{"id":223,"date":"2013-01-04T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:19:07","slug":"karel-martens-graphic-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"FILM: Dutch Profile | Karel Martens, graphic designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"430\" height=\"242\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=31486228&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\"><embed width=\"430\" height=\"242\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=31486228&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Evoking meaning, rather than boldly presenting truth: this is the essence of typographer Karel Martens&#8217; work. To achieve this he likes to experiment with numbers, abstract figures and vivid colors.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the seventies Karel Martens worked for SUN, a socialist publisher led by a group of highly motivated individuals. He succeeded in giving all their publications a very distinctive appearance.&nbsp;Martens has been teaching throughout most of his career. Like for instance at <a title=\"Werkplaats Typografie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.werkplaatstypografie.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Werkplaats Typografie<\/a> in Arnhem.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioning editor: Geert van de Wetering, Producer: Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen, Produced by <a title=\"Submarine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.submarine.nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submarine<\/a>, Femke Wolting &amp; Bruno Felix Commissioned by <a title=\"DutchDFA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchdfa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DutchDFA<\/a>, Research: Liselotte Francken, Director: Geert van de Wetering Camera: Wiro Felix, Pierre Rezus, Sound: Steven van Dijk, Editor: Geert van de Wetering, Colorcorrection: Maurik de Ridder, Music Sound Design: <a title=\"Pastelle Music\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pastellemusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pastelle Music<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evoking meaning, rather than boldly presenting truth: this is the essence of typographer Karel Martens&#8217; work. To achieve this he likes to experiment with numbers, abstract figures and vivid colors.&nbsp; During the seventies Karel Martens worked for SUN, a socialist publisher led by a group of highly motivated individuals. He succeeded in giving all their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-submarine","category-video","tag-geert-van-de-wetering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waacco.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}