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Shimmer Rotterdam
Level 2, Waalhaven Oostzijde 1
3087 BM Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Located in the former RET Building

Hours
Sundays, 13:00–18:00
Or by appointment

Contact
Email: shimmerrotterdam@gmail.com
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Instagram: @shimmer__shimmer

Website
Design: Recent Practice (Nicha Keeratiphanthawong and Potch Auacherdkul)
Development: Kataroek Thumrongchote
Typeset: Selectric*

Team
Hosts: Anouk Asselineau, Babette Kleijn, Bojana Rankovic, Meghan Clarke, Natalia Grezina & Ronald Oosterhof
Assistant: Martina Farrugia
Shimmer Press Coordinator: Anouk Asselineau
Shimmer Press Designers: Christophe Clarijs and Dongyoung Lee
Translator: Niels Bekkema
House Designer: Christophe Clarijs
Intern: Clara Massen
Founders and Directors: Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma

Governance
Shimmer is a legal Stichting supervised by a Raad van Toezicht consisting of:
Kris Dittel and Sophie Mak-Schram

Support
Our 2025 program is supported by a range of public and private partners. Public funding includes the Mondriaan Foundation, Culture Ireland, Frame Finland and het Cultuurfonds, we also work closely with Amarte Fonds. We are also sustained by our community, who contribute generously in many ways.

If you would like to support Shimmer, we welcome your donation, please get in touch.

Notes on Design

*We’re working with a modified typeset by Christophe Clarijs. Since its founding, Shimmer has continuously adapted the open-source font Selectric, developed by atelier Bek—a digitised version of IBM’s ‘Adjutant’ character set.

“A typographic creation based on one of the characters from the IBM Selectric typewriter catalog, whose technical innovation in 1961 was to replace the historic character bars with an interchangeable print sphere the size of a golf ball.”
(OFL license, atelier Bek GitHub, 12 May 2016 – translated from French)

For Shimmer’s identity, both the mono and roman weights were altered with raster-blocked punctuation: the period glyph is overlaid with a dark raster; the comma, exclamation point, question mark, colon, and semicolon are faintly rasterised; quotation marks and ellipses are rendered with a murky raster. An additional weight was created, fully blocked out in the same gradations of light.

This typographic interference mirrors Shimmer’s communication: underscoring meaning, interrupting assumptions, and allowing the visual identity to remain adaptiveat times bold and underlined, most often utilitarian and understated.