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it’s too adventurous, too difficult

…our strategy as a studio is to do very large-scale work and also very small-scale work, and to have the greatest diversity of clients. We always choose clients who interest us. We would like to be a studio that does as much research as possible. Obviously, if one wants to make a lot of money, one has to do repetitive work. Now admittedly we do repetitive work in certain areas, but we do as little as possible. We try to work in as many different fields as possible in order to innovate as much as we can…

i came across this old interview with monsieur pierre bernard in eye magazine from 2001… we invited pierre over to amsterdam in 2005 to talk at ‘mind the gap’ and he’s always interesting to listen to

m / 05-12-2010 11:41 - tags: , , ,  

year zero

index book have issued a call for entries for the ‘OFFF festival’ book 2011, the annual event takes place this time in barcelona next june & the brief for submissions is very ‘open’… and the deadline is mid january

m / 05-12-2010 11:30 - tags: , ,  

photo typo

it’s early days yet… but here’s a sneak preview of the new identity i am making for the ‘fotofestival naarden 2011’, this large open-air photo festival takes place in the small town of ‘naarden’ every two years and it’s nice to be making their identity this time… the typo treatment is based on the idea of the initial letters being photographed too, the font was made using a set of old plastic stencils i’ve had hanging on the studio wall for a few years now… (waiting for the right client… finally)

the theme this year is ‘dutch portrait photography’, with several really interesting names already booked… more news before christmas hopefully

m / 03-12-2010 09:22 - tags: ,  

Is quality a meaningful goal?

it’s quite a lot to take in… like the passage here below, for example, but the article by one of the only real graphic design critics around: rick poynor on the state of ‘art’, offers a genuinely engaging viewpoint on ‘where it’s at’ right now…

…many young artists with visual talent have decided to ignore the art world’s weary, self-serving conceptualist strictures and just go ahead and make the art they feel like making. They want to create optical art experiences of their own. By paying too much attention to the extremes of high or low we run the risk of undervaluing what’s happening in the densely populated middle — graphic novels, graphic design, illustration, low-cost film-making — where the expressive possibilities of the visual are still embraced with conviction. This, rather than art scene-mediated art, is the real center of visual culture in our time. Are we overlooking great work only because we have been instructed for so long to assume that anything presented outside the art world’s walls must be inferior? …

it required several reads to take it all in for me, but it certainly wasn’t wasted energy…

m / 03-12-2010 08:22 - tags: , ,  

a radish & some korean fella…

it was all over the net this week: hilarious blog with the ‘poison dwarf’ just… looking at things

the web works best, at times when it goes ‘wide’ and covers everything in a broad sense, then again it sometimes works even better when its goes narrow & deep, take a small subject and go right the way into it down on a narrow path… love it!

m / 02-12-2010 09:22 - tags: , , ,  
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