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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
shimmerrotterdam@gmail.com

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Team
Founders: Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma
Hosts: Babette Kleijn, Clara Massen, Meghan Clarke, Natalia Grezina 
Studio assistent: Martina Farrugia
Intern: Antonina Iakovleva
Shimmer Press Designers: Christophe Clarijs
Translator: Niels Bekkema
House Designer: Christophe Clarijs

Governance
Shimmer is a legal Stichting supervised by a Raad van Toezicht consisting of:
Björn Stenvers (Chair), Kris Dittel (board member) and Sophie Mak-Schram (board member)

ANBI information
Beloningsbeleid
Beleidsplan
Legal Name: Stichting Shimmer
RSIN/Fiscal Number: 859290992
KvK (Chamber of Commerce): 72933488
Visitors Address: Waalhaven OZ 1, 3087 BM Rotterdam
Website: www.shimmershimmer.org
Email: shimmerrotterdam@gmail.com

Funding
Our program has been supported by a range of partners includes the Gemeente Rotterdan, Mondriaan Foundation, Culture Ireland, Frame Finland and het Cultuurfonds, and Amarte Fonds.

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

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.