Artengar collects the work of Maarten Renckens.
During the day, Maarten is an Environment Expert (city planning) for the city of Damme, Flanders. During the evening, Maarten is a multidisciplinary designer. This way, he is able to combine several passions. This website collects his designs, his programs, his educational materials, and his research.
Do you want information or do you want to collaborate on a project? Sure! Reach out via contact@artengar.com
Do you want information about the publications of the research? It can be found on ResearchGate here.
Artengar offers several kinds of workshops and courses about digital drawing: letter design, InDesign or 3D drawing. They are available in Dutch or English. If you would love to organize a workshop at your own location, and you are with a group of at least five individuals, that is surely possible. For more information, contact Maarten Renckens via cursus@artengar.com.
Some of the Dutch course materials are available at cursus.artengar.com. Feel free to have a look around.
- Peer reviewed articles and publications:
- RENCKENS, M.; DE RAEVE, L.; NUYTS, E.; PEREZ MENA, M.; BESSEMANS, A. (2021). "Visual prosody supports reading aloud expressively for deaf readers." In: Visible Language 55(1). DOI: 10.34314/vl.v55i1.4603
- RENCKENS, M.; DE RAEVE, L.; NUYTS, E.; PEREZ MENA, M.; BESSEMANS, A. (2021). "Preliminary study exploring the relation between visual prosody and the prosodic components in sign language." In: Visible Language 55(1). DOI: 10.34314/vl.v55i1.4604
- RENCKENS, M. (2021). "Consequently Positioning the Rhythm in Type Based on the Letters’ Longest Continuous Black Mass." In: Visible Language 54(3): 32-47.
- BESSEMANS, A.; RENCKENS, M.; BORMANS, K.; NUYTS, E.; LARSON, K. (2020). "Visual Prosody Supports Reading Aloud Expressively." In: Visible Language 53(3): 28-49. DOI: 10.34314/vl.v53i3.4653
- RENCKENS, M. (2018). "Letter variations to train social skills. Expression in speech transcriptions." [Peer reviewed Conference Paper] Second Conference in Graphic Design, Bilbao, Spain.
- WALKER, S.; BLACK, A.; BESSEMANS, A.; BORMANS, K.; RENCKENS, M.; BARRAT, M. (2018). "Chapter 2. Designing digital texts for beginner readers: Aspects and processes". In: thompson, J.; SCHROEDER, S., BARZILLAI, M. & VAN DEN BROEK, P. (2018). "Learning to Read in a Digital World." John Benjamin’s • e-read Book Project • https://benjamins.com/catalog/swll.17
- Other publications/texts:
- RENCKENS, M.; PULMANS, S.; GOOSSENS, P.; VAN DEN BERGH, S.; MORTIER, C.; DE COCK, S.; & NEIRINCKX, P. (in preparation). "Waarderingsdossier Mixer-letterzetters (Appraisal file of the Mixer-typesetter)", written for the Industriemuseum Gent (Industrial Museum Ghent).
- RENCKENS, M.; PULMANS, S.; LUYTS, N.; & VERBOVEN, M. (2022). "Waarderingsdossier voor de Linotype letterzetter van het speelkaartenmuseum (Appraisal file of the Linotype Typesetter from the Playing Cards Museum)", written for the Speelkaartenmuseum Turnhout (Playing Cards Museum Turnhout).
- As an Expert Environment for the city of Damme, I advise the government in dossiers, actively modernize the working of the Environmental office, and work on founding legal reinforcement ('handhaving') against environmental infringements, the city's local priority note for legal reinforcement of environmental infringements (in preparation), the city's local fee regulations for environmental requests (in progress), the city's local regulations for environmental planning (in preparation).
- Received funding:
- 2022: The Flemisch Government provided a grant for a master-pupil traject to transfer the knowledge as a Linotype Technician, preserving this knowledge for the future.
- 2020: Fameus funded the project Type Platform, an educational platform to provide insights in how other designers are using type. (The project was for the largest part cancelled due to Corona).
Steven Renckens for the collaboration on some projects.
Wouter Vanmontfort for support in some of the programming and his feedback.
