Daniël van der Velden

designer and writer, Daniël van der Velden is a partner in the design research collective Metahaven, based in Amsterdam and Brussels. With his two Metahaven partners, Vinca Kruk and Gon Zifroni, Daniel combines design with research, creating logos, icons, symbols and maps, but also posters, information structures and architectural proposals. With published projects around ‘totalitarian” architecture in Bucharest and Pyongyang, the Sealand anarchist base in the North Sea, and Quaero (a European search engine driven by cross-Atlantic antagonism) Metahaven focuses on the relation between visual identity and the political. Daniël van der Velden has collaborated with Maureen Mooren from 1998 to 2007, designing innovative identity concepts and publicity for the art space ROOM, the architectural magazine Archis and the Holland Festival logo and identity, posters and publications – for which the duo was granted various awards, including First Prize at the Chaumont Poster Festival 2006. The duo was also commissioned by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Droog Design, TNT, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall and Dommelsch, among others. Daniël taught editorial design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and the ArtEZ Academy of Arts in Arnhem. Currently, he is a tutor at the design department of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and was appointed critic in graphic design at Yale University in 2007.