a large collection of posters from the archives of the london film festival spanning a period of nearly 60 years, posted without any further information on the collection or the designers involved, what strikes me is the almost catalogue-like sequence of typical design styles and font choices from all of the periods featured… there are a few real gems here but for the large part they are pretty average at best, i find…
(via ‘john de vries’)
i’m in rotterdam all day friday, helping to select entries for this years dutch design awards, back on monday…
one of my most favourite illustrators of the moment ‘blexbolex’ has created a new (3 colour) graphic novel due for imminent release from the lovely people at nobrow, his work is probably the closest modern equivalent to one of the all time great ‘graphic novel without words’ artists: belgian woodcutter and social activist frans masereel
this is a post i wrote as contributor to the amsterdam ad blog ‘something related to amsterdam’ column, originally posted on the 18th of may ’12…
foto chroma
The building in the foreground (shown above) is currently a rather expensive restaurant frequented mainly by wealthy american tourists staying at the ‘Renaissance Hotel’ (across the road) on the corner of the ‘Kattegat’ near Central Station in Amsterdam.
I have lived in the narrow street to the left for almost 20 years and (give or take a few cars, lots of sign posts and graffiti) this is basically what i still see everyday. The only big difference is that this colour image was taken almost 100 years ago by local photographer ‘Bernard F. Eilers’ whose ‘foto chroma eilers’ technique was one of the earliest and best of its kind.
To see more of his fascinating ‘Amsterdam in colour’ series, also worth a look is the enormous collection of the Amsterdam City Archive online: Stadsarchief.
Eilers was briefly celebrated for his work but soon overtaken by american competitors such as Kodak and Agfa, now themselves in turn, just a part of history…
see also this related post on the same subject, back in ’10
late last week, i attended this years dutch panl photography awards in amsterdam, under chairmanship of my good friend ‘lukas göbel’ the jury had a tough job choosing amongst what was clearly a rather sparse year, follow the link above for a complete list of the winners…