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fashion statement

…as a part of her investigation of veiling and the responses to this clothing style (series Look at you 01, 02 etc), Sara wore a niqaab in week 27 of this summer. The niqaab is an all concealing veil, including gloves and wire netting to conceal the eyes. She visited the foodmarket in The Hague, walked through the new housing estate Ypenburg, made her way to the library and used the public transport. Whilst doing so she tried to capture the looks people gave her with a miniture camera, hidden in her veil and a photographer who was following her…

some really interesting work from young dutch fashion designer sara vrugt

m / 07-09-2010 08:57 - tags: , ,  

temporary

amongst the exhibitions being hosted at the newly reopened temporary stedelijk is an overview of their very own stedelijk poster collection from 1911 to the present including: jan bons, wim crouwel and willem sandberg amongst others…

m / 07-09-2010 08:53 - tags: , ,  

martyn & gijs

the ‘LHGWR’ gallery is due to open a duo exhibition with work from two of the best illustrators around: mister martijn ‘f’ overweel and mister gijs kast… sounds worth a visit to me…

m / 07-09-2010 08:51 - tags: ,  

t for two

two posters currently hanging around town with the letter T as starting point, both using a sans serif font an image and a large T, one slightly disappointing due to a lack of choices and this great one below for the recently opened temporary stedelijk by ‘mevis & van deursen’ which uses a simple but very effective painted T to denote a museum, still under construction

m / 07-09-2010 08:43 - tags: , ,  

nice

the fourth issue of it’s nice that is due to be released, interviews with nick knight, neville brody, troika and noma bar, amongst others… that’s nice that

m / 07-09-2010 08:39 - tags: ,