About this site

Preface to the 2008 relaunch

First, a short bit about ourselves. We are Experimental Jetset, a small, independent graphic design studio based in Amsterdam, consisting of three persons: Marieke Stolk, Danny van den Dungen and Erwin Brinkers. We have been collaborating as Experimental Jetset since we graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (in 1997, 1997 and 1998 respectively), and in our work we focus mostly on printed matter.
We often describe graphic design as "turning language into objects". With this website, we are in fact doing the opposite: we are trying to turn objects into language. Or better said, we are looking at the objects we have produced during the last ten years, and we try to describe them.

An earlier version of this website was launched in the beginning of 2005. Rereading the foreword we wrote then (see 'Preface to the 2005 launch', shown below), we noticed that, in that text, we went to great lengths to make very clear that this website would not be an ordinary portfolio site. Now, almost four years later, we still don't see this place as a typical portfolio site. The word 'portfolio' suggests a selection of work that is easy-to-carry, simple to digest, smoothly streamlined. Our website is far from that. It is a monster of an archive, in which we neurotically try to describe everything, not only our greatest hits, but also our biggest failures. In that sense, it will be never finished, although it certainly is our goal to come as close as possible.

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