Jamila Alemi
Jamila Alemi is a Dutch-Afghan graphic designer based in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
She recently graduated from ArtEZ Arnhem with a bachelor's degree in Graphic Design.
Her projects touch upon a wide range of topics, from found footage and social media culture
to an installation exploring refugee representation in the media.
Printen moeten we vieren
2025
In collaboration with Fay Buurman
Created as part of a portfolio class assignment judged by NPN Printers, Printen moeten we vieren is a double-sided A2 poster that highlights the value of local print production. The design is built around a modular structure, folding systems, and the formal logic of paper itself.
The word print appears five times across the poster, constructed from A12-sized blocks, the second smallest defined format within the ISO 216 paper system. Some are readable, others are scrambled. The spacing between blocks follows the same ratio, set at one-quarter of the A12 size. The poster folds into five equal parts, generating a grid of four vertical and four horizontal lines. This structure became the foundation for the poster’s composition.
The number four is used as a guiding system: four grid lines, four print colours (CMYK), four letters in the final row. The sentence Printen moeten we vieren reflects both a celebration of print and the underlying structure of the design. Hidden in the center vertical row, the letters NPN PR offer a quiet reference to the print house for whom the poster was created.
The building blocks that form each letter are divided across both sides of the poster. When held to the light, the layers align and the full forms emerge. Printed on IBO One paper, its transparency activates this interaction, merging front and back into a single system of reading.
Printen moeten we vieren turns the act of printing into both subject and method, folded, layered, and quietly coded with care.
Created as part of a portfolio class assignment judged by NPN Printers, Printen moeten we vieren is a double-sided A2 poster that highlights the value of local print production. The design is built around a modular structure, folding systems, and the formal logic of paper itself.
The word print appears five times across the poster, constructed from A12-sized blocks, the second smallest defined format within the ISO 216 paper system. Some are readable, others are scrambled. The spacing between blocks follows the same ratio, set at one-quarter of the A12 size. The poster folds into five equal parts, generating a grid of four vertical and four horizontal lines. This structure became the foundation for the poster’s composition.
The number four is used as a guiding system: four grid lines, four print colours (CMYK), four letters in the final row. The sentence Printen moeten we vieren reflects both a celebration of print and the underlying structure of the design. Hidden in the center vertical row, the letters NPN PR offer a quiet reference to the print house for whom the poster was created.
The building blocks that form each letter are divided across both sides of the poster. When held to the light, the layers align and the full forms emerge. Printed on IBO One paper, its transparency activates this interaction, merging front and back into a single system of reading.
Printen moeten we vieren turns the act of printing into both subject and method, folded, layered, and quietly coded with care.