KesselsKramer says Hello
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KesselsKramer believes that we’re living in a new age of story-telling, a time when a brand can tell its tale, not only through traditional media, but in whatever form most suits its message. So an idea can pop up in the form of a book, a film, and advertising campaign, an exhibition or a product. In other words, KesselsKramer stands for the propagation of good ideas, of imagination over traditional limitations. Its work is constantly trying to embody this philosophy.
http://www.typoberlin.de/2010/index.php/21.23/2
http://kesselskramerpublishing.com/
The Lecture
Erik Kessels is a world-renowned Graphic Designer, Advertiser, Photographer, Curator and Artist. There’s nothing stereotypical about Kessels or the work of his Amsterdam/ London-based ad agency KesselsKramer. For many observers of the visual communication scene, KesselsKramer is one of only a handful of advertising agencies producing work that rises above the level of consumerist background noise, often witty, irreverent, almost anti-advertising.
Erik will be sharing his experience and insight, as well as personal views and ‘stories’ on his amazing body of work.
Being the renaissance man, Erik will hopefully share a mix of the work of KesselsKramer alongside his various experiments, found photography, publishing and various other creative endeavours.
Erik Kessels is a world-renowned Graphic Designer, Advertiser, Photographer, Curator and Artist. There’s nothing stereotypical about Kessels or the work of his Amsterdam/ London-based ad agency KesselsKramer. For many observers of the visual communication scene, KesselsKramer is one of only a handful of advertising agencies producing work that rises above the level of consumerist background noise, often witty, irreverent, almost anti-advertising.
Erik will be sharing his experience and insight, as well as personal views and ‘stories’ on his amazing body of work.
Being the renaissance man, Erik will hopefully share a mix of the work of KesselsKramer alongside his various experiments, found photography, publishing and various other creative endeavours.
http://www.graphicsbolton.co/graphics/
The Worst Hotel in the World: the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel Amsterdam
? 2009: Erik Kessels & KesselsKramer
? 2009: Erik Kessels & KesselsKramer
Designed by KesselsKramer, this 280 page retrospective includes every advertisement and promotional item created for the hotel over some 15 years. Daring, confrontational, and occasionally just plain offensive – and spectacularly successful at connecting with a notoriously fickle target market. (2009: Booth Clibborn Editions; ISBN 9781861543110)
$45.95
http://www.swipe.com/?cat=53
Exhibition in Breda
Graphic Detour at Graphic Design Museum Breda, curated by Erik Kessels.
“Graphic Design isn’t what it used to be. Whereas traditional graphic design was a clearly defined craft, now technology allows anyone to be a designer. Computer programs help us create almost anything imaginable, which means that a lack of crafts skills is no longer the issue: a lack of ideas is. Consequently, true graphic design today is less about getting your fingers inky, and more about thinking different. As doing becomes easier and easier, finding original approaches is harder than ever.
But help is at hand. The boundaries between disciplines like fashion, art, photography, architecture and advertising are also becoming increasingly porous. Because these disciplines are no longer clear cut, cross-fertilisation can occur. Artists now take regular detours into graphic design, and graphic designers touch upon art more frequently than ever.
This exhibition celebrates the diversity of an ever-shifting area of creative expression. Graphic Detour showcases the work of designers who go beyond design, talents who mix media as a matter of course, innovators whose ideas set them apart. And to push this new graphic design further, Graphic Detour has asked a series of companies to ‘blind date’ a creative thinker, matching artists with ceramic workshops, printers, woodworkers and even candy manufacturers.
The result is a series of detours that just might lead us to a new place entirely.
Participants: Daniel Eatock – KEMO Models and Prototypes, Joachim Schmid – NPN Printers, Erik Steinbrecher – Sunday Morning/European Ceramic Workcentre, Tod Hanson – Vlisco, Koen Taselaar – Metaalplan, Marti Guixé – Kompak, FUEL – De Geus Woodworks, Damien Poulain – Jamin”
But help is at hand. The boundaries between disciplines like fashion, art, photography, architecture and advertising are also becoming increasingly porous. Because these disciplines are no longer clear cut, cross-fertilisation can occur. Artists now take regular detours into graphic design, and graphic designers touch upon art more frequently than ever.
This exhibition celebrates the diversity of an ever-shifting area of creative expression. Graphic Detour showcases the work of designers who go beyond design, talents who mix media as a matter of course, innovators whose ideas set them apart. And to push this new graphic design further, Graphic Detour has asked a series of companies to ‘blind date’ a creative thinker, matching artists with ceramic workshops, printers, woodworkers and even candy manufacturers.
The result is a series of detours that just might lead us to a new place entirely.
Participants: Daniel Eatock – KEMO Models and Prototypes, Joachim Schmid – NPN Printers, Erik Steinbrecher – Sunday Morning/European Ceramic Workcentre, Tod Hanson – Vlisco, Koen Taselaar – Metaalplan, Marti Guixé – Kompak, FUEL – De Geus Woodworks, Damien Poulain – Jamin”
Exhibition: 11 June – 27 November, 2011
Opening: 11 June, 6 pm
Opening: 11 June, 6 pm
The Coach House book is a collaboration of Joachim Schmid and NPN Drukkers that was produced on the occasion of the exhibition Graphic Detour.
http://schmid.wordpress.com/category/exhibitions/page/2/
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Bombay Beauties KESSELSKRAMER PUBLISHING NEW BOOKS Vernacular Photography
KESSELSKRAMER PUBLISHING – NEW BOOKSFor the second time, Erik Kessels brings his own photos together in a new book Tree Paintings – Photography by Erik Kessels, which documents trees “marked for destruction by loggers”. Kessels has recorded these ‘tags’, or simple inscriptions made on the bark of the tree by different people, in a series of close up shots. The second book release, Bombay Beauties, is a collection of found photographs which have been acquired and edited by Kessels and is a follow-up to Bangkok Beauties. The featured images were collected in Mumbai and depict “a rich mix of ordinary subjects from hairdressers’ models to family shots, to wedding images”.
Kessels has brought vernacular photography to the forefront and his exhibition Loving Your Pictures was one of the highlights of Rencontres d’Arles 2007. As with much of Kessels curation of, mainly, ‘found’ photographs, the themes and concepts binding the work appear deceptively simple but are brilliantly polysemic and engaging. What’s more, photographers considering producing their own books would benefit from looking at the selection of books produced and published by KesselsKramer Publishing, especially as each work is conceived of and treated to different processes resulting in objects which help achieve the initiative’s stated interest “in testing boundaries in the field of publishing”.
The HQ, KesselsKramer, is located in Amsterdam and has a sister hub outlet KKOutlet – a quirky place which is a hybrid communications agency-cum-gallery-cum-bookshop – perched in east London’s hip Hoxton Square. Kessels’s magazine Useful Photography can be purchased here alongside a wonderful collection of books.
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