i love these pieces from artist ryan johnson, discovered via my friends at monodot in brussels who are ‘blog virgins’ just getting started with their new site & blog (designed by ‘me’)
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last night was the offical presentation of the magazine i participated in and exhibition opening in club ‘trouw’, the project was initiated by two young designers: ‘rosa de jong’ & ‘clien wintzen’, who organised the whole thing in two months from idea to completion; which i found pretty impressive, the magazine is a mixed bunch in terms of quality which is to be expected with such a wide range of contributors, but even so to be honest i wasn’t disappointed…
they very kindly selected my piece to be part of the twenty works selected for the exhibition too, you can visit the expo in the basement of ‘trouw’ for free till the 15th of may… perhaps my only regret is that if the brief is just, do anything then it becomes difficult to judge the pieces in terms of context, next time it may be a good idea to give the whole project some overall theme or starting point… and again, please get your english checked by a native speaker before publishing it, people…
one-way ticket
i found this amusing image on the website of photographer matthijs immink, whom i also work together with on the ‘dingen’ kids books, like the latest one shown here (below), a job well done matthijs…
egypt, saudi arabia & the united arab emirates
the internet in non-latin languages has gone ‘live’ since yesterday:
…for the first time in the history of the Internet, non-Latin characters are being used for top-level domains. The first IDN country-code top-level domains were inserted in the DNS root zone earlier today…
new work
some advance copies of the latest ‘dingen’ book arrived this week, entitled ‘vervoersdingen’ (transport things) it is the seventh in the growing series & in my opinion probably the best so far
the third edition (girls&boys things) has just recently won an award for the ‘best dutch book designs’ and also a prize for the best children’s book late last year… more images will be uploaded to ‘me work’ later this week…
