Wim Crouwel Archive
March 30th, 2010By: Antonio Carusone
Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style
Comments: 10
Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style
Comments: 10
This is one of those online gems that only come around once a year.
This Dutch site contains an archive of over 500 original designs by Wim Crouwel, most of which I’ve never seen before and that I think are some of his best. Pure brilliance. What’s even better is that there’s a sharp, hi-res version of each. Picking one out of the bunch to display here was a really tough decision.
You will get lost in this for hours, I guarantee it. If the link doesn’t work just search for Wim Crouwel.
If anyone can give me more info on the site and the collection, I’d be very grateful.
Joshua
Hey, it’s a Dutch site, appropriate since Wim Crouwel is Dutch, ”Het Geheugen van Nederland” is an organisation digitalising Dutch national heritage. Great post.
Julius
I’m sorry, but first I’m going to be a little picky. First of, it’s dutch. Its a library which have been collecting everything dutch. Down in the right corner you can choose english, and here’s a little ‘about’
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The Memory of the Netherlands is an extensive digital collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making.
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Lovely thing to do for free, especially with this great collection! Have to save it for tomorrow thou, up early. But after a fast look I’ve lost my jaw already. Thanks for the share!
And also, the link didn’t work. Just a simple search did it thou.
Thanks again, and didn’t mean to sound so bitter. Blame it on a tough day.
Anh Dung
I agree that you could bother to do a little bit of research — it’s kind of odd that you are too lazy since this is something that you love…
Other than that, keep it up. I love the site.
Antonio Carusone
Tough crowd. I was rushing to post because I was at work and I was also distracted by the amazing work. I apologize. Thanks for the corrections.
Adrian Renaud
You should link to this too : http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/zoekresultaten/pagina/1/ben%20bos/%28cql.serverChoice%20all%20ben%20%20AND%20bos%29/&colcount=0&wst=ben%20bos
It’s a Ben Bos Archive
OPEN STUDIO
This is archive is such an amazing resource… Crouwel’s work is, and will always be, inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Willie
Thank you so much for this (and the link worked beautifully, thank you!).
Communication Agency
Where can find Wim Crouwel logos collection? Thanks