Daniel van der Velden

Metahaven
Daniel van der Velden

Daniel van der Velden

Daniel van der Velden (1971, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) is a graphic designer and writer. He graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy, exploring the realm between design, conceptual art and communication strategy. He studied in Maastricht at the Jan van Eyck Academie where he was taught by Michael Rock, Armand Mevis, Paul Elliman, Karel Martens and Jan van Toorn. Daniel ran a graphic design studio together with Maureen Mooren from 1998 to 2007, working on innovative projects in the field of editorial and identity design. Clients included the architecture journal Archis (now Volume), TNT Post (former Dutch PTT), Droog Design and the Holland Festival.
Daniel joined forces with Vinca Kruk after initiating the Sealand Identity Project in 2003, which inspired them to found Metahaven, a studio combining design, research, and writing.
Daniel's visual work and writings have been progressively inspired by politics and globalization.
Since 2007, Daniel is a critic at Yale University, where he has joined the faculty of the School of Art's Graphic Design MFA programme. He is a tutor at the Sandberg Institute (MFA Gerrit Rietveld Academy) in Amsterdam, and since 2003 has been an advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. With the rest of the Metahaven team he was a guest tutor at the Academy of Arts in Valence's master programme in graphic design. In 2010, Daniel lectured at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Media Studies, teaching a course called Networks, Politics and Design.

daniel [at] metahaven.net

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
Archis magazine, Archis is Flow , cover, 2002

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
Archis magazine, Archis is Inside , cover, 2004

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
Archis magazine, Archis is Without Mercy , cover, 2004

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
ROOM invitation, 1999

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
ROOM invitation, 2000

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
ROOM invitation, 2001

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of your Revolution
Booklet, newsprint, 2005

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of your Revolution
Booklet, newsprint, 2006

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
Volume (Archis) , issue 1, cover, 2005

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
On the way to 1 Europe , set of 10 stamps issued on the occasion of the extension of the European Union with 10 new member states, TNT Post, 2004

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
Sign , Holland Festival logo, 2005

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
Heaven & Hell , Holland Festival poster, 2005

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
Melancholia & Hysteria , Holland Festival poster, 2006
1st prize, Chaumont Poster Festival, 2007
1st prize, Best Dutch Theatre Poster, Theaterinstituut, 2006

Daniel van der Velden & Maureen Mooren
Melancholia & Hysteria , Holland Festival poster, 2006