The Rotterdam Film Festival is an annual event that takes place every January in Rotterdam, Netherlands. This huge event is something that many people native to that region anticipate on as well as any designer that happens to know about it. The foundation was initially founded in 1972, it has maintained focus on independent, fun…
Hard Werken was initially a Rotterdam based design company specializing in design publications. The original group of designers consisted of Rick Vermeulen, Willem Kars, Gerard Hadders, Henk Elenga and Ton van der Haspel in 1979. Their first official publication was called One For All in which they took an approach towards the pressures and opportunities…
Rick Vermeulen is a designer famously know for the “Hard Werken” magazines, which uses anarchic designs contrary to modern day typography and design styles. Rick was born on June 14, 1950 in Schiedam, Netherlands. When he entered college he decided to take up graphic design as his major at Rotterdam Academy and later graduated in…