this antique lemonade bottle from my home town of bristol in the UK , which i was given this week, illustrates nicely what 60 years of evolution in design and marketing have done to the products we consume… i’ll leave it to you to decide whether this evolution is a good or a bad thing…
?… These stamps are brand new, contemporary but without being modish. A stamp has to have the qualities of the plastic art which will guarantee that it will stand the changes in trends during the years without getting outdated. Any of these stamps can be enlarged to impressive size, can be reduced to miniature but the stamp will not loose its clearness or its plastic beauty.?
here is some more work, this time my own selection of stamps from stefan kantchev (see earlier post)
the chinese apparently still like to make a point about their rather large population… (thanks to ‘ron & jari’ for the link)
congratulations to my mate ‘sander plug’ who has just won the ‘cinema poster award 2009’ plus some well-deserved cash… the live award broadcast can be seen here, even better is this amusing interview where sander embarasses holland’s worst presenter ‘matthijs van nieuwkerk’ (dutch spoken, see around the 12 minute mark), the poster actually bears a striking resemblance to this old magazine cover, but he designed that too so he has, at least, plagiarised his own work…
