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Melanie van der Linde

extreme art & binding

memoirs of a forest bench

Melanie| graphic design+ photography

A photographic reminder of a lost place.

For years, I saw that one bench on the edge of Anna’s Hoeve during my regular bus trip to the graphic studio. I took a picture of it at the hottest moment of a hot summer day.

The next time I came back, the bench was gone.
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giant Display box

Melanie| bookbinding & restoration

Handmade storage box for 80 x 110 cm prints + A4 sized baby version.
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close to home

Melanie| photography+ projects

Close to home. Finding myself in galaxies far way.

When Covid hit the place I worked was closed and after reopening there was so much stuff I ‘needed’ to do that making art was put on a side burner. I realized it had been two years since I last entered the darkroom. But what am I going to make? And why?
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inside out

Melanie| photography+ projects

Photographic blueprints of sunflowers. A journey back to the craft. Looking for unexpected things. An attempt to find the magic of the photographic process again. Being open to mistakes and being surprised by the results. And finding out that digital photography and analogue printing techniques can enhance each other.

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Workshop botanical blueprints

Melanie| workshops

Dit is mijn lichaam

Melanie| bookbinding & restoration+ projects

In collaboration with Davitha van de Kuilen. Conservation leporello binding with museumboard as requested by the Nekkers – Kapitein Collectie.
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In the middle of the atlantic, a part of me was left behind.

Melanie| bookbinding & restoration+ graphic design+ projects

Graduation project of Rachel Morón and Melanie van der Linde about identity and being a transnational person in a globalizing world.
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Carmina Burana

Melanie| graphic design+ projects

Carmina Burana (or Burana Codex) Latin for “Songs from Beuern” is a manuscript of 254 poems from the 11th – 13th century. Carl Orff made a scenic cantata in 1936 based on 24 of the poems.
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Conflation

Melanie| graphic design

The definition of conflation is the merging of two separate entities into one. In this series I look at how the area of the “New Dutch Waterline” (Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie) has been taken over by the nature it had once destroyed.
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Not Big Enough

Melanie| photography

What will become of a perfect society when you take away their leader? This short movie is about how a high-tech space environmen influences the behavior of ants.
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Melanie van der Linde
Noorderweg 96B
1221AB Hilversum

melanie@melvdlinde.nl 
+31 (0)6 488 06 431

Workshops

Botanische blauwdrukken
zondag 18 januari

Koptische band en French Link Stitch
zondag 22 februari

Fotografische blauwdrukken
zondag 1 maart

Stof cacheren en Secret Belgian binding
zaterdag 7 maart

Stof cacheren en Japanse band
zaterdag 14 maart


events

Boekbindbeurs
zondag 12 april
Sint Niklaas, België

BoekAmbachtBeurs
zaterdag 10 oktober
Deventer

Drukkunstbeurs
zaterdag 24 en zondag 25 oktober
Amersfoort


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EVENTS

Botanische blauwdrukken
zondag 18 januari

Koptische band en French Link Stitch
zondag 22 februari

Fotografische blauwdrukken
zondag 1 maart

Stof cacheren en Secret Belgian binding
zaterdag 7 maart

Stof cacheren en Japanse band
zaterdag 14 maart

Boekbindbeurs
zondag 12 april, Sint Niklaas, België

BoekAmbachtBeurs
zaterdag 10 oktober, Deventer

Drukkunstbeurs
zaterdag 24 en zondag 25 oktober , Amersfoort

WORKSHOPS

Koptische band en French Link Stitch
zondag 22 februari

Stof cacheren en Japanse band
zaterdag 14 maart

Contact

Melanie van der Linde
Noorderweg 96B
1221AB Hilversum

melanie@melvdlinde.nl 
+31 (0)6 488 06 431

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