We like to create design that takes advantage of all opportunities in web communication. We like to design and build web sites where visitors can contribute to the content by reacting to it. An inviting …
Europan 10! at NAi
On Sunday 17 January we went to the Nai in Rotterdam for the awards for this years Europan 10! We worked with Novak and Europan on this years anniversary digital edition. The Europan digital edition was included in the 10th …
HO LOL HO
Hexaplex is taking a holiday until the first week of the new year. Best wishes from us for 2010!
cyclic! bicycle art & design
Cyclic is a bicycle » art » media happening in Amsterdam celebrating cycling culture. Exhibiting bicycle inspired artwork, design, performance, film screening, styling and a meet up & ride. Cheryl initiated cyclic! together with Vera van de Nieuwenhof.
www.cyclicamsterdam.blogspot.com…
Typografica exhibition
My first stop was The Typographica exhibition at Kemistry Gallery. Once there I asked Alistair (from Kemistry) if he thought he could define …
British Design process
With an interest in the influence of culture during the design process. This weekend I am at The London Design Festival and I will be asking the people I meet ‘What is the British design process?’
I have …
Dissociation exhibition from club internet
Dissociation, curated by Harm van den Dorpel
www.clubinternet.org
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works by Samuel Beckett, Charles Broskoski, Harm van den Dorpel, Ida Ekblad, Thomas Galloway, Jodi, Tobias Madison, Ilia Ovechkin, Christopher Pappas, Hayley Silverman, Ola …
Greetings from…
This summer we have been working with Freek Lomme and SKOR on a location based project in the south of Holland. A wonderful time of year to be visiting the countryside and making hay. The location …
Royal Palace Open!
After almost a year of collaboration with Vanessa van Dam and Stichting Paleis Amsterdam, we succeeded in getting the the first Royal Palace Amsterdam website online for the public. To coincide with the opening, these posters are up and around …
Found one!
Sent from Micha’s I-phone
This one has been in my inbox since 2008…
A joy to find street art that has escaped the Dutch stringent street cleaners in Eindhoven.
Original by Erosie …
NS online railway services
Recently Cheryl enjoyed being part of the Internet team at NS (Dutch Railways). Designing and implementing just one of their new online services. NS recently launched ‘E-ticket’ service as well as ‘Journey Planner Xtra’….
Book launch
Saturday just gone, I went to a book launch. The publication ‘Joseph Churchward’ by David Bennewith “compiles archive material, correspondence, realised and un-realised design work, alphabet designs and in-dispersed with essays …
New and improved: Items
Items magazine is has started the new year with a new editor – Max Bruinsma – and a new design – by Thonik.
Thonik asked Hexaplex to help redo the Items website in the same style …
Bouw in Beeld prijs 2009
We are pleased to see that Krista van der Niet and Stefanie Grätz have both been nominated for this years photography prize Bouw in Beeld prijs 2009. We designed …
Royal Palace: Under Construction
After collaboratiing with Vanessa van Dam for the last 6 months, we are close to completing the new site for the Royal Palace Amsterdam.
We can learn a lot from collaborating with …
R A Z Z L E D A Z Z L E
This is the work from a great Wellington based Designer Jay Johnson, for his online portfolio he used the unlimited design template we released and made it even better!! Enjoy his work.
My favourite …
The Death of Print vs Viva La Print is out now.
Fluromag interviewed us for Issue seven: The Death of Print vs Viva La Print. Go out and find a copy or you can download the digital version (pdf).
english breakfast radio
www.englishbreakfast.nl
WYSIWYG
“WYSIWYG is also an ‘old’ 1980s/1990s paradigm that doesn’t apply to most contemporary digital media platforms anymore. Software like Dreamweaver basically tries to give graphic designers an equivalent to older tools like Quark XPress, and is based on a fundamental …
Is not… authors blog, public diary and sounding board…
We hope this design will not only create a platform for the online author, but open, provoke and support emerging dialogue between author and reader. The identity comes from referencing all the Dobsons listed on wikipedia. All the …
∞ unlimited edition
This week we gently released unlimited edition. The design for this publication/blog is opensource. Unlimited has a clean structure and uses visual simplicity as a starting point for other designers. Below (starting with the original template) are some of …
Book *Groninger* out!
Solo exhibition from Stefanie Grätz Post Middendorp Commission 2007 and the presentation of her book Groninger opens tomorrow at the Noorderlicht gallery in Groningen.
book concept: Stefanie …
London Design Festival / News flash!
This week we are in London for the London Design Festival. Thursday night we will meet our friends from Exhibit after almost a year of collaboration! …
Shiny happy people
This week I am mostly wearing red and learning all about shiny websites at lostboys in Amsterdam….
It’s nice that
This week we met up with Will and Alex from design blog it’s nice that. They were in Amsterdam visiting Job Wouters aka Letman to get him to sign last months ‘If You Could’ prints. …
Living by Design
Colman Prentis & Varley installed a computer to write copy.
They programmed the strategy.
A minute later the card fell into the tray at the other end.
It read,
“I am leaving to start my own agency”
From Living by Design, 1978, Pentagram. ISBN: 0 …
“Do you want to be my friend?”
Girl Geek Dinner
ARPANET (the internet’s predecessor ), nodes, a network of networks: centralized, decentralized and distributed, the Amsterdam internet exchange and finally… why was the quality of the European cup stream changeable?
These were just some of …
Print on demand
Print your own copy from our Unlimited edition ‘Print Screen, Screenprint’. This Unlimited edition uses content from our blog and projects, because it is generated by the database, the content is dynamic and unlimited…
Print your own copy …
There are only 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand binary and those who don’t.
Online magazines
Publishing online fashion magazines was what we did this term at crosslab with the students at the wdka in Rotterdam.
Online Magazines
Fashion geeks (Crosslab workshop) …
Hexa colours to binary
1111.1111.0000.0000.0000.0000
1111.1111.0000.0000
Find out the Hexadecimal value of colours at:
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
The skater, the violinist and the pop star
Russia won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade; and it still isn’t fair or so they say…
-”I thought it was a boring song. I would rather have had Ukraine or Armenia win,” said Alexaudra Marij from Sweden, who was …
The Terminal at Modefabriek
Charlotte Wooning will both be presenting and selling their work this summer at ‘The Terminal’, a platform for designers at Modefabriek 2008. Hexaplex launched the portfolio site for Charlotte at the end of 2007 and completed the website …
“If computer vision technology can be used to detect when you look like a terrorist, criminal, or other “undesirable” – why not when you look like a rock star?”
At the My [public] space opening last night…
A video performance that blurs public and private space: SVEN (Surveillance Video Entertainment Network) detects unknown faces on the street that match the facial expressions of rock stars, …
While the boss is away…
Micha is in Italy… back on 13.05.08 ;-)
www.dancing-baby.net
Dont miss this special offer
Plug multiplier for only £19.99…
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CC or not CC
http://www.spex.de/../MeineKunstwurdeungefragtzweckentfremdetundalleswasichdassbekamisteinlausigesCrystalCastles-T-Shirt.html
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/../crystal-castles-caught-up-in-artwork-controversy
new developments: http://www.spex.de/440/magazin.html
p.s. just coincidenental I saw that the “Merok vs. Rough Trade” ep featuring the Crystal Castles also used an existing still from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “El Topo” as …
K109 DJ Karl
“They are the games of our times. Those games in a way changed the world…. They had written a politically incorrect dialogue… I loved it, [particularly] in a time when …
No fun
Content not entertainment. We were discussing what we do differently to other interactive/web studios and designers out there. Again we came to a similar conclusion that we like working with textual and visual content, designing systems and aesthetics with the …
Crosslab
We were invited by the Willem de Kooning’s crosslab to teach the fashion students, so now we can be found teaching in Rotterdam on Thursdays until the end of July….
Website for designer Vanessa van Dam
Vanessa called us and asked if we wanted to design her online portfolio. The site displays, condenses and makes easy to navigate, the multitude of work from the last ten years, the site also cross references collaborations, clients and mediums …
New studio opens to friends
Dear friends and foes,
Cheryl Gallaway & Micha Bakker are proud to present Hexaplex. You are cordially invited to visit the new studio and have a drink with us. Next Tuesday 11th December between …
Hexaplex at Picnic 2007
Picnic event ‘Come Out and Play’ invited us to develop an interactive street game as part of the festival. The game Fuse Invasion gets players …
Designers new role
A blog entry from on www.design.nl written by Cheryl whilst at Solar in response the exhibition.
“Alongside digitalization and the personal computer diaspora, we are now at a point were the introduction of Internet in the nineties is …
I like Big Type, I cannot lie
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