The Joys of Ice Skating
& collect
That skating 400 years ago was one of the most popular winter activities in the Netherlands can be seen from numerous drawings and prints from that era. The first decades of the 17th century were unusually cold in the Netherlands. They were part of what is known as ‘The Little Ice Age’, a period in which the average temperature was lower than today. Remarkably often there were extremely severe winters for several years in a row. Not only did the rivers completely freeze over, but also the Zuiderzee and the Wadden Sea region, so that the crossing from Amsterdam to Friesland could be made over the frozen water by horse and cart.

The small presentation reveals by means of prints and drawings a vivid picture of the time when there was still a lot of activity on ice and when young and old, rich and poor preferred to travel on skates, in a sleigh or on foot on the frozen canals, rivers and lakes. Seventeen prints and drawings are on display in the Rijksmuseum’s 17th Century Print Room from 1 December to 31 March 2018.

The skating prints are on display to mark the collaboration with ‘De Coolste Baan van Nederland’ – ‘The Netherlands’ Coolest Rink’: an ice rink for young and old where sport and entertainment come together. The Rijksmuseum is the Official Cultural Partner of De Coolste Baan van Nederland, which is being organised from 18 January to 28 February 2018 at Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium. KPN is the main sponsor of the Rijksmuseum and De Coolste Baan van Nederland.
share The Joys of Ice Skating
penccil.com/gallery.php?show=11840
IJsgezicht met jager die een otter toont, Hendrick Avercamp, 1595 - 1634
Schaatsers buiten Zwolle, Gerard ter Borch (II), ca. 1610 - 1640
Schaatsende boer, Pieter Jansz. Quast, 1634 - 1638
Winter, Nicolaes de Bruyn, naar Maerten de Vos, 1581 - 1656
Schaatsers op het ijs bij een molen in de buurt van Penningsveer, Esaias van de Velde, 1615 - 1616
Winter, Daniël van den Bremden, naar Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, 1625 - 1630
Winterlandschap met kolfspelers op het ijs: januari, Jan van de Velde (II), 1608 - 1618
IJsvermaak op de stadsgracht bij de Kalverhekkenpoort te Kampen, Hendrick Avercamp, 1595 - 1616
  Inspirations.  
The pattern of You
Each name results in a unique pattern. The pattern and colors created are unique to each name, and t...
Wayne Sorce: Urban Color
"Wayne Sorce: Urban Color" is on view from October 21st through November 30th at Joseph Bellows Gall...
Maurice Binder
Maurice Binder was a film title designer best known for his work on 14 James Bond films including th...
Neverending Graphics
Graphics and animations are generated on the fly, resulting in perpetual variations. Move your mouse...
Le Drugstore Brand Identity
Design&Practice designed the brand identity for the newly opened restaurant "Le Drugstore," with int...
Coffee maker
Visualization of the process of coffee making. The aim was not to use words.
FASHION ADVERTISING
RESEARCH
ILLUSTRATION
RESEARCH
Geigy, Swiss and European Graphic Design
Selection of outstanding graphic design from Europe
Franz Kline
Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...
Book : Monk
A book by Jonathan Monk.
Book : Tajima
A book by Mika Tajima. Negative Entropy is a series of five abstract Jacquard woven portraits of in...
Book : Lewitt
A book by Sam Levitt. TEMPLATE is a book whose information emerges under programmatic erasure. Or p...
Book : Baldessari
A book by John Baldessari.
Book : Armleder
A book by John Armleder.
Book : Mullican
A book by Matt Mullican.
Book : Weiner
A book by Lawrence Weiner.
Book : Cattelan
A book by Maurizio Cattelan.
Book : Brannon
A book by Matthew Brannon.
New Generation
Experiemntal art
The Menu
The food menu as we know it today is an invention of the 19th century. Traditionally, during a meal ...
What Is A Simulation?
What is a simulation? It is a private game we devise when the aliveness of a situation is too comple...
The algorithm of fashion
Each of these scarf patterns is unique. The production workflow involves an algorithm which creates ...
Design for Disaster
"A disaster zone where everything is lost offers the perfect opportunity for us to take a fresh look...
Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni
Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...
Groupe Garcia Ingénierie
Corporate identity. Marseille, France, 2015.
Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger (born 1953 in Dortmund, died 1997 in Vienna) is one of the foremost and simultan...
“I perhaps owe it to flowers that I became a painter.”
Arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, Monet was also an avid horticu...
Expression/Information
Painting is seen as a form of practice that—contrary to canonical accounts—in no way shies away ...
German Art since 1960
German ‘paragons of painting’ such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff and Markus Lüpertz have ...
Akiko Masunaga
マスナガデザイン部/Art director/Designer/O型/乙女座
Management 7
7 thoughts on management: Paradox, Management, Hierarchy, Bureaucracy, Trust, Vision, Motivation. (C...
Tom Ngo
"Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing...
Visual Music
Viktor Hertz was born in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1983. In 2009, he started to do graphic design as a hob...
Ignite
"What I try to do is use technology to create representations of imagery found in nature. Technology...
Liqen
Liqen was born in 1980, in Vigo, a port and industrial city of Galicia, in Spain. Since very little,...
HOKUSAI X MANGA
Courtesans, Heroes, Stars and Phantoms - In the early seventeenth century, Edo, which was the bigges...
Xavier Antin: Printing at Home
A printer manual to disturb and disrupt the printing process. Xavier Antin, born in 1981, lives and ...
72 dpi
Images on the Internet are changing our lives. While images were once only reserved for a certain fe...
Áron Jancsó
“I’m a type addict. Building from scratch is how I like to work, sometimes even designing every ...
Raymundo Colares
Raymundo Colares (1944 in Grão Mogol, Minas Gerais - 1986 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais) was a Bra...
Tamara
Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter. She was the most fashionable portr...
Télémaque
Hervé Télémaque naît à Port-au-Prince, le 5 novembre 1937. En 1957, il quitte Haïti pour New Y...
Impressionist Gardens
“Many of Monet’s colleagues shared his passion for gardening and were inspired to paint gardens ...
AG Frozoni: We need to aim at essential things
“We need to aim at essential things, to remove every redundant effects, every useless flowering, t...
Andrea Guccini: 4A+1
Andrea Guccini, born in Bologna in 1993, studied at the IED in Milan. He is living and working betw...
Julien Notter and Sébastien Vigne
Basé à Lausanne, Notter + Vigne est un atelier graphique fondé en 2002 par les designers Julien N...
Erwin Poell: Naturwissenschaft + Technik
Erwin Poell (1930) is a German graphic designer. From 1951 he studied with Walter Brudi at the State...
Still Life Monkeys
The inclusion of a monkey with other still-life elements imitates earlier Flemish still-life painter...
E. Hu
Eric Hu is an art director based in New York. He previously worked as the design lead at OKFocus. Er...
Damien Coupeté images
paintings
Opie
Julian Opie studied at Goldsmiths´ College (1979-82) under Michael Craig-Martin, for whom he briefl...
Make War, Not Love
Digitally printed charmeuse silk series 'Touchingly Unfeeling' by Jonathan Zawada. Jonathan Zawada...
German Painting after the 1960s
What is so 'German' about the art made by German painters and sculptors after the 1960s to now? The ...
David Bowie is Crossing the Border.
This is a tribute to the musician, artist, designer, and dandy David Bowie (January 8th, 1947-Januar...
The Many Sides of the Moon
Variations on light refraction patterns through a prism, in a set-up reminding on the iconic cover o...
Antonio Rubino
Antonio Rubino: Pittore, illustratore e scrittore (Sanremo 1880 - Baiardo 1964). Legato all´art nou...
Sadamitsu Neil Fujita
Sadamitsu Fujita was born in Waimea, Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. He attended boarding school in H...
L´Imparfaite by VLF
VLF studio is Thomas Cristiani and Antoine Roux in Paris.
Symphonie
Posters for the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Bureau Mirko Borsche is a graphic desi...
Life Is Electric. Philippe Weisbecker
Born in 1942, Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he moved to New York. First worki...
The 2015 best of penccil
This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...
Hasui Kawase 川瀬 巴水
Hasui Kawase (1883 – 1957) , the best known proponents of the 新版画 New Prints movement, was ...
France 1661
Views of Renaissance France by Kasper Merian, 1655-1661
HORT
HORT was founded 1994 by Eike König in Berlin. Clients include WALLPAPER, NEW YORK TIMES, PROJECT F...
Erik Nitsche
Born on September 7, 1908, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Erik Nitsche attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in...
The Slave Ship
But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever p...
What You Think You Know
Philip Herrman is graphic designer in Zurich, Switzerland. Clients include Reto Geiser for Standpunk...
The Sea by Emil Nolde
Born in the village of Nolde in 1902, Emil Hansen came from a family of peasants. Nolde completed an...
Sweets by 若杉 智也
also:
Eden
Paper sculpture
CROMOS
Collage
PERSONAJES
Collage
VEOVEO
Painting
PINTAORA
Painting
Shop Them - DR NOKI T-shirts are here!
penccil is happy to announce its launching of penccil shop <t https://penccil.com/shop with fashion ...
Surface N° 2
Arctic Paper presents Surface N° 2 – a second edition featuring a specially curated selection of ...
Coloured stones
The coloured stones is use Traditional Chinese Taihu Stone
The painted house
These experimental structures have been created by combining design processes of architecture and gr...
SCARABOOK
SCARABOOK is the combination of Scarabottolo and the English word book (but perhaps we ought to say ...
My calendar
I start to make it in 2000, the year in which the future has passed, at the request of Adriano Mei G...
71 views of the magic mountain
In the days of the first lockdown I started making these drawings, remotely inspired by Hokusai´s "...
on paper books and e-books
these drawings were made thinking about what is happening to the books through various titles of cla...
The Demonstrations series.
A new series of paintings, oil on canvas, that deal with movement, the power and energy of the crowd...
Curtains
A series of watercolour paintings.
Ebb and Flow
This student design project smartly uses paper to give shape to the intertidal coastline of Taiwan, ...
Culinary Tradition
Four examples of contemporary food packaging designs inspired by traditional Chinese patterns and gr...
TRIAL
Old-school postal packaging usually gets little attention from graphic designers. Not so in this fun...
Archip-elles
Swiss graphic designers We Play created this pop-art inspired, fun poster series for the Archipelles...
Kids House
For Inwayi Kids House in Ningbo City, China, designer Nono Xia of graphic design studio Ninemix cam...
Origami envelopes
Origami Envelopes have a special place in Japanese gift-giving culture. The four envelopes here rep...
Les Concerts du mercredi
The idea of Swiss based graphic design practice We Play Design for these posters for Les Concerts du...
Tatsuo Miyajima: Being Coming
Although this is for an exhibition of Japanese contemporary artist Tatsuo Miyajima at Shanghai Minsh...
Yokohama Museum of Art Calendar
Graphic designers Aizawa office from Yokohama designed this wall calendar. With its unassuming but a...
Pulp Fiction
A selection of American and Mexican Pulp Fiction covers from the nineteen-forties.
Pierre Bonnard: The Memory of Colors
In autumn and winter 2019/20 the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien presented »Pierre Bonnard - The Color...
Objects of Desire
»Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today« 28.09.2019 – 19.01.2020 at Vitra Design Museum Surrealis...
Synthetic Paradise
Generative music combined with abstract graphics. Click the screen to generate new graphics: https:/...
Back in the USSR
Great retro logos from the old USSR, and a Beatles song. https://soundcloud.com/thebeatlesrevisited...
Faces by 田中 一光 Ikko Tanaka
Inspired by the Bauhaus, by Jazz and by American graphic design, Ikko Tanaka (1930-2002) was one of ...
penccil
Concept, branding, design and coding of penccil, the site for creative people, studios and gallerie...
Pattern generator
A generator for tile and fabric patterns. Drag and drop images and see kaleidoscopic patterns emerge...
Cognition
This experiment looks at the process of human cognition. Letters get progressively filled with color...
I See Violence in Your Eyes (I-VIII)
Pigment, graphite, charcoal, & mixed media on paper.
Pieter Bruegel
During his lifetime, Pieter Bruegel the Elder was already among the period’s most sought-after art...
Writing & Design
Bohemian Crossroads: Art & Culture Collide Then Subside. Writer and Designer.
Writing & Design
Bohemian Highways: Abide Then Divide Along the California Coast. Writer and Designer.
Writing & Design
Horizon Homes: Living a Concrete Dream. Writer and Designer, Ted Wells.
Writing & Design
Artists Abroad: A Woman´s Journey to Discover the Artists. Writer and Illustrator.
Writing & Design
Bohemian Bridges: California as a Superstructure for Social and Cultural Change. Writer and Designer...
Exiled from Truth: Nine Allegories by Dmitry Borshch
"Exiled from Truth: Nine Allegories by Dmitry Borshch" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 July 10, 11 a...
Black Box. A Cabinet of Robotic Curiosities
The Vitra Campus has a new exhibition space: in one of the houses at the southern entrance, a Black ...