Cooked all the stuff in the book, wrote it and designed it and used my own typeface DF Dejavu. This font is an orphanage where all the beautiful details of classical grotesque typefaces from the early twentieth century are gathered, and thus living together, are forming a ‘new’, happy family. The aim was to collect my favorite characters in one font. The start was an eclectic collection orientated on British types from Caslon Doric No. 4, Monotype Grotesque, Gill Sans, Franklin Gothic up to Transport. In this amalgamation I avoided the narrow apertures in the ‘e’, ‘c’ and in the numerals ‘5’, ‘6’ and ‘9’ and enlarged the x-height dramatically. To the classical slanted form of the italics I added real italic forms for ‘a’, ‘e’ and ‘g’ in order to obtain a more distinguished italic style.

Set Up Shop:

Visual artist Melle Smets, researcher Joost van Onna traveled to Kumasi [Ghana] in February 2013 to build a African concept car, in collaboration with the local community. They Set up Shop and created a unique automobile in three months. Philosopher Bram Esser joined the team and worked as an apprentice in local workshops to learn from the life in Suame Magazine. Filmmaker & Photographer Teun Vonk documented the building process of the concept car. The development of an African concept car is the connecting theme guiding the viewer through the international flow of waste processing as well as the local automotive cottage industries.

Een Midzomernachtsdroom is a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written specifically for young people by Sander Zweerts de Jong (The Poet Is Working).