Shariff Nasr
Shariff Nasr is a director, screenwriter and copywriter. He has directed award-winning short films, comedy series, sketches, video clips, games and commercials. He often uses humour as a weapon to fight larger subjects. Shariff's non-profit commercials are an example of this, and have had a major viral effect and even led to heated discussions in the United States, such as his commercials for Wakker Dier (Winner commercial 2009, Fonk Magazine).
After this he made advertisements for various NGOs, but also for major commercial brands such as Lipton, Axe, Mtv, RTL, Cupasoup, 7-up, Videoland, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein and Friesland Campina. Besides directing commercials, he made the award winning short films Fobia, Oblivion and Pensionado. He also worked with his brother, Ramsey Nasr, on Dichter Draagt Voor, a project with which she wanted to interest a new group in poetry. For this purpose he directed 21 poetry clips, which are used in many schools within the curriculum. By the way, Shariff will be the director and scriptwriter of the overarching story within the international mosaic film Rotterdam, I love you, which will be screened in 2017.
Eva Wijers
Eva Wijers makes drawings and audio-visual work in which the social behaviour of people is central.
With humour and cynicism she exposes the absurd back of our daily lives. Eva is also artistic director at ZienInNoord; a youth film programme with film workshops and mini master classes for children. She also works as a teacher of new media for various organisations.
Monice Janson
Monice Janson is a typographic designer. Her artworks make you stop and think for a moment. They emphasize where you are and tell you about the uniqueness of that place - Monice gives a place an identity.
Monice designs monumental art expressions with letters and language for residential areas, bridges, companies, buildings, schools and public space. Projects you may know her from are the bridge poem on the Parkhaven bridge in Rotterdam, the houses of Buitenplaats Syon in Rijswijk and the facade of residential and parking building BinckPARK in the Binckhorst in The Hague.
She shares her feeling for aesthetics and detailing with you, the client. She develops her typographic art in close cooperation with (landscape) architects, developers, housing corporations and municipalities.
Language and typography
Affinity for typography and sensitivity to language characterize her art. She comes up with the right choice of words or asks a poet or copywriter. The letters of the artworks are mainly designed by her, sometimes she uses existing typography.
For Rotterdam
Monice regularly works on projects with Leontien Wiehink, designer of public space. Together they initiate art projects with typography for the city of Rotterdam. Projects they worked on or are working on are a manhole cover for the Coolsingel and a children's monument 'The Memorial Garden' for a Rotterdam cemetery.
Typographic products
The 'Letterzetters', typographic coasters in all the letters of the alphabet, are for sale at Museum Meermanno in The Hague and Bookstore Dominicanen in Maastricht, among other places.
Z-Fence, a typographical fence has been developed in cooperation with Leontien Wiehink. The producer is HB International. More information can be found here.
Are you considering something with typography? You can reach Monice Janson by e-mail or phone.
