In Babylon is a novel by Dutch author Marcel Möring, first published in 1997. This hardcover edition by De Bezige Bij came out in 2005. It measures 13,5× 21,3 cm and has black endpapers and a cover printed in black on yellow paper.

Giant capitals from Bodega Sans are paired with Venus. The original Berthold BQ PostScript version of Venus has been used.

3D mock up by DPS. Artwork Tessa van der Waals

De Val van Thomas G. (“The Fall of Thomas G.”) by Nelleke Noordervliet is a novel about freedom of speech, social media, racism, parenting, old age, marriage and love.

The positioning of the big, bleeding type in capitals represents an actual VAL (fall, descent or trap). The parts that literary fall off are to be found on the innerside of the cover.

The blue and green are Pantone colors printed in two hits in order to intensify their brightness on the uncoated textured paper. The color on the block was meant to emphasize the three-dimensionality of the book but unfortunately could not be realized.

Part of capital V falling down on innerside cover next to titlepage. Typography innerwork by Suzan Beijer

Part of fallen capital L on innerside cover next to last page

A novel by Niña Weijers on the art of creative living or the creative and destructive vital force of being an artist.

Originally published by Atlas Contact in 2014, and reprinted many times (until recently in 2021) in different editions making use of the same simple (original) design.

Photo: Sanne Sannes (rotated)
140×210 mm

Back cover

Back cover

De Nederlandse kinderliteratuur in 100 en enige verhalen; Abdelkader Benali; photo by Katharina Behrend, 1922, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam.

Anthologies of Dutch Literature: fiction/non fiction, poetry, essays; different genres; selected and edited by different authors; hardbound, 125 x 200 mm; Uitgeverij Prometheus, Amsterdam, 2006-2016.

De Nederlandse kinderpoëzie in 1000 en enige gedichten; Gerrit Komrij; illustration by Hanna Mattes, Sommeralbum I, 2006.

De Nederlandse erotische literatuur in 80 en enige verhalen; Elsbeth Etty; photo by Ed van der Elsken, © Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam.

De Nederlandse Reisliteratuur in 80 en enige verhalen; Jan Blokker; photo by Katharina Behrend, 1924, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam.

De nederlandse Erotische Literatuur in 80 en enige verhalen; Elsbeth Etty; photo by Ed van der Elsken, © Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam.

De Nederlandse literatuur in 100 en enige Polemieken; Pierre Vinken & Hans van den Bergh; photo by Mischa Keijser.

De Nederlandse Coming of Age literatuur in 100 en enige verhalen; Ronald Giphart; photo by Ed van der Elsken, Nederlands Fotomuseum, courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery.

De Nederlandse Culinaire literatuur in 90 en enige verhalen; Ronald Giphart; photo by Bob van Dam, Nederlands Fotomuseum.

The Succes Shunner

Adrien Turel and the roots of creativity

‘Abandon all success, ye who enter here’

The design follows the content and is a tribute to Adrien Turel, who personally published his own writings.

In recent decades, it has become widely accepted that we are living in an anthropocene age, that we humans are responsible for the course of life on earth, that we have only ourselves to blame for such disasters as climate change and the mass extinction of species. In The Succes Shunner, Arjen Mulder reconstructs the philosophical and academic basis for this new concept, folowing the largely-forgotten Swiss thinker Adrien Turel (1890-1957).

Aan het eind van de dag (At the End of the Day) is a novel about a woman, former minister and author of two bestellers about politics and the position of women. A biography on her life and position is in progress, but she does not want to collaborate fully. Memories start to come up. Which version of her life should be told? A novel about getting older, failing and the struggle for life.

The layered typography represents the different versions of her life in a bleeding stream.

140×210 cm ISBN 978 90 254 4869

Graz: a novella;

Bart Moeyaert’s was sparked by a repeat visit to the Austrian city at the invitation of the Graz Literary House, in a hotel room with a view. He projects himself in the fictitious figure of Herman Eichler, the business manager of “Zum guten Hirten” pharmacy opposite the hotel. The man is unmarried, stable, orderly and precise, a model of reliability.

12.5×18 cm, 104 pages, hardbound, cover printed in duotone on uncoated paper

photo on cover Philip Provily, Rug op tafel 1994

Willem Wilmink Verzamelde liedjes en gedichten
in different editions (Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Prometheus), starting 2004: 2 volumes in slipcase; otabind, silkscreen printed covers on Gmund colored paper.
Editions 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012: 1 volume, hardbound, Uitgeverij Bert Bakker/Uitgeverij Prometheus; cloth/paperbound; foil-embossed
Edition 2016 paperback with flaps, cover printed 3/2

SNIJ·PUNT (POINT of INTER·SECTION); paperback with flaps; 140×210 mm

Window Athenaeum bookshop, Amsterdam, 2008

Preparations in the studio

Amsterdam Central Station: bookshop

In honour to Wim Brands and his daughter Nikki.
Dutch literature of the 21 Century — the new writers of the new millennium — compiled by Wim Brands. Two editions; hardbound and paperback, 140×210 mm. Photo by Mischa Keijser

Dijk (Dike, a comparison) is a novel about incomparable quantities, the power of the market and the vibrance of atoms. About the downfall of small groceries, cheese-sellars and butchers. About sweet memories that change like the clouds in the Dutch sky.

125×200 mm ISBN 9789025446406

This book should look like a wrapped product from a grocery store in the sixties in Holland.

12×20 cm, paperback with flaps, printed 2/2: on each flap one letter: P-R-O-L-O-O-G, the year 1952 appears at the backside.

Prologue of epic novel Pier en Oceaan, 2012

New Year’s gift by Amstel Uitgevers, Amsterdam, 2010-2011

Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam, first edition in 2 volumes, 2012
14×21 cm, Otastar binding

3 editions in one volume have been published since 2012;
volume 1 Nationaal Archief/Spaarnestad Photo/Cevirum; front G.A. van der Chijs; back Wiel van der Randen
volume 2 Nationaal Archief/Spaarnestad Photo; front Wiel van der Randen; back Henk Blansjaar

pictures of the books by Eric Keyzer, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Uitgeverij Prometheus, Amsterdam, 2011
15×23 cm, hardbound
Photo: Madrid streetview 1932, © Spaarnestad Photo

De decaan en diens december (The Dean’s December), 1982. The cover uses a detail from A Man with a Glass of Wine by an anonymous Portuguese master, The Louvre, Paris.

Preliminary sketches for Prometheus book covers using images from Scala Archives.

Er sterven er meer van liefdesverdriet (More Die of Heartbreak), 1987. The artwork is Sandro Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1482–1485, National Gallery of Art, Washington