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new (and old) book

the façade book finally arrived back from the printers at the end of last week, at least the book block did, the covers are being made from the billboards featured in the book itself…

some of the billboards are still in use, so we will be having the covers cut to size and made in small batches as the recycled billboard covers become available during the coming few weeks…

the first series have been made with the red & blue hoardings from ‘martijn engelbregt’ shown below, i will post some more images to ‘me work’ during the coming week… the book is available for sale in a limited run of 500 copies, we are also doing a window display in a local bookshop next week, most probably using the plastic letters i made for the book and some old recycled bits of design stuff made earlier for the project…

m / 18-10-2010 08:22 - tags: ,  

new books and the ‘best books’ book

it’s been a good week for books, my own latest book design ‘façade’ arrived back from the printers on friday and i attended the presentation of the dutch best book designs 2009 in the stedelijk museum on friday night, this is the book (shown above and designed by hansje van halem) and the book for which i was selected can be seen here (actually posted and designed more than a year ago, but it was entered into the competition by the publisher and not by me, i’ll admit i’m very proud of this as i’ve always wanted to have some of my work in that ‘best books’ book series which i rate very highly personally… that’s enough mentions of the word ‘book’ in one post although the following post may just also feature the ‘b’ word…

m / 17-10-2010 22:57 - tags: ,  

best books 2009

i will be attending the opening of the ‘best dutch book designs 2009’ expo tomorrow afternoon in the ‘stedelijk museum’, for which ‘hansje van halem’ designed the book & the above flyer,very nice…

m / 14-10-2010 12:36 - tags: , ,  

the letter b

is now open for entries: index publishers new annual design review selected b

…not an award, but rather, as its name suggests, it is a selection of interesting projects completed during the past year. These are chosen by a selection team which is annually designated by the publisher…

m / 11-10-2010 09:13 - tags: , ,  

challenging/updown dance

i’ve posted this exhibition before but felt it was worth a second mention, dutch dance company NDT celebrated their past with a series of specially comissioned posters and a website also showing all of their old poster designs… interesting to see which have dated the most…

a hard to find (but i managed somehow) book designed by barlock was also released in conjunction with an exhibition in the hague, almost a year ago

m / 08-10-2010 08:22 - tags: , , ,