Strijp-x presents 5 talented young designers who’ve just graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. These graphic designers in particular always seem to add an extra dimension to their 2d work.

OONA (Sander van Loon & Merijn van Essen)
We’ve taken a slice of their work showing experiments in form and content.

H1N1 Carpet ( news is history)
What we play is life
Helvetica
De tijdelijke stad
Clean

Sumarty Schiffer
This installation shows the identity design Sumarty did for the Chaumont design festival. The primitive shapes spread like a virus throughout the walls, floors and space.

Amy Wu
Amy researches how the internet and the virtual space can express spirituality. Designing and transforming spirituality of our modern day society. Mediations on the Indranet

John Beckers
The animation Lucha Cholitas shows the love story between Luchadore and a Cholita. The problem of parts of Shanghai sinking is represented by his infographics.

Lucha Cholitas, A very short love story
Visual Identity For the 2000 Shanhai World Expo