Jeff Ramsey
Brooklyn, NY
Werkplaats Typografie
Archive 2006–2004

From September 2006–08 I served as the Advertising Manager/Designer responsible for the outward graphic image of MoMA in conjunction with smaller in-house projects.

I now run my own studio and concentrate
on projects for clients mainly in art and architecture. These include an identity for
the celebrated architecture studio of Galia Solomonoff, a redesign of the biannual journal Constructs for The Yale School
of Architecture, and graphics for my line of
t-shirts, Nonplus, produced and sold in Tokyo. I have recently completed a catalogue for Hans Ulrich Obrist and Olafur Eliasson's Experiment Marathon as well as exhibition graphics and a booklet for the architectural critic and curator Nina Rappaport. Currently
I am designing two books to be published
by Princeton Architectural Press, the identity and publications of The Amie and Tony James Gallery, and a printed version of
the e-flux online art journal. Also, I am adjunct professor at Parsons The New School for Design, teaching Portfolio and Process, a graphic design course. I have been a visiting critic and lecturer at Pratt Institute, Yale School of Art, and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

I moved to New York in June 2006 from the Netherlands where I lived for two years and where I received my master's degree from
the Werkplaats Typografie, studying under the Dutch masters Karel Martens and Armand Mevis, the British designer Paul Elliman, the curator Maxine Kopsa, and collaborating with renowned designers Maureen Mooren and Daniel van der Velden. In Holland my commissioners included the Netherlands Architecure Institute for the design of issue #68 of the bilingual Dutch and English architectural journal OASE and the TPG Dutch Post for whom I designed twenty postage stamps. In 2005 I lived in Chaumont, France for seven weeks, where I collaborated on the design and exhibition of Dutch Resource. I also collaboratively designed and produced the book Nicosia this Week for the cancelled Manifesta 6 Biennial in Nicosia, Cyprus. 

From 2000 to 2004 I lived in Reykjavik, Iceland and worked as a Senior Designer
for two advertising and graphic design studios, while also designing independent projects for cultural clients. Since 2001
I have been an instructor and critic at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.


(In more or less chronological order)


1. Poster for Plaatsmaken (Stadsblokken)

2. Book covers for Jop van Bennekom workshop

3. Small advertisement for WT

4. Poster for Jakob Kolding workshop

5. WT website with Karen van de Kraats

6. WT reader: editor and postcard survey

7. Turmoil presentation for Mary-Lou Berkulin: 2 flags, 7 pickett signs, 160 handkerchiefs, 28 booklets with Darcy Jeffs

8. Photographer/gallery identity

9. Dummy book cover design for Maureen Mooren & Daniel van der Velden

10. Poster for exhibition in Melksalon

11. ITS#4 competition book for Mary-Lou Berkulin with Darcy Jeffs

12. Business card for hairdresser

13. Dutch Magic t-shirts

14. Artist book for Anne Schiffer

15. Artist book for Luisa Moreira Monteiro

16. WT Chaumont exhibition signage system with Darcy Jeffs

17. Arnhem Mode Biennale exhibition design for Mary-Lou Berkulin – poster/booklet, stickers, panels, website – with Darcy Jeffs & Renda Morton

18. Section of Chaumont catalogue for Maureen Mooren & Daniel van der Velden

19. WT website temporary page for Chaumont exhibition with Karen van de Kraats

20. Twenty postage stamps for Dutch TPG

21. Identity/business card design for Mary-Lou Berkulin

22. Buttons and bag graphics for Mary-Lou Berkulin

23. OASE 68 with Karel Martens

24. 2 posters and mp3 for Daniel Eatock workshop

25. La Jetée poster for WT film night

26. The Typographic Voice thesis presentation

27. Contribution to Nicosia This Week

28. Contribution to WT 18 magazine

29. Contribution to WT 12 magazine

30. Image/Text Magazine #1

31. 10th Anniversary poster

32. Thesis/end exhibition book

33. ArtEZ signage system with Krijn de Koning