some fun work in a variety of media and styles from rietveld graduate simon wald lasowski, thanks to ‘jona rotting’ for the tip, although i just realised that he’s been posted here before three years ago (so glad i’ve now got that search function… it’s getting difficult to remember all the stuff that’s been posted here in the past six years)
this is great, a balancing elephant from artist daniel firman (via ‘vormplatform’)
1,000 drawings is a new project asking for doodle drawings on A5, to raise money for a local charity project
…drawings from children. Yes we have drawings from famous artists. Some of them would normally sell for hundreds of euros, perhaps more. At 1000 Drawings they sell for only 10 EUR, but, first come, first served, NO exceptions…
and c is for…
i know it’s a bit juvenile but it made me smile, a rather unfortunate photo-opportunity for the most smug-looking prime minister the UK has ever had, which is not an easy title to win…
i attended a small, private reception on friday afternoon at the now defunct nijhof & lee bookshop in the staalstraat, the event was like a who’s who of dutch design with many respected names from several generations present
the occasion was that the owner ‘warren lee’ had something to share: despite many reports about the shop closing down the good news is that it is, in fact, continuing
due to open later this year as a store within the special collections department of the university of amsterdam (where the recent ‘irma boom’ book design exhibition was held) warren will be running the shop and it should be ready for business later this summer, the obvious advantage could be tie-ins with special exhibtions on specialised design & typography related subjects