Jonas Riemersma, graphic designer...   ABOUT

and prolific experimenter / typography enthusiast / recent graduate from Graphic Design (BA) at ArtEZ Arnhem. I like designing books and other printed matter, teaching robots to draw, and many other things. I am currently open for business.

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Jonas Riemersma, graphic designer...

  ABOUT

and prolific experimenter / typography enthusiast / recent graduate from Graphic Design (BA) at ArtEZ Arnhem. I like designing books and other printed matter, teaching robots to draw, and many other things. I am currently open for business.

  RECENTLY

  CONTACT

Instagram, E-mail


Internet Censorship 2009-2023Info

This is a book about internet censorship, based on publicly available data. Every page contains a case of a country blocking one or more websites, or shutting down the whole internet, for a particular period of time. The information is formatted like a punch card, where the numbers form a unique pattern based on the dates and duration of a case. The colour of the cards is darker in cases where the internet was blocked for longer. The book becomes a physical stack of data, available both online and offline.

Book, Digital + RISO printed, 2023


A Line, CrashingInfo

Set Rules, Unexpected OutcomesInfo

MOMO DiamondInfo

BipBopInfo


Two TreesInfo

8 1/2 DreamsInfo

In the autumn of 2023 I asked some folks to watch a film scene - the opening scene from (1963) - while I recorded their reaction. The scene is three minutes long, and shows a highly symbolic dream sequence. I tried out a couple of experimental ways of showing them the scene, in order to find some new meaning or interpretation of it, eventually having them view it with their eyes closed.

This book consists of the recorded interpretations of the scene, combined with images I found myself, to create a sense of what the viewers may have imagined, and to peek into the associative nature of the mind.

Book, digitally printed, 2023


SpikyInfo

A display typeface intended to dazzle the viewer with its intricate and almost psychedelic linework. It is based on multiple typographic experiments, out of which came a loose set of rules to create this typeface. To make it, I first created a skeleton font digitally, drew the spikes by hand, and digitalised the result. It was created at my course's Typography class, and is featured in Character Club, a collective publication with typefaces made by students of this class.

Typeface, 2022


De OpkamerInfo

A series of posters made for De Opkamer, a small space for art and events in Arnhem that, at the moment, is periodically inviting people to paint on their walls. The posters have very scratchy and odd typography mirroring some of the painting happening on the wall. The typographical effects were made using a pen plotter in ways it isn’t meant be used, continuing my long-running experiments with and fascination for this machine.

Posters, RISO printed, 2023 -



Website by Jonas Riemersma, 2025


& uses Bianzhidai by Xiaoyuan Gao (Velvetyne)