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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A contemporary and chic book design for this Dutch painter and graphic artist, Willem Anthonie Oepts (1904-1988). Monograph and catalog.
The book includes, next to the monographic section, the actual oeuvre catalog with an overview of hitherto known painted and graphic works by Wim Oepts. There is a total of 667 works included in the book, of which 514 oil paintings, 70 drawings and 83 graphic works.
Accompanying the publication of this catalog, The Kunsthal presents a retrospective of his work. Besides the design and layout of the book we handled the typography for the exhibition.
Book, 280 pages, 295 x 235 mm, bound. Commissioned by d'Jonge Hond, 2010.
tags / books / art
Ideals in Concrete. Exploring Central and Eastern Europe
‘(...) the contradistinctions and similarities between East and West are subject to critical examination in a series of essays in text and image. Many of these subsidiary themes are associated with the city, since the impact of Communism is nowhere more evident than in this urban space. In the planning euphoria and the building of a completely new society on rational and scientific principles we can glimpse a mirroring of the ideas and views of Communist politicians, architects and urban planners.(...)’ (Publisher’s text)
Paperback with jacket, 184 pages, 170x240mm
Commissioned by NAi publishers, 2004
tags / books / architecture