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nice little print ad from ‘euro/rscg’ paris, to celebrate the medals won by athletes in 2010
the text reads: ‘to applaud the 22 athletes of Team EDF for their performance in 2010, close and reopen these two pages several times very quickly’

…which seems a shame to me, surely it is obvious what the idea is and explaining it only weakens the effect?

i made a similar idea with hands back in 2008, on the cover of this brandbook for new recruiter maandag, at least it kind of reminds me of it a bit, the book had two covers: positive & negative (thumbs up & down)

m / 16-01-2011 09:58 - tags: , ,  

18,788 pages

acclaimed dutch book designer ‘joost grootens’ has turned his talent on himself, with a new volume documenting his own work, i just got myself a copy and it’s a beautiful object to hold… more info here

m / 10-01-2011 12:43 - tags: ,  

crop of the crops

the dutch fair very well in this annual overview of the best photobooks of 2010, from the likes of ‘martin parr’ and ‘willem van zoetendaal’ (congrats to my friends andré thijssen and of course designer ‘sybren kuiper’ too, who has several of his designs amongst the list)

although it’s a shame that the translation of some of the english text appears to have been done by google translate on a bad day (see ‘van zoetendaal’ for example) oops…

m / 08-01-2011 20:10 - tags: , , ,  

yes

indeed

m / 05-01-2011 15:33 - tags: , ,  

here he goes

london-based designer ‘alberto hernández’ actually hails from madrid, spain… he has a really nice portfolio of (mainly editorial) projects: here i go which all looks very intriguing from where i’m sitting…

m / 04-01-2011 08:22 - tags: ,