Eye: Beyond the canon
Summer 2008, No. 68 Vol. 17 (p.58-60)
Who cares about graphic design history?
Catelijne van Middelkoop comes from The Netherlands, and studied art history & archeology at the University of Amsterdam, followed by studies at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague, 2000 and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, US…
AREA 2
2008 (p.360-363) Phaidon
100 Graphic Designers | 10 Curators | 10 Design Classics
Strange Attractors (The Hague/New York). --- With a deadline quickly approaching, the curators of ‘FiFFteen’ a traveling exhibition about the FontFont type library wanted something dynamic: an animated type specimen that would showcase as many…
European Design Awards 2007
2008 (p.112-113) BIS Publishers
Juried selection of the best graphic design in Europe
This catalogue contains a juried selection of the best graphic design in Europe in 2006. The hardcover book of 200 pages showcases 139 successful submissions from the European Design Awards 2007 including winners, merits and finalists. Our entry ‘TokyoChat’ was…
Super HD: Holland Design
2007 (p.83, 324-325, 402-403) Actar
It is our belief that...
Every design problem deserves a unique and custom-drafted solution; therefore, we do not differentiate between cultural and commercial projects. We seek rich experiences and distinct messages, so we utilize typography as a tool to offer a diversity of custom alternatives to (neo)modernistic generic communication…
Tactile
October 2007 (p.26-27) Gestalten
High Touch Visuals
A collection of cutting-edge work that illustrates how designers are implementing their ideas spatially. Tactile shows how graphic design is moving into three-dimensional objects and products. The innovative examples documented in the book demonstrate how designers are developing and implementing…
Handjob
2007 (p.228-229) Princeton Architectural Press
A Catalog of Type
In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it’s refreshing to find typographers who still believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to designer’s sketchbooks, hand-drawn type has emerged from the underground as a dynamic vehicle for visual communication from magazine, book…
Typography 28
2007 (p.32-33) Collins Design
BIG TYPE SAYS MORE
truly says it all
This museum installation by Dutch-American duo Strange Attractors stopped me in my tracks. A commentary on messaging, materials, craft, personality–this piece has much to say. I was struck at first by the beauty of the hand-drawn letterforms and how they were…
Le Monde: Design & Typo le Blog
June 2007
deux designers hollandais ultra-contemporains
Catelijne van Middelkoop et Ryan Pescatore sont deux jeunes trentenaires qui dirigent un studio à la Haye, Netherlands. Ils se servent de la typographie contre toute logique Tschicholdienne qui se méfiait des ornementations. Que ce soit pour le Print…
Contemporary Graphic Design
2007 (p.462-467) TASCHEN
Strange Attractors Design
Whether it takes the form of typography, type designs, posters, catalogues, digital animations, CD covers, or 3D installations, their work is a polemic against the depersonalizing effects of modernist typography and design. Such projects are often decried as being superficial, but that…
Designprijs Rotterdam
2007 (p.88-95)
Strange Attractors Design | Various works
Catelijne van Middelkoop and Ryan Pescatore Frisk are the founders of the design studio Strange Attractors, which works in a remarkably personal way with typography, graphic design and new media. Trained in the traditions of the Royal Academy of Art in…
Page Magazine 05.07
05.07 (p.44)
Hoch im Kurs
Zum 53. Mal vergab der Type Directors Club die begehrten Awards of Typographic Excellence. PAGE zeigt eine auswahl der prämierten Arbeiten und gibt einen Überblick über Trends und Tendenzen.
Für die Ausstellung ‘Cut for Purpose’ im Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in…
Hollands Diep
No.1 March 2007 (p.73)
De Hollands Diep
Kunstpeiling 2007
“Herman Hertzberger vergelijkt architectuur met voetbal, Hans van Manen kan zijn ogen niet geloven en Frans Weisz ziet in de regisseur niet langer de tovenaar die voor magie zorgt. Terwijl de fotografie zijn eigen ‘gouden eeuw’ beleeft, zijn grafisch ontwerpers zoekende…
aiga.org
October 2006
Reinventing the
graphic Vernacular
Based in The Hague, the Netherlands, the international design firm Strange Attractors was founded five years ago by Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop. Their work reflects a keen interest in the intertwining of culture, media, context…
Experimenta
2006, No. 54 (p.107-109)
The Netherlands:
Top Dutch Design
Young guns (...) To some students, the Royal Academy’s view on typography was too limiting. Catelijne van Middelkoop was confused by the school’s focus on functionality; having a natural penchant for ornament and decoration; she envied her…
Exploring Typography
2006 (p.216-219, 274, 276) Thomson Delmar Learning
What do designers need to know about typography?
The answer can be found in this richly illustrated book that examines the varied uses of type in contemporary visual communications. Exploring Typography takes a concise but thorough approach to introducing and examining the principles…
I.D.
January 2006 (p.89)
The I.D. Forty:
Undersung Heroes
an Tschichold, the Bauhaus-inspired typographer who became the chief propagandist of functional type, once damned ornament as the product of “childish naiveté.” Catelijne van Middelkoop and Ryan Pescatore Frisk of Strange Attractors took that as an…
