the fascinating art of ‘fore edge’ painting on books as posted on this blog
see also this interesting link, update: it turns out that the wonderful colossal blog ran a big piece on this story too this week…
me news
pop up facts
i have been working on a rather special project for the past two weeks: producing a special ‘very limited edition’ book, more news soon…
this is also the reason the blog has been unusually slow for the past few days… normal service should resume very soon, i promise
bodies
i have been helping out a former client (dutch national ballet) during the past few months, this is the first of a new series of posters for their 2013-2104 campaign shot and conceived together with ‘erwin olaf’
witkar2go
this is a post i wrote as contributor to the amsterdam ad blog ‘something related to amsterdam’ column, last week
witkar2go
For me Amsterdam is still a place where a lot of mad and weird people join forces and collectively come up with unconventional, surprising and progressive ideas that are (sometimes) way ahead of their time.
For example this story from the fabulous ‘oud amsterdam’ facebook page about the ‘witkar’ experiment at the height of the hippie era (1968); which nearly became a reality. Twenty five years later, of course, it has…
I recently took a ride in the ‘Car2Go’ bumper cars and was suprised that it was all a reasonably ‘ok’ experience. If I had a choice, however; I would definitely go for the ‘James Bond / Goldfinger / Thunderball’ vibe of the original one anyday.
this is a previous article (from the 14th of june) which i hadn’t yet posted: 1000 years of amsterdam
dance
i’ve been helping out an old client during the past few weeks, art directing a whole season of new poster images for the dutch national ballet together with photographer ‘erwin olaf’
after a long day with too many dancers/wardrobe people/plus a film crew and way too many opinions in the studio… we finished the job last saturday with some old favourites of mine (pictured igone and casey) more news soon…