Graphic designers Simone Trum and Loes van Esch, the duo behind Team Thursday, have created numerous posters over the years. They are now investigating what a flat surface can do in a spatial environment, including a series of curtains that serve as 'architetural posters'. This year, the duo wove two curtains in contrasting colours on the jacquard loom. Together, the curtains form an oversized 'type specimen' of the Sundog letter, a font that Team Thursday designed. The lyrics of 'Wordy Rappinghood' by Tom Tom Club are woven into the fabric. However, the text is not immediately legible: the letters play with positive and diapositive space. To ensure the curtains drape beautifully, the fabric is made with thinner yarns and a minimum number of colours. Moreover, the colours are compose of different structures. For example, one yarn produces several shades. The curtains were exhibited in the Block C gallery in Groningen.
Graphic designers Loes van Esch and Simone Trum have collaborated as Team Thursday since 2010. They design visual identities, books and spatial objects, with a special interest in typography, a curiosity for materials and the potential performativity of an object. The duo looks for patterns in the world around them and then explore ways to transform these into designs.
In addition, they regularly teach typography at ArtEZ in Arnhem and irregularly host exhibitions and events in their Rotterdam studio TTHQ. This project was their first outing in textile design.
'Team Thursday', Galerie Blok C, Groningen, 9-14 October 2023
