Mediamatic
  •  
  • Program
    • Workshops
    • Events
    • Projects
    • Recent
  • To see
  • TestTafel
  • Mediamatic
    • About
    • Venue / for Rent
    • People
    • Archive
    • Jobs & Internships
    • Houserules
    • FAQ
    • Contact & Route
Search Menu
Log in
en
  •  El HEMA
  • Show / Shop
  • Events
  • Photos
  • Forum
  • Producten
  • Design Competition
  • Media
  • Image: Willem Velthoven, Romy Kerkman, Wael Morcos

    Pieter en Abigail in Halal/Kosher shirts van…

    Collega’s Pieter en Abigail in vintage T-shirts uit de collectie van El HEMA uit 2007. De woorden "Kosher" en "Halal" worden respectievelijk geschreven in het Arabisch en het Hebreeuws. De Kosher...
  • Politics
  • War
  • Religion
  • Language
  • error
  • Typography
  • Design

  • Kosher/Halal T-Shirt

    Also available as Halal/Kosher

    The shirt displays the word "Kosher" in Arabic script on one side and the word "Halal" in Hebrew script on the other. The shirt was made in 2 versions, one with Kosher on front and Halal on the back
  • F O R U M

    El HEMA forum

    Op 24 augustus 2007 opent de El HEMA tentoonstelling. Dit is de online ontmoetingsplaats voor deelnemers aan de voorbereidingen.

  • El Hema late nite

    Final touches before the opening

    Amsterdam - August 23, 2007: The shelves were being stocked, poster-size photographs were carefully being hung in the windows, the last designs were still being finalized, the media was buzzing...

  • Arabising Hema

    The metamorphosis of the contemporary Hema to an Arabic modern El HEMA

    Taking a step further in developing its brand, Hema seems to be smoothly introducing its new simplified logo on the products. The Arabic version of the new logo was designed based on the primary El...

  • El HEMA

    2007 - 2008

    Imagine an Arabic Hema store. From the 25th of August 2007 to 6 January 2008 Mediamatic presented a design contest, an exhibition, workshops and shop night salons about El HEMA. In oktober 2008 and...

  • Mediamatic wins Dutch Design Prize 2007 for El…

    Category 'Visual Identity'

    This weekend El HEMA got awarded a Dutch Design Prize! Not the audience prize (we were second there) but the prize for "Visual Identity". Jans Possel and Willem Velthoven went on stage to receive...
  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 10#3 Mathilde ter Heijne 1 Jan 2001

    A collective Psychosis?

    Interview

    Mathilde ter Heijne interviews German psychoanalyst Gertrud Hardtmann, October 13, 2001
  • 2022 Elise Chalcraft, Willem Velthoven

    Sweaters against Putin

    Mediamatic turns down the gas heaters for Ukraine whilst learning how to knit.

    We are dialing down our heating because we don't want to fund the Russian government with our gas money. We will all be wearing sweaters for Ukraine in an attempt to stop our dependency on natural...

  • Mediamatic genomineerd voor Amsterdamprijs

    Uitreiking 26 augustus 2010

    Filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam, kamerkoor Cappella Amsterdam, choreografe Krisztina de Châtel, reclamemaker/fotograaf Erik Kessels, schrijfster Yasmine Allas, grafisch ontwerper/illustrator Piet Parra...

  • Infographics: Are the budget cuts necessary or…

    The Dutch budget for arts & culture institutions is relatively small. The above average cuts will produce below average results.

    In 2011 the budget is € 490 million to support the cultural infrastructure. That sounds like a lot, but it is only a third of what we spend on holidays. It's 1,5% of the annual costs of the State...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bahia Shehab

    Al-Rihla (The Journey)

    1
    Dec 2016
    31
    Dec 2025
    - Mural by Bahia Shehab

    Mediamatic and Framer Framed invited Lebanese-Egyptian street-artist Bahia Shehab to create a brand new graffiti wall at Mediamatic Biotoop right next to our terrace. In order to celebrate her...

  • Fitna the Movie

    We’re tired of waiting. So, let’s do it ourselves! Sorry!

    There is this not-so-intelligent Dutch politician that attracts attention by doing populist provocations. His name is Wilders. Geert Wilders. He is scared of aliens and especially of muslim aliens.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1995

    DoorMat FAT

    The DoorMat family

    For Mediamatic’s Home Issue, Dutch type designers Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland designed a special typeface. The DoorMat family

  • Mediamatic Magazine 2#3

    March 1988

    Also included a special about Rabotnik TV
  • Press release

    Hema threatens with legal action

    because of the El Hema exhibition

    EXTRA: Mediamatic will meet with the Hema B.V.'s Director of Marketing on Friday the 27th of July. In a letter postdated the 23rd of July 2007, the Hema has changed their tone of voice ('The Hema...

  • Noord is exceptionally normal

    Introduction to Noord

    This is the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands. It is about Amsterdam-Noord. We made this guide during the summer of 2010 with a group of editors and a team of 22 artists from Egypt, the...

  • It is too much. Stop killing and destroying…

    Israel should stop NOW. The international community should stop Israel NOW.

    August 1, 2006. It's three weeks now that the state of Israel is involved in this "war". The Israeli government says they are forced to do this. It is necessary to achieve "security" for their...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1996

    vol. 8#4 The Religion Issue

    Editorial: Are People the Gods of the Algorithms?

    The word avatar does not occur in this issue of Mediamatic.

  • Dutch Design Awards

    Infographics campaign against the culture cuts nominated

    Our 2011 campaign against the culture cuts has made it to the Dutch Design Awards finals. Other nominees are amongst others Lernert & Sander and Metahaven. The winners will be announced on October...

  • Public Art

    In 2001, Claes Oldenburg was inspired by the vast amount of giant plastic ice cream cones, used as advertising along Cologne's shopping streets. When he was commissioned by a shopping mall in Cologne...
  • 2008 Michael Haas, Julian Adenauer, Martin Fussenegger

    Facadeprinter

    Paintballs splashing against the windows; a colorful sign of resistance.

    The viewer watches the artwork emerge dot by dot, both product and method are intertwined within the artwork.

  • Electric Bikes 2012

    Desirable pedalassisted bicycles

    I'm not an expert but I am an amateur of fine bikes. 2012 is the year in which the first fine electric bikes are appearing. Originally, they used to be for the elderly, the disabled and the lazy. Now

  • Jarr and his Finish Flag

    What have people been bringing to our resistance archive?

    In this ongoing series, Objects and their People, we'll be writing about our favourite resistance objects, anecdotes and people. Keep up with what is happening in the Pièce de Résistance exhibition...

created Willem Velthoven modified Marcel Sturing

  •  Contact & Route
  • Colofon
Design by Mediamatic - Powered by Ginger