Wout De Vringer, Netherlands

AGI member since 2002

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For over thirty years Wout de Vringer has been designing for corporate and cultural clients in The Netherlands and occasionally abroad, creating posters, invitations, brochures and an occasional exhibition. The last couple of years he specializes in the design of art and photography books.
De Vringer has taught graphic design at academies in Den Bosch and Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and giving workshops and lectures around the world. His work is represented in many solo- and group exhibitions internationally. His work can be found in the permanent collections of Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (Switzerland), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Germany), in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Paris (France) and in the MoMA New York (USA) and is published in over eighty international graphic design books and magazines.

Design work by Wout De Vringer


    Wout De Vringer, Netherlands (2002)

    For over thirty years Wout de Vringer has been designing for corporate and cultural clients in The Netherlands and occasionally abroad, creating posters, invitations, brochures and an occasional exhibition. The...

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    For over thirty years Wout de Vringer has been designing for corporate and cultural clients in The Netherlands and occasionally abroad, creating posters, invitations, brochures and an occasional exhibition. The last couple of years he specializes in the design of art and photography books.
    De Vringer has taught graphic design at academies in Den Bosch and Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and giving workshops and lectures around the world. His work is represented in many solo- and group exhibitions internationally. His work can be found in the permanent collections of Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (Switzerland), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Germany), in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Paris (France) and in the MoMA New York (USA) and is published in over eighty international graphic design books and magazines.

    Publications

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    Graphic Design of the World, Volume 1

    (1992)

    • Koichi Sato

    Kodansha

    The Graphic Edge

    (1993)

    • Rick Poynor

    Booth-Clibborn Editions

    Dutch Posters 1960-1996

    (1997)

    • Anthon Beeke

    BIS Publishers

    Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA Since 1980

    (2001)

    • Kirk Varnedoe

    The Museum of Modern Art, New York

    New Typo Graphics-Volume 2

    (1997)

    PIE Books

    Visual Engine - The Selected Work of 18 Top Designers

    (2008)

    LST-Publishing

    The Fundamentals of Creative Design

    (2003)

    • Gavin Ambrose,
    • Paul Harris

    AVA Publishing

    The Fundamentals of Typography

    (2006)

    • Gavin Ambrose,
    • Paul Harris

    AVA Publishing

    The Fundamentals of Graphic Design

    (2008)

    • Gavin Ambrose,
    • Paul Harris

    AVA Publishing

    Graphic Messages from ggg/ddd 1986-2006

    (2007)

    • Masoteru Aoba

    DDD GGG Publishers

    Bookworm

    (2010)

    • Jianping He

    Hesign Publishing

    We Love Books!

    (2008)

    • Michel Bouvet

    Centre du Graphisme d’Échirolles

    Brand Identity Now!

    (2009)

    • Julius Wiedemann

    Taschen

    Experimental Formats.2

    (2008)

    • Roger Fawcett-Tang

    RotoVision

    New Poster Art

    (2008)

    • Cees De Jong

    Thames and Hudson

    Who is who in Design-Volume 2

    (2003)

    • Jana Zec

    Red Dot Edition

    Typography Workbook

    (2004)

    • Timothy Samara

    Rockport

    AGI: Graphic Design Since 1950

    (2007)

    • Ben & Elly Bos

    Thames and Hudson

    The Best Informational Diagrams 2

    (2005)

    PIE Books

    The Best in Cutting Edge Typography

    (1994)

    • Stafford Cliff

    RotoVision

    Ha, daar gaat er een van mij

    (2002)

    • Jan Middendorp

    010 Publishers Rotterdam

    Ideas Unbound

    (2003)

    PIE Books

    The 6th International Poster Triennial in Toyama

    (2000)

    • Mitsuo Katsui

    The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

    Exhibitions

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    Looking back into the Future - Solo exhibition Faydherbe/De Vringer

    1998

    DDD Gallery, Osaka

    Design Graphique Hollandais - Solo exhibition Faydherbe/De Vringer

    1999

    La Cambre, Maison Henry van de Velde, Brussels

    Education

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    Teacher Graphic Design

    • Undergraduate

    2011 – 2014

    • Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

    Lectures

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    Looking back into the Future

    (1998)

    • DDD Gallery, Japan

    AIGA Detroit

    (2005)

    • CCS Detroit, USA

    Presentation of work by Faydherbe/De Vringer

    (2006)

    • AGI Meeting Tokyo, Japan

    Modern Constructivism

    (2011)

    • Design/Reklama, Moscow, Russia
    • Rosphoto Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

    History of Modern Graphic Design in Holland since the Second World War

    (2011)

    • AGIdeas Melbourne, Australia

    Agencies

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    • Vorm Vijf

      1984 – 1986

    • Faydherbe/De Vringer

      1986 – 2012