Novak graphic design

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admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:30:48 +0000

Welcome to our new portfolio website.
We made a selection of our work from the past years. We couldn’t put everything in of course, but is a good selection to show what we do and how we work: mainly print, but some nice examples of screen based and spatial design as well.

Many thanks to all commissioners that trusted us with their valuable ideas and belongings to develop a product in the world wide web of graphic design.

Hope to see you soon.. love,
Novak

Conversation Pieces / EKWC

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:45:44 +0000

Conversation Pieces
We were invited by Krijn Christiaansen and Cathelijne Montens to collaborate on a project for the Wallace Gallery in London. Together with Joris Landman, Goele Dewanckel, Atelier NL, Marina de Campo and K C C M a series of ‘Conversation Pieces’ in ceramics was created for a fundraiser auction for the Wallace Gallery. Five weeks of ceramic making in the EKWC in Den Bosch.. a great place with great staff.

The concept was to translate pottery objects from Dutch Masters 17th century paintings to real life, put them together to form a new composition and then add the illusion of light and shadow by glazing the objects as if they were standing in a striking light; just like in the paintings they came from.

The work is still in progress.. several objects were damaged in the kiln and a new skin of white glazing will be applied the coming month.

December 2011
5 objects in ceramics:
The virtuous woman by Nicolaes Maes
The deliverance of St. Peter by David Teniers
A hermit at prayer by Gerard Dou
The village alchemist by Jan Steen
Merrymaking in a tavern by Jan Steen
All images of original paintings:
© Wallace Collection

ekwc.nl
krijnchristiaansen.nl
cathelijnemontens.com
wallacecollection.org

Related projects:
- K C C M identity

Haiiro

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:14:46 +0000

Haiiro
A photographic series in Karianne Bueno style. We collaborated on the design, which turned out to be a 15 page leporello inside a linnen bound hard cover.
The title on the cover is an adhesive applied in an embossed frame.

For De Volkskrant, Merel Bem wrote a four-star review (pdf link). “She does it again..”.

‘Haiiro’ meaning ‘grey’ in Japanese, with images from this country, Japan:
“..the work is intended to convey the emotion of longing for elsewhere. In concrete terms, the photos include cityscapes, koi fish, surburban power lines, and natural settings of trees, crops, and oceans. The artist accompanies the photos with a short text, in vignette form, offering us insight only into her emotional state as she experiences the world around her, from an alienated perspective.” – GUP magazine

The book is launched during Paris Photo at OffPrint and celebrated with an exhibition at Liefhertje en de Grote Witte Reus in The Hague.

November 2011
Printed linnen cover, 15 page FC offset leporello, cover and insert bound with elastic band

kariannebueno.nl

Other Karianne Bueno projects:
- Asper

PPPPPPlateau

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:07:44 +0000

PPPPPPlateau
“Un style n’est pas une structure signifante, ni une organisation refléchie, ni une inspiration spontanée, ni une orchestration (…) c’est un agencement, un agencement d’énonciation. Un style c’est arriver a bégayer dans sa proper langue. (…) être comme un étranger dans sa propre langue. Faire une ligne de fuite.”
– Gilles Deleuze dans Entretiens

This is the poster slash reader for Sophie Krier’s project in Luxembourg’s Plateau Kirchberg.
Several artists were invited to intersect the public domain in the country’s capital city. Atelier Sophie Krier created a pièce sonore, inspired by Luxemburg’s culture.

2 colour offset,
420×594 mm
August 2011

ateliersophiekrier.nl

Public Space

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:01:50 +0000

Public Space
A book, published by SUN, about ‘Cultural / Political Theory; Street Photography’ an interpretation by George Baird.

This book was originally supposed to be small: A6+. When decided it should be bigger, a white frame space was added around the existing lay-out, leaving the lay-out as it was.
A great street photography folio is printed in FC in the otherwise all black printed book.

July 2011
170×240 mm, 164 pages

sunarchitecture.nl

Other SUN projects:
- Europan 10! / 10x Europan
- Actions: What You Can Do With the City
- Statements

Straight Lines

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:56:59 +0000

Straight Lines
A project overview booklet for Studio Dave Keune: high quality interior and product design.
The booklet is printed in one colour, black. A seperate sheet is printed seperately in full colour. The images matching the black images in the booklet.
When inserted in the book, little details of a product/project are highlighted by the FC insert.

April 2011
64 pages, A6 booklet, seperate FC sheet for inserts.

davekeune.com

Other Dave Keune projects:
- Standard Primitives

ARCAM in de Brakke Grond

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:47:53 +0000

ARCAM in de Brakke Grond
Every two months a coupled lecture is organised by ARCAM. Architects are invited to talk and tell about their fascinations, inspirations and their love for the craft.
The first speaker is invited by ARCAM, the second is appointed by the first speaker.

Novak created a design concept in which coupled images are consequently displayed in PMS overprint. These images can be conventional portfolio based, but inspiration and quote based as well.. resulting in a bit more poetry in the series.

2010 — present

arcam.nl

Other ARCAM projects:
- Roots
- Coast Wards
- Gouden A.A.P. 2010

Standard Primitives

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:43:01 +0000

Standard Primitives
On show in Milan, Standard Primitives, the new collection of modular furniture objects by studio Dave Keune, consists of different bright and pure, interchangeable elements. Standard Primitives doesn’t prescribe how things should be, but how things could be.

Novak made a rotation offset tabloid as catalogue. Non-bound, the tabloid can be taken apart as seperate sheets. Folded they express the interchangeable character of the objects: making new combinations.

April 2011
Rotation tabloid, 24 pages FC
Exhibition lettering

davekeune.com

Other Dave Keune projects:
- Straight Lines

Other Salone di Mobile projects:
- If This Is Now, I Am Here

‘If This Is Now, I Am Here’

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‘If This Is Now, I Am Here’
Roel Huisman exhibited his new products at the Salone di Mobile 2010 in Milan: ‘Assembly Seats’, ‘Escapement Rocker’ and ‘Shade for Shelter’.
Each product had a sheet, all of them to be bundled in a pre-printed enveloppe.

April 2011
roelhuisman.nl

Other Roel Huisman projects:
- Visual identity

Other Salone di Mobile projects:
- Standard Primitives

Items eindexamenexpositie / Modebelofte

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:34:48 +0000

Items eindexamenexpositie 2010 /
Modebelofte 2010
Every year during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven design magazine Items puts together a selection of promising art school graduates.
Kusters & Montens asked us to cooperate on their design for this exhibition.
We did the typography, signing and made some sort of wallpaper for the exhibition modules.

October 2010

kusters-montens.com

Photos: Annemarie Lips

Other Dutch Design Week projects:
- Onomatopee 37, Verboden te lachen
- Onomatopee 26, LiftOff

Studio Roel Huisman

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:30:13 +0000

Studio Roel Huisman
For Amsterdam based theatre, interior and product designer Roel Huisman a ‘bussiness’ identity was developed existing of an A5 self-adhesive, instead of a conventional letterhead, bussiness card and enveloppe.

The illustration on the sticker is not shaped by print, but by front slit in the material – resulting in a collection of tear-offs for building, composing and construction.

roelhuisman.nl

Kop der veur!

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:26:01 +0000

Kop der veur!
Photographer Jan-Dirk van der Burg was commissioned by the province of Groningen to make a series. He chose to document the elections in local Grongen city and surrounding villages.

The text-part of this book is designed like a pamphlet and printed in 3 sepereate ways: three different colours – pick one up and your political choice is made.

September 2009
Silk screen cover around FC wrap-around. edition of 3x 500 ex.

jandirk.com

K C C M

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:22:07 +0000

K C C M
We came up with the title for this project ourselves, while it actually is a duo-identity for product designers Krijn Christiaansen & Cathelijne Montens.

Instead of conventional offset, we made a series of stamps for both of them: 5 for Krijn and 6 for Cathelijne. All of them to be combined with the pre-printed A4 letterhead: a green square for Krijn and a reddish circle for Cathelijne.
In this way, the identity becomes ‘storytelling’.

July 2007
A4 stationary, bussiness cards, enveloppes. 5+6 storystamps + an address stamp

krijnchristiaansen.nl
cathelijnemontens.com

Other Krijn Christiaansen & Cathelijne Montens projects:
- Boerenverstand

Boerenverstand

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:02:12 +0000

Boerenverstand
‘Boerenverstand’ in de pers:
Sjarel Ex (directeur Boijmans Van
Beuningen) noemde ‘Boerenverstand’ als een van zijn top 3 van favoriete Nederlandse ontwerpen aller tijden:
‘Wat me aanspreekt is de koppeling van traditie met de huidige tijd.’
(uit: Trouw, 26 september 2008)

Designers Krijn Christiaansen and Cathelijne Montens did a very pretty and clever project on a Dutch landmark in rural landscapes: wooden gates. Collecting old wood materials from farmer’s barns and sheds and bringing them together to form a new typology with the same shape, is what they did. And it turned out really well.
This book is an overview of the project’s process, and – a book in a book: photographic essay by Nicole Segers and Irene van der Linde.

June 2010
200×260 mm, 74 pages, FC + K offset
bound with ‘open spine’ and spine covered in resin epoxy, just like the gates themselves.
Published by CBK Utrecht (Wout Hoogendijk) and Landschap Erfgoed Utrecht

krijnchristiaansen.nl
cathelijnemontens.com

Other Krijn Christiaansen and Cathelijne Montens projects:
- K C C M, visual identity

Lost Track

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:51:22 +0000

Raoul Kramer’s ‘Lost Track’
awarded with a special mention at the Dutch Doc Awards for best documentary photography project 2011.
Congratulations Raoul!

“De afwezigheid in het project van Raoul Kramer bevindt zich niet in de fotografie maar in de werkelijkheid. Er bestaan nog foto’s van de aanleg van de Birma spoorlijn, maar in het landschap zelf is de spoorweg bijna verdwenen. De rails zijn niet meer in gebruik over grote delen van het traject. Kramer legde met zijn camera de sporen van de spoorweg vast; die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog door krijgsgevangenen en dwangarbeiders is aangelegd en het leven koste aan 100.000 mensen. Van de spoorlijn is ontluisterend weinig overgebleven; vooral dat maken de foto’s duidelijk. In het schitterende, ingetogen boek Lost Track dat Kramer van zijn project maakte, laten de nieuwe foto’s vooral de waarde van de oude zien. Geschiedenis en hoe je die vastlegt, het verleden en hoe je dat terug kunt halen; Kramer laat zien wat mogelijk is en wat niet mogelijk is. Iedereen die geschiedenis studeert, zou dit boek moeten zien. Iedereen zou dit boek moeten zien.”
— Jury essay (excerpt), Bianca Stigter

Full colour offset, wrap-around cover,
May 2011

raoulkramer.nl
neolux.info

‘No Be Today Story, O!’

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:41:57 +0000

‘No be today story, O!’
Contemporary artist Otobong Nkanga wished to publish her set of drawings in a book. Given the character of this work – four titled sets of seperate drawings, of which some forming a panoramic image, we proposed to print them seperately as bundles instead of bound.
The four sets are bundled in printed sewn ‘folders’ and inserted in a silk screened carrier (enveloppe).

Full colour offset in black printed
folders, Singer sewn.
Silk screened enveloppe
420×594 mm
August 2011

otobongnkanga.com

Asper

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:36:20 +0000

‘Asper’

“I lose my way in your small house, which in my dreams is infinitely large, and much darker than in reality. The rooms are deserted, cold, with cobwebs hanging from the windows. It smells of dampness and mouldering wood. I feel lonely as I awake. Aren’t you ever afraid? Of the darkness above your meadows, of the ghosts in your rooms?”
(From “Dear Martha”, original in Dutch)

Asper is a small village in Belgium. Photographer Karianne Bueno spent lots of time there making a series of small town rural life in this village in the woods. A pretty booklet, 104 pages, 216×154 mm. January 2010. Published by Schaden.com and nominated for ‘Best Book of the Year 2010’, by PhotoEye.

kariannebueno.nl

Other Karianne Bueno projects:
- Haiiro

Europan 10! / 10x Europan

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:31:24 +0000

Europan 10! / 10x Europan
In a collaboration of, on average, twenty European countries, Europan organises a competition once every two years in the field of architecture, urban design and landscape.

At the NAi, Europan Netherlands celebrated their 10th edition with a bound book, an exhibition on the prize winners and an exhibition on the history of the competition. Together with spatial designers Kusters & Montens we made the identity for this.

The book, with gold foil on the inside and outside of the cover and a ‘floating’ block. Invites, flyers, a rotation offset tabloid, siging, lettering and 30 A0 posters.

December 2009
Icw Kusters & Montens and Martine Mathijsen
Published by SUN publishers

kusters-montens.com
martinemathijsen.nl

photos: Theo Bos

Other Europan projects:
- International Forum of Results

Verboden te lachen / Laughing Prohibited

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:25:26 +0000

Onomatopee 37: Verboden te lachen / Laughing Prohibited
Onomatopee icw Dave Keune organised this exhibition during the Eindhoven Dutch Design Week 2009.
Several designers were selected whose work contain a certain amount of humour.

With: Jorre van Ast, Daniel Eatock, Atelier van Lieshout, Erwin Wurm, Oooms, Ted Noten, Martí Guixé, Lara de Greef, Anthony Kleinepier, Helmut Smits, Bas van Beek, Haim Steinbach

October 2009
Booklet, invitation, silk screend poster, signing

onomatopee.net
davekeune.com

Other Onomatopee projects:
- LiftOff

Other Dutch Design Week projects:
- Items eindexamenexpositie 2010 /
Modebelofte 2010

Arcam Gouden A.A.P. 2010

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:17:36 +0000

Arcam Gouden A.A.P. 2010
Every year Arcam awards the best architecture project realised in Amsterdam that year. Wiel Arets was awarded with his housing project in Amsterdam-Osdorp.

All projects were exhibited at Arcam. Together with interior designer Dave Keune we made an ‘all-paper’ exhibition design: cardboard modules creating one large ‘island’ on which models were shown. Cardboard ‘walls with shelves’ on which the texts and images were displayed. And paper lamps designed by Paula Arntzen from the ceiling.

arcam.nl
davekeune.com
paulaarntzen.nl

Other Arcam projects:
- Arcam in de Brakke Grond
- Kustwaarts / Coast Wards
- Roots