Editorial and graphic design with a strong conceptual and typographical bias.
Our designs set out from the assignment’s individual characteristics. Each new project poses a new question that demands a novel answer. Our approach is critical and exploratory, which leads to distinctive results that are highly diverse. No single design is the same.
Coppens Alberts is an Amsterdam-based design studio established by Christine Alberts (CH) and Patrick Coppens (NL).
Clients include MVRDV, PostNL, WBooks, Trancity, Uitgeverij d'jonge Hond, Museum De Paviljoens, Studio Piet Paris, Arnhem Mode Biennale, the Kröller-Müller Museum, SUN Publishers, NAi Publishers, Terra Lannoo, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Scholten & Baijings, Oomen Architecten, SUB office, de Architecten Cie, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and Meeuwig & Zn.
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Peter Martensstraat 57, 1087 NA Amsterdam
+31(0)20 4194878, info@coppensalberts.nl
time is ticking
How to design a book reflecting on time and temporal planning? Coppens & Alberts chose for an uncompromised control of quire, which, despite content, leaps from colour to colour. For instance, halfway through an argument, suddenly the font colour changes from black to red, simply because a new quire starts. Thin sheets separate the quires drawing attention to the absolute, numeric passing of time, starting from 00.00 after the title page.
Book, 128 pages, 170x240mmCommissioned by DeBalie, Amsterdam, 2004
tags / books
Piet Paris Fashion Illustrations
A dialogue between disciplines
A graphic and editorial book design for fashion illustrator Piet Paris. 115 illustrations printed on bright-white mc paper devided over 11 chapters. Sections of thin white pages seperate the chapters. The cover of the book and the title pages are printed with the graphic elements we designed, that by now have become the signature trademarks of the corporate identity of Studio Piet Paris. This book does not only give an overview of 20 years of illustration, but it is also a statement in the development of the office.
Piet Paris. Fashion Illustrations belongs to the selection of The Best Dutch Book Designs 2010.
Book, 160 pages, 23.5 x 33 cm, bound. Commissioned by d’Jonge Hond and Studio Piet Paris, 2010.
The photos where taken during the exhibition in Amsterdam, October 2010. Exhibition design by Event Architecture.
tags / identity / books / fashion / art