theater group ‘t barre land has had a long and very fruitful relationship with poster designer herman van bostelen and this latest one is no exception, the highly unconventional ‘elastic bands’ image is no doubt one of his own making too, he is a very talented fella… he almost always choses the least expected route when choosing his approach to a poster and to my mind, this certainly pays dividends
dutch newspaper ‘het parool’ published a spread about the ‘dutch national ballet’ amateur photography competition today; showing the ten winners, i will post some more images of the accompanying poster campaign we made, later this week (currently all around amsterdam)
…the available size of a iPhone screen is width 320 × height 460 pixels at portrait orientation after excluding the status bar, or points if we are talking about the Retina display. If you divide 460 by 44 you get a remainder of 20. Divide by 11 and you get a remainder of 9. 460 cannot be divided into equal parts of 11 nor 44. The vertical rhythm is corrupt…
interesting article from print/online designer ‘aentan’ who finds the grid system used for the iPhone iOS flawed…
(link via ‘jean-louis denis strijbosch’)
…he calls them “Pen Blow” paintings, and not by accident. His method–developed after countless material experiments with everything from coffee to Elmers glue–goes like this: He opens ballpoint pen cartridges, yanks off the tips, then, with his mouth, blows ink through the tubes onto 12-inch-by-12 inch or 24-by-24-inch panels. When the ink flows out, it’s saturated with color and so viscous that, “Instead of turning to a mist, it blows out into sticky interconnected strings,” …that gives the paintings a spider web-like quality…
some beautiful ballpoint pen art from brooklyn-based artist ‘shane mcadams’ (text above quoted from a ‘fastco’article)
