spotted around town this week: nice poster for the punk exhibition at the ‘centraal museum’ in utrecht (by lesley moore)
my old hometown, arnhem, is hosting a three-day ‘everything zines’ event called facing pages in late april, the biggest of its kind in europe according to the blurb… early bird tickets are currently up for grabs
these hyper-realistic oil paintings of rainy windshields by gregory thielker are just mind bending…
(many thanks to animal rights activist and assistant-treasurer of the dutch chapter of the official justin bieber fan club: mister jean louis ‘dee’ for the tip)
i have been an eye magazine subscriber since the very first issue when i was still a student and that kind of cash was hard to find… in my opinion it is still the only really serious magazine out there when it comes to covering the field of graphic design in the broadest sense
atypically for a british magazine it doesn’t and never has had a an anglo-centric bias in its writing and choice of subject matter, the cover of the first issue showed a detail of piet zwarts’ seminal ptt book and paved the way for the balanced and international vision that has characterised the magazine ever since
aside from its consistently strong (and critical) editorial content the covers (usually with a layered image made up out of several content-relevant topics) are in themselves almost a ‘who’s who’ of graphic design and its collective vocabulary over the past century, here is a quick selection which i plucked off their facebook page… and before anyone asks no i wasn’t paid to say this…
