Dit wilde ik toch nog even delen: Wie een email naar ontwerpers Experimental Jetset stuurt tijdens de zomer maanden, zoals ik onlangs deed krijgt het volgende 'out of office’ bericht terug; uitgebreid, grappig, eerlijk en uiterst sympathiek, zo kan het ook.


Dear reader,

Summer in the city! The following months, we will be in the studio on and off. In other words, we cannot guarantee a swift reply. But we hope the list below will answer your most urgent questions:


Internship.
If you wrote us asking for an internship, we will definitely take a look at your portfolio, but we will not be offering you a place, as we are not really comfortable with the whole concept of internships. However, if you really need to do an internship, and want to do it in the Netherlands, you might find it interesting to check out this link. A short text on our views on internships can be found here.


Employment.
We are a small studio, just three persons working from a single space, and we like to keep it small-scale. So we are not offering any job positions. If you are urgently looking for a job, you might like to check out the following link (but why not just start your own studio)


Questionnaires by students.
Normally, we try to answer all questionnaires. And we usually enjoy doing that. The problem is, we are receiving so many questionnaires these days — it is impossible to keep up. It is so easy to get lost in replying each and every e-mail, answering all these questionnaires, etc., but it is also extremely time-consuming. So for now, we decided to pause it for a while. We just want to concentrate on the actual act of designing. We are really sorry about that. If you need specific information about us, you might find your questions answered in one of the interviews listed below:
Design Ideology
Sbook6interview
Fillstroke


Other interviews can be found here:
Swisslegacy
Aisleone
Onequestioninterview
Geotypografika.com
Uniteditions


For a short biography, check our MySpace page
We are not brilliant talkers, but a recent lecture can be found here.
Recent news, links and posts can be found on our Facebook page
We hope these links will help you!


Studio visits.
Being teachers ourselves, we know how important studio visits are for students, and we certainly experienced how difficult it can be to organize them. That is why we feel very guilty to let you know that we are currently not really up for studio visits. It is such a hectic period rightnow; the idea of a studio visit is just too much. But we appreciate your interest in our studio, and feel really flattered. Maybe another time, when things are quieter. We are really sorry about this!


Clip/Stamp/Fold.
Currently showing at NAiM / Bureau Europa (Maastricht): Clip/Stamp/Fold, an exhibition on radical architectural fanzines from the 60s and 70s. For this exhibition, we designed all printed matter (A0- and A2-sized posters, invitation, a 24-page bilingual catalogue, an A5-sized zine, etc.) and some typography in the exhibition. Clip/Stamp/Fold runs from June 27 to September 26, 2010, at NAiM / Bureau Europa, Avenue Ceramique 226, Maastricht. For more information, see here.


Other news.
Out now: the CAPC catalogue we designed for Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig. Part of a larger graphic identity (including invitations and posters) that we designed for the Zobernig retrospective, this book was recently published by Les Presses du Reel.


John + Paul + Ringo + George.
We are thrilled to announce that the series of shirts we originally designed for Japanese t-shirt label 2K/Gingham (and that have been out-of-print for a couple of years) are currently being reissued by t-shirt label Publik. A first selection is available here. For information about prices, sizes, ordering, colours, etc., please contact Publik.


For recent updates, check the News section. We now also have a Facebook page; feel free to check it out.


Okay, we hope that the above list takes care of most of the questions that we receive daily. We will try to answer all other questions as soon as possible (after the summer), but even then, we cannot guarantee a reply; we are very sorry about that. Thanks for your understanding!


All the best,


Danny, Marieke and Erwin,
Experimental Jetset.
» http://www.experimentaljetset.nl


PS:
As you might notice, this mail does not contain any apostrophes or quotation marks. For some
reason, our server did not allow us to use apostrophes in our auto-reply. Strange. Hopefully it is just a temporary glitch; we never had this problem.


PPS:
Ampersands seems to be forbidden as well. So we
replaced them with plus signs. Our auto-reply is
getting more and more cryptic every day.




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Simon Scheiber“Martin Pyper woont sinds 1989 in Nederland en is grafisch ontwerper/art director. Zijn eigen bedrijf 'me studio’ maakt vooral affiches, boeken en huisstijlen en hij heeft een eigen blog.”