Roel Wouters, Critic
Webpage: Xelor

Mr. Wouters is a conditional designer who lives and works in Amsterdam. Since 2002, he has been running Xelor, his own studio. Studio Xelor works across all media, mostly in the field of arts and culture. For the past few years he has been teaching interactive and graphic design courses at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the Sandberg Institute and recently at Yale University School of Art. He is also affiliated with the Piet Zwart Institute where he will supervise a project with Luna and Jonathan in the comming year. Roel likes to collaborate. Together with Luna Maurer, Jonathan Puckey and Edo Paulus he has authored the â??Conditional Design Manifestoâ?� which promotes the idea of designing conditions rather than end results. With his brother Job he works on a series of flyers. These flyers open up a public design battlefield, with the client as the referee. He was appointed critic in graphic design in 2008.