Ons Huis (our home)

Compilation album

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Ons Huis (our home) is a luxuriously executed album, that can grow over time.
Every time the Hendrick de Keyser association opens a new Museum House, a new accompanying section appears that you can collect in the album.
On a map, you can mark which houses you have visited. With the bookmark, the timeline is always at hand. There is also a section that relates to your own living situation and your dreams with regard to housing. On the notepad you can write down memories, new insights and ideas. In the pouch, situated at the back of the album, you can store postcards, clippings, etc.
Ons Huis is available on the website of the Hendrick de Keyser association.

Product photography: Justina Nekrašaitė

The Cube Calendar

Shaping time

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‘With this beautiful design-calendar, Philip Stroomberg has added an innovative twist to the concept of the tear-off calendar. Not a messy sheaf of paper hanging from a nail on your wall, but a compact object that subtly changes shape in your hands: by tearing off a card each day, you reveal the workings of time.’

The Cube Calendar has won many international design awards, including a German Design Award and Bronze at the European Design Awards. For more information on The Cube Calendar, see: www.thecubecalendar.com. You can also use this site to buy the latest version of the calendar.

Product photography by Dirk Wolf and Studio M

Monddood

Political prisoners in Loevestein Castle

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Together with Martin Sämmer of MAF, I devised a unique approach for the written information in this exhibition. All textual information is initially censored; if a visitor wants to read information, they have to put in extra effort.
Immediately upon entering, it is already hitting the mark. For example, the hefty projection screen in the entrance section of the exhibition resembles a mega-sized censored textpage, no word except the exhibition title is legible. Text boards and display cases have transparent overlays topped with black bars that, except for a few keywords, cover the entire content. The books written by the political prisoners in the exhibition are also censored. A visitor must first lift an overlay in order to read the boards and books.
In the attic of the castle, in the protest space, you can see a collage of protest posters and an inviting bright yellow table. Visitors can take a seat at this table and take action themselves by writing a message on a card and depositing it in the mailbox. On the tabletop I wrote by hand an eye-catching invitation to do so.
The large poster wall in the last room depicts former political prisoners who were released with the help of Amnesty International.

Photography: Mike Bink, MAF, Stroomberg

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