Karel Martens
graduated from the Arnhem School of Art in 1961.
Since then he has worked as a freelance graphic designer, specialized in typography.
Alongside this, he has always made free (non-commis-sioned) graphic and three-dimensional work. Among his clients have been the publishers Van Loghum Slaterus (Arnhem) in the 1960s, and SUN (Nijmegen) in the years 1975–81.
As well as designing books and other printed items, he has designed stamps and telephone cards. He has also designed signs and typographic façades for a number of buildings. In 1993 Karel Martens was awarded the H.N. Werkman Prize for the design of the architectural magazine ‘Oase’. In 1996 he received the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art; as part of this prize, a monograph on his work was published: ‘Karel Martens: Printed Matter’. His work has been nominated several times at the Design Prize Rotterdam. In 1998 at the Leipzig Book Fair, ‘Karel Martens: Printed Matter’ was awarded the gold medal, as the best-designed book “in the whole world”.
Over the years his books have featured regularly in the annual Best-Designed Dutch Books competition. Karel Martens has taught graphic design since 1977. He started teaching at the Arnhem School of Art, followed by a teaching position at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. From 1997 onward he has been a critic in the graphic design department at Yale University, New Haven, USA. In 1998 he and Wigger Bierma founded the WT.
Armand Mevis
lives and works in Amsterdam, where he started a collaboration with Linda van Deursen after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1986. Mevis & Van Deursen have been working for clients in the cultural field, producing the new identity of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the identity and publications for fashion duo Viktor & Rolf, and numerous books on architecture and design. They also have worked on several Dutch cultural publications, including ‘Metropolis M’, and won the competition for the graphic identity for the City of Rotterdam in 2001 as a designated Cultural Capital of Europe. Their work has been shown in museums and educational institutions throughout the world. Mevis is a design critic at the Werkplaats Typografie (Workshop Typography), Arnhem and was a critic at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut until 2007.
Their collaboration has been documented in the book ‘Recollected Work: Mevis & Van Deursen’.
Maureen Mooren, lives and works in Amsterdam after graduating from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in 1996. From then on until 2007 she collaborated with Daniel van der Velden on a variety of projects for cultural clients, such as the bi-monthly architectural magazine Archis (from 2001 - 2004), the catalogue "For Real" for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, a 'passport' for the Salone del Mobile commissioned by Droog Design, stamps for the dutch postal services (TNT) and the graphic identity and poster campaigns for Holland Festival, an international performing arts festival; for which the duo was granted various awards – including First Prize at the Chaumont Poster Festival 2006. Their work has been exhibited among others at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Dutch Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. Their collaboration has been documented in the recently published book "These Words / Graphic". Since 2007 she runs her own studio to continue the work for the Holland Festival, she does posters and books for cultural institutions such as Marres in Maastricht, and 'If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution'. In 2007 She won the Dutch Theater Poster prize. She has been teaching at ArtEZ Academy of Arts, in Arnhem from 2001 to 2004.
Leonardo Sonnoli, graduated at the Isia of Urbino, lives and works between Trieste and Rimini.
He is currently partner of the Tassinari/Vetta design office.
He worked for several public and private institutions like the Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, the Mart of Rovereto, the Modern Art NAtional Gallery of Rome, the publishing house Electa.
He is member of the AGI- Alliance Graphique Internationale- being the national president.
Among the awards received, he has been prized with the silver medal at the Toyama Triennal Poster Festival, the first prize at the Hangzhou Biennal, the honour mention at the XIX Premio Compasso d’oro/Adi.
His works has been exhibited at the all’Art Directors’ Club of New York, at the Museum fur Gestaltung of Zurich, at the Grand Palais in Paris.
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