design blog ‘fontanel’ have asked 3 burning questions to my coolest client: suzy glam about the launch of the brand and their plans for the future (dutch only)
me news
the world’s first nano cover
the worlds first nano cover made for dutch magazine ‘vpro gids’, to give you an idea of scale the smallest letters on the cover are 80 nanometers: equivalent to 400 atoms in a row, now that’s small…
mijn naam is babette
a bit of nostalgia i just came across: these wont mean much to you unless you lived in the netherlands in the 90’s
a bizarre mini campaign (not for any product) that was launched by designer joost overbeek to promote babette
the aerobics image (above) is the most well-known one from the series and reads: my name is babette and my sick mind is housed in a healthy body, the campaign ultimately helped to put joost himself on the map…
a garland for garland
nice ‘steven heller’ review of unit editions wonderful book about my old teacher ken garland: structure and substance
sweet
…magnum photographer, Martin Parr returns to using a film camera in this wonderfully engaging documentary about Teddy Gray’s sweet factory in Dudley in the West Midlands.
Established in 1826, Teddy Gray’s has always been a family owned and run business. Five generations have worked and contributed towards the business of keeping the traditional, hand-made methods of sweet making alive…
(thanks to ‘jihaa’ for the sweet link)