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…
…Kantchev was not just talented but also exceptionally industrious artist. All of his works to the last letter were drawn by hand. His passion was so great that often he worked night and day without stopping. The artist?s wife remembered that he was working at his drawing table till the last moment when he was taken to the hospital. Stefan Kanchev died on August 22nd, 2001 at the age of 86…
following on from a piece i read on the ‘design observer’ recently i have stumbled upon the incredibly large and virtuous portfolio of (largely unknown) bulgarian designer stefan kantchev
there is so much good work that i have split it into several posts starting with these logos (my own selection of favourites) if you look at them with the explanation/title on the website it will become clear just how concise many of them are…
i spotted this cool poster for night club ‘trouw’ today, made by the same folks (178) who used to do the stuff for the (now defunct) night club ’11’, they are developing a nice ‘raw type’ style for this series
serbia-based designer peter gregson has a very diverse portfolio, although the hand-drawn type stuff appeals to me more than the more ‘slick’ stuff
this book cover works really well in my opinion…