Hella Jongerius is the winner of the Sikkens Prize 2017. Starting in 1960, The Sikkens Foundation has been awarding The Sikkens Prize to artists, designers, architects, as well as cultural institutions and companies producing important work with regard to the use of colors and color application. Past Sikkens Prize laureates include Gerrit Rietveld, Theo van Doesburg, Bridget Riley, and Johannes Itten.
The invitation design for this year’s Sikkens Prize award ceremony is a color test sheet containing three pantone colors, printed single sided on 60 gram paper stock. The envelope is cut out from a second test sheet containing two pantone colors and every possible mixing color they can produce. As a result the invitation has become a visual representation of the design process while not working within the idiom of Jongerius’ own color research.
We printed 800 extra copies of the invitation sheet and use it for the program book. Folded together with another sheet. Inside the folded pages contain the test print sheets, outside the program information printed in grey.
