a small get-together in amsterdam in 2 weeks time: with the ‘stone twins’ & ‘jacques koeweiden’ amongst others, to discuss the state of logo design and what developments are taking place in our profession…
…do logos, by themselves, still have resonance/importance?… and where next?, a good question
(thanks to ‘garech & declan’ for the tip)
my ex-neighbours ‘erik & frank’ have updated their side project with some funky new ‘leftover’ stuff, for example a pile of old t-shirts with a second life, nice…
interesting online project which aims to provide an overview of old & forgotten historical street names of amsterdam, the map can be modified, corrected and added to by visitors
in a similar vein i recently discovered this real-time map of the local airplane decibels, which are often quite high in times of high wind such as the month of october/november
great shot from dutch photographer ‘iwan baan’ on the cover of the ‘new york’ magazine this week, he explains in this article how he happened to be flying above manhattan in a helicopter when half of the city was thrown into darkness… (dutch only)
an exhibition of works by celebrated poster designer and jazz fanatic ‘niklaus troxler’ is opening in amsterdam this week: with a lecture on the 8th at the north sea jazz club