De Verlengde Willemsbrug is a border between the new and the old, the Utopian ideas for the rebuild and the destructive appearance of the gabber culture. Two totally different identity’s in the same public area. This makes the Schizophrenic power of Rotterdam.

I want to show the schizophrenic power of the city. The power of clashing culture, identity’s and architecture and a city who sometimes loses it’s connection with reality.

The essay is a introduction towards the final work

De Verlengde Willemsbrug is a border between the new and the old, the Utopian ideas for the rebuild and the destructive appearance of the gabber culture. Two totally different identity’s in the same public area. This makes the Schizophrenic power of Rotterdam.

I want to show the schizophrenic power of the city. The power of clashing culture, identity’s and architecture and a city who sometimes loses it’s connection with reality.

Poem used that interacts with the space around the bridge: Rondeau in vier dele by Antjie Krog

[...]
van toevlug van uitvlug
van uitvlug van skeidslyn
van skeidslyn as lyn tussen orde en chaos
van buitenste buite
van binne
[...]

A serie of portraits that are made by converting image into sound and the sound back into a image. The serie is part of a installation of two computers. One sender and one receiver. The sender is deconstructing an image pixel by pixel into sound and sending that to the receiver at the other end of a room or space. The receiver turns than the received sound back into a image.

This project was part of the OF_Lab workshop in Breda by Zach Lieberman.

Together with Jasper van Loenen, Sander Sturing and Tiemen Rapati.

Zine about the spam mail from Kazim Obaid Kazim and the story behind his facts in his mail.

You may be surprised to receive my email, my urgent need for a foreignpartner has made me contact you for this transaction. I am a banker byprofession from United Arab Emirates and currently with the Auditing and Accounting unit of our bank.

I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds amounting to US$9.5 million with our bank by a deceased customer Late Mr. Frank Batres who died in a plane crash along with his family.

I am inviting you to join me in this business deal so the money can beshared between us in the ratio of 50/40, while 10% will be mapped out forexpenses. If you agree to my business proposal let me know . I will getback to you with further details on the transfer. reply me in my private email: kazimkazim2009@yahoo.com

Respectfully.

Yours,
Kazim Obaid Kazim

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift is a quote out Noam Chomsky's book Chomsky on democracy & education. The whole quote is actually "Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal". My view on this quote is that in our society there is no real freedom if you don't have the power to buy services and products produced by our society. There is said our society is a free society but if you don't have the means to move freely in our society and can't do what you want, it isn't a free opportunity. Then the suggestion is a gift from the devil.

A typeface inspired by the poem ‘mi have een droom’ of Ramsey Nasr.

The typeface is based on the Times New Roman, Helvetica and the four largest languages of the world. Each letter and number has the transliteration letter from Hebrew, Chinese, Cyrillic and Arabian.

The Iconomy is an project about the influence of an building on the spot there build. One of the best example is the Guggenheim in Bilbao. When it was build it helped to redevelop the city from a poor and crashing port town to a new cultural hotspot in the surroundings. And the question for my research was if this is also the case with the top 5 of the world tallest buildings. And i discovered that the buildings are more an ego-trip of the developers and company's behind it than a helping tool for a redeveloping of the surroundings.

The Graduation website for 2008/2009. We wanted to let the site feel like a digital archive for all the faculty's of the academy. Therefor we put all the students and there work on one long reel where you can scroll trough.

Together with Beer Damen.
Programmed by Jasper van Loenen

A Poster designed at my internship for Casa.

Invitation cards designed at my internship for Casa.

Small zine about the need to take a picture at a tourist attraction accompanied with a tekst of Walter Benjamin.

Poster for a party.

What will there be happening when you insert a Guggenheim Bilbao-style in the slums of Caracas, Venuzuela.

Una cultura para los cinco dedos! A culture for the five fingers. What will happen if you insert a cultural landmark in a poor area of the city? The five fingers are the five main slums, or 'informal cities' of Caracas, spread out in the mountains around the city. Would Caracas change just like Bilbao if a major international cultural landmark such as a Guggenheim museum would land in it?
...superando retos! 'Suprpassing challenges'. That is what the Guggenheim, and its subsequent transformation of the city, has done to Bilbao. Surpassing the challenges of an ageing industrial city, changing it into a global cultural hotspot by meanss of spectaular destination architecture. Or would, rather, Caracas change the Guggenheim?

Published in HTV No.72
A Democratic Brand Paradox

Fictional serie of posters for the play Malpensa.

A serie of five T-shirts combined on one actual T-shirt. The shirt works like an old Panini book, collect all the images and make a new image on the shirt.

Together with Stefan Schäfer and Klaas Melenhorst.

Workshop given by Project Projects.

A poster merging two subjects. The war in chad and the takeover of Yahoo by Google or Microsoft.

Together with Jasper van Loenen.

A book with five different design views on one short story.

An abstract experimental typeface that uses the frequent use of the letters in the dutch alphabet to calculate the incline of the letter.

A different way to show the Reuters RRS news feed. Time based, geographic based and frequenty based.

The Reuters RSS Feed interactive version.

A new way to navigate trough the Rietveld building of the Academy in Arnhem. The navigation is based on the different 'time zones' in the building. The zones are there because all the clocks tell different times of the day.

A interactive infographic about a possible relation between the number of internet users and the number of MacDonalds in a country.

The Mac versus The Web interactive version.

An abstract representation of my Itunes library. The library is spitted in on the one hand the legal songs and on other the illegal songs. Each bar is a song and the thickness represents the play-count of each song.

Every student gets assigned three different subjects; a typographical detail, a graphic designer and a typeface. Design for every subject a spread as a proposition for a typography manual. The results will be printed and made into an actual publication. My three subjects; The letter G - Paul Renner - Avenir.

Coverdesign: Dimitri van Loenen

Place a Caslon P on page 16 and make it logical. I took the map of the berlin subway because i knew there where a lot of stations with the letter P. And the P in page 16 became the station in Potsdam, the reason to make it a different typeface than the stations in Berlin.

A reader for art-history with different texts and related images. Text and image are subtracted from each other.

An experimental newspaper that works as a newspaper when you open it. Than the size works as a normal tabloid format. And it feels like a newspaper.

A visual essay about the post-communist Moscow.

PH-PCF is a mix between visual essay about car-lovers and a text about the rituals of a para-jumper.

A political portrait about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. as well as a poster for a fictional exposition for the photographer. Ahmadinejad is a president that was elected without a real campaign. But a campaign made by the people.

Documentation from the workshop with Sulki+Min and Hans Gremmen.

Together with Dimitri van Loenen, Beer Damen, Erik De Graaff, Miriam Fuselier, Tim Heijmans, Isabelle Vaverka, Anne Sijmons, Daniel Melse and Sasha Renkas

A small zine about the summer of rave back in the late 80's.

Bart van Haren
www.weesontwerper.nl
bwt.vanharen@gmail.com

2005 - 2009
Bachelor Graphic Design
ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design
Arnhem

project "The Caracas effect" published in htv nr.72 - a democratic brand paradox

Internship
Accu Grafisch ontwerpers
Arnhem

2009 - now
Master Graphic Design
AKV|ST. Joost
Breda

Anne Haenni
Anne Sijmons
Beer Damen
Charlie Berendsen
Dimitri van Loenen
Isabelle Vaverka
Ivo Rietveld
Sasha Renkas
Klaas Melenhorst
Martine Mathijsen
Matteo Venet
Miriam Fuselier
Jasper van Loenen
Renzo Mol
Stefan Schaefer
Versch Ontwerp
Bureau d'Etudes
Catalogtree
Hans Gremmen
Lust
Martijn van Boven
Metahaven
Sulki+Min
Thomas Buxo
Accu Grafisch Ontwerpers