Experimental Jet Set are a Amsterdam based graphic design studio founded in 1997 by designers still known today as Erwin Brinkers, Marieke stock and Danny van den Dungen. They focus on printed matter and site-specific installations (and describing their methodology as “turning language into objects”), Experimental Jetset have worked on
projects for Stedelijk Museum CS (SMCS), Purple Institute, Centre Pompidou, Dutch Post Group (PTT, KPN, TPG, TNT, PostNL), Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN), Le Cent Quatre (104), De Theatercompagnie (DTC), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (CAPC), Bureau Europa (NAiM), and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Experimental Jet Set are a Amsterdam based graphic design studio founded in 1997 by designers still known today as Erwin Brinkers, Marieke stock and Danny van den Dungen. They focus on printed matter and site-specific installations (and describing their methodology as “turning language into objects”), Experimental Jetset have worked on
projects for Stedelijk Museum CS (SMCS), Purple Institute, Centre Pompidou, Dutch Post Group (PTT, KPN, TPG, TNT, PostNL), Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN), Le Cent Quatre (104), De Theatercompagnie (DTC), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (CAPC), Bureau Europa (NAiM), and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Their work has been featured in group exhibitions such as ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’ (Walker Art Center, 2011) and ‘Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language’ (MoMA, 2012). Solo exhibitions include ‘Kelly 1:1’ (Casco Projects, Utrecht, 2002) and ‘Two or Three Things I Know About Provo’ (W139, Amsterdam, 2011, and the Moravian Gallery in Brno, 2012). In 2007, a large selection of work by
Experimental Jetset was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), for inclusion in the MoMA permanent collection. Other institutes that collected work from Experimental Jetset include Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), SFMOMA (San Francisco), Art Institute of Chicago, Museum für Gestaltung (Zürich), Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris), and the Cooper Hewitt (NYC).
Marieke& Danny& Erwin.
Turning language into objects.
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Their design style influences are wide ranging and varied but their aesthetic is closely related to the modernist movement; the style is reinforced by using a simple monochromatic colour palette and the typeface Helvetia on almost every one of their projects.
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