This ingenious small folding valies is stamped out of lightweight ribbed carton and immediately ready for use without any need for putting it together. Just fold! It has a slip-over closure to secure it's contents. It can contain approximately 250 sheets of A-4 paper or anything about that size.
It is the creation of Melle Hammer; Dutch typographer, designer, and teacher who in his own words is, "Lingering between art, design and advertising. Easily seduced to design a table, a chair or a stage-set. Every now and then a movie or a poem comes out. Always questioning the spot. On and on surprised, outraged or in love. Lost? Found!"

For more information about the "Vouwkoffer" and the possibilities for customized editions please visit the Vouwkoffer website.

A perpetual calender

Set of four affiches designed by Niessen as typespecimens and presented for the first time at the Chaumont Affiche Exhibition 2003. Each affiche is designed in one of four different fantasie lettertypes that he has developed in the last few years; they are silkscreened each in two different colours and all four have had a third sheet pass done in silver to create the idea of a serie.

Poster for Richard Niessen's exhibition at La Chapelle, the Baroque chapel in Chaumont, France during the 18th International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont 2007.

This silkscreen print by Richard Niessen was commissioned by the KVGO as their 'Koppermaandagprent' for the year 2004, and it represents the merger of the districts Haarlem and Amsterdam. It shows the Haarlemmerpoort in Amsterdam merged together with the Amsterdamsepoort in Haarlem and constructed out of the words 'Amsterdam', 'Haarlem', 'Kopperprent', 'Maandag 12 januari 2004', and 'KVGO'. It was produced in an edition of 125 copies for the KVGO and Niessen printed 25 extra copies for sale.
'Koppermaandag' is the traditional ushering in of the new year for the graphic industry in the Netherlands and many members of the industry produce a piece of exceptional 'printed matter' in a limited edition which they then offer as a gift to their business relations.

"The Dutch idiom 'to paste somebody behind the wallpaper' was the peg on which to hang an investigation into relations between language, image and tactility. While the emotions belonging to the words are universal, the saying exists in the Dutch language only.
The theme has been interpreted and visualized by screenprinting collages of images and fragments of letters on sixties' wallpaper.
In collaboration with Svea Gustavs, graphic designer, the screenprints have been reproduced as a book.
The design of the book is a combination of high-tech and low-tech elements, i.e. the special paper, a flexible form and handbinding.
The offset reproductions on Chagall Insize paper with it's tactile qualities resemble the original screenprints in an optimal way.
Cover and endpaper have been screenprinted by Monika and Svea on Transparance Obsession." (Monika E.Auch)

This image book created by the young Amsterdam design bureau 'Hotel creating ideas and identities' is a collection of "images which wanted to come out and play. The images shown in this publication have been taken out of their context, were never realized in print or just lingered around as patient ideas. These images present an attitude or an idea we are comfortable with and therefore rise above the contemporary laws of aesthetics. Nothing more, nothing less."

Artists project containing 38 different posters announcing a traveling exhibition in support of the work of AIDA (Association International de Defense des Artists) undertaken by the Netherlands chapter of AIDA in conjunction with 38 refugee artists residing in the Netherlands, 38 Dutch designers and 38 Dutch printers. A limited number of copies will be sold with the proceeds going to AIDA.

Click on the folder to view a selection of the posters.

Struktur-design has produced a new perputal calendar; building on previous calendars they wanted to reduce the visual aspect to the least possible information. Each sheet contains a number in "berthold imago" which has been heavily cropped back to show just enough of it's elements to understand it's origin while creating a new slightly abstracted form. The sheets have been printed in two special pantone colours achieved by overprinting; no tints were used and the ink densities were adjusted "on-press" to create a wider range of colour and each sheet was over printed with a UV silkscreen varnish.

This letter A was originally designed and printed in 1 copy by Melle Hammer as his personal contribution to the "bo

The "A van jA" was also originally produced in a single copy and was meant for the marriage of Frans Oosterhof and Mercedes Bravo (1995).
This edition has been slightly changed from the original and is printed in 2 colours.

This silk-screen was used as the cover for Ekster # 7 which was made by Witte Wartena & Hans Kloos.

The Greek letter Y, according to philosopher Pythagoras, signifies man on the edge of life; these three Y's united together form a cubis in the middle which represents infinity according to Ewald Spieker.

Created by students this catalogue of the Cranbrook Academy of Art Degree Show 2002 is an exhibition of 68 individual paths of discovery in ten distinct, yet overlapping disciplines. Each of the pieces culminates two years of artistic inquiry at the academy.

For more than a decade, UNA(Amsterdam)designers and her associates have initiated and produced beautiful desk diaries intended as gifts for their respective business relations. For many of the recipients, these diaries -splendidly designed and exquisitely produced- are valued as collectors items. Since the start in 1991 these diaries have been honoured with no less than 40 prestigious, international design awards including Gold and Silver Medals from the Art Directors Club of New York and the British Design & Art Direction, Certificates of Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club, the ISTD of London and the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany.
This years diary, the thirteenth in the series, is based on the diversity of the world's languages. 53 languages have been chosen and each represents a different week of the year. The numbers of the weeks, beginning with the word "one"(in Italian "una"), have each been translated and these corresponding texts have been printed as characters on a separate detachable page at the begining of the corresponding week. As the year progresses the user can detach the first page of the week and place it in the transparent, flexable cover of the agenda thereby creating a new cover each week.
Meghan Ferrill has written a story about 'confusion of tongues' which begins on the outside cover and continues through the agenda. The text, including cover and interior, is set in Monospace 821 (Max Miedinger) and the 53 pages illustrating the week numbers is set in Fregio Mecano, an anonymous Italian lettertype from the 1920's.

To view the progression of the diary please click the image.

During the last 15 years, UNA(Amsterdam) Designers and her associates have initiated and produced exceptional desk diaries intended as gifts for their respective business relations and friends. Since the first diary in 1991 these diaries have been awarded more than 40 important international design prizes. As in years past, Nijhof & Lee have a limited number of copies of the 2006 Diary available for sale.

The 2006 Diary is oblong, measures 240 x 195 mm and has in total 332 pages; 220 full-colour image pages containing the calendarium on the half of the diary size and 112 full-size blank, perforated pages on which can be written. The image pages are printed single-sided in full colour with the calendarium in silver and the opposite side in a PMS colour that changes per month. The pages on which can be written have two horizontally perforated lines and further no printed indications.
The outside cover is made from transparent synthetic material in six different colours & the inside paper-covers are printed in corresponding colour schemes; this means that there are six variations available, each having a different word blind-stamped in the synthetic material.Printed on the inside of the front & back cover are titles which refer to the images contained in the calendarium(six of these titles have been used for the covers).
The images, created by André Tijssen, are everyday situations known to us all but easily overlooked by us. André sees in them comical, absurd or puzzling images which he has framed and given a name.

Click here to view the 6 different cover designs and get an impression of the calendarium pages.

Order the UNA Diary 2006 with the cover design of your choice.

A delightful collection of Clotilde's pebble-stone "faces'.

A collection of 23 of Clotilde's metal "letter" sculptures.

Exceptional catalogue published in conjunction with the Holland Paper Biennial 2000 in the municipal museum of Rijswijk, the Netherlands. This is the third in a series of exhibitions with an accompaning catalogue designed and produced by Peter Gentenaar and his wife Pat Torley. The catalogue discusses and shows the importance of water to the whole process of paper making. In addition to articles by eminent paper experts, the artist participating in the Biennial write about their work and the paper that they use. There is extensive information about watermarks in general and in particular the use of them in paper made for printing money.

The dutch graphic designer Melle Hammer has over the last fewyears published a series of small, limited edition "graphic"artist-books which he calls the "confetti series". aaa ooo eeeis a graphic representation of clapping (applause) and wasoriginally published in 1991 but due to great demand he has nowmade a 2nd edition of 500 copies.

'Ekster' is an experimental, kaleidoscopic, visual, graphic design project coordinated by Melle Hammer bring together the work of a growing group of young graphic designers and the expertise of some of the Netherlands best printers. It is being published on a subscription bases with the first series to contain 10 issues. As of July 2001 five issues have been printed:

A book of experiences, images, visions, reflections, thoughts, & dreams interlaced and strung-together in a continuous (leporello/accordion) form that when unfolded stretches out to almost 15 meters. Britta created this book as part of her examinations for completing her studies at the AKI in Enschede, Holland.