comics & the mainstream

02 mayo 2008

Comics+Architecture: Swarte/Toneelschuur

Joost Swarte (1947, Heemstede) is a Dutch comic artist and graphical designer. He is best known for his ligne claire or clear line style of drawing, and in fact coined the term.
Apart from comics and graphic design Joost Swarte also designed furniture, leaded and stained glass windows, murals and other objects. For his hometown Haarlem he even designed a theatre building (De Toneelschuur) that was built in cooperation with Mecanoo Architects.  wiki
The new design of the building was made by Joost Swarte, a Dutch cartoonist, in 1996. It was the first time in the Netherlands that a building was designed by a cartoonist. Joost Swarte was assisted by Mecanoo, an architecture bureau.
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