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nice typographical christmas e-card project from issey miyake (thanks miho)

my firend ‘natascha libbert’ is studying photography in the hague and she’s updated her website natascha also has a job that takes her all over the world… i love the ’emptiness’ and the ‘mood’ in these images

yesterday i paid a studio visit to my friend ‘esther noyons’ graphic designer, we talked shop and she showed me some of her latest work, i admire esther’s work a lot, she has a very distinctive style and the work has an un-assuming character that very much reflects esther herself (that’s her hiding in the doorway)

we are swapping some of our work and esther gave me the red butterfly poster and a beautiful little little book she’d made for the ‘dans dagen’ festival, it was made for a very limited budget and sold during the festival with all profits going to a charity for street children in brazil… what a great idea… i also discovered that esther made the ‘rineke dijkstra’ poster series for the stedelijk show last year, shown here (i told you i was hopeless at making pictures esther!)

thanks for the inspiring work and see you soon…

creative review have an interview with my old hero ‘peter saville’ (via the serif) it’s amazing how much interest he still seems to generate, we invited him over to amsterdam to talk back in ’96 and he was great fun to be around, peter was particularily interested in seeing the red light district and we ended up showing him around one evening, one of his great strengths as a designer is that he’s interested in everything and knows more about art/fashion and other disciplines tham most people i know…