Tessa Meeus is a designer with a social approach to design, branding and documentary film. I am forever interested in the ability of design to amplify voices. I research the ethical side of creative making.
selected works
Yellow Horizon info
Design for performance by Body of Art
A Perfect Waste of Time info
Trailer of the documentary film – 49 minutes
The Handbook for Eyes, Bones, Muscles, Skin, and Dreams info
Research publication for Katarina Jazbec, 2021
Design Dedication info
Bookdesign & workshops i.c.w. Alex Walker
workshop specs
Neutrality of colour workshop i.c.w. Alex Walker and students of the Sandberg Design Department to experiment with 3 colours offset print.
location Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, print workshop
participating artists Wouter Stroet, Hanna Valle, Tali Lieberman, Carmen Dusmet Carrasco, Andrea, Francisca Khamis, Emirhan Akin, Levi van Gelder, Stelios Ilchuk, Ghenwa Aboufahad, Heleen Mineur, Leith Benkhedda
result A colourtest sheet where we tested Pantone 300,802 and 804 with a group of designers & artists.
thanks to Joos Wieringa and Drukkerij Raddraaier
The Art Elevator info
Workshops & exhibition designs 2018-2019
Knowing the thoughts of the residents with their works are sometimes are a perfect portrait of their personality, we tried to describe what the works mean to the group. In the workshop people go from describing a drawing completely philosophical to ‘Yes, I love blue.’
workshop specs
The art elevator workshop with creative elderly residents of Simeon & Anne, Rotterdam. They curated their own works for exhibitions in the 2 elevators of the building where 150 people elderly residents live.
location Simeon & Anna, Rotterdam
participating artists Rob Koelewijn, Julian Semeleer, Jannie Hoogstadt-Mus, Arnold Nieuwendam, Roos Luycx, Cor van Loon Mevrouw Blanken, Anne Dijkstra
result 3 art elevators with different themes and designs. In collaboration with Júlia Carvalho de Aguiar and Anke Oudshoorn
Je krijgt van mij de hele dag info
Documentary 2017-2019 & book texts + design
Experiments with yellow, pink and blue
Riso prints – 2020
