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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 Europan publication as well on touchscreen display during the exhibition.
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
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 online/offline designers publication The Incidental. Hopefully some thoughts will be [...]
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Werkplaats Boek & Steen
Wenslauerstraat 16-2
1053 BA Amsterdam
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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…
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 Amsterdam to advertise the opening and the new website. Thanks to my mate Mike who [...]
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 find a brand spanking new one so soon on Bricklane, London…
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 NS site has one of the largest and tidiest site maps we have ever come across…
Send us your links to [...]
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 by setting up a quick interim site using html, css and javascript.
See: Items.nl
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 Solar Initiative). You can see the websites and their work [...]
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).
∞ 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 the first emerging designs…
More people using the unlimited design…
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 exhibition as part of the design festival.
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 traveling to meet people and experiencing the tangible works that [...]
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 85331 396 2
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 here…
and here are some we made earlier.
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)
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 for Anneloes this spring. Read more about the event and the designers presenting at modefabriek.nl
Graduation collection Anneloes [...]
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 using a system of keywords.
www.vanessavandam.nl
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 17 – 19 hours
We hope to see you there, let us know…
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 use a mobile phone and street art in the city of Amsterdam to create, collect and fuse symbols, that they find at fixed geographical locations across the city.
Despite having bad [...]
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 having its influence on our profession. It’s a really exciting time for the Interaction Designer, this excitement [...]
