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a creative approach

a publication which resulted from a one-week workshop conducted by my neighbours design-duo: andrews:degen

…nineteen students from the graphic design/fine art department at the National University of Arts, Bucharest… research was focusing on social issues and graphical communication elements in the city of Bucharest. Students developed interventions and campaigns referring to topics as tolerance, environment, traffic, wayfinding and many others. Design thinking as a way to support social change and improvement…

m / 01-06-2012 08:22

out of office

i’m in rotterdam all day friday, helping to select entries for this years dutch design awards, back on monday…

m / 31-05-2012 15:39 - tags: , ,  

fresh from the printers

m / 31-05-2012 10:56 - tags: , ,  

no man’s land

one of my most favourite illustrators of the moment ‘blexbolex’ has created a new (3 colour) graphic novel due for imminent release from the lovely people at nobrow, his work is probably the closest modern equivalent to one of the all time great ‘graphic novel without words’ artists: belgian woodcutter and social activist frans masereel

m / 31-05-2012 10:41 - tags: , , ,  

little red riding hood

this tuesday afternoon/evening was spent in the studio with ‘erwin olaf’, ballerina ‘marissa lopez’, choreographer ‘ernst meisner’ and author/activist/journalist ‘karin spaink‘ plus her little red ‘canta’ (invalid car) making a new image for the rather special upcoming dutch ballet production the ‘canta ballet’

involving a whole squadron of the little red cars, the ballet will be performed once only on location in a large old gasworks silo… more news soon, it was certainly one of the most unusual shoots we’ve had so far… and fun

m / 30-05-2012 15:52 - tags: ,