EXHIBIT DESIGN
Timelapse of the Revolving Sun at NEMO
Science Center NEMO has made a captivating little video of the revolving sun that we conceived for the permanent exhibit World of Forms.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vELb0p6NYJM
EXHIBIT DESIGN
Todd gives a tour in NEMO
This year Todd van Hulzen and Studio Louter are submitting some projects together for various awards. For one particular international award we made a little video tour of the new permanent installation at NEMO: World of Shapes / Wereld van vormen. Narrated by yours truly!
EXHIBIT DESIGN
Our Delta Experience opens at DeltaPark Neeltje Jans
So far only positive reviews for our big permanent installation “Dutch Delta Experience” in Zeeland. DeltaPark Neeltje Jans commissioned Todd van Hulzen and Studio Louter to create a large, dynamic visitor experience in their visitors’ center located on the great storm barrier accross the delta of Zeeland. Our answer was Read more…
Blog Fluff
Hoisting Cabin Girders
A short video of my father, Alvin Van Hulzen, winching up the whole timber girders that are going to make the raised floor of my future cabin in Klamath County, Oregon. The beams probably weigh about a ton each, being about 26 feet long and 16 inches in diameter (800cm Read more…
Blog Fluff
Cabin in the Woods, Klamath County, Oregon
It will come as no surprise that the “we” at T. van Hulzen design is often just myself. True, working in symbiosis with Studio Louter in Amsterdam means that with each project there’s a whole team involved doing production, content, multimedia, etc. But rarely do I get around to doing Read more…
FILM & TV
Set designs for Bloed, Zweet & Tranen
I was so busy I neglected to post anything about a brief stint last year as Set Designer for the Dutch feature film Bloed, Zweet & Tranen about the life of the popular blue-collar folk-hero and singer Andre Hazes. The sets were simple, under the direction of production designer and old Read more…
Blog Fluff
Fantastic Floor at NEMO
That marvelous, terrifying moment has arrived for our project at the NEMO Science Center: the first concrete installations are taking place. No longer a design process in which to endlessly vacillate between possibilities, we now have incontrovertible real objects being installed and constructed. The exhibit furniture and elements are being Read more…
FILM & TV
Trailer for Michiel de Ruyter
Here’s the trailer for the historical epic film Michiel de Ruyter for which I did some projects.No lack of flying wood chips and clouds of gunpowder here! See previous posts on the Stern of the Royal Charles and the Corpses of the Brothers De Witt. Subtitles in English.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FErwE727WA
Awards
And the winner is….
Het Geheugenpaleis (Palace of Memory) in the National Archives in the Hague has won the award in the category “Best International Exhibition”. We jaunted off to London on a lark to be there when the winners were announced, and were totally over the moon when we heard that in spite Read more…
Miscellaneous
Publicity bump in the April issue of Vanity Fair
A little write up –or rather a series of quotes– in the most recent issue of Vanity Fair magazine (April 2014). The story explores the ins and outs of creating reproduction artwork for films, specifically films about art. In the case of Todd van Hulzen it draws on his experience as Read more…
Blog Fluff
6. Scans from Colling’s Gothic Ornaments
Todd van Hulzen shares scans and files from his own archive
Title: Plates from Colling’s Gothic Ornaments, vols. I & II
Author: James Kellaway Colling (1816 – 1905)
Subject: Gothic Architectural ornaments
Year: 1847
Beautiful gothic tracery, florets, bosses, pinnacles, etc.
Blog Fluff
Amsterdam GVB Streetcar now rolling with our designs on it.
With all the commotion around the opening of “Temporal Tower” we almost forgot that there was an Amsterdam tram (streetcar) of the GVB (Municipal Transport Company) about to roll out with our name on it. And sure enough, there she is. Dirk Bertels of Studio Louter and Todd van Hulzen Read more…