José Stolk

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Work in progress - Dynamic identity "Urban Paradoxes"

'Urban Paradoxes' is a research company that works on citizenship, diversity and arts. The identity will contain a modern and finished top of "the tower of babel". Which represents a paradox that moves forward, and a growing society. It might also bring a city-map or favelas to mind in other dynamic shapes. The company name appears as a cloud on top of the tower as in the painting 'the tower of Babel'(c.1563) from Pieter Brueghel. Soon another update!

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May 2012 - Identity "Microkracht"

Identity and flyer of Microkracht; Het vermogen te veranderen (the power to change).

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Nov 2011 - Publication: Wrikken aan beeldvorming

(88 pages — 170 x 240 mm) A publication for Kosmopolis Rotterdam written by Sandra Trienekens. Visual: a book in a book, concept: integrating the 'short important text part' — instead of at the end — prominent into the rest by contrasts in colour and typography. You are looking at some final pages.

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Jun 2011 - Project: Nuit Blanche

6 a0 printed/silkprinted posters for this yearly cultural one night festival. Jose maakte handmatig in kopieerstijl een reeks zwart-witaffiches voor het festival Nuit Blanche in Parijs. Het festival, dat zich voornamelijk gedurende de donkere uren afspeelt op plaatsen waar men doorgaans niet komt, richt zich dit jaar op de ontmoeting met de buitenwijk. Jose bedacht hiervoor drie iconen die in de posters nog juist als monumentale vlekken herkenbaar zijn: de rat, het oog en het verlichte raam.

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Jun 2011 - Project: NEW MILK

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Book of 136 pages about the last dutch farmer stuggling in world wide issues. In haar boek NEW MILK laat Jose zien hoe de enig overgebleven Nederlandse boer probeert te overleven in een wereldwijd krachtenveld van melkproductie, handel en regelgeving. Het boek start met de exploitatie van een revolutionaire koe met vele uiers en eindigt met de toekomstschets van een door de mens verlaten aarde.

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May 2010 - Rotterdam Centraal Station

Newspaper about the physical space of Rotterdam central station, which has always been changing. The construction of the articles inside is based on the following: the words from the first article are left out of the second untill the end, the words of the second article are left out of the third untill the end, and so on. The result: a fade in text that symbolise the remains of the physical space. At the station are posters about fase 1 to 6, this paper is also an intervention to that. When you fold it out and tear out the text, it says fase 0. The basic research is made in collaboration with Josie van der Mark.

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'09/'10 - Vliegtuigen en Regenbogen

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The book 'Vliegtuigen en Regenbogen' contains embossed images. These are made by blind children and children with imperfect eyesight. To show their fantasy and thereby unique images. I asked the children to feel an airplane and to think about a rainbow and then to draw their feelings or movements afterwards. I collected these images and they are shown in this book. This project was exhibitioned on the 'Witte de With festival, Rotterdam', on the Witte Stokkendag, Voorburg and at the Voorhaven, Rotterdam.

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Spring 2009 - Crosslab

Silk-print crosslab-event posters, designed in collaboration with Sven Zijderveld. The colours: black and yellow were given, we rotated the poster, played with the borders of silk print (in the rasterized typography) and extended the cross of crosslab in the image on the background. That image is connected to the event and makes the angle of the small text. Warning: due to beginner-silk print-mistakes, the yellow colour is corrected in photoshop.

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Apr 2010 — Crisis? Hitchhiking!

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Take off your tie and hitch-hike with THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED (if you have trouble in the financial crisis). The guide is build up as a newspaper, filled with symbols. The transformation, from a unemployed person to a successful hitchhiker is shown in an execution on film with help from Robin van wijk. The guide comes with a t-shirt in blue, pink or white. The underlying message: the impact of this crisis depends on how you handle it.

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Feb 2011 - Pinetum Blijdenstein

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Final selected work for the competition of Pinetum Blijdenstein. Identity and audio visual presentation (above: poster-sketches, film stills and a piece of the video) for this botanical garden, specialized in conifers. My concept is basically: time, which you see in the dynamic identity. The logo (a cone) can be in any color, diffusion and content, but it is mainly meant for images of the present and its history. You can watch the whole film at the park. Made possible by the Willem de Kooning academie, Bart Siebelink, Roger Teeuwen and VHU Europe.

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Feb 2009 — '89 Plakate

'89 Plakate poster, subject: communism. The fall of the Berlin Wall brought an end to communism in Berlin. And thereby came the freedom of speech. Before it was not possible to express yourself or to show a poster. In this poster I question the freedom of speech now. By separating the poster, the paper itself creates a border and breaks the sentence. That is where the posters questions the viewer how free we really are. This poster was nominated, and exhibitioned at Blaak10 (in the picture very, very small on the right side, a bit bigger underneath and a2 in real life.)

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Nov 2010 — Mini MOB

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Proposed visuals for Mini Mob, a European mobile phone filmfestival for youth, part of MOB (European cultural cooperation project dealing with mobility, art, new technologies and urban realities of today’s Europe). The beam represents an essential part of film: light and it is a reaction on the symbol 'no phoning'. So let's film! It could work great on t-shirts and as a sticker intervention. Made on my internship.

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Dec 2010 — Book covers

Final 'Ali Baba' book cover, a proposal, sketches for 'Britannicus', 'La Mort Amoureuse', and 'George Dandin'. Made on my internship at HartlandVilla. The people who are interfering Ali Baba make the shape of two evil eyes. More work will follow.

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Dec 2009 — Fremdwörter

80 Pages of drawings. Each of these drawings are made to express one German word, a method to visually find the perfect meaning of a word. The words are chosen when they were new to me during my exchange on the kunsthochschule Weissensee. In the resulting dictionary (more pictures will follow) I took one part of two pictures, and combined them. The black word resembles one word, the blue the other. Shown words: 'bone', 'stray-dog', 'rope-puller', 'squirrel'.

Der Ansatz, dir begegnende Fremdworte zu sammeln und diese zu illustrieren hat José sehr gut gewählt und das Konzept ein persönliches gezeichnetes Fremdwörterbuch zu gestalten passend. Auch ist die Arbeitsweise, Zeichnungen zu einzelnen Worten zu sammeln und dann in Paaren in zwei Farben zu kombinieren eine poetische Weiterentwicklung. Durch die Kombination und die Zweifarbigkeit entsteht eine interessante Reihe zu teils absurden Funden. Sehr gut finde ich die Form, die für das Buch gefunden wurde – die Trennung von Wort und Bild, wie Frage und Antwort oder wie Lernkarten, durch das Aufklappen der 'Lesezeichen' wieder zusammen zu fügen und so die 'Lösung' zu bieten macht das Buch vielschichtig.

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Jun 2009 — Cultuurzegels

Poststamps for the Dutch-Maroccan subculture in 'Delfshaven', Rotterdam. The resemblences in Dutch and Moroccan tiles make, as the people in that area, a (visual) paradox.

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