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Tea Tae Why Pea Pea
(2012_0430) The TTYPP 26x26" app is the first app/e-publication of TYP. This special financial issue contains cotributions in words, image and sound of: Jacques Koeweiden, Ronald Ophuis, Ron van Roon, Donald Beekman, Henri Lucas, Atte Jongstra, Kees Maas, Jan de Jong, Caroline de Lint, Willem Sjoerd van Vliet, Dick Tuinder, Ko Sliggers, Joost Verhaak, Jan Dietvorst, Joke Mestdagh & Anke Broeren, Dennis Duchhart, Hansje van Halem, Peter Jonker, Olga Scholten, Alex Slagter, Peter Mertens, Jona Rotting, Dirk Vis, Roosje Klap, Fran van der Hoeven and Max Kisman. Release date: december 2011.
Get the app for €0,79 in the iTunes App Store
For more information visit ttypp.nl/app
TTYPP jams at TEDx Delft
(2011_09015) Now Confirmed TTYPP iThing Jam project plays live at TEDX Delft. Max Kisman, Peter Mertens and Donald Beekman are TTYPP. In a follow up of the successful iPhone Jam at BNO's Design Rocks (see below), performing at TEDx Delft on November 7, 2011.
Illustrated interview
(2011_0824) Wim Brands conducted and interviewwith Aleid Truijens on Dutch author F.B.Hotz. A for page illustrated interview appears in the last August issue of the VPRO TV guide.
Dixo W are pulling it off...
(2011_0318) For the occasion of the birthday of one of its members the infamous Dutch Ska band Dixo Wankers (including yours truly) have played again. The band released 3 singles in 1980-1981, had several TV performances and toured the national circuit.
A classic already!
MX KSMN XPLCTL GRPHC Screen print for sale now
(2011_0202) On Sunday 30 January, 14.00 hrs, I spoke about what is explicitly Graphic of my work at the Grafisch Werk Centrum in Amsterdam, Molukkenstraat 200-P1, Amsterdam. For the occasion a limited edition (50) screen print (48 x 72 cm) still available for €65 at kismanshop.
BNO DESIGN TALLKS
Design Rocks Art Print
(2011_0224) A little late with the update. On February 10, accompanied by DBXL and FPCM I performed with short musical breaks between speakers of the annual Design Rocks symposium of the BNO. For the occasion I created an image and collaborated on the offset art print with Chris van Diemen. Two versions in fluorescent yellow or green w/black and magenta. Colors might vary from website image. Available for €15, signed and shipped in a tube. Write an email to order.
Christmas Cover Up!
(2010_1129) It was fun designing this very attractive and pleasant Christmas album with covers and originals of known and obscure Christmas songs. The CD is compiled by Oscar Smit and released by Sonic Scenery. When Oscar asked me to design the inlay booklet, disk label and inlay card, the idea of a cover cd made me think of covering up nakedness. When I placed Santa hats on the naked couple, also the title of the CD was born. Buy from bol.com, free recordshop, download iTunes and Juno. More info on myspace.com/christmascoverup.
Shake hands with your friends in Boxmeer, NL
(2010_0731) De Vriendschap (The Friendship) is the new kid on the block in food wise Boxmeer, a small town in the province of Limburg, NL. Quailtiy fries and burgers from local produce and meat. To go, home delivery or a beautiful tasty plate for lunch or dinner in the restaurant. Appreciation of the owners for my weekly images in the Dutch Financial Journal turned into a screen print trip tych expressing three stages of friendship and a vignette of a hand shake for their logo. If you are in the area and ready for a bite or just want to make the trip out there, this is a recommendation.
Marten Jongema (1951-2011)
Marten Jongema died after a sick bed on Thursday 7 April 2011. Only a week before he would be 60 years old. More than colleagues Marten and I were friends. We met at SSP printers in the 80s where we often drank a lot of coffee and talked. We collaborated on the posters for Paradiso. I tried to do something out of his repertoire and he out of mine, only to find out that it was special what the other did.
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In store: IJsseloever for iPad and Android tablets
(2012_0430) For the project 'Poetry on the mobile screen' initiated by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and Mondrian Foundation, poet Wim Brands and graphic designer Max Kisman made the iPad app ”IJsseloever”: Sixteen moments of the lives of two elderly women are hidden in the IJssel river valley (NL). They watch the ships, read their names and in their minds they sail to foreign countries. The story also contains 15 video poems and one audio clip. IJsseloever is the second app published by TYP/Three Publishers and is available from 17 May in the App Store for €1,59. Language: Dutch.
For more information visit ttypp.nl/ijsseloever
IJsseloever on Junaio AR
(2012_0514) A printed map of the valleywill be published (€2 excl. shipping). Markers on the map are connected to the video poems that can be watched on the IJsseloever channel in the Junaio browser on your smartphone. Language: Dutch.
For more information visit ttypp.nl/ijsseloever
Title sequence 9-11. The day that changed the world.
(2011_0824) 911, The day that changed the world is a TV documentary series in three parts. See also 911.onjo.nl
Part one (Sept 5, The flight path) investigates what triggered the terrorists to fly into the WTC towers ten years ago. Part two (Sept 7, Permission to engage) covers the shooting incident killing two journalists revealed by Wikileaks and part three (Sept 11, The scary nation) reports on its effects on the Dutch nation. Both visuals and soundtrack design by Kismanstudio.
The Culture Party
(2011_0824) A few months ago Art Guru Jos Howeling called for action to start a cutural political party, the Culture Party. It inspired me to design a series of simple logo's for its early PR. Visit de Cultuur Partij on Facebook >>
Charity for disaster victims
(2011_0329) Tomodachi Calling is a charity webshop with T-shirts and other cool stuff of a couple of international friends that were in Tokyo at the time the big earthquake hit northeast Japan on Friday March 11, 2011, 14:46 JST: “The unfolding events in the minutes, hours and days following the quake left us in a state of shock and terror. It made us feel helpless. So instead of hoping and waiting, we decided to combine and to act. We are therefore asking friends (in Japanese: “tomodachi”), focussing on artists whose works we admire and creative people we like, to contribute a design for our charity-webshop.
Nuclear Power!
(2011_0318) Image to an essay on risks and effects of nature on Nuclear Power plants, Financieel Dagblad, Saturday 19 March.
No Guts No Glory
(2011_0305) Logo designed for AlexSlagter's No Guts No Glory foundation to raise funds for uninsured cancer treatments.The project is called 41x41 | 41+41. 41 artists will create 41 art prints, 41 copies, to be sold for €82. Aming at €140.000, enough to cover ten treatmenst for 4 patients. Twitter: #nogutsnoglory
Kismanshop...
(2011_0116) Actually, doesn't quite work yet. See it as a prototype. Forgot to something about mailing adresses. In due time. Still, enjoy the pictures...
(2011_0101) Get your original Max Kisman art print. Because of frequent requests for prints, I thought it might be an idea to offer a selection of editorial images, poster designs and other graphics on-line to the public. Signed prints ship world wide for all-in-one price of €65 per print. Go to the shop >>
Slash Art: against the cuts
(2010_11_01) I’d rather do it myself. Fare well (luckily it’s a wooden dagger). Applause…. The Dutch national budget for art and culture is one of the lowest in Europe. The new government of has decided to cut art subsidies in half. Slash Art is a platform of ideas and response, building an artful image bank.
Portal design:
Gebiedsontwikkeling.nu
(2010_1101) KismanVerhaak designed the identity and interaction plan and graphic design of the portal Gebiedsontwikkeling.nu. GO is an independent platform and (knowledge) network for anyone professionally involved with city planning and urban development. The platform provides news and updates about area development, an agenda of events, meetings and conferences etc. background information and views on urban and of land development. Language used is Dutch. Technical realisation is by Creative Dutchmen
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S+RO 2012/2: In between
(2012_0430) S+RO 2 April 2012 issue. Improvised experiments in between marginal urban development and institutional city planning
S+RO 2012/1: Olympic Cities
(2012_0430) S+RO 1 February 2012 issue. Pains and pleasures of sports and economics. Why cities want the Olympics so bad.
S+RO 2011/4: Scary City
(2011_0824) S+RO 4 September 2011 issue. Strategies on safety and securuty in urban planning, infrastucture and spacial structures.
S+RO 2011/3: Buxelles
(2011_0702) S+RO 3 Juli 2011 issue on the urban development of Buruxelles.
S+RO 2011/2: Europe
(2010_0702) S+RO 2 April 2011 issue on European infrastructures and collaborations
S+RO 2011/1: Crisis
(2010_0224) S+RO 1 Februari 2011 issue covers the current effect of the crisis on future urban planning and development with a variety of studies and info graphics (KismanVerhaak)
S+RO 6: Future of planning
(2010_1210) S+RO 6 December Christmas issue: Silver on black and white. Nocturnal city lights of north west Europe, birds view. The future of Spatial planning in the Eurodelta. (KismanVerhaak)
S+RO 5: Food
(2010_1009) S+RO 5 November issue. Food. Urban agriculture. How do we feed cities? (KismanVerhaak)
S+RO 4: Economy & Space
(2010_0809) S+RO 4. Economics and space. Economical growth has always been the financial force behind many urban and environmental developments. (KismanVerhaak)
S+RO 3: We City
(2010_0610) S+RO 3. Urban planning should be bottom up, social groups are more than participation and lobby clubs, acting effectively as principals in area development. (KismanVerhaak)
S+RO 2: Megacities
(2010_0411)S+RO 2. The impact of mega cities world wide. (KismanVerhaak)
S+RO 1: Trends
(2010_0210) Joost Verhaak and I restyled Dutch S+RO magazine on city planning and urban development as KismanVerhaak. The new design uses Typemafia's Actium and the custom designed City Wire, brightly coloured infographics and great photography. Launched in March 2010.
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Complexity of Simplicity in Istanbul
(2012_0509) Max Kisman's Complexity of Simplicity exhibition and workshop at Grafist 16 takes place from 7-11 May 2012 in the MImar Sinan University inIstanbul, Turkey.
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Bits to Pieces
(2011_0911) Now updated with interviews on digital archiving with Piet Schreuders and Max Kisman. www.bits-to-pieces.org
(2011_1004) The Bits to Pieces project of Dutch art historian Karin van der Heiden investigates the rise of the digital revolution, the experiences of the early adapters in digital graphic design and the digital heritage of the 80s. The process of preserving digital records begins with their creation. We need pragmatic strategies that enable us to preserve digital born material. Kismanstudio logo and website design.
Save as....
(2011_0901) I am currently designing the Dutch version of Save as.... This concise guide to digital archiving is wriiten by art and historian and design heritage expert Karin van der Heiden. In a 16 page leporello you get essential guidelines in sustainable digital preservation of your digital work. Soon to be published in the Netherlands. The English version is being prepared.
(2011_0901)Digital archiving is not the same as making a back up! Selection is necessary. Not everything is important and need to be preserved eternity.
Broken Language image on november issue Onze Taal
(2010_1101) Aphasia is the theme of the November issue of Onze Taal magazine (Dutch).
Gold Award for design City One Minutes website
(2010_0601) The City One Minutes website has won A gold European Design Award at the European Design Festival in De Doelen in Rotterdam. The design of the website is by graphic designer Max Kisman and implemented by design agency Fabrique and Studio Stomp. The annual awards are given to European designers that have made exceptional designs in the field of communications.
On www.cityoneminutes.org artists have recorded life in more than one hundred cities across the world from hour to hour movies in one minute. C.O.M. is a project of Holland Doc 24/VPRO in collaboration with The One Minutes Foundation.
Holland Doc 24 identity
Holland Doc 24's new identity was launched Thursday 12 November 2009 on their website and on the digital channel Holland Doc 24
Kisman T-shirt for Dutch Illustration Biannual
(2010_0605) Limited edition T-shirt with a special design I made for the Illustration Biannual. This is a new Dutch event that aims to show the power and variety of illustration in a versatile program, full of visual elements. Saturday June 5, Toneelschuur, Haarlem.
Amsterdam Dutchionary
Illustrations and texts for the Amsterdam Dutchionary in the 2007 AGI conference guide are nowpublished on the AGI website.
We Love Your (Free) Fonts!
(2010_0824) Holland Fonts (my font foundry) features in the second volume of Free Font Index 2 with 9 free fonts, including the compilations "Dutch Doubles" (2004, 37 Dutch designers), "Frisco-Remix" (2003, 34 Bay area designers), "MaxMix One" (1990, Typ magazine), "We Love Your" (1986-2003, found objects, Typ magazine) and Metropole. The book contains over 500 fonts by type foundries and designers, like Donald Beekman, Jakob Fisher, Ray Larabie, Ellen Lupton, Martin Majoor and Svetoslav Simov.
My type workshop to design and produce your own font "Do You Read Me?" has been updated especially for this publication in collaboration with Typemafia's Gerben Dollen. Free Fonts Index is edited and designed by Hans Lijklema and published in June 2010 by the Pepin Press.
Animations
(2010_0912) I have posted a few animations:
First Serve (2007)
Your President (2008)
Met het oog op morgen (2009)
Holland Doc 24 design (2007)
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Kisman type
(2011_0901)Now in the stands! This month I appear in Publish magazine (issue 4, september 201) in Typtekens (Type signs), an interview by Henk Gianotten, with above illustration on my Pacific font, other illustrations and type designs.
Crouwel Print now available in Stedelijk museum store and Nijhof & Lee.
(2011_0329>0902) Bill Crawl: “Oh they say”. This print is dedicated to the modernist Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel. The impressive exhibition Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssee on his life time work opened on 30 March in the the Design Museum in London. The limited edition A3 Risograph is printed by Ditto Press Ltd. at the Pick Me Up graphic arts fair in Somerset House, and is for sale for £20 in the Design Museum shop or can be picked up for €15 at the Stedlijk Museum store, Nijhof & Lee or KismanStudio in Amsterdam.
Schretlen magazine wins gold at Grand Prix 2010 Corporate magazines
(2010_0415) After winning best cover at the Media Facts Awards in 2009, Schretlen & Co Client Magazine is gold winner of the Grand Prix Corporate magazines 2010 award for the best corporate magazine in the Netherlands, in the category external
productions.
Cover design Schretlen magazine wins award for best cover
The illustration on a coverdesign for Schretlen magazine by Jacob Mulder of Amsterdam based Scripta Media is awarde for the Media Facts Award in the catagory client magazines.
Small Dictionary about Time
Illustrations turn into typeface
TIJD (Time) alphabet is extracted from 26 illustrations I made for Vouwblad 7: Klein Woordenboek over Tijd (Folder 7: Small Dictionairy about Time), issued in fall 2009 by Lenoirschuring Printers in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. The font and poster PDF are free available from Holland Fonts
Tcho artist-series with
Max Kisman
(2010_0210) My graphics feature on Tcho's 2010 holiday chocolate boxes with bright vibrant colors, iconographic imagery, and special typography. Valentine's day, Easter, MothersDay, Haloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Visit Tcho.com in San Francisco, California.
Congretulations Giants!
WORLD SERIES CHAMPION
(2010_1102) SF Giants play Texas Rangers competing in the World Series and have won in a 4-1 victory. Tcho gift box sleeve.Go Giants Go!
Flowers flourish in Benson, Arizona
(2010_0712) Arnold's Flowers is a small flowershop on 4th Street (Busines I-10) in Benson, Arizona, for which I created a simple light box design and identity.Now the shop is painted in the same bright colors it stands out in the bland strip architecture of Benson's 4th Street.
Painting the word FLOWERS in 7 feet tall letters of my font Pacific Standard Bold makes it even more standing out and visible from a larger distance.
More about Tcho
(2011_0117) Watch this video...
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