104 / Le Cent Quatre 1
104 / Le Cent Quatre
Part 1
In the beginning of 2007, we were invited by a group of French curators to visit them in Paris. We met them in a very large construction pit, an enormous empty hall, measuring almost 36.000 square meters. This hall was to become the location of 104 (Le Cent Quatre), a new French cultural institute that would open its doors in October 2008. Situated in the 19th arrondissement, 104 is a very ambitious project, housing several exhibition spaces, theatre halls, concert venues, stores, and apartments for artist...
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RMN
Réunion des Musées Nationaux
Logo redesign
In the summer of 2006 we were approached by RMN to redesign their logo. Réunion des Musées Nationaux is a French organization, uniting 35 national museums. Founded in 1895, it's a very prestigious establishment, and one of the main cultural institutes in France.
The original logo was designed in 1969 by Adrian Frutiger; it was a black circle, containing a white letter M. In 1990, the text 'Réunion des Musées Nationaux' was added to the circle, by Jean Widmer. In this form, the logo was u...
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Kelly 1:1
Kelly 1:1
A cover version
In the spring of 2002, we created the installation 'Kelly 1:1' for Casco, a really interesting exhibition space in Utrecht. The piece was on display from May 12 to June 8, 2002. The following fragment is the short press release that was put out by Casco around that time:
Earlier this year, Experimental Jetset were invited by Casco Projects to create a site-specific installation. In order to "fold the notion of art back into itself", Experimental Jetset decided to transform Casco Projects into an archetypica...
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2K by Gingham 2007
T-shirt prints
2K/Gingham (Japan/US)
2K by Gingham is a Japanese/American t-shirt label we've been collaborating with for quite a long time now. Its director, Yoshi Kawasaki, contacted us in 1999, and we have been designing t-shirt prints for him ever since. In short, every year we design a small collection of shirts, which is then released through 2K, and sold through various stores and websites.
In the beginning of 2000, we were very interested in the whole concept of 'self-referentiality': graphic design referring to itself, or to its...
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