me studio

one of the small projects going through the studio in the coming months is a small corporate identity for an investment firm, that will be built up using small parts of non-existent graphic novels, which i’m going to illustrate (this idea relates to the name of the firm) i will be getting my style inspiration from two of the great names in comics ‘hergé’ (tintin) and ‘chris ware’ (creator of the fabulous ‘acme novelty library’) i might even get the chance to use everybody’s favourite worst typeface: comic sans… at last

more news on this project soon…

… during the german occpation including images by well-known dutch photographer ‘cas oorthuys’

many of the images aren’t particularily interesting without the context, but still worth a look..

i usually don’t feature furniture design on this blog, but the work of sebastian brajkovic is worth a mention particularily because it ‘combines highly contemporary computer technology with specialised craftsmanship and traditional techniques’ as they pointed out on design.nl

american designer ‘nancy wu’ has some very nice design work, her disposable soap rings, chairs and cell phones are also definitely worth a look (see the heading ‘substance’)

the ‘sherlock holmes of dutch design’ martijn d. oostra mailed me the following image pointing out the striking similarities between a cover of ‘blvd’ magazine (now defunct) dating from 1998 featuring the ‘atomic bomb’ couture collection by ‘viktor & rolf’ and the image on the new ‘items’ magazine cover, recently restyled by ‘dutch design’ darlings: thonik

as some people pointed out, it’s difficult to judge a restyle based on one issue but the new ‘items’ is ever-so-slightly disappointing, if you ask me…