Make the dull Dam square green again



City of trees
Magazine design, layout and cover artwork by slaws – Z!-krant, de Amsterdamse Straatkrant, z-krant.nl

Blue monday

Sigrid van Lintig

Z! #10_2024 collaboration


Find the Berlin-based street newspaper Arts of the working class – a multilingual journal for art, society, poverty and wealth – on the flip side of this issue. The collaboration was facilitated and supported by Framer Framed, a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory and practice in Amsterdam.

Z! cover: concept, magazine design & layout by slaws – AWC cover: concept magazine design & layout by Paul Sochacki
Z!, de Amsterdamse StraatkrantArts of the working class

All eyes on

Graduation exhibition, Sandberg Institute
Sandberg Institute

RIP W <3

Opening

@bbatelieramsterdam, Design for logo and poster: slaws

†102 W <3

The right mix

Illustration and design for an article emphasizing the importance of including more female decision-makers in the predominantly male-dominated fields of climate issues and environmental protection.
Concept & design slaws

New arrival

Logo and poster design for art exhibition featuring work by BB Atelier
Concept & design slaws

New times call for new measures

HNY

Xmas

FOAM – Carlijn Jacobs


https://www.foam.org

Longings


Wishlist: Peace on earth
Magazine design, layout and cover artwork by slaws, with thanks to Morris (6 years) – Z!-krant, de Amsterdamse Straatkrant, z-krant.nl

March for climate and justice



From Dam to Museumplein – 85,000 participants confirmed

Meridith Monk: Calling

Meredith Monk, Rotation shrine
oudekerk.nl

Big dada


Bambi van Balen, Barricade Ballet, tools for action
www.bigdada.nl, www.arti.nl, www.arturvanbalen.net

This will not end well

Nan Goldin, from the slide show Fire Leap, 2010 – 2022
stedelijk.nl

Big Art Bajes

Leonie Brandner and Nina Guo, Mossopera
bigart.nu

Unseen Photo Fair 2023

Preview at Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
unseenamsterdam.com

Sunburn

Vijzelgracht, Low-tech solutions for high-tech problems

Global

Plantage Middenlaan

Remnants

Plantage Muidergracht

Werner Herzog – The Ecstatic Truth

Still from Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
eyefilm.nl

Tripping hazard

Game over

Fortification

Bird nest made of anti-bird spikes
naturalis.nl

I’m at 4%

Ryan Gander, Memetic absence, or The Squatters (Caesar meet Wentworth’s Man and the Animals #2 (1991)), 2020
Solo exhibition Ryan Gander, I’m at 4%, annetgelink.com – Highly recommended: the lecture video Loose Associations (Wretched ’20) in the basement

Code red


Poly, the most severe storm in June ever recorded
https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/maps

General Idea


General Idea, Evidence of body binding, 1971
www.stedelijk.nl

Crossroads

Aquarelle


Paradiso, Paul Faassen

Liberty

World War II. Liberation day. People seeking shelter at Dam square Amsterdam after German troops opened fire at the celebrating masses (22 killed, 120 injured). Wiel van der Randen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 7, 1945. Collectie Spaarnestad

Sweet delight

Pyrrhocoridae

Happy resurrection

Winterfell

Spell check matters

New Normal

An image slaws composed with Dall-e for Z! De Amsterdamse Straatkrant, #04 2023, for an article that addresses how cosmetic procedures, i.e. fillers, botox and cosmetic surgery, have become standard among young people. ‘Getting fillers is becoming as routine as going to the hairdresser.’

Backlash


#IWD2023 #IWD #internationalwomensday #womenempowerment #undermining #rolemodels #visualidentity #reality2023 #hairandbeauty #toxicfeminity

Decluttering

Tulips

minus 3 comma 8

Mimicry

Willem de Haan, Before the scenes – From the series Super Soft, Amsterdam
Gallery Vriend van Bavink

Youth

Anne Imhof, Youth – Still from Fate 2022, featuring Eliza Douglas.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Happy 2023

Gutes Neues

Dusty roads

Dressed up for Christmas