… a short film about Marc Manceaux, the owner of the oldest piano shop in Paris… (link via professor ‘jean louis denis s’)
me news
labour of love
my new ‘most favourite poster ever’ is not one made by me, but for me: to celebrate my 45th birthday last tuesday… it’s hard not to be impressed when a designer puts everything they have into crafting a design, or am i just a proud dad?
a cunning mouse went for a walk
anybody with children (and many without) will be familiar with the story of ‘the gruffalo’, here is a short behind the scenes documentary
based on the book written by ‘julia donaldson’ and illustrated by ‘axel scheffer’ the animated film was made in collaboration with talented animators studio soi and french composer ‘rené aubry’
beeke’d beans
the dutch post office visited the studio today to discuss the stamp designs we are currently working on (of which more news soon) and this classic series came up in the discussion,: made in 2003 by none other than ‘anton beeke’ to comemorate 250 years of dutch coffee company ‘douwe egberts’, using a beautifully simple iconic coffee cup and a ‘coffee bean’ pattern
the more i think about it the more it strikes me that strong stamp designs very closely resemble posters in their singularity… (maybe this idea needs some more thought but i know what i mean…) these particular stamps were actually one of the first ‘scratch & sniff’ productions, more classic designs can be seen on the PostNL archive site here
god save the poster
lovely little promo film for an exhibition on the punk era & its heroes entitled god save the queen, created by dutch agency vanabbetotvessem for the centraal museum, using a series of sequenced still images shot in stop-motion then re-edited back together to acheive this pretty cool effect, nice work
(link via a’dam ad blog)