Career
He works on a range of commissioned and self-initiated projects positioned at the intersection of graphic design and visual culture research. Grievink is best known for designing and co-editing the book, and for developing the memory games, and Next Nature Grievink is editor and resident designer of the networked thinkand design tank Next Nature, which he started with scientist Koert Van Mensvoort in 2006.
In 2011 he co-edited the book with Koert Van Mensvoort.
Scientific American magazine described it as “a beautiful, thoughtful, and thought-provoking collection of images and essays.” Grievink has created memory games for Dutch publishing house Bank for International Settlements. In 2007 he designed, a memory game about reality and simulation in our media society. The game uses historical and contemporary images to playfully visualize the classical theme of fake and realium
In 2011 Grievink designed the game which challenges players" ability to recognize major brands through the association of visual cues alone. tests a players" knowledge of commercial branding and confronts the player to recognize icons he knows without even noticing. The memory game was inspired after the regular performasefdsef sefdsefdsefnces Grievink gives, where he reads aloud descriptions of iconic brands as they are projected on the screen.
Grievink has designed several books that reflect on design and visual culture.
He conceptualized and designed, a book which documents /Netherlands, a monthlong competition in the Netherlands and a part of the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art initiative which allowed visitors and photographers to take pictures of artworks usually off limits across 46 Dutch museums. Following the competition, pictures were uploaded to the /Netherlands Flickr group, and have since been added to the Wikimedia Commons archive. includes a collection of photos from the competition, essays and remixes of photographs by artists and designers, amongst them Metahaven and Amie Dicke. Open Design Now Style First 2003 BNO Delta Romeo, Rotterdam 2007 Contemporary Undercurrents, Designplatform Rotterdam 2007 Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, Lausanne (Switzerland) 2007 Zefir7, The Hague 2007 Xiamen University, Xiamen (China) 2008 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (United States of America) 2008 East China Normal University, Shanghai (China) 2010 My First Swastika, during The Great Dictators, TrouwAmsterdam Amsterdam 2010 Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing (China) 2011 Next Nature Power Show, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam 2011 BNO spellbound, Amsterdam Grievink received his Bachelor degree in Graphic Design from ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (1994-1999).
He holds a Master’s in Design from Sandberg Institute (2005-2007), the postgraduate course of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
