interesting piece by michael johnson on his blog about hidden design elements in brands, worth a read…
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martin and line from andersen m whom i met late last year here in amsterdam, contacted me today: they’ve been busy and have made some more classy stop-frame paper-animation for the southbank centre in london (similar to the one i saw last year) great stuff… maybe we can meet again for a beer if you’re passing through on the way to denmark at christmas?
butterflies
i just spotted this sweet series of posters, for 10 years of ‘de nederlandse dansdagen’ made by esther noyons a very friendly designer whose work i really admire, they disregard all the ‘rules’ about type size and legibility on posters but in such a way that it works… it made me stop and look…
esther deliberately doesn’t have a website so there’s no link unfortunately…
miffy meets the police
i attended a meeting and dinner organised by the dutch designers association last night, during the session chairman, tom dorresteijn revealed that the the dutch design books for the coming year are going to be designed by dick bruna
creator of world famous dutch rabbit ‘nijntje’ (miffy for the rest of the world) in collaboration with richard & pepijn… better known as ‘de designpolitie’, a logical combination and one i am already very much looking forward to seeing…
information overload
amongst many other events this week in amsterdam is the AGI congress unknown land which has some of the best design thinkers and do’ers attending but unfortunately is, it seems, a gentleman’s club that doesn’t invite may non-members to share their wisdom… fortunately many speakers are also attending ‘picnic’ and so today i got to see the very talented stefan sagmeister who gave a very inspiring talk (his speech was maybe a bit hesitant but the work more than compensates)
we spoke briefly afterwards and stefan still remembered, to my surprise, the last time we met back in 1997 when we convinced him to talk at ‘mind the gap 2’ his projects have certainly grown in size and revenue since then but he still cares more about ‘his’ work than ‘their money’ and that to me is what makes him so inspiring, funnily enough that is also (judging by his current projects) what makes him so inspiring to clients with guts (and money)