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DATA SCAVENGING - Artist Book 
Title / DATA SCAVENGING 240 pages / full color Hard cover / image wrap Pocket size / 9cm x 13.3cm Printed and ready for purchase in January 2012. "Scavenging...
 
RIOT OF PERFUME - Magazine 
RIOT OF PERFUME - MAGAZINE editors: Marco Lockmann & Eugenie Dalland designer : Petra Valdimarsdóttir contributors: Rebecca Cairns, John Wesley, Arthur...
 
FACTORY LIVING - Newspaper 
In the summer of 2011 I had the chance to document several fish factories in China. I was consumed by the colors I came across in these enormous spaces. Some of...
 
COME & GO - Installation + Book 
Come & Go is a project which consists out of a book and an envelope wall. Each envelope on the wall contains a person that has been executed on death row in one...
 
RECLAIMING THE STREET - Book 
Showroom MAMA has produced a publication about the Reclaiming the Street competition, featuring all nominated ideas and honorable mentions. With texts by Iain...
 
DEAR YORK - Artist Book 
Dear York, This Bug In My Bed Is New Work. As we all have our occasional "huh's", so did Koen Taselaar and Petra Valdimarsdóttir have it with their work. The...
 
THREE LETTER BUGS - Artist Book 
The bugs in the book are actual written words. First I made a lettertype named buggub.ttf which filled in the spaces in the letters with black and then reflected...
 
MY TYPED JEWELS - Typographic Jewelry 
I have always been interested in approaching typography not necesarrily as something one should see as readable text. But more or less as an object containing...
 
MAMMOET - Promo Material 
Mammoet is a theater production created by Theater Alba located in The Hague. I was asked to design the promotion material.
 
ONLY THE YOUNG - Installation 
 
China My Love - Photography 
In the summer of 2009, I travelled around China taking pictures of fish products for a company located in Beijing. While doing my job, I found the people and the...
 
THE MARK OF THE BEAST - installation + prints 
This project was inspired by the whole mark of the beast fenomena. Futurist Christian eschatology typically holds that the Mark of the Beast is one way in which the...
 
IOM 
This project was done together with Jasper van Loenen we worked together with studio loos experimenting on what they defined as an interactive orchestra machine. We...
 
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME 
This E-flyer was made at 2x4 NYC, I designed the program as well as the e-flyers. "The AAR Cabaret is a new event, that aims to be annual. It’s curated by Laurie...
 
Random Porn Sickness 
Mirjam Dissel and I worked together on this specific project, we were both experimenting with php at the time for our study. What we did was combine two different...
 
YALE - Magazine 
Designed at at 2x4 NYC, I had the opportunity to work on Yale Magazine issue Q6, What are you thinking?. "Coverage includes takes on sustainability from the...
 
YOU'RE MY TOOL - Installation 
This project was made during Jonathan Puckey's workshop "tools".The poster was made out of cotton, and the typography was created by several participants. On the...
 
ELIZA'S GONE MENTAL - Artist Book 
Eliza emulates a Rogerian psychotherapist, she only has tricks like string substitution and canned responses based on keywords.When the original Eliza first...
 
HAIKU GENERATOR - Installation & Book