Hansje van Halem (1978) is an independent graphic designer in Amsterdam. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2003). This blog is an addition to her portfolio website.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.)
Hansje van Halem is a graphic designer. She works and lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. On this blog you can find a selection of her type drawings, sketches and failures. For commissioned work, please check the portfolio site.