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prints / workshops / art / books / shop
In this workshop we will be experimenting with paper-cut outs inspired by patterns from Tirazain,
a digital archive preserving Palestinian embroidery. From these cut-outs we will each produce our
own posters that will be printed on the RISO machine - We will print multiple copies, which you can
donate to us to be sold to fundraise for @fundsforgaza
The €10 entrance fee for this workshop will also go to @fundforgaza - a rotating list of fundraisers for gazans.
RSVP per mail: €10 (incl. VAT) per participant.
🧩🔠✂️ Experiment with text by cutting, drawing, and rearranging shapes to complete a word or a whole typeface.
Creating a modular set is an easy way to have fun coming up with letter shapes, like putting a puzzle together.
Get a feel for the way your letters sound written down and create versions with different voices.
No experience required, just a love for reading and a sunny disposition!
RSVP per mail: €10 (incl. VAT) per participant.
420 edition
For this month's Drawing Club, after a series of simple drawing exercises,
we'll head out into the neighborhood. Bring your edibles and good vibes and
join us from 1 PM to 4:20 PM as we sketch the local coffeeshops. We'll focus
on their signs, lettering, logos, and storefronts.
The session will end with printing this collection of on-site studies into our very first
'NOOO - 420 Local Coffeeshop Index', all printed with RISO.
RSVP per mail: €10 (incl. VAT) per participant.
We are FiveThirty, a workshop collective focused on making experimental type design fun and accessible.
We would like to invite you to our latest workshop: Chain of Change Again!
This workshop is all about the change of forms and collaborations.
Typography has changed and we will change typography. By going around
in cycles we change each other’s idea’s and perspectives: change is inevitable, change is now!
With the use of various tools we will slowly work together to make a collective alphabet,
switching tools and letters to make the process truly collaborative with a capital C.
In the end we will make a small type specimen publication, printed with the RISO machine on site.
RSVP per mail: €5 (incl. VAT) per participant.
Join us for a hands-on exploration of the pantograph, a tool that reshaped typography
long before computers took over. Originally used to copy and scale designs with precision,
the pantograph also allows for distortion, elongation, and skewing—turning replication into transformation.
In this workshop, we’ll experiment with typographic forms, using the pantograph to create stretched,
warped, and reimagined letters. The resulting works will be reproduced and layered through risograph
printing, culminating in a small publication celebrating the tool’s impact on typography.
Come trace, distort, and print your way into the history of mechanical lettering!
RSVP per mail: €15 (incl. VAT) per participant.
Join us for a blackout poetry session where we'll remove words
from printed materials until we find new meanings, poems or stories.
There’s no one way to create a blackout poem so we’ll crossout, paint, draw or cut,
and most importantly, play around with words!
Honoring the day of the workshop, International Women's Day, we encourage you to bring texts
by women authors, works related to gender equality, reproductive rights, violence and abuse against women,
or any piece that celebrates or exposes the gaps in women’s rights.
Bring printed materials you can destroy or want to get rid of like old books, newspapers, magazines, documents,
or a copy of a text. Your printed materials can be in your own language or any language you feel comfortable using!
RSVP per mail: €15 (incl. VAT) per participant.
Join us to blend your discarded sketches, shopping lists, old magazines and other scraps into new beautiful paper!
During this workshop we will make our own paper using tools you might already have at home. We will take care of
drying the paper after the workshop so it is ready to be picked up in 2-3 days!
RSVP per mail and specify your preferred time-slot: on donation from €13 (incl. VAT) per participant.
In this workshop, with a needle in one hand and thread in the other, you will embark on a connect-the-dots game.
You will discover that the arrangement of the punctures can be choreographed in various ways, giving you the freedom
to explore many configurations of diverse and occasionally intriguing patterns. Materials and tools are provided.
Various papers and threads will be available for use, but feel free to bring your own.
Japanese binding is an enduringly elegant style, also known as 'four-hole binding' (‘Yotsume Toji’). While referred to as 'Japanese,'
it has long been practiced across East Asia, including China, Korea, and Vietnam. It has since transcended both time and borders,
embracing new shapes along the way. Today, the technique is applied to increasingly innovative materials and designs, garnering admiration
and becoming integrated into Western bookbinding practices.
RSVP per mail: 30€ (incl. VAT) per participant. 20€ for students.
Hats down! edition
For this months drawing club we're putting a vest on life drawing, and a hat.
Dress up in your favourite outfit and don't forget the cherry on top, hats or anything
in the general headwear realm. Life drawing doesn't have to be naked,
and it's far too cold for that right now - so let's great creative and be clothed.
After a serie of simple drawing exercises we will end the session with a special illustrated item printed with RISO.
RSVP per mail: €10 (incl. VAT) per participant.
Intuitive calendar workshop
On the day when the clocks are set one hour ahead, we take the time to reflect on how calendars,
planners, and schedules help us navigate through the year.
After contemplating how we perceive time around us, we will create a personal poster calendar using
stamps, numbers, and our Riso machine. You will have the freedom to choose the period of time you’d
like to represent, how much space to allocate for hours, days, months, or years, and what significance
they hold for you.
In the end, the designed poster will be printed and hung, guiding you through your time in a new kind of flow.
RSVP per mail: €8 (incl. VAT) per participant for the design & print of one poster.
8€ for every extra poster design & print.
Learn how to trace a shape of your favourite envelope using cardboard frames
and leftover paper with our special guest Belinda Visser! You can use them
to send a love letter or else
Feel free to bring your own envelopes and paper or use ours.
Walk-in, on donation.
In this workshop, we immerse ourselves in the language of dreams to explore the role of dreaming in our lives
and in imagining different futures together. By responding to different prompts, we'll work on both individual
and collaborative writing exercises. Together, we'll write collective dreams in a small booklet you get to take home.
RSVP per mail: €15 (incl. VAT) per participant.
Join us in writing love cards to your valentines with NOOO custom templates.
Just in time for valentine's day.
For kids from 5 to 105 years old. Supervised children of all ages are welcome.
Walk-ins, on donation.
Join the second NOOO drawing club themed around heartbreak.
Celebrate and express your emotions through simple drawings.
At the end of our workshop we will make our drawings into a collective zine printed with RISO.
RSVP per mail: €10 (incl. VAT) per participant.
We are back from our winter holidays and we are excited to welcome you for our first drawing club!
During this workshop we will do some simple drawing exercises to loosen our hand and awaken our imagination.
At the end of our workshop we will make our drawings into a collective zine printed with RISO.
RSVP per mail: €10 (incl. VAT) per participant.
The results of the ABC book workshop will finally be on display and available for purchase!
Come get your copy of the book and do some simple abc activities with us.
This book of 196 pages presents an alphabet composed of a collection of 165 letters and pictures.
With an introduction by César Rogers and Gersande Schellinx. Printed with black riso RZ 300 EP by Dasha Leo.
Tape illustration by Dasha Leo and screenprinted by Vic Hoogstoël.
Learn a simple DIY printing technique using a pasta machine & recycle drinking cartons.
For kids from 5 to 105 years old. Supervised children of all ages are welcome.
On donation, from 5€.
Our shop will be open for inquiries and you are welcome to just stop by for a cup of coffee or tea and some fun little activities.
In 2024, we at No Other Option are excited to create our very first ABC book!
With your participation, we will develop the content for this publication. Together, we’ll draw, shape, or collage letters and illustrations.
At the end of each session, participants will create a collective print on the risograph printer, which will be included in the final publication.
This creative journey will unfold over four sessions, held on Thursday, the 14th and 21st of November.
To RSVP, please fill out this form.
The project will end in a book launch event in December, where the completed ABC book will be presented.
Each participant will be invited to explore the publication and will receive a free copy of the book.
To enhance your experience, we offer a special discount for family and friend groups!
€13 (incl. VAT) per participant, with a 10% discount for each additional family member or friend.
Suitable for children and adults aged 5 to 105 years. Supervised children of all ages are welcome.
All materials, snacks, and drinks are included.
(EN/NL/FR)
Join us on 16th and 17th of November in a pop-up office of @schoolnewspaperschoolnewspaper.
During these two days, we will write together, enlarge, cut-out, paste-up, and publish things
on the windows of No Other Option.
*The school newspaper is a student-initiated, self-organised publishing project at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, since 2023.
Create your own Monthly Calendar 2025 with or for family and friends! An easy illustration workshop in which you’ll be invited to customize calendar templates we prepared for you. (EN/NL/FR)
For kids from 5 to 105 years old. Supervised children of all ages are welcome.
10€ one calendar, 40€ for 5 calendars.
A weekly planner made by Chaeyoung Kim and Gersande Schellinx, featuring pictures by Carmen Gray.
Come get your copy of the book and meet and greet the participants. This companion that will help you navigate your schedule throughout 2025 is filled with fruit illustrations, anecdotes, and juicy pictures.
Get a 10% discount if you bring one or more fruits with you.
Create your own Holiday cards with or for family and friends! An easy illustration and printing workshop in which you’ll be invited to make your own cards for the upcoming holidays.
For kids from 5 to 105 years old. Supervised children of all ages are welcome.
8€ for 20 cards, 0.50€ for every extra print.
We will display the results of the ABC book workshop. Come get your copy of the book and meet and greet the participants.
Learn how to make your own hardcover no(o)t(h)e(r)book!
First session, bind signatures together in french link stitch.
Second session, make a hardcover with custom papers.
RSVP, €80 / participant, €70 for students.
All materials and snacks included.
(EN/NL/FR)
For kids and teens from 8 to 13 years old.
During these 4 days we will explore the mechanics of stop motion animation and make a movie
that will be shown in No Other Option space afterwards.
No Other Option and Collect4Ukraine
invite you to ANIMAL MASHUP, a kids’ drawing and coloring workshop,
on Saturday, October 19th. Participants will be invited to draw parts of their favorite animals 🦊🐻🐹,
which we will duplicate using our RISO printer. Once printed, the drawings will be colored in and puzzled
together to create new hybrid animals.
To participate please fill out this form.
Participation is free of charge. 🐝
Between each session, kids will have an opportunity to get their faces painted as their favorite animal,
while parents are welcome to stay for a snack and a drink, and admire the wonderful results of the workshop. 🐙🦓
We will be at the space with coffee and a selection of baked goods. You are welcome to come by, explore the space, and let us introduce you to our upcoming program. Some special merchandise will also be available on-site, but maybe not for long...
In this workshop, with a needle in one hand and thread in the other, you will embark on a connect-the-dots game. You will discover that the arrangement of the punctures can be choreographed in various ways, giving you the freedom to explore many configurations of diverse and occasionally intriguing patterns.
Materials and tools are provided. Various papers and threads will be available for use, but feel free to bring your own.
Japanese binding is an enduringly elegant style, also known as 'four-hole binding' (‘Yotsume Toji’). While referred to as 'Japanese,' it has long been practiced across East Asia, including China, Korea, and Vietnam. It has since transcended both time and borders, embracing new shapes along the way. Today, the technique is applied to increasingly innovative materials and designs, garnering admiration and becoming integrated into Western bookbinding practices.
(EN/NL/FR)
Drawing Dogs and Books is a drawing session open for all!
Originally started last year at W139 during the People I Care About project,
it is a growing collection of drawings of books, dogs, dogs reading books,
dogs writing books, dogs chewing books, dogs looking like books etc.
The drawings collected during this session will be converted into prints on tea-towels
and window stickers and more! No need to bring any materials, all the paper and pens will be provided
by NOOO! Dogs are welcome :)
(EN)
Discover a simple DIY printing technique using a pasta machine & recycle drinking cartons. (EN, FR)
