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Joost Grootens wins Rotterdam Design Prize |
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Our heartiest congratulations go to graphic designer Joost Grootens on being awarded the Rotterdam Design Prize last Sunday. Grootens wins
this prize with a set of atlases made for 010 Publishers: the Grote KAN Atlas, the Metropolitan World Atlas, the Limes Atlas and the Vinex Atlas.
The judges were unanimous in selecting Studio Joost Grootens as the winner. From the jury report: 'Grootens' designs are world-class. The jury believes that Grootens' design practice can or at least should provide a new direction for the future of design. Grootens attaches great importance to the clarity of the information. His design is clearly intended to serve the reader. For Grootens, designing is not a self-seeking activity, nor does it mean promulgating a particular vision. The result is at once brilliant and functional.' Alice Rawsthorn in The New York Times, 30 November 2009: 'Some things seem doomed in the digital age, and the atlas is one. But that's for traditional atlases, not the new ones developed by Joost Grootens. By reassessing the type of information we might like to find in an atlas, and experimenting with different ways of depicting it, Grootens has created a beautiful series of books that gives us a richer, clearer picture of the places we are looking up than we ever could hope to find on the internet.' The Rotterdam Design Prize is a biennial national award which concentrates on the shared qualities of Dutch design and intensifies the design debate. The winner of the Rotterdam Design Prize 2009 was chosen by an independent international panel of judges during the exhibition and awarded euro 15,000. For more information go to www.designprijs.nl |
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