Grafisch Geluk

Communication design / Exhibitions

Start date: 21-10-2011

End date: 05-02-2012

Country: The Netherlands

City: Hilversum

Location: Museum Hilversum

This Autumn Museum Hilversum presents an overview of 100 years of Dutch graphic design in cooperation with Premsela, the Netherlands institute for design and fashion, and Beeld & Geluid.

By Editor Design.nl / 19-10-2011

Featuring political posters and advertisements, packaging and even Kwadraat publications and extraordinary posters from the golden years of Dutch design the exhibition presents work by Wim Crouwel, Dick Bruna, Otto Treumann, Mart Kempers and Dick Elffers.

Also on show is graphic design of broadcasting associations and an overview of contemporary designers such as Hansje van Halem, René Knip, Harmen Liemburg, Michel Schuurman, Job Wouters and Richard Niessen.

Premsela will launch Grafisch Geluk ("Graphic Happiness"), Bas van Lier’s history of the high-end 20th-century printer Steendrukkerij De Jong & Co., on Thursday 20 October in Hilversum. The presentation will take place at the opening of Museum Hilversum’s exhibition of the same name.