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Research summary
The Blue Dot
Joost Grootens investigates new map making practices of technology companies and amateurs. As a graphic designer Grootens researches the blurring maker-user divide in the production of visual information.
Biography
Joost Grootens (1971, NL) studied architectural design at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As a graphic designer he is self-taught. His studio designs maps and books in the fields of architecture and urban space, specializing on atlases. Among his clients are nai010 Publishers, Lars Müller Publishers, Phaidon Press, gta Verlag, Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture Copenhagen, ETH Zürich and Van Abbemuseum.
Grootens has won numerous prizes for his designs. Among them the ‘Goldene Letter’ and two Gold Medals in the Best Book Design from all over the World competition. In 2009 he was awarded the Rotterdam Design Prize. A monograph about his work titled ‘I swear I use no art at all’ was published by 010 Publishers in 2010.
Grootens is head of the Master Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven. He has also lectured at various institutions in Asia, Europe and North America.
Individual projects
Visualizing Knowledge
Joost Grootens speaks at the Visualizing Knowledge conference at Aalto University, Greater Helsinki, Finland.
Aalto University, Helsinki (FI)
Mapping As Joint Spatial Display
–Joost Grootens will co-moderate a workshop and give the keynote lecture at the conference ‘Mapping as Joint Spatial Display’ at Haus der Kulturen…
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)Speculative Design Archive
–Joost Grootens takes part in the exhibition 'Speculative Design Archive' at Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)Atlas of the Copenhagens
Joost Grootens co-edited and designed the book ‘Atlas of the Copenhagens’ that includes his essay ‘The Rhetoric of Withholding Judgment’. Published by Ruby…
KADK, Copenhagen (DK)
Rétrospective Jacques Bertin
–Joost Grootens gives a lecture at the symposium ‘La Laboratoire de Graphique de Jacques Bertin EHESS, 1954–2000’ at École des Hautes Études en…
FR, ParisLecture Information Design
Joost Grootens gives a lecture at the Hochschule für Gestaltung un Kunst that is part of a series of lectures entitled ‘Information Design’.
Basel, CHLecture Symposium Exemplaires
Joost Grootens gives a lecture during the Symposium Exemplaires at the Haute école des arts du Rhin.
Strasbourg, FR
Findings on Light
Studio Joost Grootens designed the publication 'Findings on Light', the third volume in PARS’ 'Atlas of Creative Thinking', curated and edited by Hester…
Amsterdam (NL)Museum Index
As part of their long term collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum that started in 2013, Studio Joost Grootens made the 'Museum Index', a…
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)Dream Out Loud
–Studio Joost Grootens designed the exhibition graphics for the exhibition 'Dream Out Loud' presented at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Amsterdam (NL)The 1980s
–For the exhibition 'The 1980s' that is currently on show in the Van Abbemuseum, Studio Joost Grootens made a timeline showing artworks the…
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)Het ABC van de collectie
–For the Municipal Museum in Schiedam Studio Joost Grootens made a series of spatial infographics in the museum galleries that show how the…
Municipal Museum Schiedam (NL)
Jan Schoonhoven
Studio Joost Grootens designed the new book on Zero artist Jan Schoonhoven.
Brick. An exacting material
Studio Joost Grootens designed the book 'Brick. An exacting material' on contemporary Dutch brick architecture edited by Jan Peter Wingender.
Amsterdam (NL)Dikke van Dale
For nearly five years Studio Joost Grootens worked on the design of the 2015 edition of the Van Dale's Great Dictionary of the…
Young-Old
Studio Joost Grootens designed the book 'Young-Old. Urban Utopias of an Aging Society' by architect and researcher Deane Simpson.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The Süddeutsche Zeitung Studio published a full-page information graphic designed by Studio Joost Grootens that shows material damages caused by the US military…
