Experimental Jetset is an Amsterdam graphic design unit founded in 1997 by Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen.
Focusing on printed matter and installation work, Experimental Jetset have worked on projects for the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum (SMCS), Purple Institute, Centre Pompidou, Colette, Dutch Post Group (TPG), Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN), Le Cent Quatre (104), De Theatercompagnie and t-shirt label 2K/Gingham.
Their work has been featured in group exhibitions such as Terminal Five (JFK Airport, New York, 2004) and The Free Library (Riviera Gallery, New York, 2004). Solo exhibitions have included Kelly 1:1 (Casco Projects, Utrecht, 2002) and Ten Years of Posters (Kemistry Gallery, London, 2006). In 2007, a large selection of work by Experimental Jetset has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), for inclusion in the MoMA permanent collection.
Since 2000, Experimental Jetset have been teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam).
www.experimentaljetset.nl
UPDATE:
As some of you might know, the last couple of months we have been working on the development of a full graphic identity for 104 (Le Cent Quatre), a French cultural centre that will open its doors in October 2008. (In short, our task was to come up with an underlying graphic language for 104, for other designers to use).
After working for 104 for over a year now, we recently decided (with pain in our hearts) to resign ourselves from the assignment. To put it simply, the bureaucracy involved with this project made it impossible for us to continue working on 104. (This had nothing to do with the people of 104, who were all great to work with. It had much more to do with the involvement of several parties within the City of Paris. It's a long and boring story).
Despite everything, we wish 104 the best of luck, and hope the opening will be a big success.
People interested in seeing the complete online graphic manual should go to:
http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/104_Manual.pdf
(PDF, approx. 15Mb).
Those who already saw the first two versions of this manual, should scroll (or click) straight to the last 20 pages; these pages contain all new material.
More updates can be read on the News section of our website.
Other, less recent stuff:
An interview from 2003 can be read here . A more recent interview can be read here . Pictures of a solo exhibition that took place in London last year can be seen here . (Click on the images to enlarge).
Here is a one-question interview, and here another recent interview. A somewhat less focused interview can be found here.
Images of the exhibition that we did last year in Melbourne (at The Narrows) can be seen here:
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Two prehistoric Friendster accounts can be found here and here . Don't contact us through those accounts though; we haven't checked them since 2003.
