apart from sharing ideas with students, teaching (see previous post) involves meeting new people, i am sharing my class with designer hansje van halem whom i met for the first time today
hansje’s site has an ftp based structure which i find quite tiresome to navigate personally (but it’s worth the patience) she has some very strong work…
i have been asked to stand in for designer ‘sander plug’ as a tutor for the art academy in utrecht (HKU) for the coming month, today was the first day and i really enjoyed the experience, there is a healthy mix of autonomous and applied thinking and the students all had interesting ideas to share, it is our task to help steer them in the right direction, a totally new but exciting experience for me… (the images are just some random shots i made in the classroom)
interesting identity project for ‘identity matters’ magazine made by several creatives working at agency ‘staat’ a birthmark tattoo
like most graphic designers i know, i have great difficulty throwing things out, i tend to amass large piles of magazines for example
whilst going through a ton of them this week i came across a time capsule of the mid 90’s design when magazines like ‘blah blah blah’ and ‘bikini’ were all furtively chasing after ‘david carson’ and ‘raygun’, all trying to be ‘the next big thing’… within a year (or two) they had all gone and ‘the next big thing’ had become ‘the next big thing’, oh well time to throw ’em all out i guess…
Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left behind a small oeuvre, often using gravity as a medium, which more than 30 years after his disappearance at sea is more influential than ever before.
a beautiful, well-made and designed artist’s site which i stumbled across by chance this weekend, but above all a fascinating story…
