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…clearly at a point in his life his view of the client has shifted. “The right client (or one that shares your view of the world) can be your greatest asset,” he says. “The wrong client, who wants to use your skills to accomplish his sales objectives, can destroy your sense of yourself. Like good friends, good clients are hard to find…

interesting read this: a short interview with mister ‘milton glaser’ who has just published a new book to share some of his wisdom and experience

Do no harm. Do good work.

m / 06-04-2012 08:22 - tags: , ,  

duo work

a lovely, minimalistic little publication arrived on the doormat this week, designed by duo ‘niessen de vries’ it takes a look at the working methods of photography duo scheltens & abbenes

1:1:1 is a documentary series in print exploring reproduction and the rationale behind the works of artist and designers, in which printing matter converges with the subject matter, the image with the text, the reproduction with the original and the designer and the printer with the client.

m / 31-03-2012 13:28 - tags: , , ,  

cool iris

i have been an eye magazine subscriber since the very first issue when i was still a student and that kind of cash was hard to find… in my opinion it is still the only really serious magazine out there when it comes to covering the field of graphic design in the broadest sense

atypically for a british magazine it doesn’t and never has had a an anglo-centric bias in its writing and choice of subject matter, the cover of the first issue showed a detail of piet zwarts’ seminal ptt book and paved the way for the balanced and international vision that has characterised the magazine ever since

aside from its consistently strong (and critical) editorial content the covers (usually with a layered image made up out of several content-relevant topics) are in themselves almost a ‘who’s who’ of graphic design and its collective vocabulary over the past century, here is a quick selection which i plucked off their facebook page… and before anyone asks no i wasn’t paid to say this…

m / 20-03-2012 14:05 - tags: , ,  

pijzijdeoost

my first contribution to the new ‘amsterdam ad blog’ visual inspiration column was posted this morning, our brief is ‘somehow related to amsterdam’

m / 16-03-2012 13:38 - tags: , ,  

IJ (the 27th letter of the alphabet)

i have been invited to contribute irregularly to a new ‘inspiration’ column on the amsterdam ad blog together with a group of local creatives and some of my friends, we each post several times a year with an image (related to amsterdam) and a short piece of accompanying text

here below is my first entry, dated march the 16th 2012

There are so many things to inspire us all, for me one of the most inspiring things is not some amazing piece of graphic design or a life-size model of the Eiffel Tower built with match sticks but quite simply: language.

I love to read everyday and playing around with letters is even my job. When i first moved to The Netherlands and couldn’t speak a word of dutch a sign like the one above, would never cease to fascinate me. For an Anglo-Saxon brain this hoarding contains an impossible and unpronounceable combination of vowels and repeated consonants. Type somehow never fails to look really funky if you have no idea what it says. Strange how foreign things always look so much more appealing.

So what’s my point? well nothing special really… just a reminder to myself: never get complacent and remember that the most inspiring things are really ordinary & all around you all day, every day… they might even help you find a place to park your bike.

Martin Pyper
Born in Bristol, UK (The Beatles – Strawberry Fields) grew up in France (Plastic Bertrand – Ça Plane pour Moi) went to art school in the UK (New Order – Leave Me Alone) worked in Cambridge, UK (The Smiths – How Soon is Now), then moved to The Netherlands (Stone Roses – Breaking into Heaven) got bored and moved back to London (The Clash – Should I stay or Should I Go) got bored and moved back to Amsterdam for a year (The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode) didn’t get bored and stayed for 23 years.
Started me own thing in 2005. (Four Tet – Parks)

m / 16-03-2012 13:35 - tags: , , ,