Welcome to the

Palace Of Typographic Masonry

An (imaginary) institute for the splendour and variety of graphic languages

Door de lenzen, banknotes by Ootje Oxenaar

Take a look in the

SHOP

Posters, books, foldouts, special objects made in edition, etc.

Excerpt IV: A direct evidence of an active design history

Night-work Hahahaha

Take a tour through the

Floorplan

An overview of the nine departments of the Palace

Incomprehensibly Coded Admission Tickets

Get introduced to Typographic Masonry in

THE MASONIC LOBBY

At the Palace's entrance

Publication by Esther de Vries

Source collection Social Catalyst Laboratory

The Mechanics of the Mediating Discipline publication

En u mag dit wapen voeren

Board Game Cut-ups – Hexagons

1. In Search for Lost Figuration

Source collection Repository of Porous Identities

The Mechanics of the Mediating Discipline (poster)

Source collection The Mechanics of the Mediating Discipline

Source Collection The Amalgamable Archive

Labyrinth of Scripts

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The Utopian Quest for a Pasigraphy

Facing the Palace floorplan

The Redemptive Qualities Of Ornament

The Typotectural Suites

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Space Atlas

Stiktype

Door de lenzen, Cover Cover by Irma Boom

Source collection Passage of Entanglement

Kees Maas

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Poster by Richard Niessen

Waltzing grids workbench

Waltzing Grids

8. Graphic designer as producer: taking charge of content and function

Educational chest of The Asemic Cabinet

Undeciphered Type Ball

Forgetting that work is work

The Typotectural Suites

Excerpt III: Art education and the fault line in society

Source Collection Building Sets Storage

Victoria and Alferd Museum

Chamber of Transformation (poster)

Excerpt II: Associations and colleagues.

Separation, fusion, inversion, fragmentation

Sliding Drawer Tool Box

Excerpt I: Institutes erected and dismantled

Educational chest of The Masonic Lobby

Kees Maas Zeef Baas

Synthetic Synergy (A dialogue on the Design of an Automated Pavilion)

The Bonus Room: It's a sign

The Modest Master’s Mesmerising Screen Print Shop

Linda van Deursen

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Source collection Hallway of the Subjective Narrative

The Gallery of Modernity & Nostalgia (poster)

Source Collection Von Wersin's Kitchen

Ornamental portal

Envelope with updated collection

Studiolo of Plans (poster)

Source Collection The Written Keystones

Letters to the Minister

Source collection The Exchange Room

Source collection The Unfolding Arch of Forging Fantasy

Two QUATRAINS from QUARANTINE (storyboard)

ED FELLA

4. Another Letter in the Wall

3. M for Living In

Source Collection of Inextricable Books

2. A is for Analogy

Hallway of the Subjective Narrative (posters)

Source collection Test Press

Test press (catalogue)

Source collection The Typotectural Suites

Source Collection Palatial Examples

Palatial Examples (poster)

Building Sets Storage (poster)

Hansje van Halem & Mienke Simon Thomas in conversation

Magnet blocks

Building Sets Storage

Source collection The Cosmographic Chambers

The Cosmographic Chambers

Secret Creatures of the Temple

The Bonus Room: In my Room

Tracing Board Treasury (poster)

Source collection The Bonus Room

The Bonus Room: I made it

Source collection Annex of Universal Languages

The Asemic Cabinet (poster)

Source collection The Asemic Cabinet

The Masonic Lobby (poster)

The Veranda of Floating Threads

Partial map The Evolution of Emoji into a Language

Overview map The Annex of Universal Languages

Undeciphered characters

Partial map Lingua Ignota

Introduction The Annex of Universal Languages by Richard Niessen

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Source collection The Modest Master's Mesmerizing Screen Print Shop

Grote Kerk Breda

NIKLAUS TROXLER

Source collection of The Playground of the In-between

Set of Cards of the House of Babel

HENDRIK WIJDEVELD

Board Game Cut-ups

Impression of the Tracing Board Treasury

Tifinagh alphabet: an ancient survivor in a modern multi-script environment

Conversations of Julius Vermeulen, Els Kuijpers, Richard Niessen

Chamber of Transformation (card deck)

Source collection Game Board Corridor

Automated Pavilion

Source collection The Veranda of Floating Threads

6. The Social Role of the Graphic Designer

1. The Arts and Crafts of To-day: a moral framework for art and society

Educational chest of Von Wersin’s Kitchen

Von Wersin's Kitchen (poster)

Kente

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10. Partager le Regard: an antidote for division and fragmentation

9. Research and Destroy: generating your own meaning from your own resources

7. There is such a thing as society: shadow over graphic design’s role in society

5. First Things First: the all-powerful lure of advertising

4. Design as Art: restoring contact between art and the public

3. Composition of Time and Place: the indestructible world of the craftsman

2. Bauhaus: giving shape to the spirit of the new times

The Unfolding Arch of Forging Fantasy

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Source collection The Chamber of Transformation

Source Collection Tracing Board Treasury

The Masonic Lobby by Dirk van Weelden

26 Seemingly Undecrypted Flags

Jingles

J

Test press (video)

Test press (poster)

Source collection The Pavilions of Honour

Subtitle pavilion

Source collection Studiolo of Plans

Night-work Hahahaha plates

Two QUATRAINS from QUARANTINE (lightbox)

Missing notes

Hexagons / Parmagedon

Board Game Cut-ups – Parmagedon

Source collection The Gridded Section

Source collection Labyrinth of Scripts

Kees Maas Zeef Baas (video)

Missing objects in the John Soane museum

Iceberg story

Table cloth

Introduction to the Tracing Board Treasury

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Invitation to the Tracing Board Treasury

Coding Kente

Wolfgang von Wersin

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Educational chest of the Tracing Board Treasury

The Labyrinth of Scripts (poster)

Messages from afar

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Asemic Aquatic Marks

Mysterious Signs Laboratory

Educational chest of The Labyrinth of Scripts

Door de lenzen, Illias (Toneelgroep Amsterdam) by Anthon Beeke

Source Collection The Gallery of Modernity & Nostalgia