me studio

this curious site is a great resource/portal featuring the work of a large number of image makers, enjoy…

directors ‘lernert & sander'(newly signed to the ‘suikerdepot’) have just made a colourful seasons greeting: dressed in their smartest ‘RGB’ sweaters they visited the dutch national bank vaults (really) and cut up some cash for christmas

we are currently finishing the latest redesign of the ‘suikerdepot’ website and the new site (with blog) should go ‘live’ in early january 2010… more news soon

two creatives from ‘mother’ in london, tried (successfully) to reward someone for responding to a $1000 spam mail… still not sure why apart form the obvious self publicity… (spotted via the ‘CR’ blog)

…a typographic pattern for the glass of the Stadshoven Weidevenne Apartment Building, Purmerend, the Netherlands. Based on the familiar packing material of protective plastic bubble foil, a sequence of letters in a point raster materializes on the transparent glass of the gallery and balconies: ‘Glass Fragile Handle With Care?….

a recent project by the very talented martijn sandberg

Japanese town logos ? official symbols designed to communicate the identity of each municipality ? come in a vast array of shapes and colors. Many of these municipal symbols incorporate typographical elements (particularly kanji, hiragana, katakana, and Roman letters) into their designs. In most cases, the stylized characters are straightforward and easy to spot (even if you don?t read Japanese), but sometimes you have to bend your eyes to see them.

above: two of my favourites, see the whole fascinating set here