once again congrats to ‘nathalie & matthijs’ who won an award for ‘best childrens book illustration’ last night, that’s correct illustration… the jury considered our ‘dingen’ books to be illustrations and worthy of an award, they looked very unusual amongst all of the traditional illustration stuff in the exhibition (open to the public as from today in the ‘rijksmusem’ amsterdam) i’m still wondering why they chose that one instead of the series (see ‘me work’ for more images)
here’s a little plug for my mate ‘odilo’ graphic designer (by day) and lead singer (by night) his band ‘coparck’ have released their 4th album a dog & pony show, album art by odilo himself…
the british design council has recently uploaded and enormous archive of it’s design objects collection to an online archive…
the host site called ‘vads’ also has a number of other interesting collections on offer, such as ‘spanish civil war posters’ and ‘netherlands decorated books’, have a look here for lots of stuff, i will have a good rummage around here when i find the time….
flickr remains a constant source or weirdness to me, like this set of unusual image combinations called unordinary
i already liked this french illustrator’s work even before i’d seen it, just because he’s got such a funky name… the work happens to be very funky too
most of the images shown here are from his book ‘l’imagier des gens’ which won the ‘best book’ award at the leipzig book fair this year… fabulous, more images and info here, here and here (thanks to ‘harm’ for the tip)
