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Adriaan Mellegers is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer focusing on institutional, artistic and commercial commissions within the fields of art, architecture and design. With a strong editorial approach and a consistently innovative use of typography, materials and color, Adriaan's design sensibility engages the creative and content driven objectives of all involved. Central to Adriaan's approach is a positive and enjoyable working experience where open dialogue with collaborators is key. From 2010 to 2011 Adriaan was the senior designer at Frame publishers where in 2011 together with Cathelijn Kruunenberg and Mariëlle van Genderen he was responsible for the art-direction and re-design of Frame magazine (NL), an international trade magazine for interior and product design.

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Scheepstimmermanstraat 124 (map)
1019 WZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Telephone: +31 6 2462 8063
E-mail: studio [at] adriaanmellegers [dot] com

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There is an internship position open from september 2012, for 2/3 days a week.

SSBA SALON (2012)

These cards are part of an identity I am designing for SSBA-SALON. SSBA-SALON has been initiated by Amsterdam's city theatre as a cultural platform for young, creative minds. Salon will mainly function as an online platform, but will also organise events in and around Amsterdam. The commission was to come up with an identity that has a strong presence and is flexible enough to present a wide range of cultural content and activities. The main focus of the identity is a frame which borders all of the different media. The inner shape of the frame is based on three overlaying sheets of paper. In combination with the typography I wanted to convey the idea of a manifest. The salon itself being a manifestation of cultural urgency. More updates from this project coming soon...

Compulsion (2012)

Catalogue designed for L.A. based photographer Alex Prager. The catalogue presents Alex's latest body of work, named 'Compulsion'. The catalogue is designed with the Founders Grotesk typeface, designed by Kris Sowersby. The catalogue is swiss bound and covered by a dust jacket that is also a poster. The cover is printed in deep black and the white typography is covered in a thick spot varnish. The catalogue was presented at three openings in L.A., New York and London.

Scheepstimmermanstraat 124 (2012)

Silkscreened A1 poster describing the location of my studio in a rebus. Designed for the opening party of the studio.

Frame Magazine (2011)

Frame (NL) is a bi-monthly international trade magazine about contemporary interior and product design. In 2011 together with Mariëlle van Genderen and Cathelijn Kruunenberg I was responsible for the re-design and art-direction of the magazine. Our goal was to make a content driven layout that is simple and to the point. We gave the magazine a strong but flexible typographic identity, using two typefaces and a set of simple rules to define the different sections. The only graphic interventions are a color palette that changes per issue and the overlapping of text and image.

Soda Palm Suite (2011)

Lotte Geeven is a contemporary artist who works a lot with Day-Glo colors in her work. This aspect we translated into the printing process, when we replaced Magenta and Yellow with Day-Glo PMS colors. Nature and a german flower book were a big inspiration for Lotte's small projects made in Indonesia, so we made a third flower-book of the same size. The editorial part of placing the images was a big part of the concept, we used associations within color, content and form to create the order. All groups are then placed again in an index at the end of the book. Designed together with Karen van de Kraats.

Last update: 14/05/2012

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