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Venlo Exposed 06 10 2015
Venlo Exposed is a project that utilises the busshelter to promote 100 creatives that are living and working in the city on Venlo, the Netherlands. From october 6th till october 18th the public spaces will be adopted by artists, poets, architects and designers. Among the contributors you’ll find visual designer and StormHand partner Albert Kiefer who is fascinated by the language of shapes, their transformations and how light and materials enables them to articulate a vocabulary of their own. His work ‘Ghost’ is a great example of his motto ” I love to play, I hope it shows ".
Venlo Exposed 06.10 till 18.10, public space, city of Venlo
Shifting Identities Exhibition 21 09 2015
Shifting Identities is an exhibition on cultural and anthropological identities of the Maas-Rhine region. Built around the art of maps, the expo embraces smell, sound, animation, video, smartphone interactivity and taste (thank you Gulpener Beer for the specially brewed the 'Maas-Rheinisches Ur-Pilsner'). The exhibition conceived and realized by Maurer United Architects in close collaboration with Cologne Intelligence, StormHand and Geurlab is the prelude to the manifestation Reciprocity / Design Liege 2015 and can be visited till Friday 27 November. Check the StormHand contribution here
Housing association HEEMwonen, the City of Kerkrade and Maurer United Architects are currently working on a transformation project, entitled SUPERLOCAL. The aim is to re-use the material of three to be torn-down apartment blocks and develop 100 new dwellings on location. On this occasion a book is published evaluating the functioning of the apartment blocks during the past 50 years. The book, entitled JIDDERINNE VÓLT ZIECH DOA HEEM (‘everyone felt at home there’) and counting 160 pages, contains interviews, floor plans, interior photo’s and much more valuable information.
Editors: Marc Maurer, Nicole Maurer, Martijn Segers, Michiel Wauben.
Graphic Design by Boy Bastiaens / Maurer United Architects ISBN: 978-90-808850-0-4
Alphabet Logo is a compendium of trademarks and symbols that are derived from letters of the alphabet. The book contains over 500 examples from some of the world’s leading designers such as Pentagram, Italo Lupi, Bruce Mau Design, Wolff Olins and many more. Great to see the Taskers logo (2013) being included in this beautifully designed publication by Leterme Dowling for Counter Print. Being actually the 4th out of a series which offers a wide survey of contemporary symbols and logo designs.
Alphabet Logo, Leterme Dowling, Counter Print, United Kingdom, ISBN 978-0-9570816-6-6
