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VosBrenner Design
a Studio for Research
and Development
Book, Exhibition and
Information Design

Adress
Emantspad 5
3061 CE Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Phone
+31 (0)10 8208 615

Mail
info@vosbrenner.net
Internship / Collaboration
work@vosbrenner.net
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We are an international graphic design practice located in Rotterdam.

Mission Statement: In our practice we solve problems through research and inquiry, graphic design is merely a tool we use to give form to our solutions. We believe in solving problems that have the possibility to change, clarify and enrich peoples lives, driven by designs potential to enable people to reach for higher goals.

An open dialogue with our collaborators helps shape these results. This dialogue is used to source the root of a problem and together figure out the best approach to solve this problem.

Most of our projects are realized within the cultural and educational sectors, where we execute concepts and ideas in the form of exhibition design, books, information graphics and visual identity.

Guidelines: Fragile handle with care!
1.    An open and active dialogue
2.    Distinguish sense from nonsense
3.    Time and good timing
4.    Exploration
4½. Do one thing at a time
5.    Simplicity
6.    Dogmatic approaches can take a hike
7.    Smile

Note: Projects are mainly realized in a physical form within the cultural and educational sectors. These projects generally take the format of exhibition design, books information graphics and visual identities.

From our previous and current studio environment(s) we have worked with:

2012 Architects
Al Gore
Architecture for Humanity
Buro Backyard
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Disseny Hub Barcelona
Errol Morris
Guggenheim Museum New York
Greg Yang Architecture
International Center of Photography
Jeanne van Heeswijk
Kosmopolis Rotterdam
Museum of Chinese in America
New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York Studio School
Parsons The New School for Design
Pierre Bayle Foundation
PrintRoom
RAIR
TENT. Rotterdam
The Rotterdam Collective
Rotterdamse Oogst
Showroom Arnhem
The Rainbow Country
Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Veenman Publishers
Volume, Archis Publishers
Wilton Library
Yale School of Architecture

Updates on Presentations, Exhibitions and Selfinitiated Projects:

2012
04 Citysalad
at SHS Publishers Exhibition at Mutuo Art Centre, Barcelona

04 Booklaunch Type Navigator
at SHS Publishers, Mutuo Art Centre, Barcelona

03 Projectweek 'Have we met?'
One week teaching informationdesign at WDKA, Rotterdam

01 Citysalad
Exhibition at Proeftuin!, Schowroom Arnhem

2011
02 Work Presentation
We were asked to give a work presentation for the Final Year Students. Academie St. Joost, Breda, NL

04 Interview
International Small Talks. We were asked to contribute a quick 3 minute interview about our practice. AIGA, Chicago, US

05 Launch: Citysalad
During Zaait! Festival organized by Rotterdamse Oogst on Noordplein, Rotterdam, Netherlands

09 Teaching Position WDKA
Michael Brenner started teaching the fulltime graphic design course at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam (WDKA)

09 Participation: Citysalad
During the Rotterdamse Oogst Festival on Citysalad was presented. Middellandse Plein, Rotterdam, Netherlands

09 Participation: Citysalad
During the 'Wild Kitchen' at Imagine 2020 Festival on Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

12 Expo Citysalad
at Showroom Arnhem from 2 dec. till 8 jan.
Citysalad was exposed at the exhibition ‘Proeftuin!’

2010
02 Book Launch: Selfinitiated Project
Wilde Boeken Markt, Zine ‘The Last Supper’ Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, NL

03 Book Presentation
Streetlab Zine Jam, Presentation of ‘The Last Supper’ as part of the PrintRoom Collection. Steetlab, Amsterdam, NL

04 Selected Entry
OK-Parking Zine Festival. Cannot Connect, Selected entry.
Sonsbeek Villa, Arnhem, NL

07 Participation: Summer Lab
VB was invited to join for a two week think tank on Omnipresent Social Media organized by Kolabo Summer Lab. The results were presented in an exhibition at Schieblock, Rotterdam. Special Guest: Rob van Kranenburg

09 Selected Entry: Book
Turning Pages, Editorial Design Today Published by Die Gestalten, Berlin, Germany

10 Comissioned: Installation
We were commissioned to produce an environmental installation for the opening GalleryBetween. Studio B, London, England

11 Board Member (ongoing)
VosBrenner is part of the review board of submissions for PrintRoom and also participates in curation, planning and installing various exhibitions. PrintRoom is located at Schietbahnstraat 17, Rotterdam, Netherlands

12 Published Review
9W Cycling Magazine www.embrocationmagazine.com

2009
01 Selected Entry: Online Exhibition
Europe by Designers, selected entry for hug-united Hype Up Gallery. Online-Exhibition www.europebydesigners.com

03 Launch: Self Initiated Project
Self initiated project Nature versus Culture published by Graphic Union Press NYC

04 Selected Entry: Blog
Manystuff, About Your Process 2
Interview contribution, published by Manystuff, Paris

07 Published Review
Don’t: a Guide to publicity in NYC review published in the New Yorker Magazine

2008
06 Contribution: ArtEZ Catalogus
Catalogue published by ArtEZ, Arnhem, Netherlands

06 Exhibition: ArtEZ Final Year
Organized by ArtEZ, Arnhem, Netherlands

07 Selected Entry: Truck Design
Freitag Design a Truck Competition. Selected entry, Zürich, Switzerland

10 Contribution: T’Shirt
Spelling Change, Typedesign for Obama’s election campaign. Initiated by Mother New York, New York

11 Selected Entry
Identity proposal for Disseny D’HUB, Design Museum Barcelona, published in 2009

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About Book Design

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"The demands of a book designer can be great. They may come from the content. There is often considerable editorial work to be done, and this will be intimately connected with design considerations. Then the functioning of the product brings further demands. The imagined reader will always be looking over the designer’s shoulder. Finally, the book has to preform satisfactory as a physical structure. All of this means that, more than in other domains of design, there is no place here for prejudice or dogma. The particular demands of each book require fresh thought and an open mind."
— Robin Kinross

About Information Design

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Information design is the craft and practice of distilling information and data sets for people to digest it’s meaning with efficiency and effectiveness. When and where the data is complex, unstructured or unintelligible, a visual representation can often express its meaning more clearly to the viewer. Information design is not defined as, or limited to, but can be applied to a diverse range of applications and document genres such as financial forms, administrative documents, medical and pharmaceutical statistics, food and health labels, user guides, technical manuals, travel information and way finding systems.

About Exhibition Design

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Like graphic design exhibition design unites many disciplines, skills and techniques. We have collaborated with exhibition-architects, curators, editors, museum construction crews and out sourced fabricators to produce these works. The exhibitions shown on the following pages illustrate our roll as graphic designers in the exhibition environment in addition to our rolls as curatorial and editorial assistants.

About Identity Design

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“The true and right logo is the master class (just one step below the poster): a plain sign. This good-true logo was invented in the 60’s. Of course! the terms logo and sign, as equivalents to the logo, had been around long before that (†, o, x, etc.). Nevertheless the form developed at that time (the cool and functional form) is closely linked with the concept. The 60s are the antiquity of logo design.”
—Norm (Manuel Krebs & Dimitri Bruni)

About Type Design

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From time to time we find our selves looking for a characteristic in a font that simply does not exist. Out of this necessity we have developed a number of typefaces - either original drawings or as a revival of previously un-digitized fonts.

About Printed Matter

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Print remains the classic medium of Graphic Designers. Our love for paper, printing techniques can flourish here. Under the according link in the categories you'll find a presentation of printed items we‘ve made so far.