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thoughts on colour
congratulations to all of the winners at the recently held ‘european design awards’ in rotterdam last week, the dutch winners were once again numerous and generally well deserved…
however when i saw this bronze winning design (shown above & at the top), a corporate identity for a higher education school ‘NHL’ by design agency ‘koeweiden postma’ it rang a few bells somehow… now this may not sound very kind, but am i the only one who feels that there is a very, very strong similarity between this identity (conceptualy & physically) and the renowned identity for porto’s ‘casa da musica’ by sagmeister inc.? (shown here above & below)
both use the characteristic architecture as a basis for a series of crystal-like forms which are then implemented by colouring the facets using a variety of colourways for the various sub-divisions, typographically they are very different and the execution is admittedly not the same… but the majority of the thinking behind both schemes appears to me to be identical, but as a i say i may be wrong, perhaps somebody would care to comment? you can see the first one here and sagmeister’s one here (it isn’t apparently even on his own website currently)
as i said your views are welcome, please click (on the title of this post) to leave your thoughts on this subject…
bulgaria’s best kept secret
…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…
snitker + de haas
i had a look at the two designers who are credited for designing the new ‘huis marseille’ corporate identity (and font) this afternoon (see earlier post) and it was worth it…
michaël snitker has a typography-biased style whereas bart de haas seems to specialise more in books, snitker’s folio in particular has some really interesting work…
the good book
this week ‘polly’ the cat got her copy of the excellent new book ‘logo’ by michael evamy (published by lawrence king) and she pointed out that 2 me studio logos had been included, which is nice, the ‘me’ logo and the ‘tear’ one made last year… (thanks to polly for the tip)
there’s no point in writing a review michael johnson has already done a great job review here