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

  • Co-curator of Los Zand, an art space / vegetable garden in Arnhem · 2026
  • Set Rules, Unexpected Outcomes awarded the Best Dutch Book Designs · 2026
  • Exhibited with 1m2 Collective at Dutch Design Week · 2025
  • Graduation show at ArtEZ, Arnhem · 2025
  • FiveThirty workshop at Lorem Ipsum, Amsterdam · 2024
  • Internship at 75B · 2024

CONTACT

Instagram, E-mail
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

  • Co-curator of Los Zand, an art space / vegetable garden in Arnhem · 2026
  • Set Rules, Unexpected Outcomes awarded the Best Dutch Book Designs · 2026
  • Exhibited with 1m2 Collective at Dutch Design Week · 2025
  • Graduation show at ArtEZ, Arnhem · 2025
  • FiveThirty workshop at Lorem Ipsum, Amsterdam · 2024
  • Internship at 75B · 2024

  CONTACT

Instagram, E-mail


VogelvrijInfo

A book design for writer Mees Elia de Wijn. Vogelvrij covers themes of mental exhaustion, alienation and the continuous confrontation with time within a society that always stays moving. The book uses experimental typography and narrative techniques, and has an asymmetrical shape that signifies a bird, an important character in the story.

Book, RISO printed, 2026


A Line, CrashingInfo

Set Rules, Unexpected OutcomesInfo

530 Type Club is a font-collective that hosts workshops and studies on experimental typography. Set Rules, Unexpected Outcomes: On Workshop-Based Design Practices is an investigation on how workshop-based creative practices engage with community, thinking through making, and archiving: the core of 530 Type Club.


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


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



Website by Jonas Riemersma, 2026


& uses Bianzhidai by Xiaoyuan Gao (Velvetyne)