whilst visiting the ‘rodchenko’ expo at foam last week i noticed several images made by him for children’s books using cardboard figures and was struck by the similarity to those made by ‘piet zwart’ in his famous ‘het boek van PTT’ also made for children, zwart was always very much influenced by rodchenko as can be seen here (the two black and white photographs above and below are his, the rest are piet zwart) more images of the PTT book can be seen in ‘me stuff’ (posted in january 2008)
the laurel & hardy of dutch design bring typography to life again whilst tackling the grafitti problem…
a fascinating infographic of mouse cursor movement, by ‘antoly zenkov’, the large black circles represent coffee breaks…
his photostream on flickr has many other interesting images and links to some technical 3D experiments on ‘vimeo’ a favourite nerdy comment i spotted under one of the films: ‘that polygon reduction at 00:20 looks supercool!’ er yes, quite…
i got the chance to visit the rodchenko exhibition at ‘foam’ today, featuring a great number of his images and many magazines and books in which the photographs were put to use
a very inspiring and well-selected exhibition if you get the chance in the coming month… (ends 17th of march)
very talented iranian designer and now dutch resident ‘reza abedini’ quitely launched his own design firm back in 2009: orientation lab accompanied two other talented figures from the local design community, paul hughes (lava) and miss anne miltenburg (ex-dumbar), they are focusing their efforts on inter-cultural projects which seems like a logical choice although i cannot yet discover very easily what projects they are making, other than a talk to explain to ‘renault’ how to sell their cars in the arabic world and a beautiful calendar that landed on my desk last week, which they have made… one to watch