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spotted in an old factory this weekend…

photographer ‘vincent van gurp’ just sent me a series he recently shot as a comment on the current trend for green products, you can see the whole series and more work here home > photography > van vincent

this weekend i paid a visit to all we need a massive exhibition around human consumption that aims to explain in a simple and entertaining way what we are doing to the planet and how…

one example of a compellinmg exhibit was a room full of piles of rice grains, that were used to depict statistics in a visual way (one grain of rice = one person) piles were put next to each other to show for example the number of millionaires on earth versus the number of people who live on less than one doller per day (both piles were enormous)

the exhibition was located in an old steel-works in luxembourg and this was a very appropriate and impressive site for the subject matter, the show will be ending late october and will unfortunately not be travelling anywhere else seeing as it was largely custom built to fit the building, if you happen to be in luxembourg in the coming week, it’s worth a look

i’m working on a little piece about (as the title says) poster design and marketing, the first section can be read in ‘me stuff’ i will finish the piece sometime in the coming week..

the dutch wing of ‘medecins sans frotieres’ artsen zonder grenzen have comissioned me to make some maps which will be used on location in third world countries to teach people about the organisation in villages all over the world, many of the people are illiterate and there are all kinds of culture differences, so the maps have to be as ‘neutral’ as possible

i’m still trying to choose the right colours and symbols to make them as simple (and yet informative) as i can