following on from my recent post, here is a huge flickr collection of amsterdam gable stones, some very, very old… others less so, enjoy
it was recently explained to me that these stones were traditionally painted using a layered technique called ‘polychroming’ which takes into account the fact that the stones ‘weather’ and the colour (paint) slowly fades in a specific way…
(via ‘roel stavorinus’)
found by my friend harm, on a website from a local man: a sub page where he introduces himself through a life in pictures, nice…
as sponsor of the amsterdam gay pride festival (next weekend) paint company ‘akzo nobel’ have repainted several zebra crossings with the rainbow flag
dating back almost a year now: the graphic design festival poster project 2012 has been bundled in an online overview publication