Kimmy Spreeuwenberg · is a graphic designer ∝ maker ∝ researcher ∝ educator based in Rotterdam, NL. H practice includes teaching, practice-based research and producing & organizing, with a focus on experimental forms of publishing from an open source spirit. s·he takes inspiration from collective forms of gardening and feminist thinking. s·he is also co-department Head of Graphic Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam.
Future Book(s) · contribution to the publication Future Book(s) which explores the question what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? Valiz, June 2023.
Urgent Publishing Debris · editor and poster design for a contribution to Pervasive Labour Zine - Special Issue #15. The issue aims to provide new readings of the conference 'Making Public: Urgent Publishing' by creating remixes of the official archival sources with the ‘unofficial’ debris circulating around it, 2021. ⇒
Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing · co-author of chapter ‘Upside Down, Inside out: A Relational Approach to Content Structure’ which explores non-linear forms of writing and editing to challenge myths of origin and originality, authoritarian authorship, single-voiced narratives, hero perspectives, and definitive truths. Institute of Network Cultures, 2020. ⇒
Making Public · researcher for practice-based research project which explored the notion of Urgent Publishing. Institute of Network Cultures, 2018-2019. ⇒
Urgent Publishing .. “In short, urgency goes beyond the ‘now’ and connects to the afterlife of a publication; it understands quality not just as logically consistent and well-proven arguments, but also as alternative content structures; and asks to view positioning a publication not as getting as many clicks or conversions as possible, but primarily as finding and engaging the readers who care. In other words, urgency means prolonging the life of a publication beyond short attention spans, challenging your readers to navigate and interact with content in different ways, and entrusting your content to the network.” -- Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing, 2020.
Urgent & Hybrid Publishing Course for Graphic Design · teacher of term that asks students to explore the current publishing landscape from the questions connected to the notion of ‘Urgent Publishing’. Willem de Kooning Academy, 2016 - ongoing.
Hybrid Publishing (Archive) · project lead for practice-based research project on experimental and hybrid forms of publishing for the Willem de Kooning Academy from 2015 to 2021. ⇒
From Print to e-books: A Digital Publishing Toolkit for the Arts · infographics and book design in collaboration with Loes Sikkes. ⇒
Digital Publishing Tookit · researcher and project lead for practice-based research project developing hybrid forms of publishing for small art and design publishers for Institute of Network Cultures, 2013-2014. ⇒
Boek uit de Band · producer of conference ‘Boek uit de Band’ which explored what the electronic book - the e-book - means for writing, reading, the library and publisher for Institute of Network Cultures, 2012. ⇒
Contact: kimmyspreeuw@proton.me
This website makes use of the typeface DINdong developed by Clara Sambot, a member of the ByeBye binary collective focusing on developing inclusive and non-binary glyphs and typefaces. ⇒
Kimmy Spreeuwenberg · is a graphic designer ∝ maker ∝ researcher ∝ educator based in Rotterdam, NL. H practice includes teaching, practice-based research and producing & organizing, with a focus on experimental forms of publishing from an open source spirit. s·he takes inspiration from collective forms of gardening and feminist thinking. s·he is also co-department Head of Graphic Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam.
Future Book(s) · contribution to the publication Future Book(s) which explores the question what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? Valiz, June 2023.
Urgent Publishing Debris · editor and poster design for a contribution to Pervasive Labour Zine - Special Issue #15. The issue aims to provide new readings of the conference 'Making Public: Urgent Publishing' by creating remixes of the official archival sources with the ‘unofficial’ debris circulating around it, 2021. ⇒
Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing · co-author of chapter ‘Upside Down, Inside out: A Relational Approach to Content Structure’ which explores non-linear forms of writing and editing to challenge myths of origin and originality, authoritarian authorship, single-voiced narratives, hero perspectives, and definitive truths. Institute of Network Cultures, 2020. ⇒
Making Public · researcher for practice-based research project which explored the notion of Urgent Publishing. Institute of Network Cultures, 2018-2019. ⇒
Urgent Publishing .. “In short, urgency goes beyond the ‘now’ and connects to the afterlife of a publication; it understands quality not just as logically consistent and well-proven arguments, but also as alternative content structures; and asks to view positioning a publication not as getting as many clicks or conversions as possible, but primarily as finding and engaging the readers who care. In other words, urgency means prolonging the life of a publication beyond short attention spans, challenging your readers to navigate and interact with content in different ways, and entrusting your content to the network.” -- Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing, 2020.
Urgent & Hybrid Publishing Course for Graphic Design · teacher of term that asks students to explore the current publishing landscape from the questions connected to the notion of ‘Urgent Publishing’. Willem de Kooning Academy, 2016 - ongoing.
Hybrid Publishing (Archive) · project lead for practice-based research project on experimental and hybrid forms of publishing for the Willem de Kooning Academy from 2015 to 2021. ⇒
From Print to e-books: A Digital Publishing Toolkit for the Arts · infographics and book design in collaboration with Loes Sikkes. ⇒
Digital Publishing Tookit · researcher and project lead for practice-based research project developing hybrid forms of publishing for small art and design publishers for Institute of Network Cultures, 2013-2014. ⇒
Boek uit de Band · producer of conference ‘Boek uit de Band’ which explored what the electronic book - the e-book - means for writing, reading, the library and publisher for Institute of Network Cultures, 2012. ⇒
Contact: kimmyspreeuw@proton.me
This website makes use of the typeface DINdong developed by Clara Sambot, a member of the ByeBye binary collective focusing on developing inclusive and non-binary glyphs and typefaces. ⇒