Ben Faydherbe

He studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague (1977-82), then worked at the studio Vorm Vijf (1981-86) with assignments for PTT Telecommunication and Ministry of Welfare, Healthcare and Culture (WVC).

In 1986 he formed Faydherbe/De Vringer with Wout de Wringer and designed mostly for cultural clients such as The Hague Summer Festival, Theater aan de Haven and Filmhuis Den Haag, creating a large number of posters. He did more corporate work for government and semi-government bodies, including the Fund for Performing Arts, and designed several books.

From early on in his career Ben has been interested in 20th-century avant-garde design. In his opinion, image complexity, through the use of different techniques like (photo)collage and overprinting, is always of minor importance in comparison with the clear visual language of the design. He won the silver medal at the Brno Biennale in 1986, and has held workshops at St Martin's School of Art, London, and Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. The exhibition 'Looking Back into the Future' was held in the DDD Gallery, Osaka in 1998. Other exhibition venues include the Theater aan het Spui, The Hague (1996) and Hotel van de Velde, Brussels (1999).

His work can be found in the collection of NY MoMA and Cooper Union. Faydherbe and De Vringer are the designers of this AGI book.