Metahaven
Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden, Vinca Kruk) with Marina Vishmidt.
608 pages, softcover
Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
In bookstores. Order on Amazon.
Lectures / Exhibitions
January 24, 2013
Captives of the Cloud
Lecture at conference “The Shape of Diversity to Come: Global Community, Global Archipelago, or a New Civility?”
Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam.
January 20 – March 18, 2013
Islands in the Cloud
Solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, New York.
January 20 – March 24, 2013
Frozen Lakes
Group exhibition at Artists Space, New York, featuring Shadi Habib Allah, Ed Atkins, Banu Cennetoglu, Aaron Flint Jamison, Tobias Kaspar, Metahaven, Ken Okiishi, Charlotte Prodger, James Richards, and Slavs and Tatars.
September 30, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Graphic Design: Now in Production
Exhibition, Hammer, Los Angeles.
September 2012 – January 2013
Yes We’re Open
Group exhibition at NiMK, Amsterdam.
0. by Metahaven and Jonas Staal.
September 28, 2012
Disposable Imagecraft
Presentation at Gala “Rebranding European Muslims” Dana Yahalomi/Public Movement
Helmut List Halle, Graz.
September 27, 2012
False Flag: Rule by Design
Lecture Metahaven / Daniel van der Velden at IFG Ulm. Part of the series “ulmer gespraeche.”
September 20 – 22, 2012
UniBz Design Festival 2012
Lecture and workshop, Bolzano/Bozen.
September 19 – 23, 2012
Small Stories Bigger Picture
Graphic Design Festival, MOTI, Breda.
September 15, 2012 –- January 13, 2013
The New Public
Group exhibition, Museion, Bolzano/Bozen. Curated by Rein Wolfs.
September 14, 2012
Lecture
Metahaven / Daniel van der Velden at Green Hall auditorium, Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT.
September 1, 2012
Graphic Design – The Final Hours
Lecture, Governors Island, NYC.
July 2, 2012
Captives of the Cloud
Lecture at DMI Summer School, University of Amsterdam.
June 28, 2012
Transparency
Presentation at THNK, Amsterdam.
June 12 – September 24, 2012
When it Stops Dripping from the Ceiling (An Exhibition That Thinks About Edification)
Group exhibition at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, with Jesse Ash, Luis Camnitzer, Iman Issa, Per-Oskar Leu, Setareh Shahbazi, Humberto Velez. Curated by Bassam El Baroni.
June 7, 2012
0. Democracy Without Secrets
Presentation at Curating Reality, Mediafonds @Sandberg, Eye institute, Amsterdam. Metahaven together with Jonas Staal.
June 3, 2012
Designing Geopolitics
Lecture at Designing Geopolitics 2012, UCSD Calit2/ Atkinson Hall Black Box Theater, La Jolla, CA. With Benjamin Bratton, Lev Manovich, Larry Smarr, Usman Haque, John Wilbanks, Jeffrey Inaba Molly Steenson, Natalie Jeremijenko, Tim Durfee, Ed Keller, Daisy Ginsberg, Alisa Andrasek and others.
May 17 – 19, 2012
Memes, Jokes and Jesters—Political Design in an Age of Turmoil
Lecture at Typo Berlin 2012, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
May 9, 2012
White Lady Lecture
Designhuis Eindhoven / Design Academy Eindhoven. With René Boomkens.
March 31, 2012
Lecture
(Graphic) Designer: Author or Universal Soldier symposium, Belgrade.
March 28, 2012
Red Tape
Royal College of Art, London.
March 15 – 16, 2012
Cloud Sovereignty
Lecture at conference Data is Political in Bergen, Norway.
Organized by Amber Frid-Jiminez.
March 13, 2012
Conference
with Wim Crouwel, Jan van Toorn, Irma Boom, Lust, Metahaven.
Academie St. Joost, Breda, NL
Organized by Matthias Noordzij.
February 23, 2012
Lecture
Spike Island, Bristol.
February 13, 2012
Honesty
Lecture, University of Lisbon, part of the Lisbon Design Meetings.
February 9, 2012
Conference
Sandberg @Mediafonds, Amsterdam.
February 2, 2012
The New Public
Group exhibition at Museion, Bolzano, Italy.
Curated by Rein Wolfs.
January 22, 2012
Black Transparency Part Zero
(The Letters)
Lecture at Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm.
January 20, 2012
Lecture
MOTI, Museum of the Image, Breda, NL.
December 10, 2011 – February 9, 2011
WikiLeaks Fundraiser
installation at MOTI, Museum of the Image, Breda, NL.
November 8, 2011
Verdeckte Adressaten
Weiße Rose Stiftung e.V. curated by Axel Wieder.
Exhibition at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
Tuesday November 1, 2011
Otis
Metahaven lecture at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California.
Friday October 28, 2011
Art Center
Metahaven lecture at Art Center College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California.
October 22, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Graphic Design: Now in Production
Group exhibition at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
October 21, 2011
Pecha Kucha
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
September 10 – November 6, 2011
Beyond Gestaltung
Group exhibition at Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld.
September 2, 2011
Countdown
Lecture at Power Station, Seoul, Korea.
September 2 – October 23, 2011
Gwangju Design Biennale 2011
Group exhibition, Gwangju, Korea.
June 4, 2011
Festarch
Lecture Metahaven at Festarch, Perugia.
June 2 – 3, 2011
Designing Geopolitics
An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Computational Jurisdictions, Emergent Governance, Public Ecologies
with Benjamin H. Bratton, Norman Klein, Geoff Manaugh, Metahaven, Teddy Cruz, Jordan Crandall, McKenzie Wark, a.o.
Atkinson Hall Auditorium, Calit2, University of California San Diego.
May 20 – July 3, 2011
Museum of Display
Group exhibition with Isabelle Cornaro, Metahaven, Josef Dabernig, Neil Beloufa, Jill Magid, Nico Dockx and Kris Kimpe. Curated by Mihnea Mircan. Preview Thursday May 19, 7 PM, Extra City, Antwerp.
May 14, 2011
Amsterdam Art / Book Fair
Lecture Metahaven at
De Brakke Grond,
Amsterdam.
May 13, 2011
Allegories of Good and Bad Government
Discussion with Ann Demeester, Metahaven, Jonas Staal, Hans van Houwelingen, Matthijs de Bruijne, Osterholt + Uitentuis, at W139, Amsterdam.
April 16 – June 19, 2011
Utopian Structures. New Existentialism Part 3: Emre Hüner, Alon Levin, Jen Liu, Metahaven
Group exhibition at *Altefabrik, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland.
March 29, 2011, 5:30 PM
Nina Støttrup Larsen in conversation with Vinca Kruk (Metahaven)
Launch event GRAPHIC #16 and #17, PAKT, Amsterdam.
March 22, 2011
Uncorporate Identity
Lecture Metahaven (Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden), Stroom, The Hague.
March 10 – May 22, 2011
Just do it. Biopolitical Branding
Group exhibition at PAVILION UNICREDIT
center for contemporary art & culture
Bucharest, Romania
Curator: Simina Neagu.
February 9, 2011
Fantastical Investments
Droog Lab's content manager, Agata Jaworska, will present work in progress for the Fantastical Investments project led by Daniel van der Velden (Metahaven) at Ignite Amsterdam 6, Mediamatic.
January 29 – March 20, 2011
Made Up: Design's Fictions
Group Exhibition at Wind Tunnel Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Curated by Tim Durfee and Haelim Paek.
January 28 – March 25, 2011
Manystuff Kunstkammer
Group Exhibition at 12mail, Paris.
January 24 – March 27, 2011
Graphic Design Worlds
Group Exhibition at Triennale Design Museum, Milan. Curated by Giorgio Camuffo and Maddalena dalla Mura.
December 18, 2010
Design for WikiLeaks
Lecture Metahaven at I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I Want To Be There, symposium Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Organized by the Graphic Design Museum. Other speakers include Alice Rawsthorn, Stefan Sagmeister, LUST, and Dunne & Raby.
December 3-4, 2010
VOCO : Designfest
Lecture Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden) at Voco conference, University of Applied Sciences Würzburg, Germany. Other speakers include Alex Jordan and Reza Abedini.
November 25, 2010
Uncorporate Identity
Lecture Metahaven, Architectural Association, London.
November 24, 2010, 3 PM
Branding and Politics in the Age of Social Media
Lecture Metahaven at Goldsmiths University, Department of Sociology, London. Location: Richard Hoggart Building. Cinema.
Organized by Celia Lury.
November 18, 2010
Design and Politics
Lecture Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden) at KABK The Hague, Netherlands. Organized by Morf.
November 8, 2010
The Garden of Eden – A Letter to Eden Abergil
Lecture Metahaven (Vinca Kruk), Shenkar College of Design and Engineering, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel.
November 6, 2010
Book (Interrupted). The Antennae Series
Lecture Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden), New York Art Book Fair, PS1MoMA, New York.
October 14, 2010
Design and Speculation
Lecture Metahaven (Vinca Kruk), Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
October 9, 2010 - January 9, 2011
Overscore
Metahaven at Manifesta 8, The European Biennial for Contemporary Art,
Murcia and Cartagena, Spain.
Curated by ACAF (Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum).
Curator: Bassam El Baroni
Associate Curator: Jeremy Beaudry
Curatorial assistant: Yolanda Riquelme García
September 5 - 11, 2010
Russia Consumes
Project by Droog Lab in Moscow, in collaboration with Strelka. Lead designer Metahaven/Daniel van der Velden. Research phase.
September 2, 2010
Droog Design / Strelka Moscow
Kick-off Russia Consumes in Amsterdam (lead designer Metahaven/Daniel van der Velden).
July 10, 2010
Q&A
Lecture (Metahaven/Daniel van der Velden, Vinca Kruk) at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.
July 3, 2010
Motto Storefront
Lecture (Metahaven/Vinca Kruk) at Artspeak, 233 Carrall Street, Vancouver. Motto Storefront is organized by Artspeak and Fillip, with Motto, Berlin.
May 27, 2010
Q&A
Lecture (Metahaven/Daniel van der Velden, Vinca Kruk) at University of the Arts, Bremen.
Wednesday May 19, 2010
The Speculative Approach in Critical Design
Lecture (Metahaven/Daniel van der Velden) at Royal College of Art, London. 'File Under' series organized by Brave New Alps, Bianca Elzenbaumer and Fabio Franz.
Friday May 7, 2010, 7 PM
Uncorporate Identity
Book Launch NYC
e-Flux
41 Essex Street New York, NY 10002
April 30, 2010
Critical Design
Symposium at University of Fine Arts Hamburg. With Regula Stämpfli, Joep van Lieshout, Fiona Raby, Superflex, Metahaven a.o.
April 27, 2010, 8 PM
Uncorporate Identity
Symposium & Book Launch
De Verdieping
TrouwAmsterdam
With Lars Müller, John Morgan, Brave New Alps, Marina Vishmidt, Metahaven, Huib Haye van der Werf, DJ Stabilo Boss/Laurenz Brunner
March 18, 2010
To Brand or not to Brand
The Electrosmog Global Citybranding debate
De Balie, Amsterdam
March 17, 2010
Speculative Design
Lecture (Metahaven/Daniel van der Velden) at Camberwell College of Arts, London.
March 12, 2010
Pre-launch Uncorporate Identity
Civic City conference Design for the post-neoliberal city, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich.
February 2, 2010
Speculative Design
Lecture (Daniel van der Velden) at Graphic Design Atrium, Yale University, School of Art, 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven.
January 19, 2010
Design, networks, governance
Lecture seminar (Metahaven/Daniel van der Velden) at
ARCCI, Arnhem.
Interviews /
References
About us
The Verge
FOIA with friends: social platform Nulpunt looks to abolish government secrecy
July 2012
Huffington Post
July 2012
Dazed & Confused
The Dark Glamour of Transparency
December 2011
Walker Art Center
Facestate: Social Media and the State
December 2011
New York Times Magazine
January 2011
Design Observer
Interview, December 2010
Fillip
September 2011
The Highlights
Interview, 2011
Mute
Pretzel Logic: Surface as Critique
Review, 2011
Idea
Interview, 2006
By us
Captives of the Cloud
Part I — e-flux journal, 2012
Captives of the Cloud
Part II — e-flux journal, 2012
Rebrand... or Else
Essay for Print, 2011
Design and Geopolitics:
The Alterglobal, Soft Power, Disaster Capitalism
Metahaven interviews Benjamin Bratton, 2011
Autoreply: Modernism
Metahaven interviews Experimental Jetset, 2011
Mobile Money (The Near Future)
for Open, 2011
Pleidooi voor een lekkende overheid
with Jonas Staal and Brenno de Winter (in Dutch), 2012
Uncorporate Identity, 2010
Europe Sans
Essay, e-flux journal, 2009
Brand States
Essay, e-flux journal, 2008
White Night – Before A Manifesto
Pamphlet, 2008
Projects
Forthcoming
• Black Transparency – upcoming
• Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? — Strelka Press, Fall 2012
• Hans van Houwelingen, publication
• Iceland As Method -– research project
• Il Tempo del Postino web site (for Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, and Luma Foundation)
• Nulpunt, research and development
• Identity – Cohabitation Strategies
• Luc Deleu Orban Space – Wouter Davidts (ed.), published by Valiz
• Cloud Coins, research project, IMPAKT Festival/SKOR (commissioned by Sabine Niederer and Annet Dekker)
• The New Public, installation Bolzano, Italy
• The Stack, cover design for Benjamin Bratton, MIT press
• Rebranding European Muslims, with Dana Yahalomi/Public Movement
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Projects
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•Identity – Tensta konsthall
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•Art and Its Commercial Markets, Maria Lind & Olav Velthuis (eds), published by Sternberg Press
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•Undone – Hans van Houwelingen, published by Japsam Books
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•Fantastical Investments (for Droog Lab)
• Identity – Cohabitation Strategies
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•AAA Caring Culture – SKOR, published by Sternberg Press
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•PRO QM bag (for PRO QM Berlin)
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•Antennae series, published by Valiz
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•Forum redesign, AetA
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•The Exorcist (Van Abbemuseum)
• Mobile Money (for Open magazine)
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•Extra Everything (for Extra City, Antwerp)
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•5 and 10 Euro coin 50 years WWF –competition, Dutch Ministry of Finance
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•Community Art – Paul De Bruyne & Pascal Gielen, eds. (Valiz Antennae)
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•Locating the Producers – Paul O’Neill & Claire Doherty, eds. (Valiz Antennae)
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•Piktogram #15, magazine
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•Allegories of Good and Bad Government, W139 (with Jonas Staal, Hans van Houwelingen)
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•Signal Murcia (for Manifesta 8)
• Uncorporate Identity
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•The Copyist (for Van Abbemuseum)
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•Volume Magazine Moon Catalogue (for Alicia Framis)
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•PRLTM Warsaw (Museum of Modern Art / Lukasz Stanek)
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•From Cool Britannia to Cold Britannia – Rebranding Britain (for Icon magazine)
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•Rebranding AIG (for Bloomberg Businessweek)
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•The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude – Pascal Gielen (Valiz Antennae)
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•Take Place – Helen Westgeest, ed. (Valiz Antennae)
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•The Fall of the Studio – Wouter Davidts, Kim Paice, eds. (Antennae, Valiz)
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•Crack – Koen van den Broek (Valiz/S.M.A.K.)
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•Utrecht Manifest – Biennial for Social Design
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•Stadtstaat – Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht
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•Affiche Frontière – CAPC Bordeaux
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•White Night Before A Manifesto
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•Quaero
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•The Museum of Conflict
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•Ryugyong Forbidden Icon
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•Sealand Identity Project
Clients
Netherlands Architecture Institute
52nd Venice Biennial (Romanian Pavilion)
Sternberg Press
SKOR
Japsam Books
Metahaven has lectured at
Academy of Arts, Tallinn
Architectural Association, London
Architecture Museum, Ljubljana
Art Center, Pasadena
De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Camberwell College of Art, London
Columbia University, New York
Design2Context, Zürich
Dictionary of War, Novi Sad
Goldsmiths University, London
HEAD – University of the Arts Geneva
Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
Hogeschool Sint Lucas, Antwerp
Iaspis, Stockholm
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
Leeds Metropolitan University
London College of Communication
Lux Valence
MNAC, Bucharest
Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
Otis College of Art, Los Angeles
Paradiso, Amsterdam
PAKT, Amsterdam
Power Station, Seoul
Rhode Island School of Design
Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
Royal College of Art, London
School of Architecture, Copenhagen
School of Visual Arts, New York
Shenkar College for Art and Design, Tel Aviv
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Stroom, the Hague
Tate Britain
Transmediale
TU Delft
University of California, San Diego
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Venice Architecture Biennial
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
W139, Amsterdam
University of Applied Sciences Würzburg
Yale University, New Haven
"An eye-opening and provocative book." Icon
Bridging between design, geopolitics, architecture, and branding, Metahaven's Uncorporate Identity defies easy categorization as a monograph. The book is organized as a sequence of five chapters, dealing with data havens and statehood, post-communist architecture, visual legacies of the war on terror, tourist brands and border control, and social networks restructuring soft power, branding and governance internationally. With each chapter comprised of case studies, notes and essays, it explores visual identity in a networked and multi-polar world.
"Uncorporate Identity questions the purpose and value of design in a neurotic and treacherous era of geopolitical instability."
Alice Rawsthorn, International Herald Tribune
"A sustained and multivalent investigation into the relationship between design and power, often using visual and design tactics themselves as the form of interrogation. (...)
In an appropriately inside-out manner, Metahaven echo Wally Olins’ definition of corporate identity – 'strategy made visible' – but with an entirely opposite intent."
Sam Jacob, Mute
“manic and spell-binding”... “the visual forms that emerge in this speculation are fairly astounding: passports printed with cuneiform, bar codes that extrude into architectural space, postage stamps of mirrors and satellites, a national flag composed only of a field of gray, a monopoly board game that imagines the Parisian banlieues.” Design Issues
"There hasn't been anything quite this ambitious from a design team since Bruce Mau hit his stride...Uncorporate Identity collects the critical design projects they have undertaken to date and amplifies them with new material."
Rick Poynor, Creative Review
"After decades of corporate identity being reduced to logos, Metahaven has undertaken a larger project to explore identity in politics and culture, online and across borders. This expansive monograph is its own project – the transformation of a design practice into a research laboratory and think tank. An important book." Design Observer
"An important status report for design in the contemporary context (…) Metahaven’s book will be a strong contender for either the sexiest thing in your library carrel or the smartest thing in your beach bag." Alan Smart, Abitare
"One of the most innovative design studios in Europe." Süddeutsche Zeitung
"One of the most radical groups of designers in Europe (…) Metahaven use a research-based, speculative 'meta-design' practice to rethink the structural parameters and channels through which emerging organizational models and political paradigms inadvertently stumble upon a form of communication." Kaleidoscope
Uncorporate Identity
Metahaven
Contributions by Dieter Lesage, Chantal Mouffe, Regula Stämpfli, David Singh Grewal, Michael Taussig, Mihnea Mircan, Keller Easterling, Florian Schneider, China Miéville, Vladimir Kolossov, Boris Groys, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Sean Hastings, a.o.
About Metahaven
Metahaven is a studio for design and research, founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden. Metahaven's work—both commissioned and self-directed—reflects political and social issues in provocative graphic design objects. Metahaven released Uncorporate Identity, a book on politics and visual identity, published by Lars Müller in 2010. Solo exhibitions include Affiche Frontière (CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2008) and Stadtstaat (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart/Casco, 2009). Group exhibitions include Forms of Inquiry (AA London, 2007), Manifesta8 (Murcia, 2010), the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011 (Gwangju, Korea) and Graphic Design: Now In Production (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2011).
In 2011, Metahaven was selected by Rolling Stone Italia as one of the world's 20 most promising design studios.
Vinca Kruk (Leiden, 1980) is a graphic designer and writer. After graduating from the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2003 Vinca became a researcher at the Sealand Identity Project at the Jan van Eyck Academie's design department in 2003 where she remained a researcher until late 2005 working on various projects such as Museum of Conflict and Quaero. Until 2007, Vinca collaborated with Adriaan Mellegers on graphic design commissions for Extra City Antwerp, Wiels, Jan van Eyck Academie and A&S Publishers. She joined forces with Daniel van der Velden, founding Metahaven, a studio combining design, research and writing and they have been working and publishing together since. Vinca has been a tutor of editorial design and design critique at ArtEZ Academy of Arts in Arhem since 2007, and was a mentor at Valence Academy of the Arts, France (2009) and the IM Master programme at Design Academy Eindhoven (2010). • vinca [at] metahaven.net
Daniel van der Velden is a graphic designer and writer. He graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy, and studied in Maastricht at the Jan van Eyck Academie under Michael Rock, Armand Mevis, Paul Elliman, Karel Martens and Jan van Toorn. Daniel ran a graphic design studio together with Maureen Mooren from 1998 to 2007, working on innovative projects in the field of editorial and identity design. Clients included the architecture journal Archis (now Volume), TNT Post (former Dutch PTT), the Holland Festival, and many more.
Daniel joined forces with Vinca Kruk after he initiated the Sealand Identity Project at the Jan van Eyck Academie. They subsequently founded Metahaven, a studio combining design, research, and writing.
Daniel is a Senior Critic at Yale University, where he joined the Graphic Design MFA's faculty in 2007. He is a tutor at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. He lectured at the University of Amsterdam school of Media Studies, and serves as an advisory board member at the International Design Forum in Ulm. • daniel [at] metahaven.net
People
Daniel van der Velden, founder / partner
Vinca Kruk, founder / partner
Janna Ullrich, designer / researcher
Louise Kelpe, designer (intern)
Karlis Krecers, designer (intern)
Former
Allison Kerst, designer (intern)
Michael Oswell, designer (intern)
Alysse Kushinski, reseacher (intern)
Kees de Klein, designer
Viktor Nyström, designer (intern)
Rasmus Svensson, designer (intern)
Femke Herregraven, designer / researcher
Francesca Miazzo, researcher
Chris Lee, designer / researcher
Ryan Weafer, designer (intern)
Houman Momtazian, designer (intern)
Jenny Hirons, designer (intern)
Simone Niquille, designer (intern)
Raoul Pilcicki, designer (intern)
Cécile Tafanelli, designer
Dimitri van Loenen, designer
Gon Zifroni (partner from 2007 – 2010)
Pinar Demirdag, designer
Sacha Leopold, designer (intern)
Efrim Bartosik, designer (intern)
Contact Details
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