congratulations to the winners of the dutch silver camera awards 2011, it must have been a tough job judging all of this: although the ‘national portrait’ category winner ‘annaleen louwes’ delivered a beautiful prize image ‘dees’; i must say that the striking image ‘jof’ (see above) by talented dutch duo blommers&schumm would have got my winning vote
i posted about taylor holland a while back and he got in touch again this week to mention a new project of his: a wonderful collection of detail images from those really kitsch european touring buses
i have often been fascinated by these as we have a lot of them in amsterdam as well, it’s amazing to think that someone actually ‘designs’ these… thanks for sharing taylor, he has also released a book of the ‘eurobus’ project via matmos press
together with several other local creatives, i will shortly be providing imagery for a new monthly visual column for the amsterdam ad blog called simply inspiration
the other contributors are : ‘jennette snape’ founder of dolly rogers, art director jarr geerligs, ‘joep beving’ from massive music, designer rick de zwart, david snellenberg creative/partner at dawn, 328 stories director ‘johan kramer’, ‘reuben alexander’ founder of buutvrij and last but not least talented art director christian borstlap
our collective creative brief is simple and open: ‘make it related to amsterdam somehow’ more news soon…
the phrase ‘imitiation is the sincerest form of flattery’ seems highly appropriate for this image:
the dutch national ballet recently received the above poster made for a school arts project: seventeen-year-old ‘roos oerlemans’ made an homage to our recent ‘swan lake’ poster, she recreated the ‘swan’ costume at home, did her own make up, shot the image and put the poster together all by herself, nice work roos! looks like i am out of a job soon then… (many thanks to ‘sandra eikelenboom’ for the tip)
some new work in this week from two photographers a really nice washed out retro looking series by paul d scott of all of the characters from ad agency ‘they’
and secondly some colourful explosions from stills photographer marcel christ
