ED Awards Catalogue
May 30 2010
“This exhibition does a fantastic job in getting parents and children interested in letters, and it does it in an engaging and fresh way, without being patronizing.
Letterlab is visually stimulating and rich, and goes beyond the clichés, showing that children can enjoy complexity when it makes sense.”
European Design Awards
May 30 2010
Letterlab was awarded the top prize, Gold, in the category Brand Implementation of the European Design Awards. It was also awarded the overall Jury Prize: “This is the piece of work that, according to the jury, promotes design best, within the wider public.”
Designplatform Rotterdam
May 29 2010
Part of the ongoing development of the identity we are designing for Designplatform Rotterdam we created another essay called ‘What makes a city attractive for creative entrepreneurs?’, written by Dr Erik Braun.
European Design Festival
May 29 2010
We just hosted about a 100 participants of the ‘Design Walks’, one of the events during the European Design Festival which is held in Rotterdam this year. We don't know how everybody fit in, but we had a great time hosting all these groups of people that either arrived on bikes or by water taxi!
China!
May 01 2010
‘Vive le papier électronique’ can be seen in one of the houses on ‘Happy Street’, Pavilion of the Netherlands World Expo 2010 Shanghai. The thrift store inside, designed by Piet Hein Eek (with 2D support by Studio Boot), featuring numerous artifacts of Dutch Design by renown designers such as: Martin Visser, Richard Niessen, Tejo Remy, Thonik, Dick Bruna, Anthon Beeke, Piet Zwart, Gijs Bakker, Studio Boot, Benno Premsela and Piet Hein Eek himself.
Beamers, wallpaper & other ways you broke my heart.
April 13 2010
BNO Spellbound invited us to give a lecture in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. We gladly took this opportunity to question and comment on graphic designers, the usage of multiple dimensions and media.
Class of the Titans
April 01 2010
Joe Marianek (senior designer at Pentagram, teacher at SVA), Ellen Lupton (writer, designer, director of the graphic design MFA program at MICA) and Strange Attractors Design, (teachers at the Design Academy Eindhoven , The Royal Academy of Art and Parsons, The New School for Design) department took their best shot at a few classic school assignments.
Letterlab is getting out there!
April 01 2010
Letterlab also received a nomination in the Graphic Design category of the ADCN (Art Directors Club Nederland) Annual Awards and a ‘Certificate of Typographic Excellence’ from the Type Directors Club (TDC 56).
Frank Havermans
February 21 2010
Book Release: Frank Havermans | Architectonische Constructies/Architectural Constructions (NAi Publishers, 2010)
April 2010 LXIV:II (p.78)
Class of the Titans, The Collage Project.
Joe Marianek (senior designer at Pentagram, teacher at SVA), Ellen Lupton (writer, designer, director of the graphic design MFA program at MICA) and Strange Attractors Design, (teachers at the Design Academy Eindhoven , The Royal Academy...
ZEFIR7
8 Oktober 2009
Strange Attractors
Een studio in New York én in Rotterdam, lesgeven in Den Haag en Eindhoven, workshops en summerschools leiden: de Strange Attractors ademen ontwerp. Het gaat verder dan kwantiteit: ieder project wordt met overgave aangepakt. Soms overschrijden ze zelfs hun...
étapes:171
août 09 (p.12-19)
Strange Attractors
é: Combien êtes-vous à Strange Attractors?
SA: Deux, mais considérez-nous comme un “couple de la Renaissance”. Nous réalisons des tâches multiples, de la programmation à l’illustration. Nous enseignons sur la construction d’installations, sur la communication...
IdN
Volume 16 Number 3 (p.19-25)
Typography issue: in their own words
There is nothing strange about Strange Attractors Design, apart from its name. Founded by Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop in 2001, it is an international studio that “creates ideas and solutions with a view to...
items
# 2 2009 (p.72-79)
Strange Attractors | Portfolio
Ornament als Functie. Catelijne van Middelkoop en Ryan Pescatore Frisk zijn decorationalisten pur sang. In hun werk is ornament geen oppervlakkige versiering, maar deel van de boodschap. Voor de presentatie van hun zwierig ornamentele...
design.co.kr
VOL. 369 MAR 2009 (p.142-149)
Dutch Graphic Design Takes Over Korea Pt. 1
Strange Attractors 스트레인지 어트랙터스의 작업은 TDC와 ADC의 연감, 타셴(Taschen)에서 출판한 <현대 그래픽 디자인(Contemporary Graphic Design)>, 파이돈(Phaidon)에서...
Eye
NO. 68 VOL. 17 SUMMER 2008 (p.58-60)
Special issue: Beyond the canon
»Who cares about graphic design history?
Catelijne van Middelkoop comes from The Netherlands, and studied art history & archeology at the University of Amsterdam, followed by studies at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague, 2000 and...
AREA 2
Phaidon, 2008 (p.360-363)
100 Graphic Designers | 10 Curators | 10 Design Classics
Strange Attractors (The Hague/New York). --- With a deadline fast approaching, the curators of FiFFteen-a traveling exhibition about the FontFont type library-wanted something dynamic: an animated type...
Typography 28
The Annual of the Type Directors Club / Judges’ s Choices & Designers’ Statements TDC53 (p.32-33)
BIG TYPE SAYS MORE truly says it all.
This museum installation by Dutch-American duo Strange Attractors stopped me in my tracks. A commentary on messaging, materials, craft, personality–this piece has much to say. I was struck at first...
Le Monde
Design & Typo le Blog, Vendredi 01 Juin 2007
strangeattractors.com | deux designers hollandais ultra-contemporains
Catelijne van Middelkoop et Ryan Pescatore sont deux jeunes trentenaires qui dirigent un studio à la Haye, Netherlands. Ils se servent de la typographie contre toute logique Tschicholdienne qui...
Designprijs Rotterdam 2007
Nominatierapport (p.88-95)
Strange Attractors Design | Diverse werken
Catelijne van Middelkoop en Ryan Pesactore Frisk zijn de oprichters van ontwerpstudio Strange Attractors. Een jong bureau dat op een bijzonder eigengereide manier met typografie, grafisch...
Contemporary Graphic Design
TASCHEN / Charlotte & Peter Fiell, 2007 (p.462-467)
Strange Attractors Design
“We want to cast a new eye over what modernism rebelled against: the traditions of craft, calligraphy and ornamentation as cultural expression.”
“Whether it takes the form of typography, type designs, posters, catalogues, digital animations, CD...
aiga.org
October 2006
Strange Attractors: Reinventing the graphic Vernacular
Based in The Hague, the Netherlands, the international design firm Strange Attractors was founded five years ago by Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop. Their work reflects a keen interest in the...
I.D.
January / February 2006 (p.89)
The I.D. Forty:
Undersung Heroes, Strange Attractors
Jan Tschichold,the Bauhaus-inspired typographer who became the chief propagandist of functional type, once damned ornament as the product of “childish naiveté.” Catelijne van Middelkoop and...
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Juin 10 (p.22-23)
Strange Attractors Design (Pays Bas) | Letterlab
Comment expliquer à des 6-13 ans l’ensemble des conaissances que mobilise l’alphabet? Au musée du graphisme de Breda, une salle est reservée à la sensibilisation des plus jeunes. Après De Designpolitie, les Néerlandais de Strange Attractors investissent la galerie des enfants et soumettent l’écriture à un examen méthodique. Le Letterlab ouvre le ventre de la lettre, dissèque la variété de ses contours, étudie les relations entre signe et sonorité, anatomise la composition typographique, analyse envore la notion de sens à laquelle elle est intimement liée. Au fil d’ateliers, les jeunes visiteurs expérimentent ces connaissances: traçage au light graff, construction au pixel, composition d’une affiche... Un coin vdéo rensigne sur l’histoire de la typographie. Pas moins commissaires de l’exposition, scénograhes que graphistes de la communication, Strange Attractors réussissent un pari à large échelle et signent d’une même volée quatre alphabets. (CB)
Jury Prize European Design Awards
Gold (Brand Implementation) European Design Awards