12 Jun 2014

Call for Applications Van Eyck Summer Design Academy

SUMMER DESIGN ACADEMY
THE WHY HOW WHEN WHERE & WHAT

VAN EYCK 17 – 24 August 2014

Deadline applications: 23 June 2014

'We don't see our work as art; we don't see our work as making beautiful things. It is the result of social movement. It is not fashion or a special view of art. We try to establish our connection with the social situation in our work … The answers to our problems must be the questions: Why, how, when where, what?'
— Paul Schuitema in the book 'What is a designer' by Norman Potter


The Van Eyck Summer Design Academy is a theory and practice based academic graphic design workshop in Maastricht, The Netherlands, under the guidance of Roosje Klap & Our Polite Society

Every day during this week, we will be working on a chapter for a publication in the renowned and well-equipped Charles Nypels Lab of the Van Eyck – Multiform institute for fine art, design and reflection. There will be presentations by external visiting designers and curators as well as a daily Reading Group. The week will result in a publication and an exhibition.

WHEN
17 August - 24 August 2014, Van Eyck, Maastricht (NL)

FOR WHOM
Professional (graphic) designers with Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent training and experience

HOW MUCH
€ 720,- incl. VAT (€ 595,- excl. VAT). This includes a fixed budget for materials, a welcome dinner, daily lunches, a concluding dinner and drink + publication and exhibition.

HOW TO APPLY
An application consists of:
1. the online application form
2. a PDF file containing the following parts:
a) a motivation letter including a starting statement (max. 500 words)
b) documentation of recent work (dating back no longer than 5 years, max. 20 works)
c) your resume (max. 2 pages)

To learn more: www.janvaneyck.nl

NB: The Summer Design Academy will only proceed if there is enough interest. Applicants will be notified by the end of June

Van Eyck – Multiform institute for fine art, design and reflection
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands
www.janvaneyck.nl

Roosje Klap (1973, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) owns a studio for visual communication, mainly graphic design and typography, which she has set up after her Graphic Design studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. The studio researches the experimental boundaries of custom fit design, peculiar yet collaborative. With Roosje Klap a typeface can be unreadable, a book can turn out to be a sculpture and a stamp can become a drawing-by-numbers-drawing: she has a strong affection for unorthodox type design. Solving the mystery of an unanswered question is what drives Roosje Klap.
Many of her projects involve close collaboration with specialists from different cultural backgrounds, such as artists, curators, architects, type designers and writers. The research-based interdisciplinary design approach enables Roosje Klap to challenge the boundaries of graphic design and create new forms of communication.
She recently designed two stamp series for PostNL as well as the new 2 euro coin for the Netherlands. For her design of the Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists and for her Rijksakademie Annual Report 2011 she received a European Design Award.
She also works as an Advising Researcher at the post-academic institute Van Eyck in Maastricht (NL), as well as head of the Graphic Design Department (together with Niels Schrader) at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (NL), where she implements what she calls 'affective design'.
www.roosjeklap.nl/

Our Polite Society is a graphic design studio based in Amsterdam/The Netherlands and Stockholm/Sweden, formed in 2008 by Jens Schildt (SE) and Matthias Kreutzer (D). In close collaboration with their clients and with a passionate interest in typography, structure, and method, they design (typo) graphic identities, books, magazines, posters, exhibitions, record sleeves, (dingbat) fonts, websites. Jens is currently teaching at Konstfack University, Nyckelviksskolan and Grafikskolan in Stockholm, Matthias is teaching in the foundation year of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam.
www.ourpolitesociety.net