a cool shredded invite arrived in the post this week: for the upcoming papier hier event in amsterdam next month
this years event has chosen ‘tactile’ as its theme and i will be doing a talk alongside some people who i admire very much: akatre, hansje van halem, hattie newman and a big favourite of mine ian wright… check the website for details, see also this related post
(the invite was designed by co-organisers ‘lava’)
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
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
i am currently doing a short teaching session at the design academy, eindhoven and have decided to revive my old chinese whispers project with the students; should be interesting to see where that goes…
earlier this week i attended the best dutch book designs 2011 awards ceremony at the stedelijk museum… congratulations to the winners, in particular ‘syb’ and ‘hans gremmen’ both talented book producers and worthy winners
starting this year the exhibition will be going global with a specially produced crate (see above) that contains the entire exhibition and can be put together just using a hammer, planned destinations to visit in the coming year are tokyo, mumbai, leipzig, vienna, poland and turkey
the organisation let me know that amongst the books featured in the international expo are two of our ‘dingen’ books which were awarded in last years competition, great news…