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the future…

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…of design, according to kenya hara

…i’ve identified four keywords related to this: sensai (delicateness), chimitsu (meticulousness), teinei (thoroughness or attention to detail) and kanketsu (simplicity)…

p.s. the blog will be quiet for a few days, several battery-charging days ahead, see you soon…

m / 01-05-2014 08:22 - tags: , ,  

new work

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two new ‘call to entry’ posters for the 2015 edition of fotofestival naarden, image made in collaboration with my friends from blomkwist & louazna

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m / 29-04-2014 08:09 - tags: , ,  

post-apartheid

…the final design also used a particular orangey shade of red known as chilli red, which is mid-way between the colours of the British and Dutch colonial-era flags but at the same time reminiscent of South Africa’s coral trees, Brownell says, and the flat hats worn by married Zulu women…

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the man who designed south africa’s multi-coloured flag fred brownell tells how it happened; the flag was the inspiration behind our banners for the mandela celebrations in amsterdam late last year…

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m / 28-04-2014 08:36 - tags: , , ,  

silent fear

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photographer tyler hicks who deservedly won a pulitzer prize for his nairobi shopping mall image, talks about that fateful day and about that amazing picture

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m / 28-04-2014 08:01 - tags: , ,  

app-ril stuff

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we are currently working on an app for the metropole orkest (our first); finally a chance to get the logo we made in motion and one of the rare projects that doesn’t smell of ink when finished…. more news later
shown below are some images of the snarky puppy poster around the hague and rotterdam last week

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m / 25-04-2014 08:36 - tags: , , ,