there’s a lot of things you could do with that kind of cash, like buying a cindy sherman self-portrait photo print (thanks to theo captien for the tip)
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new work
just back from the printers this week: our latest posters for the dutch national ballet, many thanks to mister ‘bart oomes’ for the airborne imagery… and of course to pollie for patiently standing still again
plus the flyer for ‘cinéma arabe’ also arrived back this week, more new work due in early next week
868 books that inspired 62 designers
a website full of must-read book recommendations from graphic designers, not everybody will be interested, i understand… good to see mister sagmeister naming brian eno’s fabulous ‘a year with swollen appendices’ diary, it would be on my list too…
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great neon sign made by the incomparable ‘david shrigley’ for a current exhibition of his work in berlin (picture courtesy of david shrigley himself via twitter)
more than 157 answers
typotheque have placed an interview online with dutch designer ‘rené knip’ the interview is an excerpt form a book entitled 158 answers
…i saw so much in lettering that the whole idea for me is to create a world of images; I do a lot of lettering which is very illustrative. I got out of the world of book typography because it has so many rules for readability; the text needs to be more or less transparent. I use letters like a photographer does a camera: I use them to illustrate emotions…