if anybody spots a stolen, oversized, antique cartwheel around town: the owner of this ladder would be interested to hear from you, i think…
me news
best dutch book designs 2009
what better way to end the week than this?
i’m delighted to say that ‘me studio’ has been selected for the best verzorgde boeken 2009[/b] competition today, with the children’s book ‘j/m dingen’ made for my friends ‘nathalie and matthijs’, so congratulations to them too seeing as they deserve it the most… the (rather spartan) website hasn’t as yet, posted the news… if you’ve got a sharp eye you can perhaps spot a few of the winners in the image above… we’re the smallest one
20 x NDT
a funky series of twenty dance posters made for the 20 year anniversary of ‘NDT’ by the hague-based design studio t’brandt weer
calligra-flickr
there are a dazzling number of image pools on flickr, amongst them is this calligraphy pool, which has a pretty broad definition of the word and a lot of inspiring images to browse…
what if…
My trip to Fujian in December was very interesting. It was the first time I visited the old China. In my previous trips I had concentrated on the least Chinese areas and stayed along the borders in the North, South and West. I had been photographing a lot of overlapping cultures, but not China itself. Mao Tse-tung started his famous Long March From Southern Fujian. This was in 1928. I have been standing on the doorstep of the building from where they took off. The cobble stoned village street doesnot seem to have changed much since. A strange feeling to walk there. I couldnot stop myself thinking "What if…" .
Su Zhu – shop, 2009. (pictured below)
This village shop is in the second village on the Long March. Su Zhu lays on a mountain range on the border with Quandong. The owner was a 89 year old man. So he was a boy when Mao passed through. Unfortunately he could not tell much about that period. I visited villages where people could. They told us, their homes were so far out, that they were never effected by any of the turmoils in the periods after. They stayed in their hamlets, worked on their fields and went for additional food into the forest. And some still do.
photographer marrigje de maar was born in 1944 which makes her pretty ‘senior’ by default but yet, she hasn’t been working as a photographer for very long (relatively speaking) and she is probably amongst the most adventurous out there… take a look and have a read of her new blog to get an idea of what i mean…