doily Type

2010-03-24T13:30:00.000-07:00

Added two more C's to Doily Type today.

I make several versions per letter to avoid using the same letter twice in one word. This is the collection up to now.

WdKA bet

2010-03-10T06:12:00.000-08:00

I received an e-mail from a student of the Willem the Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. For a school assignment she proposed a bet that she could make a letter more fiddly than mine. It made me laugh really hard. So Margriet...
!

CMYK dots

2010-02-18T06:45:00.001-08:00

I'm currently trying to figure out how to translate photographs into hand-dotted images. The original picture that is worked from for first two samples is already quite abstract. That makes it hard to tell wether it works or not. The two samples you see below have different pre-press input. (See my portfolio for the end result.)

Photograph dotted with a 0.4 mm Stabilo fineliner, dotted in two densities.

Simplified photograph dotted with a 0.4 mm Stabilo fineliner, doted in two densities.

First test converting a full color image into a dotted drawing: Tijl in CMY. Nine layers of drawing in three different pen-types: 0.4 mm Stabilo, 68 Pen Stabilo and Bic Marking 2000.

I just realized that the step to make these drawings are directly inspired on a drawing by my father I recently saw on his blog. Sorry Pim and thanks!

Hook

2010-01-13T23:15:00.000-08:00

Type drawing. Letter used for a silk screened poster.

Sample

2009-12-30T05:39:00.000-08:00

Marker Dots

2009-11-05T23:34:00.000-08:00

W139=30

2009-11-05T14:50:00.000-08:00

This poster was made for the birthday of gallery W139, Amsterdam (NL).

Dots

2009-11-04T23:30:00.001-08:00

Doily Type

2009-11-04T14:47:00.001-08:00

Type design. Applied for gallery W139 poster and signage for Droog Design in New York. For an update, click here.

HMK

2009-11-04T14:43:00.001-08:00

Design for invite for Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn (NL).

Hair Type

2008-11-04T14:41:00.000-08:00

Waves, The Netherlands

2008-11-04T14:33:00.000-08:00

Sketches for an assignment. (Not realized)

W139

2008-11-04T14:25:00.000-08:00

Design for invite for gallery W139, Amsterdam (NL).

Shapes

2008-11-04T14:19:00.000-08:00

Grid Letter

2007-11-04T14:11:00.000-08:00

Sketches for New York Times Magazine.

2D3D

2007-11-04T14:07:00.000-08:00

Room, Drops in the Ocean

2007-11-04T08:15:00.000-08:00

(2005)

Commissioned assignment for artist initiative ROOM, Rotterdam (NL).

Wire Type

2006-11-04T13:48:00.000-08:00

Wire Type was applied for embroidery on a bag by Wieki Somers / Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg (NL). Also used for my moving announcement.

Forge Type

2006-11-04T08:59:00.000-08:00

This type was applied on a project called Smeedwerk.

Sample

2006-11-04T08:56:00.000-08:00

(2005)

Embroider, experiments

2006-11-04T08:36:00.000-08:00

Sketches for poster for Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg.

Decorative, samples

2006-11-04T08:30:00.000-08:00

Poem

2005-11-04T08:53:00.000-08:00

Drawing of a poem by Koen Bauwens for Dicht aan het IJ (Poetry at the IJ).

Fantasy, sample

2005-11-04T08:29:00.000-08:00

Birth

2005-11-04T08:23:00.000-08:00

Greytones

2005-11-04T08:12:00.000-08:00

Contribution, spread for a book. 'Ik stel me voor' = 'I imagine'.

Machine Stitch

2005-11-04T08:06:00.000-08:00

The typeface Machine Stitch was a reaction to the Stitch_Unsewed, made for a Droog Design project.

For an exhibition by Herman Verhagen I drew the Machine Stitch typeface directly on the wall with a pencil.

PrintRoom, invite

2004-11-04T08:01:00.000-08:00

Invite commissioned by ROOM, Rotterdam (NL).

Stitch Unsewed, sample

2004-11-04T07:58:00.000-08:00

Sketch for 'Stitch Unsewed' typeface. Applied for signage Droog Design, Milan (IT).

Scratched Letter

2003-11-04T07:22:00.000-08:00

In 2003 I got a hold of a Wacom Dabler mouse pen for the first time. I tested the tool in Illustrator scratching within the outlines of a piece of text.

I started collecting all the different versions of the a,b,c... and piled them up into this alphabet:

By stacking 1 up to 200 different drawn versions of one letter, the letter gets thicker and more black.

By resizing the shape more details become visible.

I collected the sketches and made it into a type specimen book Letter Sketches.

I made a Letter Flip Book to zoom in on the details of the letter.

Stripe and Lead, samples

2003-11-04T07:21:00.000-08:00

Hype Foundry

2001-11-04T05:46:00.000-08:00

After playing around with handwritings for a while, I was taken by the fact that type can be easy and quick. I started printing outlines of existing typefaces, tracing them with markers or fineliners, scanned it and traced it. A nice trick for that time. I used it for the titles Reader Magazine (2002) and even other people started using these fun fonts.

I called the collection of typefaces 'The Hype Foundry' and also made a booklet with the font collection.

One of these typefaces was used Reader Magazine (2002, project by Michiel Schuurman and Hansje van Halem)

Quick Type

2001-11-04T05:38:00.000-08:00

I really enjoyed the process of scanning, tracing and making letters in to a working typeface. For school assignments given by Gerard Unger I made a quite a few of these Quick Types. My goal at the time was to visualise the growth towards a better typeface within a whole type family. I was more interested in making it, than I was interested in making it look good. I liked carelessness and imperfections. I used these alphabets once, but that's too ugly to show.

Handwritings

2001-11-04T05:35:00.000-08:00

After digitalizing my grandmothers handwriting I really got the hang of this little trick. I started digitalising the handwritings of my cousin, my roommate and my father. I was bored quite soon, and never really finished a good one.

Grandmother type

2001-11-04T05:30:00.000-08:00

Just before leaving the KABK in The Hague, I was tought to work in Fontographer. This was a major freedom in playing around with type. The first time I used this new sense of freedom was for a Rietveld assignment. In 2001 Experimental Jetset asked us to make a fanzine. I digitalised my grandmothers handwriting for the design of a fanzine about her. It doesn't work really well as a typeface, but I still think it does work as a good design solution for the content. Funny thing was, my grandmother couldn't remember all the letters of the alphabet.

1978-08-12T04:39:00.000-07:00

Hansje van Halem
independent graphic designer
1978, (female) Enschede - NL

drawing type in 1984 with my childhood friend Marieke (right)

Contact
Marcusstraat 52 - 2f
1091 TK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
t: 00316 - 412 415 46
hansje@hansje.net
www.hansje-portfolio.blogspot.com
www.hansjevanhalem.blogspot.com
(www.hansje.net - old site)

Education
2000 - 2003: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam - NL
Graphic Design, diploma 2003
1998 - 2000: Royal Academy of Visual Arts, The Hague - NL
Graphic and Typographic Design

Teaching / workshops:
2010: HKU, Utrecht - NL - teaching graphic design
2010: ArtEZ, Arnhem - NL - external examinator
2010: KABK, The Hague - NL - teaching graphic design
2009-10: HKU, Utrecht - NL - teaching graphic design
2009: WdKA, Rotterdam - NL - workshop
2009: WdKA, Rotterdam - NL - external examinator
2008: ArteZ, Arnhem - NL - workhshop type design
2005: Eesti Kunstiakaademie, Tallinn / Estonia - 5-week workshop graphic design
2005/6: ArteZ, Arnhem - NL - teaching typography

Exhibitions
2011, Sept:, Deep Surface, Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina – USA
2011, Jan: The Way beyond Art - Wide White Space, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco - USA
2011, Jan: Connecting the Past and the Future, Graphic Design Museum, Breda - NL
2010, Dec Grafische grafiek, 's Hertogenbosch - NL
2010, Oct: Melvin the Machine, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven - NL
2010, March - Aug: Museum Hilversum - NL - Een Mooi Ding exhibition
2009, Nov: Ship of Fools Gallery, The Hague - NL - Don't Believe the Type exhibition
2009, Oct: W139=30, poster exhibition
2009, June: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - NL - Most Beautiful Books 2008, Dreamed Books - books that were never realized
2008, Sept: Galerie Phoebus, Ladenkastproject, Rotterdam - NL
2006, Jan: Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam - Inside Out, new years exhibition - NL
2005, Oct: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - Most Beautiful Books 2004 - NL
2005, Oct: Loods 6, Stichting Perdu, Amsterdam - Dicht aan het IJ - NL
2005, Oct: Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven - GreyTones - NL
2005, Apr: Witte de With, centre for contemporary art, Rotterdam - Printing Matters, participant PrintROOM - NL
2004, Sept: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - Mark, Municipal Art Acquisitions 2003 - 2004 - NL
2003, Sept: Dutch Architecture Institute (NAI), Rotterdam - School's out!, Items end exam selection - NL

Prizes/Nominations
2010: Best Photography Books of the Year - Photo España - Phantom City / Kim Bouvy
2008: Most Beautiful Books 2007 - CO-OPs / Interterritoriale explorations in art and science
2005: Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt 2004, Leipzig, honourable mention
Adviezen ter Voorbereiding van het Amsterdams Kunstenplan 2004 - 2008
2005: Most Beautiful Books 2004 - Adviezen ter Voorbereiding van het Amsterdams Kunstenplan 2004 - 2008
2005: Most Beautiful Books 2004 - Mark, Municipal Art Acquisitions 2003 - 2004
2003: Most Beautiful Annual Reports 2002 - VPRO Annual Report 2002

Over the years I've worked for
Wendel ten Arve, Amsterdam
Archiprix, Rotterdam
Stichting Best Verzorgde Boeken, Amsterdam
Guus Beumer, Amsterdam
Onno Blom, Leiden
Kim Bouvy, Rotterdam
Mia van der Burg, Rotterdam
Uitgeverij de Buitenkant, Amsterdam
Krien Clevis, Amsterdam
Droog Design, Amsterdam
Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg
EventArchitectuur, Amsterdam
Experimenta Design Festival, Amsterdam/Lissabon
Francisco van Benthum, Amsterdam
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Grafische Cultuur Stichting, Amstelveen
Graphic Design Festival, Breda
Graphic Design Museum, Breda
Pim van Halem, Rotterdam
HDC Media, Alkmaar
Margriet Kemper, 's-Hertogenbosch
Museum De Lakenhal, Amsterdam
Lost&Found, Amsterdam
Misha de Ridder, Amsterdam
Mondriaan Stichting, Amsterdam
NAiM, Maastricht
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam
NBKS, Breda
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Rotterdam
NWO, Leiden
Oilily, Alkmaar
Orson+Bodil, Alexander van Slobbe, Amsterdam
Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
Uitgeverij Pels&Kemper, 's-Hertogenbosch
Prospektor, Amsterdam
Jan Rothuizen, Amsterdam
ROOM, Rotterdam
Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
Michiel Schuurman, Amsterdam
Stansfield/Hooykaas, Amsterdam
Sloom: Herman Verkerk/Rianne Makkink, Amsterdam/Rotterdam
Wieki Somers, Schiedam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Thinking Forward Festival, Amsterdam
TNT Post, Amsterdam
Moniek Toebosch, Amsterdam
Gerard Unger, Bussum
VPRO, Hilversum
W139, Amsterdam
Flos Wildschut, Rotterdam
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Ymere, Amsterdam

Press
2011, Summer; Handmade Type Workshop. Techniques for Creating Original Characters and Digital Fonts - Charlotte Rivers - Thames & Hudson Publishers - UK
2010, December; Items, magazine (cover image) - NL
2010, December; Etapes Magazine - FR
2010, October; Graphic Design for Fashion, Jay Hess and Simone Pasztorek, ISBN 978 1 85669 693 7 - Lawrence King Publishing - UK
2010, August: Los Logos, R. Klaten, A. Mollard - Gestalten - DE
2010, August: Graphic, magazine, Mark Catalogue - KR
2010, summer: Elephant, magazine, interview, London - UK
2010: By Invitation Only, book, Viction:ary, Hong Kong
2010, March: Een Mooi Ding, exhibition catalogue, Museum Hilversum - NL
2010, March: Hollands Diep, dubble portrait with Gerard Unger - magazine, interview - NL
2010, February: work published on Arteko website - NL
2010, January: review of work featured on File-magazine.com, online magazine, interview - UK
2009: 1000 Ideas by 100 Graphic Designers - Matteo Cossu - book - Rockport Publisers - USA
2009, June: Art Collection + Design - magazine - CN
2009: Capsule - over kunstboeken - book - Valiz - NL
2009: Clubblad - catalogue - Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht - NL
2009: New Normal - CCA Graphic Design - Investigative Studio - NL - book - California College of the Arts - USA
2009: O2 - Cross over, creative magazine - The opening issue - magazine - CN
2009: Spark - Inspirational Graphic Design - book - Page One Publishers - SG
2008: Aera2 - 100 graphic designers, 10 curators, 10 design classics - book - Phaidon Press - USA
2008: De Best Verzorgde Boeken - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - catalogue - NL
2008: Graphic Design Museum, mini tutorial for kids on designing a stamp, see clip here
2008: Items #4 - portfolio - magazine - Bis Publishers - NL
2008: Super Holland Design - New Graphics - Actar Publishers - book - ES
2008: Typomofo - Type morphing into forms - book -Page One Publishers - SG
2007: DA - issue 8 - Design 21 - 21 graphic designers - magazine - TW
2007: Emergence 6 - magazine - Pyramid - FR
2007: Mister Motley - Taal - magazine - NL
2007: NeoGeo - A new edge to abstraction - book -Die Gestalten Verlag - DE
2007: One Hundred at 360º - Graphic design's new global generation - book - Laurence King Publishers - UK
2007: Present: percentage for art in the Netherlands, 2004-2006 - catalogue - Episode Publishers - NL
2006: Building Design Portfolio's - Sara Eisenman - book - Rockport Press - USA
2006: Experimenta 54 - magazine - ES
2006: Geborduurd - catalogue - Nederlands Textiel Museum - NL
2006: Look at this, contemporary brochures, catalogues & documents - Adrian Shaugnessy - catalogue - Laurence King Publishers - UK
2006, Nov: MetropolisM - magazine - NL
2005: De Best Verzorgde Boeken - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - catalogue - NL
2005, March: Design 369 - Dutch Graphic Design takes over - magazine - KR
2005: GreyTones - Volle Kracht - catalogue - NL
2005: Nachtpodium, VPRO television, interview - NL
2005: Quarantine Series - Nina Folkersma / Luna Maurer - catalogue - NL
2005: Step Inside Design - Design from the inside out - magazine - USA
2005: Type Specific - Designing custom fonts for function and identity - Charlotte Rivers - book - Rotovision - USA
2005: VPRO's Nachtpodium, television show, see item here.
2005: Yearbook Dutch Design 05 - catalogue - NL
2004: Creatie - magazine - NL
2004: Mark, Municipal Art Acquisitions 2003-2004 - catalogue - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - NL
2003: Items - eindexamen selectie - magazine - Bis Publishers -NL

Extra
- 2009, January: founded Home Gallery Schrank8
- 2005-2006: Received a Start Stipendium in 2005-2006 from Fonds BKVB

Work in the collection of
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
- Museum De Paviljoens, Amsterdam (NL)
- Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
- Graphic Design Museum, Breda (NL)