me studio

i spent a large part of the afternoon in a photo studio in amsterdam with ruud baan, shooting our latest image for the dutch national ballet, the production is called ‘in space’ and we devised an empty cube, which was built as an amazing octogonal, 3 meter high, chamber of mirrors by gloudy & sons set-dressers

the model was a young british dancer called ‘sefton clarke’ and ruud (as usual) made a great job of it, it’s too early to show the image yet but here’s a small impression

we chose to use a lightweight foil attached to wooden frames instead of real mirrors (partly due to the weight problem) but it was also a good choice because the result looks much more unusual than it would have with ‘normal’ glass mirrors, the set took about three times as long to build than the actual shoot which went very smoothly and was all done in less than two hours, i have a feeling this one is going to be one of the best this season, thanks to ruud and rein-willen (vice president, CEO-chairman of gloudy)…

two of the student’s whose work i evaluated last year have now both gone ‘pro’ and have both been nominated for the new photography awards

lucia ganieva (portraits) and deborah roffel (fashion) the work is unfortunately almost impossible to view as it’s all displayed at a minute size… anyway, good luck from me…

this studio based in arnhem where i used to live, make some great work, i’d never heard of them (thanks to the serif for the link) i suppose you could call them information designers, the website structure pretty much sums up what seems to be their main area of interest, some very solid work… nice

when i first designed the dutch national ballet identity back in 2003 one of my favourite pieces was the letterhead and envelope combination: the window is a custom size that reveals the logo and image on the letterhead underneath, the idea was that they could make new letterheads at regular intervals whilst using the same envelope and create a lot of variety to keep it fresh looking

i regualrly receive mail from them and am pleased to conclude that this principle is still working very well, after 5 years…

just a short message to let you know that me studio will be ‘offline’ and ‘out of the office’ all day on the 28th of february[/b], the head-smurf is celebrating his birthday and will not be able to answer calls, for important stuff send a mail or…