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Striker - 50 years of posters by Anthon Beeke

Januari 16 - March 7, 2011


Posters made by Anthon Beeke are always right on target. They can literally strike you and stop you dead in your tracks. They don't just grab your attention, they overpower you and strike a nerve in you.

A few quotes by Anthon Beeke:
"A poster must shock"
"I provoke because that is what triggers people"
"I have never been interested in 'pretty', I want to convey a mentality, a feeling. The means to get there, pretty or ugly, are of minor interest to me."

A quote about him:
"Posters made by Beeke make us stop, look, and discover the true side of everyday images. This ultimately leads us to deeper insight.

De Affiche Galerij (the poster gallery) in The Hague, The Netherlands presents 60 of Anthon Beeke's much talked about posters. He made them for a broad spectrum of clients like Mickery, Holland Festival, Globe, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Theatercompagnie, Kunstrai and the Design Academy in Eindhoven. From the sixties up until now, for half a century, his posters were, as he himself once said "the thermometer of the juncture".

History / background information

Anthon Beeke, b. Amsterdam, March 11, 1940

Anthon Beeke starts working as an independent graphic designer in 1963; among other clients, he works for Jumbo Games. From 1976 til 1982 he is vice-president at Total Design. After some years of co-operatives, he starts Studio Anthon Beeke in 1989. Mostly known for his controversial posters for Globe, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Theatercompagnie and Kunstrai, he also designs books, magazines, annual reports, corporate identities, logo's, postage stamps, catalogues, advertising campagnes, exhibitions and alphabets. Many of his designs have won awards. He gives lectures all over the world and has taught at different artschools in The Netherlands and abroad. From 1985 until 2008 he wa

Description

William Perkins (1558-1602) earned a bachelor’s degree in 1581 and a master’s degree in 1584 from Christ’s College in Cambridge. During those student years he joined up with Laurence Chaderton, who became his personal tutor and lifelong friend. Perkins and Chaderton met with Ricahrd Greenham, Richard Rogers, and others in a spiritual brotherhood at Cambridge that espoused Puritan convictions.

From 1584 until his death, Perkins serves as lecturer, or preacher, at Great St. Andrew’s Church, Cambridge, a most influential pulpit across the street from Christ’s College. He also served as a teaching fellow at Christ’s College, catechized students at Corpus Christi College on Thursday afternoons, and worked as a spiritual counselor on Sunday afternoons. In these roles Perkins influenced a generation of young students, including Richard Sibbes, John Cotton, John Preston, and William Ames. Thomas Goodwin wrote that when he entered Cambridge, six of his instructors who had sat under Perkins were still passing on his teaching. Ten years after Perkins’s death, Cambridge was still “filled with the discourse of the power of Mr. William Perkins’ ministry,” Goodwin said. Perkins’s influence as a theologian continued unabated after his death. This was due in large part to the widespread popularity of his writings. His writings were translated into several European languages and greatly influenced British and American Reformed theology, the Dutch Further Reformation, and European Pietism. 

Contents

1. The Convert
2. The Theologian
3. The Reformer
4. The Polemicist
5. The Churchman
6. The Fellow
7. The Preacher
8. The Pastor
9. The Sabbatarian
10. The Puritan

About the Authors

Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Seminary) is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary; a pastor of the Heritage

Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is the chancellor and professor of homiletics and systematic theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor since 1978 and currently ministers at the Heritage Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the editor of the Puritan Reformed Journal and The Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth magazine, the board chairman of Reformation Heritage Books, the president of Inheritance Publishers, and the vice president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. Beeke has written and coauthored 120 books, edited 120 books, and contributed 2,500 articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. He frequently lectures at seminaries and speaks at Reformed conferences around the world. The Lord has blessed him and his wife Mary with three children and ten grandchildren.

Maviyane-Davies has been described by the U.K.’s Design magazine as “the guerrilla of graphic design.” Debbie Millman, of Design Matters, called him “one of the most powerful voices in the world of graphic design.” For more than four decades this controversial, award-winning artist has marshaled the power of design to enable effective communication for social change, taking on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.

"In my work I challenge the norm and try to capture truth, nature and the vibrancy of our humanity through eloquence, power and economy. I translate its essence through aesthetic expression in order to wholly connect to the spiritual and intellectual body, which is life itself," Maviyane-Davies said. "Creating an alternate vision in a pervadingly regressive body politic has never been easy but design is my weapon and therein lies the challenge I have called 'creative defiance.'

"This lecture is a glimpse of my story and approach to the breadth of real problems and values we all have to deal with."

Maviyane-Davies achieved a master of arts in graphic design and an advanced diploma in postgraduate filmmaking from the Central St. Martins School of Art and Design in London. He spent a year in Japan studying three-dimensional design and 10 months in Malaysia working on various world-reaching design projects for the International Organization of Consumers Unions and JUST World Trust. 

From 1983 to 2000 he ran The Maviyane-Project, a highly acclaimed design studio in Harare, Zimbabwe. The social and humane nature of his work was often confrontational and challenging to the authorities, so it was not surprising that, in 2001, with the adverse political climate at the time, he felt compelled to leave his homeland for a post at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. He taught there until 2016 and is now