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Initiator:

Willem de Ridder, Peter Muller, Ruud Schoonman...

Location:

The Netherlands

Category:

politics, social

Users:

Willem de Ridder, Peter Muller, Ruud Schoonman, artists, graphic designers, magazine's readers / writers.

Maintained by:

Willem de Ridder, Peter Muller, Ruud Schoonman, artists, graphic designers, magazine's readers / writers.

Certification:

implemented

Duration:

1969-1974

Willem de Ridder, Peter Muller, Ruud Schoonman...
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Aloha

Description:

Aloha started in 1965 as a music magazine called Hitweek, equipped with the first four color offset printer in the Netherlands.
In 1969 it changed its name to Aloha, a magazine focused on music, graphic design, comics and counter culture alongside national and international social issues social issues.

Goals:

Produce a publication where a new generation could feel free of manipulation, without permanent writing staff or editors, and where everybody was welcome to write an article or publish a drawing.

Beneficial Outcomes:

Aloha was ironic, unconventional and seasoned with absurd humour. This satirical tradition later continued in ‘Frietkaas’. VAM exhibitions

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