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  • Article Wouter Bos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Toronto, Canada Michèle Champagne, Justin Linds

    Properties font

    Radical type for Mediamatic Travel's visual identity!

    Properties mined Toronto's city grid and spit out an identity for Mediamatic Travel. But what does this visual identity reflect? What is its motivation? And how is it much more than just a type font?
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  • Book: Christopher Alexander 1 Jan 1977

    A Pattern Language

  • Amsterdam-Noord

  • The Mediamatic Sluisdeurenloods

    A cultural landmark

    The Sluisdeurenloods or 'Canal Lock Gate Warehouse' was originally built at the end of the 19th century, before being dismantled, moved, and reconstructed at Dijkspark in 1957. The building is now...

  • Ganzeer

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Noordelijke Character(istics): A neighborhood is defined by its inhabitants. Ganzeer puts a face to the 'hood.

  • Thank you

    Everyone who helped put Noord on the map

    Our project team, the artists and designers, sponsors, friends, Noorderlingen and other informers.

  • Mediamatic Travel

    Networked travel agency

    What better way to discover a city than through its contemporary art treasures? Mediamatic Travel is a network of locals waiting to show you around the backside of their cities. From contemporary...

  • Noord is exceptionally normal

    Introduction to Noord

    This is the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands. It is about Amsterdam-Noord. We made this guide during the summer of 2010 with a group of editors and a team of 22 artists from Egypt, the...

  • 37 Pavilions

    First ‘user generated’ biennale

    Here we have collected the proposals for the city pavilions in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 that were sent to us by the curators. We also show what each pavilion looks like after it was built. Find...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Bert Mulder 1 Jan 1992

    Alexander

    Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, Oxford University Press 1977

    We build information systems: hundreds of people sitting in front of screens that glow and that, interconnected, create an environment supporting their works and desires.

  • Noord

    Pars pro toto for The Netherlands

    During the summer of 2010, 22 artists made work in and about Amsterdam-Noord. This resulted in an exhibition, and in the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

  • On the Urban Typography workshop

    fabbing communication

    Urban Typography: what does your city say to you and what do you say to your city? This workshop encouraged participants to express themselves through words and text in their urban environments...
  • Project

    Shrinking Cities

    Cities are shrinking all over the world!

    Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge to us. In the Shrinking Cities project, architects, academics and artists investigate recent developments in Detroit, Ivanovo, Manchester / Liverpool and...

  • Golfstromen

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Joop and Jeroen are looking into Noord's subcultures by examining posters, flyers and stickers in the public space. Their research into wrestling fanatics and hiphop crews continues online.

  • Mushroom Design

    A miscellaneous products collection

    How many objects have been designed with a clear reference to mushrooms? This is has been collected until now. If you have more, add it to the bucket and we'll share the pleasure.

  • Project proposals

    Participating artists and the design team

    Mapping for Tourists resulted in Noord. These pages are snapshots of the artists' progress, as documented in July of 2010. Visit the Noord web space for the final results.

  • Mahmoud Hamdy

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Amsterdam Noord as a test lab. The more Mahmoud analyzes and explores Noord, the more he realizes that it are the conceptions and opinions people from the city center have about Noord that shape the...

  • Infographic Amsterdam - Noord

  • Ayman Ramadan

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Mirrors and 40 Days : An exploration of a geographical territory as well as of the people which he finds himself living alongside.

  • Melle Smets

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    "A shortcut to Holland". The suburbs you find throughout The Netherlands all look exactly the same. Melle will create a tour in Noord through the suburbs of The Netherlands.

  • Gentrification Battlefield

    The non-Noorderner is advancing in Amsterdam-Noord. Ten years ago only the occasional explorer would dare to cross the water, taking a headquarters in an old conquered warehouse on the NDSM-wharf.

  • Ahmed Kamel

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Family portraits: Family members in the context and privacy of their own homes. They choose their own way to gather in their living room, and present themselves to the outside world.

  • The Definition of Conceptual

    somewhat of a review concerning a debate on the value of concept.

    In the invitation Premsela sent out for their New Year's reception was the following: "Concept and Conceptual; the most used and especially abused words in the jargon of art, design and architecture.

  • Foundland

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Foundland find themselves inspired by the many fairytale aspects of Noord. Wandering around, they were surprised by the number of garden gnomes, fake frogs, and Indiana Jones style twists and turns...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol. 8#2/3 Errki Huhtamo 1 Jan 1995

    Armchair Traveller on the Ford of Jordan

    The Home, the Stereoscope and the Virtual Voyager

    The general panorama of the world. It introduces to us scenes known only from the imperfect relations of travellers. By our fireside we have the advantage of examining them, without being exposed to...

created Michèle Champagne modified Evelyn

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