MARTENS
KAREL
About Karel Marten is a Dutch Graphic Designer His design style is Dutch Modernism,Which is marked by clean typographic designs and re petitive geometic and static forms
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work ranges from posters, to prints
to editorials, but all have a strong emphasis on typography. He had always been fascinated with language, mathematics and color and he finds a way to incorporate all these interests into his designs
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One of Martens’ longest on-going projects is his St edelijk print collection. It began when the catalogues in the Stedelijk Museum in Am sterdam were being digitized and the old archive cards—de signed by Willem Sand berg—were being discarded. Martens proceeded to take the documents and have been using them as a canvas for his projects since and each print is unique in that they are made from individual catalogue cards. These finalized prints are now used as diplomas, which will be presented to the Werk plaats students upon gradua tion .
