the selection for this years ‘best dutch books‘ competition has been announced this week, amongst the selected works are ‘raoul deleo’, ‘irma boom’, ‘piet schreuders’, ‘willem van zoetendaal’, ‘michaël snitker’ and my good friend ‘syb’ with two of his fantastic photobooks, congrats from me…
two of our books were selected last year and one the previous year, it’s nice to be in such esteemed company
an art student from arnhem ‘matthieu pieters’ has been following me around for the past 24 hours, making pictures and taking notes of everything i do, say and consume… for a school project
he actually stayed at our house last night and the results will be a (potentially quite embarassing) summary of my life and bad habits in a 24 hour period, bundled in book form… looking forward to seeing the result matthieu!
i posted about taylor holland a while back and he got in touch again this week to mention a new project of his: a wonderful collection of detail images from those really kitsch european touring buses
i have often been fascinated by these as we have a lot of them in amsterdam as well, it’s amazing to think that someone actually ‘designs’ these… thanks for sharing taylor, he has also released a book of the ‘eurobus’ project via matmos press
a new book (with the rather odd title) ‘art in book’ on special book design projects arrived in the post this week from chinese publisher ‘send points’
it features several of our own book projects and the overall quality of the lanscape format book itself was a pleasant surprise for me…
at times amusing is this collection of world ‘bigotry’ maps, seen from the point of view of one nation or categorised in for example, penis sizes
see the whole set here
(tip via mr ‘uwe’)