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tin can, tin cannot

sad news this week: the dutch government in all of their wisdom (not) have decided to kill the ‘theater institute’, even a planned relaunch as a museum and financial constructions that would involve using accumulated assets have been blocked, so it’s goodbye tin

the collection will not be kept together and hundreds of years of invaluable material is now in danger of disappearing, the ‘dutch theater poster awards’ for which i have been nominated several times and been actively involved in for several years now will of course also never take place again… another one bites the dust

m / 04-07-2012 13:52 - tags: , ,  

best client award 2012

congratulations to my longest (11 years so far) serving client ever: the dutch national ballet, who have just been nominated for the best client award at this years dutch design awards, with heineken and schiphol airport amongst the nominees, the competition will be pretty stiff, still nice that they have been recognised in this way… and good luck guys!

m / 03-07-2012 09:30 - tags: , , ,  

temporary museum

one of my favourite clients ‘nathalie faber’ (see our dingen kids books and the facade project, for example) has been toying with the idea of a temporary museum for kids in amsterdam for ages now…

somehow she has managed to secure one of the most interesting empty office buildings in the city to make it happen: the tijdelijk museum situated in the old shell building across from central station opened it’s doors last week and is definitely worth a visit, especially if you are four years old…

m / 03-07-2012 09:01 - tags: , ,  

tribal dance

an everyday collection of odd, occasionally amusing but mostly rather banal objects

m / 02-07-2012 13:51 - tags: ,  

ted global

a paper stop-motion film for ‘ted’ directed by mandy smith in collaboration with my mate ‘léon hendrickx’

m / 02-07-2012 13:37 - tags: , ,