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jan heijnen

not a name i was familiar with: jan heijnen a multi-faceted designer working in the hague, certainly worth a visit this portfolio

(tip via mister ‘syb’)

m / 22-10-2012 07:55 - tags: , , ,  

dda 12: pick of the crop

congratulations to the winners of this years dutch design awards, for which i was involved in the scouting committee once again

in particular to lesley moore for a well-deserved win in the category ‘communication’ and to christian borstlap for the ‘best motion design’ and the ‘golden eye award’, more news on the official website: sadly my client; the dutch national ballet wasn’t a winner in the category best client award but still they were amongst the nominees, which is a result…

m / 22-10-2012 07:49 - tags: , , ,  

you

nice idea for a piece of cd packaging with a twist: the latest album from artist ‘mondo leone’

the cover features a blank outline of a head, conceived and designed by mister syb who took the album title ‘you’ quite literally: if you send the artist your picture by mail he will draw your very own portrait on the cover, each one is unique just like… you

m / 19-10-2012 08:44 - tags: , , ,  

logotype me

just in this week the new volume ‘logotype’ by laurence king, the third in the ‘logo’ series this time focusing on purely (or largely) typographical logos, me studio is pretty well represented in this book, always nice to see

m / 19-10-2012 08:38 - tags: , ,  

we will

…as vot­ing rights are under attack in states across the coun­try, the We Will cam­paign is aggres­sively opti­mistic, high­light­ing the war on vot­ing, while remind­ing young peo­ple of their col­lec­tive power… hand-drawn graph­i­cal ele­ments, to illus­trate the voice of the peo­ple and cre­ate a visual dia­logue between “they” and “we”… min­i­mal in color and graph­ics to hero the They/We mes­sag­ing…

a raw typographical approach for the youth vote we will campaign (link via jean louis ‘the dominatrix’ denis)

m / 18-10-2012 08:42 - tags: ,