one of my jobs as newly appointed board memeber of the dutch photography association (PANL) is organising masterclasses, this year the theme is ‘football’ and we’ve managed to get five very diverse photographers to take part, including my good friend ‘lukas göbel’, ‘tom van heel & edel verzijl’ ‘scheltens & abbennes’ and ‘ruud baan’, ruud has asked me to join him and we will be doing the masterclass together early next year… more info on how to take part can be found: here (dutch only)
i’m pretty late with this story on the 2012 olympics pictograms and as usual it’s caused quite a stir so i’ll avoid giving an opinion, there are already plenty to read online, sure not an easy job but let’s just say i’m not a fan either…
michael johnson is working on an interesting phonetic language experiment which he’s dubbed phonetikana that combines japanese and english, which is also featured in ‘eye’ magazine this month
well congratulations to all of the winners on saturday at the ‘dutch design awards’ i wasn’t one of them but i also genuinely didn’t expect to be… the whole list can be seen here
still i spent the weekend in the company of some good friends and colleagues and got to see some amazing work, the level is very high and the ‘dutch design week’ in eindhoven is hosting a number of very interesting shows, including the designhuis ‘graduation show’, the design academy show and of course the green house showing all of the finalists from the ‘dda’, worth a visit if you have time this week, gert dumbar also picked up the ‘piet zwart prijs’ and, as usual, didn’t miss an opportunity to bore everybody with his views on marketing… the dutch design yearbook was also launched on saturday and is now on sale…
