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.
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.
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
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.
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.