The Daily Gorilla: graphic comments on the world news - Tapa dura

The Daily Gorilla is a front-page, single column graphic comment panel in a Dutch national newspaper. The project is not about branding, selling or winning awards, though it does all those things. But the Gorilla column is genuinely original and unquestionably a design work, a constant element in the daily dialogue between the newspaper and its readers.

Richard van der Laken was born in Amstelveen, The Netherlands. He studied Graphic Design at the School of Art in Utrecht and has a post graduate degree from the Amsterdam Sandberg Institute. In 1995, he and former classmate Pepijn Zurburg started design company De Designpolitie (The Designpolice). Herman van Bostelen (1968) is a graphic designer and visual columnist. He is co-founder of UNIT, an exhibition space in Utrecht. He has a degree in Graphic Design from the Hogeschool van de Kunsten, Utrecht and won the prestigious TheaterAffichePrijs in 2005.