Land Zonder Grenzen
Mister Motley
Identity design
In what ways can we give meaning so that understanding arises? In Land Zonder Grenzen – Country Without Borders – series, Mister Motley investigates and highlights four facets of inaccessibility in the arts field together with four different expert authors. What degree of inaccessibility do people with a ‘physical’ disability, older people, parents of growing children and neurodisabled people experience? It is about the importance of representation, finding words for which there is not yet much language, and actively working towards a more inclusive and representative (art) world. With Land Zonder Grenzen, it gives the opportunity to expand our collective vocabulary, making access more visible and tangible.
For the identity of this series I wanted to play with the accessibility to do with boundaries/borders. This made my think of islands surrounded by water. Their borders are constantely in motion. It also displays the complexity of access, the grey areas but also the idea of walking around the problem/island and finding other and new insights through experts.
Colophon
Concept & design
Anouk de l’Ecluse
Font
PrincipiaVF
First publication
https://www.mistermotley.nl/land-zonder-grenzen-kun-je-van-een-ander-die-niet-in-jouw-hoofd-zit-verlangen-dat-die-je-snapt/
AK/A
Co-founder Karianne Bueno
Brand & website design
/ The world is so much bigger than you think. If you think you understand it, you haven't understood it.
AK/A is a small-scale platform for conceptual reflection founded by designer Anouk de l'Ecluse and photographer Karianne Bueno. AK/A aims to expose the thinking behind (photographic) work of its participants. With practical assignments and in an open atmosphere, we sharpen insights into the professionals own work. They learn to speak substantively about their work and get inspiration to create new work, or to breathe new life into existing work. AK/A provides inspiration, research strategies, guide selecting and editing of work, advice in ways to present the work and where this migh take place including helping to write (promotional) texts or grant applications. Besides the meetings, every other week we organise a talk/lecture/artist talk/studio visit/tour with professionals who can inspire the group of artists.
AK/A is a small-scale platform for conceptual reflection founded by designer Anouk de l'Ecluse and photographer Karianne Bueno. AK/A aims to expose the thinking behind (photographic) work of its participants. With practical assignments and in an open atmosphere, we sharpen insights into the professionals own work. They learn to speak substantively about their work and get inspiration to create new work, or to breathe new life into existing work. AK/A provides inspiration, research strategies, guide selecting and editing of work, advice in ways to present the work and where this migh take place including helping to write (promotional) texts or grant applications. Besides the meetings, every other week we organise a talk/lecture/artist talk/studio visit/tour with professionals who can inspire the group of artists.
The hunger for opening up the worlds of different artists, to cross intersect all kinds of professions and inspire artists was the start of AK/A in 2023. Their first participants entered the worlds of podcastmakers, writers, philosophers, artists and sociologists, and vise versa.
ColophonConcept & design
Anouk de l’Ecluse
ak-a.nl
Bureau Merkwaardig
Co-founder with Daphne de Vries
Design studio
Between 2008 – 2023 Daphne de Vries and Anouk de l’Ecluse worked together as creative partners at Bureau Merkwaardig. Their clients are primarily in the cultural, educational and scientific fields. They take care of the entire process, from strategy and concept to implementation - in both print as digital use. They specialise in finding the right solution to a variety of communication and design questions. Here is a collection of some of the work they created together.
As of 2023 Anouk left the partnership to break new ground. Daphne continues the design practice.