i’m not sure this is a colour combination i would ever have devised myself, but it is so odd that it works…
me news
easily distinguished from other words
interesting article from the BBC website on how the term OK took over the world
sacrifice
…what’s more important, success or money?
Well it’s naïve to separate the two things, in my humble opinion. Working for yourself is obviously a way to keep costs down, and a way to stay completely in control of your destiny, but if you want to do projects of any scale, you need a studio, designers, a colour printer… That means that every year you need to pay salaries, pay the gas man and ideally have a bit left over for a few bonuses, the odd new computer and a decent xmas lunch. The trick is how to achieve this whilst doing rewarding work…
michael johnson spills the beans in an interview for the recently relaunched ‘grafik’ mag on how to become incredibly rich as a graphic designer, or possibly not…
‘free snowboard’ offer extended
some silliness for the weekend from that sarcastic australian graphic designer ‘david thorne’
…Contrary to popular belief, there is not a lot of snow in Australia and I recently discovered two facts;
1. Snow is cold and;
2. Coming from a climate where the coldest winter demands only complaining slightly less about how hot it is, I am ill-equipped for fact 1.
book things
i got some great news late on friday afternoon; for the second consecutive year we have been selected for the annual dutch best book design competition 2010, this time not one but with two books, again from the ‘dingen’ children’s books series (transport things & amsterdam things)
looks like we didn’t win the ‘smallest entry’ prize this year though, there appears to be a few even smaller ones amongst the 33 selected books… i’m very flattered although it seems odd to select new books in an existing series, especially one which has already won before…
the selected designers are, amongst others: irma boom, joost grootens, mevis & van deursen, hans gremmen, bockting ontwerpers, robin uleman and julia born