the stone twins have devised a postage stamp with a story for the irish post office, nice…

according to the press release: The Irish post office, An Post, has just launched a special stamp that features a complete short story. The stamp, by Amsterdam-based The Stone Twins, celebrates the recognition of Dublin as a UNESCO City of Literature. The design solution is quite unorthodox and avoids the usual visual clichés – such as images or quotes from the giants of Irish literature (Joyce, Beckett, Yeats and Wilde). The Stone Twins instigated a competition, in collaboration with Roddy Doyle’s ‘Fighting Words’ creative writing centre, that invited young people to write a story. The winning entry is by teenager Eoin Moore, and seeks to capture the essence of Dublin. The refined typographic solution is printed on fluorescent yellow.

much talked about online this week a new online magazine platform that seems to be gathering a lot of interest: readymag (via ‘luis mendo’)

i got talking to friends about ambigrams this weekend and revisited these two interesting websites:

firstly the artist john langdon and secondly mister scott kim, both sites (although quite ugly and outdated) are a pretty good source of information and inspiration on the subject of ambigrams and inversion type

a new identity for the new york whitney museum made by experimental jetset (with implementation being done by a in-house design team) two projects spring to mind immediately for me: the old ‘stedelijk museum cs’ identity (also by jetset) and the recent ‘stedelijk museum’ identity from mevis & van deursen

interesting kickstarter project to revive an ancient artists tool known as the camera lucida, the project has already reached its goal, read more about the neo lucida here

last night i attended the launch of the latest monograph on rotterdam design heroes ’75b’ at the fons welters gallery in amsterdam

the book is great compilation of their career and excellent design work and even contains a hilarious spoof design novella written by ‘rens muis’, shown above is my own customised cover… worth getting hold of a copy for yourself

i’ve already blogged about brock davis late last year

but thanks to my mate ‘pepijn rooijens’ for reminding me to have another look inside his mind and his iphone photo library

i’ve been invited to do a short talk at the de bonte avond evening next friday (24th) in the lloyd hotel in amsterdam, organised on an irregular basis the evenings involve a mixed group of creative types doing acts, making things and generally having fun… plus its all free

interesting interview with designer ‘martin venezky’, particularly worth a listen is the later section where he discusses inspiration and the willingness to let something fail…

born and bred in amsterdam: photographer philip mechanicus who died in 2005, will be the subject of an exhibition at the ‘jewish museum’ in amsterdam opening later this month, the exhibition promises to show a great deal of his early work shooting kids playing around the dilapidated city in the post war years

interesting upcoming exhibition at the ‘liefhertje en de grote witte reus’ gallery (the hague) featuring edwin deen, koen hauser and the wonderful krista van der niet with new work, opens 26th of may

these digitally manipulated nike trainers are insane…

made by german digital artist kim asendorf (her website doesn’t seem to provide much more information so just enjoy the madness)

(tip via ‘uwe’)