Rick Vermeulen @ Design Dialogues 4/4/08

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on March 31st, 2008 filed in Panels, Talks, Uncategorized

Rick Vermeulen is one of the most influential designers coming out of the Netherlands in the past quarter century. From 1978-82, Vermeulen was an editor of Hard Werken magazine, which made a considerable national impact and the group became a design studio operating under the name Hard Werken. In 1994, the company moved from Rotterdam to the Amsterdam area and amalgamated with the packaging design company Ten Cate Bergmans, subsequently changing its name to Inizio. In 1993, Vermeulen, a regular visitor to the United States, with teaching experience at Cranbrook, CalArts and North Carolina State University, moved to Los Angeles, where he took over the Hard Werken LA Desk for two years. Now back in Holland, he runs his own studio Via Vermeulen and works on projects for publishing and other clients.