Experimental Jetset is a design company that Richard has referenced many a time and after seeing some of their work that Richard showed us, I decided to have a further look as I really enjoyed their style even though I would say it was out of my comfort zone. Experimental Jetset are very postmodern in their values and design, but you can see a clear modernist influence in the undertones of their work. What this represents I'm not sure but the work blends together very well and they always come up with extremely original designs.
Even their website that shows their work is unusual and I would say it's modernist because it's stripped back to its' purest form:
Here is the bio of Experimental Jetset.
"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) and ‘Two or Three Things I Know About Provo’ (W139, Amsterdam, 2011). In 2007, a large selection of work by Experimental Jetset was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, for inclusion in the MoMA’s permanent collection.
Members of Experimental Jetset have been teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2000–2014), and are currently teaching at Werkplaats Typografie (2013–now)."
Here are some of their best works in my opinion:
Ten Years of Posters
EP Sternberg Press
