me studio

photographer ‘anno pieterse’ mailed me to let me know that he won a ‘merit of excellence in the recently judged photography masters cup congratulations…

i was visited recently by a young portugese designer who sent me some links for portugese design agencies, a subject i know very little about…

here are two from the list i received: martino jana (simply ‘refresh’ for a new set of images)

and secondly molamany thanks to ‘vasco’ for the links, i will post some more shortly, always good to see what the rest of the world is up to…

some interesting and funky studio & ‘table-top’ work from UK photographer dan tobin-smith

(thanks to my friend ingeborg for the tip)

the rotterdam design prize 2009 is now open for entires, more info here,

the website and entry form are only in dutch (beware the site features an epilepsy-inducing moiré pattern…)

some very sad news reached me this morning via my mate ronnie: sander gaarenstroom (better known as ‘gaarmans’ amongst friends) decided to end his own life this weekend… sincerest condoleances to his family and friends…RIP sander