Sliding Drawer Tool Box

It's all graphic #14

Between Archive and Urgency

10 September 2025

Design education, practice and archives in the functionally rational reality

Article on Dutch Design Daily

07 July 2025

'An Alphabet of Cases' back home

Finissage Museum Angewandte Kunst

12 may 2025

Revue Faire 50

Dedicated to The Palace of Typographic Masonry

27 February 2025

Der Palast des typografischen Mauerwerks

Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt

21 February 2025

The Mechanics of the Mediating Discipline

Presentation at Loods 6

Wednesday 22 January 2025 16:00-18:00

The Repository of Porous Identities

Presentation at Loods 6

Saturday 14 December, 15:30-17:00

Workshop in Nautilus

Personal interpretations of the Amsterdam flag

10 November 2024

Lecture in Bucharest

Part of the Glitch Library Design Sessions

31 October 2024

Excerpt IV printed and distributed

Printed by RaddraaierSSP

25 September 2024

Contribution to literary magazine De Gids

A new Excerpt on design history

22 June 2024

UvA students visiting The Palace of Typographic Masonry

Class for Re-reading the Graphic Design Archive

23 April 2024

Audiotour on Sliding Drawer Tool Box

Streaming on Soundcloud

20 April 2024

Building Sets Storage drawer on display

Official opening Baggerbeest

1 March 2024

Publication 'An Alphabet of Cases'

To interest institutions at home and abroad

29 February 2024

Labyrinth of Scripts in MacGuffin Magazine

Issue number 13 on The Letter

15 December 2023

New address

Baggerbeest, Zeeburgereiland, Amsterdam

1 October 2023

Summer Palace

Exhibition at Ravisius Textor, Nevers (FR)

16 September 2023

Summer School

Workshop at Ravisius Textor, Nevers (FR)

10 July 2023

Finisage of the exhibition in the Grote Kerk Breda

Wrapping up An Alphabet of Cases

18 June 2023

Posters 'An Alphabet of Cases' and 'The Bonus Room' selected

Exhinition in Le Signe, Chaumont (FR)

22 May 2023

Sliding Drawer Tool Box

Part of exhibition ‘Modern’ in Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

18 May 2023

Highlighted in several newspapers, blogs and on radio

The imaginary Palace discussed in various media

8 May 2023

The Palace of Typographic Masonry in the Grote Kerk Breda

Exhibition at the Grote Kerk Breda

22 April 2023

Opening The Palace of Typographic Masonry at the Grote Kerk Breda

With Floris Alkemade, Dennis Elbers, Marike de Nobel, Marieke Wiegel and Richard Niessen

21 April 2023

Salle de Jeux

Exhibition at Ravisius Textor, Nevers (FR)

4 March 2023

Graphic Matters Kick Off

Lecture in Grote Kerk Breda

26 January 2023

Undeciphered Characters in The Palace of Typographic Masonry

Publication with 5 contributions

20 December 2022

Work done in the Department of Ornament

Publication with 3 additions

20 September 2022

Stampa!

The Typotectural Suites in W139

7 July 2022

Excerpts from ‘Facing the Palace floor plans’

Publication send to mailing list

5 November 2021

The Veranda of Floating Threads

Exhibition at The Representative Office, Amsterdam

4 September 2021

Palace posters in Chaumont's selection

Exhibition in Le Signe, Chaumont (FR)

21 May 2021

Opening An Alphabet of Cases

Lectures at Eyes on The Netherlands, Turin (IT)

16 May 2021

An Alphabet of Cases

Exhibition in Toolbox Coworking, Turin (IT)

16 May 2021

The Bonus Room in Nautilus Expobar

First drawer exhibited

24 February 2021

The Bonus Room

Outdoor exhibition in Amsterdam

24 February 2021

Memory Palace of graphic design

Lecture at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

7 December 2020

Test Press Sofia

Exhibition in Goethe Institute Sofia (BG)

14 November 2020

At the floorplan of the Palace

Publication send to mailing list

28 September 2020

The Unfolding Arch of Forging Fantasy

Published in Exploratorium for 21st Century

22 July 2020

Richard Niessen about The Palace of Typographic Masonry

Lecture at Zefir7, Stroom, Den Haag

18 February 2020

The Written Keystones

Published in Graphisme en France

2 February 2020

Test Press

Exhibition and lectures Enter Enter, Amsterdam

16 January 2020

Newsletter Stimuleringsfonds

Special Design

11 December 2019

Opening The Typotectural Suites

Exhibition at Alphabetum, West, Den Haag

29 November 2019

The key role of graphic design

Lecture at Integrated, Antwerp (BE)

6 November 2019

Screen printing technology and the workplace

Lectures at Zaal Nautilus, Amsterdam

25 October 2019

Opening The Modest Master's Mesmerizing Screen Print Shop

Exhibition at Nautilus Expobar, Amsterdam

25 October 2019

Symbolic language in Freemasonry

Lectures at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam

4 October 2019

Opening Tracing Board Treasury

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam

4 October 2019

Best Verzorgde Boeken

Exhibition at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

25 September 2019

The formative quality of graphic design

Lecture at De Monsterkamer, Amsterdam

20 June 2019

Dutch Design Awards Nominee

Exhibition at Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

1 June 2019

Four palace posters in Chaumont

28th International Poster Competition

23 May 2019

Letters to the Minister

Wild posted in Chaumont (F)

29 May 2019

Reading the Letters to the Minister

Presentation at Common Inn, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

18 April 2019

Universal Languages

Lecture at Zaal Nautilus, Amsterdam

12 April 2019

The Annex of Universal Languages

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam

12 April 2019

Hallway of Reflections

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam

29 March 2019

An introduction to the Palace

Lecture at Letterspace, Amsterdam

13 February 2019

Le palais de la maçonnerie typographique

Exhibition at Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau (FR)

16 January 2019

La loge maçonnique

Lecture at at the Médiathèque A. Labarrère in Pau.

15 January 2019

The Palace of Typographic Masonry Bulletin Board

Exhibition at Le Signe, Chaumont (FR)

22 November 2018

Museums & Palaces

Lecture at Printroom, Rotterdam

14 December 2018

Workshop Von Wersin's Kitchen

With MKC Zeeburgereiland

19 November 2018

Team Thursday on ornament

Lecture at Zaal Nautilus, Amsterdam

16 November 2018

Opening Von Wersin’s Kitchen

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam

16 November 2018

Mzin

Lecture at Main in Leipzig (D)

25 October 2018

Launch of the Palace book

Presentation at San Seriffe, Amsterdam

18 September 2018

The Chamber of Transformation at Weltformat

Exhibition in Luzern (CH)

18 September 2018

The Palace of Typographic Masonry - a guided tour

348 Pages read as a tour through the imaginary building

10 September 2018

Missing Notes

Guided tour at Nautilus Expobar, Amsterdam

30 June 2018

The Chamber of Transformation

Exhibition & performance at Nautilus Expobar, Amsterdam

22 June 2018

Six Palace Posters

Exhibition at San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (USA)

19 February 2018

An evening in The Labyrinth of Scripts

Lectures by Uzume Wijnsma and Huda Abi Farès

17 November 2017

The Exchange Room

Lecture and presentation at Aga Lab, Amsterdam

10 November 2017

Workshop The Labyrinth of Scripts

With MKC Zeeburgereiland

10 November 2017

Opening The Labyrinth of Scripts

Exhibition at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam

3 November 2017

Dutch Design Awards 2017

Exhibition at Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

21 October 2017

Dutch Design Daily Live

Lecture in Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam

9 October 2017

Typojanchi Talk

Lecture at Naver Connect Hall, Seoul (KR)

15 September 2017

Palatial Examples at Typojanchi

Exhibition at Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul (KR)

15 September 2017

Palace posters win in Chaumont

Third prize in International Poster Competition

18 May 2017

The Asemic Cabinet

Exhibition Radicale Sociale Animale Talen at Cobra Museum Amstelveen

24 May 2017

The Masonic Lobby

Exhibition at Nautilus Expobar, Amsterdam

14 April 2017

Play as protest

Lectures at Expobar Nautilus, Amsterdam

31 March 2017

The Theatre of Lead Characters

Workshop at Merz Academie, Stuttgart (D)

9 December 2016

Brno Biennial, Brno (CZ)

The Palace part of the 'International Exhibition’

16 June 2016

The Atrium of the Inhabitable Serif

Workshop at MICA, Baltimore (USA)

20 April 2016

Steinmetz Lecture

Lecture at MICA, Baltimore (USA)

19 April 2016

Richard Niessen Meets Euclid

Lecture at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (USA)

13 April 2016

Building blocks on the streets of New York

Palace poster representing the exhibition 'Beauty'

12 April 2016

Von Wersin’s Kitchen

Two day workshop and lecture at LSU in Baton Rouge (USA)

17 March 2016

Six Palace posters on view

Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, New York (USA)

12 February 2016

Rulers of Beauty

Poster design Cooper Hewitt museum, New York (USA)

20 January 2016

The Labyrinth of Scripts

Project at the KABK in The Hague

23 December 2015

The Masonic Lobby

Lecture at TypeAmsterdam

29 October 2015

The Gallery of Nostalgia & Modernity

The AGI-NL day @WDCD, De Balie, Amsterdam

21 May 2015

The Polarised Parlour

Presentation at The Debate, Wim Crouwel & Jan van Toorn at the Bijzondere Collecties

23 April 2015

The Gate of Cyphers & Codes in Lebanon

Workshop at the Lebanese American University, Byblos (LB)

18 March 2015

Pavilions of Honour at ECV in Bordeaux

A workshop dedicated to architectural tributes

16 February 2015

First building bricks

Poster defining the principles of the building

6 October 2014

Seven Rulers Tracing Board

Presentation at the Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam

7 December 2013