Editorial and graphic design with a strong bias towards concept and typography.
Our designs set out from the assignment’s individual characteristics. Each new project poses a new question that demands a new 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.
For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Peter Martensstraat 57, 1087 NA Amsterdam
+31(0)20 4194878, info@coppensalberts.nl
Regionale Identiteit. Kunst en ruimtelijke planvorming
Regionale Identiteit examines how and why art has been used to develop spatial planning for regional areas where cultural identity plays a central role. Six projects are exhaustively documented and are examined concerning organisation, time plan, the commitment of art, spatial planning, and their mutual relation as well as their influence in the future thinking about and/or the arranging of the landscape. Moreover a schematic overview is ordered of the 25 most important projects in the Netherlands where art, spatial planning and landscape architecture have been combined.’ (publisher’s text)
Paperback, 208 pages, 170x240mm, including a CD-rom
Commissioned by NAi publishers and SKOR, 2006
tags / books / architecture / art
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