Hi, my name is Isabel van de Stadt and I’m a graphic designer experimenting within a wide range of mediums and materials—including ceramics, photography, moving image and bookmaking. I like to work with a hands-on approach and an open mind. My work reflects my curiosity for themes like craftsmanship, physics, perception, and form. Currently I’m in my fourth year of the bachelor Graphic Design at ArtEZ Arnhem. 

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

isabelvdstadt@gmail.com
@isabelvandestadt

The Ceiling is on the Floor
Photo series, 2023

Inspired by magical realism and fascinated by weightlessness, I made images that defy gravity. Using various practical effects—like rotating photos and hanging objects with transparent thread—I crafted a world where gravity behaves strangely and it is sometimes unclear what is the ceiling and what is the floor.





Cosmic Vertigo
Book, 2024

This book features two datasets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, paired with poems from ‘Life on Mars’, a poetry collection from Tracy K. Smith, whose father worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Black pages and white pages alternate throughout the book. The white pages contain a dataset of the 5859 exoplanets discovered to date. The black pages contain a dataset of false positive probabilities from the Kepler space telescope. I added these black pages with false positives to hint at the limits of knowledge and perception; while we expect there to be billions of planetary systems, we can only observe a fraction of what exists in outer space.



paper sculptures, ± 1m3

Cartography of Crowns
Paper sculptures + publication, 2024

Visual exploration of the crown—a part of the body we usually don’t really look at. I photographed the top of people their heads and transformed the photos into new images and objects; transforming them into something unfamiliar and slightly absurd. 







1. 3D model
2. 3D print
3. plaster mold
4. clay tile

Ceramic Poster
2024

A poster is often a temporary object, only functional for a certain period of time. Clay objects on the other hand, last for a long time once they are baked. The aim of the ceramic poster is to eternalise fleeting things. 
I collected flyers from the flyerstand at ArtEZ Arnhem, cut out pieces and reconstructed them into an A3-sized collage poster. The flyers reflect what is happening around a specific place (Arnhem, the Netherlands), at a specific time (year 2024). Therefore, this Ceramic poster serves as a time-capsule, capturing and conserving the here and now.

Experiments


diameter projection: ± 1 meter

Regencirkel
Light projection, 2025




Somewhere in Between
Photo series, 2025







Almost Flat
Projection mapping installation, 2024

The simple effect of a light projection morphing as it moves over spatial objects intrigues me. So I created a projection mapping installation that captures this phenomenon and explores perception of depth. 




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.




Pink and Green Moiré pattern
Wall piece, 2023

Fascinated by moiré patterns I decided to create one myself. After various printed experiments with different designs and dimensions, I decided to stretch the work into a long strip (30x210 cm) meant to hang in a hallway, so that viewers can watch the ‘live animation’ as they walk by.




Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Book, 2025

Together with Chun-Fang Tsay and Adriada Florescu, I redesigned the book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, which is a collection of 24 short stories written by Haruki Murakami. In these subtly surreal stories, Murakami weaves magical elements into the mundane. For the design and form of the book, we focussed on this principle that alienates the familiar.