Bernard Fokke was a 17th century Dutch captain for the Dutch East India Company. He was renowned for the uncanny speed of his trips from Holland to Java. This caused speculation that he was in fact in league with the devil because of it. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Captain is both a nautical term and a military rank. ... Dutch colonial possessions, with the Dutch East India Company possessions marked in a paler green, surrounding the Indian Ocean plus Saint Helena in the mid-Atlantic. ... Holland is the common name in English referring to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (or exclusively its European part)--although this is incorrect from a Dutch perspective. ... Map of Java Java (Indonesian: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ... The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. ...
This also caused many people to believe that he was the captain of the Flying Dutchman, a ghostly ship doomed to sail the seas forever. Flying Dutchman has several meanings: The Flying Dutchman is a legend about a ghost ship said to ply the waters near the Cape of Good Hope. ...
Pierre Bernard was one of the leading and stimulating figures in the design collective Grapus which greatly promoted the renovation and professionalization of this field in France.
The work of Pierre Bernard concentrates almost exclusively on the public domain, and on all sectors of the public domain: communication between governments and citizens; communication in the public sphere; use of and orientation in the physical space of town and country; presentation and representation of current cultural productions and the cultural heritage.
Bernard has achieved an authoritative position in the international professional field not only through his design work, but also through his initiating and organizing of international meetings and projects which bring together representatives of various design cultures and of multiple generations.
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