Information layers of atlases: Joost Grootens

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Joost Grootens
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Joost Grootens

Joost Grootens designed his first book in 1998 and since then has focussed more and more on this aspect of designing, with a specialism in designing atlases. With his designs, he wants to rehabilitate the quality with which maps and atlases were historically designed and printed.
Vinex Atlas
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Vinex Atlas

It was in the early 1990s that the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment published the supplement to the fourth report on spatial planning. This policy document achieved fame and notoriety under its Dutch acronym, Vinex. In its wake, hundreds of thousands of dwellings were erected throughout the Netherlands in what became known as Vinex districts. Sometimes eulogized, often vilified, they have always been a source of debate. The Vinex Atlas gives the first in-depth account of the entire Vinex stock, describing 52 districts aided by aerial views from the mid-nineties, plans, site data and recent on-site photographs.
Studio Joost Grootens wins 2009 Rotterdam Designprize
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Studio Joost Grootens wins 2009 Rotterdam Designprize

On Sunday 29 November studio Joost Grootens won the Rotterdam Design Prize 2009. Designers collective Gorilla won the public prize.
Until 10 January 2010 the museum showcases projects and the design motivation of the winner(s) and the other leading designers or clients of the past two years.
Content defines form
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Content defines form

‘Form defined by the content’, according to this principle Joost Grootens designed stationery for the artists’ project ‘The Blue Home’. The backgrounds were variable, adjusting to and inspired by the content of the letter or the work of the artist(s) using it.

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Information layers of atlases: Joost Grootens

Joost Grootens (1971) states: ‘The book is not a linear medium, but a data carrier with various possible points of entry’. For him the organisation of information is more important than the creation of a beautiful and stylish page. His designs are based upon the graphic conventions of books such as architecture monographs, photo books and atlases.