me studio

the design observer has an article speculating on who plays who in the (theoretical) film, graphic design ‘the movie’ see it here

these are my favourites, clooney/hackman/del torro as kalman/bass/brody

i came across a series of pelican book covers onilne last week, these four for represent the range of styles they tried during the 1960’s from more formal and book-like covers to more illustrative and poster-like covers

the bottom two are from the early 60’s, the upper two late 60’s (as things moved into the hippie era) when type became more expressive, whereas the lower ones steer closer to the original ‘penguin’ grid designed by jan tschichold, the logo moved around as they apparently searched for a coherent style… i love the colour scheme and the transparent overlaying on the upper left one (from 1968)

i’m just putting the finishing touches to the new season poster for the dutch national ballet, the image was shot and illustrated by ‘ingrid baars’ and we got the image to work both in portrait and landscape with minimal adjustments, the client and i are very pleased with this one… but aren’t i always? well no actually, the poster that’s currently around town for ‘coppelia’ wasn’t exactly what i wanted… but that’s another story…

the image is very light and white so i’ve decided to break the rules of my own ballet housestyle for the first time and the logo and type are going to be reproduced in metallic silver, could be an interesting new route for the identity for the coming year… as they say rules are there to be broken… but who are ‘they’ anyway?

me studio now has it’s own official postage stamp, and you can get one FREE with every invoice i send…

this week the stedelijk museum starts a retrospective of 60 years of magnum including this powerful image by ‘paolo pellegrin’ from beirut in 2006, looking forward to that one…