latest ‘amsterdam sinfonietta’ poster in the colourful series by studio dumbar spotted around town this week…

(via ‘uwe’, via ‘notcot’)

(via ‘roel wouters’)

when confronted with a project to design a website for an interior designer buro rust asked the client to build it herself, nice..

a striking portrait of teen idol ‘justin bieber’ by inez lamsweerde & vinoodh matadin for ‘v magazine #75′

wish i’d thought of this idea, nice… (via fontanel)

here is a brief impression of the opening last sunday of the exhibition ’50 years of posters’ for the dutch national ballet at the dutch poster museum in hoorn

my friends from ‘fontanel’ also posted a short article on the expo yesterday (dutch only) and sorry for the crappy images, due to the spots hanging everywhere it was almost impossible to make a decent image in the building…

really nice idea for a catwalk show: dutch artists ‘gijs frieling’ and ‘job wouters’ were approached by one of my favourites: dries van noten to create the ‘live’ backdrop for the runway for his show this year

they also created prints for fabric… an interview can be found here (dutch only)

my intern ‘joris’ has decided to impose a brief for himself during his internship: ‘create a poster for each week that reflects that week’

as we tend to spend a lot of time listening to electronic music during the daytime, this obviously seems to be playing a large role in his subject matter so far…

i’m looking forward to seeing the complete set progress, have a peak yourself at the latest batch right here, we will be printing the whole series out (large scale) before he leaves ‘me’ at the end of march…

congratulations to the winners of the dutch silver camera awards 2011, it must have been a tough job judging all of this: although the ‘national portrait’ category winner ‘annaleen louwes’ delivered a beautiful prize image ‘dees’; i must say that the striking image ‘jof’ (see above) by talented dutch duo blommers&schumm would have got my winning vote

i posted about taylor holland a while back and he got in touch again this week to mention a new project of his: a wonderful collection of detail images from those really kitsch european touring buses

i have often been fascinated by these as we have a lot of them in amsterdam as well, it’s amazing to think that someone actually ‘designs’ these… thanks for sharing taylor, he has also released a book of the ‘eurobus’ project via matmos press

together with several other local creatives, i will shortly be providing imagery for a new monthly visual column for the amsterdam ad blog called simply inspiration

the other contributors are : ‘jennette snape’ founder of dolly rogers, art director jarr geerligs, ‘joep beving’ from massive music, designer rick de zwart, david snellenberg creative/partner at dawn, 328 stories director ‘johan kramer’, ‘reuben alexander’ founder of buutvrij and last but not least talented art director christian borstlap

our collective creative brief is simple and open: ‘make it related to amsterdam somehow’ more news soon…

the phrase ‘imitiation is the sincerest form of flattery’ seems highly appropriate for this image:
the dutch national ballet recently received the above poster made for a school arts project: seventeen-year-old ‘roos oerlemans’ made an homage to our recent ‘swan lake’ poster, she recreated the ‘swan’ costume at home, did her own make up, shot the image and put the poster together all by herself, nice work roos! looks like i am out of a job soon then… (many thanks to ‘sandra eikelenboom’ for the tip)

some new work in this week from two photographers a really nice washed out retro looking series by paul d scott of all of the characters from ad agency ‘they’

and secondly some colourful explosions from stills photographer marcel christ

a new book (with the rather odd title) ‘art in book’ on special book design projects arrived in the post this week from chinese publisher ‘send points’

it features several of our own book projects and the overall quality of the lanscape format book itself was a pleasant surprise for me…