Max Bruinsma (born 1956) is a

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design critic, editor,

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, and educator.

Career

After studying Art and Design History in

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, Bruinsma worked as

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of the Dutch design magazine'' Items'' from 1988 to 1989, and Senior editor from 1992 to 1997. He then was Editor of '' Eye'', a London-based international graphic design quarterly, from 1997 to 1999. He returned as Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of ''Items'' from 2009 to 2013. Bruinsma has contributed to many other art and design publications including ''ID'', ''Blueprint'', ''The AIGA Journal'', ''Étappes'', ''Form'', ''Mediamatic'' and ''Metropolis M'', published the book ''Deep Sites – Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Webdesign'' with

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in 2003 and has been the Editor of several books. The

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Prize for design criticism was awarded to Bruinsma in 2005. He was curator of many exhibitions, among which "Catalysts! The cultural force of communication design" as part of Lisbon design biennial "ExperimentaDesign 2005" and "Useless?" for "ExperimentaDesign 2011" (co-curated with Hans Maier-Aichen). Between 2005 and 2013 he also was a member of ExperimentaDesign's international editorial advisory board. Bruinsma worked as a lecturer and Visiting Professor at schools world-wide. In 2005, he co-founded the Master's course Editorial Design at the Graduate School of Art and Design, HKU

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. From 2013 to 2015 he was course director of this course. He was Core Tutor at the Graphic design Masters program at St. Joost Academy of the Arts (2010–14) and a Core Tutor and Thesis Advisor for MIARD (Masters Interior Architecture - Research and Design) at the

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in Rotterdam (2013–19). He was Core Tutor Transmedia Narratives at Camera Arts, at the Lucerne School of Art and Design (2015–21). Since 2017 he is also editor of the yearly video portraits of NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Awards, Zürich, Switzerland.

Bibliography

* Ricks, Jim, with Max Bruinsma. ''Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism VI)''. Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2018. *Bruinsma, Max (Editor, Author), Margolin, Victor (Author), Brillembourg, Alfredo (author), Fuad-Luke, Alastair (author), Julier, Guy (author), Clarke, Alison (author), Weelden, Willem van (author). ''Design for the Good Society: Utrecht Manifest 2005-2015'' Nai010 publishers, 2015. *Annink, Ed and Max Bruinsma (Editors). ''Gerd Arntz: Graphic Designer.'' Nai010 publishers, 2013. *Annink, Ed and Max Bruinsma (Editors). ''Lovely Language Paperback.'' Idea Books Ltd., 2011. *Bruinsma, Max (Author). ''Deep Sites: Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Webdesign.'' Thames & Hudson, 2003. *Bruinsma, Max (Editor, Author), Schröder, Rob (Author), Ros, Lies (Author). ''Beeld tegen beeld''. De Balie, 1994. *Bruinsma, Max (Author). ''Een Leest Heeft Drie Voeten, Dick Elffers en de Kunsten.'' GJ ThiemeFonds / De Balie, 1990. *Bruinsma, Max (Editor). ''The Other Side of Design''. Gerrit Rietveld Academie / De Balie, 1988.

References

External links

maxbruinsma.nl
– official site
Interview
with

Wim Crouwel Willem Hendrik "Wim" Crouwel (; 21 November 1928 – 19 September 2019) was a Dutch graphic designer, type designer, and typographer. Early life and education Between 1947 and 1949, he studied Fine Arts at Academie Minerva in Groningen, th ...

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