About

Digital, graphic, and designer. Amsterdam-based.

For information about Studio Harris Blondman, visit www.harrisblondman.nl

CV

Positions

  • Co-founder of Studio Harris Blondman, digital, graphic, and design (2013–now)
  • Initiator, Course Developer & Lead Teacher at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Interdepartmental Program New Technology, Amsterdam (2023–now)
  • Course Developer & Teacher at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, BA Design, Amsterdam (2024–now)

Honors, Grants & Residencies

  • Swiss Design Award for Media & Interaction Design, as Studio Harris Blondman (CH/2024)
  • Creative Industries Fund NL/​Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (NL/2021)
  • Swiss Design Award for Graphic Design, as Studio Harris Blondman (CH/2018)
  • Villa Eläintarha (FI/2017)
  • Society for Artistic Research/​SAR (NL/2017)
  • Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst/​AFK (NL/2017)
  • Creative Industries Fund NL/​Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (NL/2015)
  • Lectorate Art & Public Space/​LAPS (NL/2015–2023)
  • European Ceramic Work Center/​EKWC (NL/2012)
  • Bonhams 1793 (UK/2012)

Committees

  • Creative Industries Fund NL/​Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Advisory Committee Talent Development (NL/2022–2024)
  • Creative Industries Fund NL/​Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Advisory Committee Design (NL/2020–2023)
  • Creative Industries Fund NL/​Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Advisory Committee Experiment (NL/2021)
  • Creative Industries Fund NL/​Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Advisory Committee Professionalization (NL/2020)
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Artistic Research Projects Committee (NL/2019)
  • Petra und Dieter Frese Preis, jury member (DE/2019)

Teaching, Talks & Related

  • Course Developer & Lead Teacher at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Interdepartmental Program New Technology, Amsterdam (2023–now)
  • Course Developer & Teacher at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, BA Design, Amsterdam (2024–now)
  • Course Developer & Teacher at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, BA Photography, Amsterdam (2017–2023)
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie, BA Time-based Media (NL/2023)
  • International Experts Panel, Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education/SKVC (LT/2022)
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie, BA Graphic Design (NL/2022)
  • Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton/UoS WSA, guest lecture (UK/2022)
  • Royal Academy of Art The Hague/​KABK, guest lecture (NL/2022)
  • University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO) & University Examination Qualification (UEQ/BKE), Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL/2022)
  • MacGuffin #10, Q&A moderator (NL/2021)
  • From the Rupture Art & Ideas Festival (US/2021)
  • Eyebeam Art & Technology Center (US/2021)
  • MU Hybrid Art House, consultant (NL/2021)
  • Amsterdam Research Institute of the Arts and Sciences/ARIAS, session moderator (NL/2019)
  • Royal Academy of Art The Hague/​KABK, workshop, BA Graphic Design (NL/2019)
  • Co-Head (Content Focus), Course Developer & Lead Teacher, Master Institute of Visual Cultures/AKV St. Joost, MA Graphic Design (NL/2017–2019)
  • University of the Arts Bremen/HfK Bremen (DE/2019)
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie, symposium session moderator (NL/2018)
  • De Vrolijkheid, workshop (NL/2022)
  • The Hmm (NL/2018)
  • Het Nieuwe Instituut/HNI (NL/2018)
  • MU Hybrid Art House, with Dutch Design Week (NL/2017)
  • Photography Museum Amsterdam/​Foam (NL/2017)
  • ArtEZ University of the Arts, BA Graphic Design, Design Research (NL/2017)
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie, BA Time-based Media (NL/2017)
  • The Knight's Move, with Stroom Den Haag, The Hague International Center for Civic Hacks/​ICX, Nationale Toneel & Babel, Lectoraat Art & Public Space/​LAPS (NL/2016)
  • Royal Academy of Art The Hague/​KABK, BA Interior Design (NL/2016)
  • What Design Can Do/​WDCD (NL/2016)
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academy, BA Photography (NL/2016)
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academy, BA Time-based Media (NL/2015)
  • Oude Kerk (NL/2014)
  • Magazijn (NL/2014)

Shows

  • Swiss Design Awards at Art Basel, as Studio Harris Blondman (CH/2024)
  • Dead Darlings 16 (NL/2023)
  • Dead Darlings 15² (NL/2022)
  • International Poster & Graphic Design Festival Chaumont, as Studio Harris Blondman (FR/2021)
  • Meta Festival, as Studio Harris Blondman (FR/2021)
  • Graphic Days Torino, as Studio Harris Blondman (IT/2021)
  • Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, as Studio Harris Blondman (US/2021)
  • Dead Darlings 13 (NL/2021)
  • W139 (NL/2021)
  • Dead Darlings 12½ (NL/2020)
  • Kunsthalle Bern, as Studio Harris Blondman (CH/2019)
  • Design in Motion Festival/DEMO, as Studio Harris Blondman (NL/2019)
  • Dead Darlings 11, as Studio Harris Blondman (NL/2019)
  • Het Nieuwe Instituut/HNI, as Studio Harris Blondman (NL/2019)
  • Dead Darlings 10 (NL/2018)
  • Fanfare, as Studio Harris Blondman (NL/2018)
  • Swiss Design Awards at Art Basel, as Studio Harris Blondman (CH/2018)
  • Mesh Festival by ADCN (NL/2018)
  • Mister Motley Salon (NL/2018)
  • X Bank, as Studio Harris Blondman (NL/2017)
  • Dead Darlings 7 (NL/2017)
  • Foam Fusion Festival (NL/2017)
  • Photography Museum Amsterdam/​Foam (NL/2017)
  • Probe Project, as Studio Harris Blondman (NL/2016)
  • X Bank (NL/2016)
  • RAI Amsterdam (NL/2016)
  • Paris Design Week (FR/2015)
  • D’Days Paris Design Festival (FR/2015)
  • Salone del Mobile (IT/2015)
  • Istanbul Design Biennial (TR/2014)
  • Oude Kerk (NL/2014)
  • Dutch Embassy in Buenos Aires (AR/2014)
  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (AR/2014)
  • DutchCulture (NL/2014)
  • Oude Kerk (NL/2014)
  • Posthoornkerk (NL/2014)
  • Magazijn (NL/2014)
  • Dutch Design Week (NL/2013)
  • Beijing Design Week (ZH/2013)
  • Cromhouthuizen/​Bijbels Museum (NL/2013)
  • Kasteel Keukenhof (NL/2013)
  • Amsterdam Museum/​Museum Willet-Holthuysen (NL/2013)
  • Beerestein (NL/2012)
  • The Wallace Collection (UK/2012)
  • Bonhams 1793 (UK/2012)

Publications

  • MacGuffin #11, as Studio Harris Blondman (magazine/2022)
  • Parool, as Studio Harris Blondman (newspaper/2021)
  • AIGA Eye on Design, as Studio Harris Blondman (website/2020)
  • MacGuffin #8, as Studio Harris Blondman (magazine/2020)
  • The Hmm, as Studio Harris Blondman (website/2018)
  • Mister Motley (website/2018)
  • Machine Vision, The Future of Photography (book/2017)
  • Foam Collaborate! A year of visual encounters (book/2017)
  • Days (book/2017)
  • Probe Project, as Studio Harris Blondman (website/2016)
  • Archined, as Studio Harris Blondman (website/2016)
  • Creative Industries Fund NL/​Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (annual report/2016)
  • Hoverstates (website/2015)
  • MacGuffin #1, as Studio Harris Blondman (magazine/2015)
  • Parking Lot #1 (magazine/2014)
  • 1000 Things (website/2013)
  • KGK Magazine (magazine/2013)
  • Conversation Piece (catalogue/2012)
  • Mister Motley #30 (magazine/2011)
  • Club Donny #6 (magazine/2011)

Commissioners

  • Adidas (DE)
  • Amsterdam Research Institute of the Arts and Sciences/ARIAS (NL)
  • Amsterdam Fund for the Arts/AFK (NL)
  • Aspect Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Network (UK)
  • Bern University of the Arts/HKB (CH)
  • Bonhams 1793 (UK)
  • Bos Ice Tea (SA)
  • Centraal Museum Utrecht (NL)
  • The City of Amsterdam (NL)
  • The Council for the Judiciary/​De Rechtspraak (NL)
  • Doctors without Borders/MSF (CH)
  • École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne/​ECAL (CH)
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne/​EPFL (CH)
  • Embassy of Switzerland in Mexico (MX)
  • Erasmus Publishing Ltd. (UK/FR)
  • Felix Meritis (NL)
  • Geneva University of Art and Design/HEAD (CH)
  • London School of Economics & Political Science/LSE (UK)
  • Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art/​MASS MoCa (US)
  • Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport/​VWS (NL)
  • MU Hybrid Art House (NL)
  • The Municipality of Renens (CH)
  • The Photographers’ Gallery/TPG (UK)
  • Royal Institute of Dutch Architects/​Bond van Nederlandse Architecten/​BNA (NL)
  • Royal Theater Carré (NL)
  • Royal Tropical Institute/​Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen/​KIT (NL)
  • Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam/​SMBA (NL)
  • Submarine (NL/USA)
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne/EPFL (CH)
  • University of Arts Lausanne/ECAL (CH)
  • University of Geneva/UNIGE (CH)
  • University of Lausanne/​UNIL (CH)
  • University of Neuchâtel/UniNE (CH)
  • University of Southampton (UK)
  • University of the Arts Bremen/HfK Bremen (DE)
  • Van Gogh Museum (NL)
  • Vlisco (NL)
  • De Vrolijkheid (NL)
  • Van Gogh Museum (NL)
  • The Wallace Collection (UK)