Coppens Alberts is an Amsterdam-based design studio that focuses on editorial and graphic design for printed and digital media – books, identities, campaigns, websites.
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 was established by Christine Alberts (CH) and Patrick Coppens (NL).
Clients include 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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Kas Oosterhuis. Architecture Goes Wild
‘This book contains a selection of his texts from the early 1990s up to more recent ones varying from thoughts on architecture to transport. He asserts that all true architecture inevitably will be programmed to perform in real time. Computer programs speak the new instrumental language in which potential new worlds are described.’(Publisher’s text)
Book, 256 pages, 240x170mm
Commissioned by 010 Publishers, 2002
tags / architecture / books
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