Author Archives: Cheryl

Itchy Scratchy

Itchy Scratchy is an exhibition of photographs. The title is taken from this quote by Charlotte Cotton, where she describes the pictures which break photographers out of familiar ways of working. The exhibition affirms the role that happy accidents and… Continue reading

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Itchy Scratchy

Itchy ScratchyHexaplex collaborated with Permanent Gallery on the online Itchy Scratchy Gallery. The title is taken from this quote by Charlotte Cotton, where she describes the pictures which break photographers out of familiar ways of working. The exhibition affirms the role that happy accidents and epiphanies play in creative activity. Many thanks to Laura Mousavi from [...] Continue reading

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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 the British design process, he didn’t immediately feel qualified to answer but kindly talked me through t… Continue reading

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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 also posted this question at the very nice o… Continue reading

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Dissociation exhibition from club internet

Dissociation, curated by Harm van den Dorpel www.clubinternet.org Click from these artworks in the imitation browser toolbar. works by Samuel Beckett, Charles Broskoski, Harm van den Dorpel, Ida Ekblad, Thomas Galloway, Jodi, Tobias Madison, Ilia Ovech… Continue reading

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Vélo Silkscreen posters

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Hexaplex 2009-09-09 12:05:21

Come see us and say hello… Werkplaats Boek & Steen Wenslauerstraat 16-2 1053 BA Amsterdam Continue reading

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The Last New

The Last New is an independent graphic design company founded in 2008. Keeping office in Amsterdam, operating in the creative sector.
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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 based project will be launched this September… Continue reading

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Type design, Verdana, legibility & technology

“The typefaces you normally read have been designed to be typeset digitally and printed on paper. But as more people read more type off computer screens, they’re unfortunately reading a type designed in another era for another medium. That&… Continue reading

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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 Amsterda… Continue reading

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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 in 2008. Update!!! (May 29th) Who would of thought I would fi… Continue reading

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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’. The the… Continue reading

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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 surround… Continue reading

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The Royal Palace Foundation

We are proud to present the first website designed for the Amsterdam Royal Palace Foundation. Resulting from a long and successful collaboration with Vanessa van Dam and Marianna van der Zwaag (Head of Cultural Service Amsterdam Royal Palace Foundation… Continue reading

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Global ‘net’working

Bringing a global network together online. Introducing Reach Global Design Research Network. Continue reading

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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 a site for Stefanie last year and with Krista the year before (whilst working together at… Continue reading

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STBY: Social Research for Service Design and Innovation

We have been working with Stby: a social research company based in London and Amsterdam (specialising in service design and innovation). Hexaplex designed and developed the Stby website so that that the company can share their work, observations, thoug… Continue reading

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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 poster: “Ain’t nuthin new for trash like … Continue reading

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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). Continue reading

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The Haka 1922

Keep an eye on the guy forth from the left give the Haka a dance move with his head… Continue reading

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english breakfast radio

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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 … Continue reading

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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 Dobsons that this… Continue reading

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∞ 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… Continue reading

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Monthly blogazine

Streative branding in Amsterdam approached us to develop the identity, design and implementation for Sidewalk Talk: a monthly online magazine. Continue reading

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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 Grätz and Hans Gremmen photographs: Stefanie Grätz text: … Continue reading

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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!  Attending the opening of their current exhibition The Desire of Impermanence. Read more about the ex… Continue reading

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Shiny happy people

This week I am mostly wearing red and learning all about shiny websites at lostboys in Amsterdam. shine, shine shine… Continue reading

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Documentary photographer: Stefanie Grätz

Realistic documentary photographer Stefanie Grätz works exclusively in colour, and often through the medium of a series or group of images. Grätz aims “not to encapsulate or reveal some single ‘essential’ notion of the subject, but rather t… Continue reading

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Blink

Blink is back well in firefox it is :-) Continue reading

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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. We discussed how the blog has resulted in them travel… Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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