the finalists for the 2010 AOP awards have been posted online, including one from local photographer ‘maurice heesen’ (congratulations and good luck)
p.s. the images above are not his just random choices of mine…
me news
aop 2010
new client
my personal track record for winning pitches is pretty terrible, so it’s with some surprise that i have just won my first one ever: the recently revamped amsterdam music theater (HMA) have commissioned me to make a new outdoor campaign (posters) and various collateral for the coming season, the first work should be ready later this autumn… congrats to me :)
the new logo and identity was made by ‘koeweiden postma’ last year and the new website early this year by ‘fabrique’
any colour as long as it’s baby blue
here’s an interesting archive of the complete set of designs submitted for the euro banknotes dating back to the original design competition in 1995-96, including the winning entries plus a rather glum conclusion on my behalf that none of them were actually very exciting anyway… (thanks to ‘michiel schuurman’ for the tip via FB)
shaolin monks & wooden crates
one of the projects i will be working on in the coming weeks is a new image & poster for the dutch national ballet, for the first time ever without dancers (hoorah!) but just using objects and abstract movement
i will be working together with talented dutch stills photographer bart oomes, we have yet to decide what the idea will be but the subject is a very inspiring one anyway: a new choreography by belgian/moroccan rising star ‘sidi larbi chekaoui’ plus another from young british choreographer ‘david dawson’
chekaoui regularly works with other inspiring people himself such as british artist ‘antony gormley’ for example, on his ballet ‘sutra’ where he trained a whole group of ‘shaolin monks’ to dance the piece, sounds hard to imagine? here’s a preview of his amazing work below… i’m really looking forward to working on this project…
funny fonts
a short interview (in dutch only) with friendly fella and much-in-demand illustrator pieter jansen or ‘palla’ (as the japanese apparently call him), nice to see you doing so well piet! (tip via ‘isis v’ on FB)