Dutch-Congolese artist and maker Nagare Willemsen asked me to design and edit her final major project and thesis which circled the topic of the black racialised body within the white academic school. The text was to become a reference point by which she could position her political reality and history. To Willemsen, it was important that this book looked as “official” as possible, embedding a ‘cleanness’ in its aesthetic, therefore I designed the publication with as much control as I could from my cultural framework. Using complex GREP programming, I aimed to never have to ‘touch’ the text, leaving all typesetting, image placement, pagination and all other para-textual elements to the programme’s technical correctness.

The Annual Archive presents an overview of students' artistic work and documents all projects and activities from the Department of Design at Sandberg Instituut between 2016 and 2017. The design references visual elements found in old cabinet systems, e.g. the consistent divider tabs on the top left corner and different colour papers to signify a new cabinet has been opened. The index, which always opens on the bottom flap, operates as a content page navigating the reader through the different cabinets. The horizontal format also attempts to challenge contemporary western reading culture, prompting the reader to slow down and sift through the archive as though you were searching for a document in an old filing cabinet.

The Issue is a student-run project initiated by Daniel Seemayer that chronicles the dissertations of final year Sandberg MA Design students. Short texts of the first-year students often accompany the central bodies of texts. The publication comes in an assembly of 6 papers folded into a concertina format and unbound.