About the Studio

How We Work

Colliding worlds

The Studio for Visual Pop.Culture was founded in 2002 by Mark Mulder, a designer, researcher and educator based in Rotterdam (NL). His background in marketing-communication and social sciences, a BA in graphic design and a MA in design research, and a deep interest in socio-political history and cultural heritage of music, constitute the distinctive aspects of the Studio. This wide array of expertise make its work critical, contextual and conceptual, while flirting with the pop, spectacular nature of the design trade.

A social studio

Jazz music is social music. It demands an attitude where deep listening, being in conversation with the others and trusting the process are key. It is a place where you are a part of something, and -at the same time- completely your authentic self. The Studio is a social studio. We are involved are successful if we can interact and are in close connection with our client, collaborators, partners, and audiences. That why we call our commissioned work collaborations and our clients collaborators.

The Studio has worked with

Pop.Positions & fascinations

Identity (politics) and representation

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Design history, tradition and heritage & visual culture

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Remix Strategies & Society of the Spectacle

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