Danny van den dungeon biography of williams

“If humans are shaped by their environment,
then this environment has to be made human”
Marx and Engels, ‘The Holy Family’ (1844)

“Now whip it / into shape / shape it up / get straight /
go forward / move ahead / try to detect it /
it’s not too late / to whip it / whip it good”
Devo, ‘Whip It’ (1980)

Experimental Jetset is a small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 by (and still consisting of) Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen.

Focusing on printed matter and site-specific installations, and describing their methodology as “turning language into objects”, Experimental Jetset have worked on projects for a wide variety of institutes.

Their work has been featured in group exhibitions such as ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’ (Walker Art Center, 2011) and ‘Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language’ (MoMA, 2012).

Solo exhibitions include ‘Kelly 1:1’ (Casco Projects, Utrecht, 2002), ‘Two or Three Things I Know