Breda's Museum Identity | at Dutch Database Expo (Graphic Design Museum, Breda)

The identity for Breda's Museum is displayed at the newest exhibition 'Dutch Design Database' of the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, which opened last weekend.

'Dutch Design Database is een tentoonstelling en tegelijk een database in ontwikkeling over de professionalisering van het ontwerpvak in Nederland vanaf 1945. Het museum verzamelt digitaal beeldmateriaal voor onderzoek en presentatie en draagt bij aan de discussie omtrent digitaal erfgoed. In de tentoonstelling ervaart de bezoeker het werk en de feiten, cijfers en ontwikkelingen van het vakgebied op een fysieke manier.' — Graphic Design Museum, Breda

© 2009 Smidswater / Christina Schürmann

Alles wordt weer beter | Crisis poster Veenman Drukkers

Keep on dreaming — everything will be better.

© 2009 Christina Schürmann

Tegen de stroom in | ICTRegie

This book is about making the Dutch aware of their influence in ICT.
The mix of informative and colourful graphic design appeals to scientists as well as students. Powerful infographics, a smart navigation and a complete illustrated overview of ICT milestones make this book
fun to read.

© 2009 Created at Smidswater

Ceiling lamp | Smidswater

I designed this lamp for the new interior of Smidswater resembling the vertical structure of typical old lamp-shades.

© 2008 Created at Smidswater

Show your typeface | Graphic Design Festival Breda

The unique t-shirt designed for sale on the Graphic Design Festival in Breda is produced in a limited editon. ‘Show Your Typeface’ appeals to designers as well as the general public with its ambiguous statement.

© 2008 Smidswater

Portrait of a Person or Portrait of the City | Studytrip of AKI ArtEZ academy

This intercultural project of the AKI academy from Enschede and Bilgi university from Istanbul resulted not only in visual works, inspiration and exchange of opinions but also in a steady contact between the two art academies. As Project Manager I was as well responsible of finding a partner academy in Istanbul as filling in the programme of the studytrip and the assignment for the students.

© 2006 AKI ArtEZ Academy

Worringer Platz | Documentary about public space

‘Am Worringer’ is an honest en inspiring documentary about one of Düsseldorf’s most troublesome public spaces. The ‘Worringer Platz’ is portrayed by various different opinions coming from architects, transport experts, city planners and artists as well as local residents and passers-by. Like the opinions the typography is sometimes rough and monumental and sometimes quiet. As the Worringer Platz is continiously changing this is illustrated by the pictures in the book being used as fragments to give you a feeling of place and time. Overview is created by a historical chronology and a walking route as a red line.

© 2005 Christina Schürmann

Corporate Identity | Breda’s Museum

The Breda’s Museum hosts a great variety of art pieces on the history of Breda. The museum itself can only put some of these items on public display. Their new identity was developed with the idea of presenting a platform for all the (forgotten) pieces from the archive.
A visual style is created with the white stencil logo as a framework for the diverse and colourful pieces of art.

© 2008 Created at Smidswater

Re-furn | Graduation Work of Sam Hansen, Interior Stylist

Sam Hansen developed a campagne giving people an incentive to reuse old furniture. She took photos of four pieces of furniture in their old and new condition. Sam wanted to confront people and make them feel guilty so I designed her book with one side showing old furniture in a bad way highlightening only the negative words. When you flip around the book you enter the same essay from the positive side with the old furniture given a new place. The side stitched cover shows furniture before and after they were reused being the cover for the negative or positive side of the story. The big format, elaborate use of pictures and big typography add up to the books challenging character that sets people to think about their behavior.

© 2006 Christina Schürmann

Walter Nikkels und Räumlichkeit in der Buchtypografie | Final Essay at AKI ArtEZ academy

I’m fond of typography so I decided to write my essay about Walter Nikkels who fascinated me in different ways. I like his clear typography but most of all his metaphorical view about it. As a German studying in the Netherlands I was also curious about the fact that he works both in The Netherlands and in Germany. I compared two books he designed ‘Makunaima’ and ‘Burgerlijk Wetbook’ regarding his philosophy about three-dimensionality. In addition I interviewed him about his work in the Netherlands and Germany and the cultural differences. I made a three-dimensional cover photo for my essay and finished the inside with saddle stitching.

© 2005 Christina Schürmann

20 years of HEC | The Centre of Expertise

A festive reporting on the history of The Centre of Expertise (HEC). HEC plays an advising as well as anticipating role for public organizations. This fact is translated in the book design by placing milestones of HEC next to important public events from the same year. These events form red line in the book accompanied by interviews, quotes and photos giving the feeling of place and time. The gate fold cover with die cut rhomb shows in a graphic way that HEC has not changed but become bigger through the years. The book is finished with a metallic ink and UV varnish to give it a festive look.

© 2008 Created at Smidswater

Poster ‘Passie’ | Breda's Museum

The typography in this design proposal for the museum shows that it’s all about ‘Passion’ which means saying goodbye and letting go. Aside from showing pieces of art the exhibition is dedicated to bishop Muskens who is retiring.

© 2008 Created at Smidswater

AKI catalgue 2004 | AKI ArtEZ the Enschede Academy of Visual Arts

By capturing the moments of all media surrounding us a playful and poetic book was created. The contemporary design of this catalogue is the framework of what it's really about: spaciously showing the work of over a hundred graduation students.

© 2004 Created at Hardystudio, AKI ArtEZ Academy

Annual Report 2007 | The Centre of Expertise

Proud of their foundation running well, HEC wants to empasize the good results of the past year. Accompanied by the fine typography of the quotes, the portraits show that the employees of HEC play an important individual role in their organisation. The uv varnish on the paperback cover shows the pictures with the feeling of photo paper. All in all this is a sec and beautiful ‘no-nonsense’ annual report.

© 2008 Created at Smidswater

Corporate Identity | The Centre of Expertise (HEC)

Implementation of the identity design for HEC such as the stationary and various other communication items.

© 2006 Created at Smidswater

Mattheus Passion | Universal Music

The Mattheus Passion by Bach is translated into Dutch for the first time. This controversial recording finds its translation in the design.
A combination of classic and modern typography can be found in the sleeve of the album that got sold over 15.000 copies.

© 2006 Created at Fabrique

Heb jij lef? | TU Delft

This book is designed for the TU Delft to attract sponsors for their Technicon Museum. With the term ‘courage’ as a starting-point a clean no-nonsense book was created.

© 2006 Created at Fabrique