Design
5 min
The Oddfield masthead started as a hand-cut poster for a 2019 meetup of fourteen people. The story of a typeface that grew into a festival.
WORDS BY
Tomas Holt
In 2019, Oddfield was a meetup of fourteen designers in the back room of a café on the Witte de Withstraat. The poster was cut by hand from ultramarine card.
The letters were tall and thin because the card was: we had one sheet, and the name had to fit across it.
When the event outgrew the café, we redrew the letters as a typeface, kept the ultramarine and never changed either.
[05] KEEP READING
Notes
5 min
Every Oddfield programme is printed on a press in Zwolle before it goes online. A short note on why we still bother, and what it costs.
Venue
6 min
Built in 1923 to repair harbour cranes, Kraanhal now hosts exhibitions and, for two days in May, Oddfield. A short history of the building.
Programme
7 min
We received 640 talk proposals this year and accepted 24. What the good rejections had in common, and how to pitch us for 2028.
[06] TICKETS
[13] ONE EMAIL, WHEN THE PROGRAMME PRINTS
Four emails a year: the first names, the full programme, the workshops and the week before the doors open. Nothing else.