Hi, my name is Isabel van de Stadt and I am a visual artist and graphic designer based in Arnhem. I work across photography, kinetic work, (light) sculpture, and visual communication. Through a hands-on process, I explore themes such as visual perception, light, physics, movement, and materiality. I am especially interested in image-capturing and image-displaying technologies, and how their evolution shapes the way we see and experience our surroundings. 

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want to say hello! I’m open to commissions and collaborations.

isabelvdstadt@gmail.com
@isabelvandestadt

Dream Psychology
Book, 2023

Redesign of the book Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (1920), written by Sigmund Freud. I took the partly logical and partly illogical nature of dreams as a starting point and translated this into the design of the book by balancing between a readable novel-like book design and a more experimental book design. I distorted the shape of the text by placing cloud-like shapes through the text. Next to that, the page numbers are repositioned slightly on every page, creating a faded effect as they are printed on see through paper. And lastly, the chapter dividers are pop-up pages illustrating abstract dreamscapes.

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