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…
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…
we spent last friday in a dance studio with mister ‘ruud baan’ shooting the first of the new poster image series for the dutch national ballet (season 12-13)
many thanks to everyone who helped to make it a successful day, including firstly ruud of course but also the dancers (‘anna tsygankova’ from russia, ‘james stout’ from canada, ‘anatole babenko’ from russia, ‘sebastien galtier’ from france and ‘jared wright’ from australia) and my clients ‘ted and sandra’ who all worked very hard to make the image we wanted…
it was quite an unusual idea this one and i’ll post some more image as soon as we have sorted it all out, should be great when finished i think
we are currently in the final stages of the preparation for the exhibition ’50 years of posters’ for the dutch national ballet at the dutch poster museum in hoorn, the show opens on sunday the 29th of january and runs through to mid april, divided between two large spaces in the museum with a large selection of highly varied posters, almost half of the selection comprises the work we have done for them in teh past ten yeras… looking forward to seeing it all hanging together in one place for the first time ever…
sad news today:, celebrated choreographer rudi van dantzig has passed away, he had been ill for quite some time…
my condoleances to family, friends and the company
i met rudi only briefly 5 years ago, when we worked on a poster together and he was a soft spoken and very charming man, very sad…