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washing instructions

…this pocket-sized book offers all there is to know when disaster strikes and how to live comfortably during climate change…

designer ruben pater sent me this little project he has recently completed: in a country such as the netherlands people have more than a passing interest in global warming and water levels, a large part of the nation is actually below sea level and although the government has compiled instructions as to what to do should large-scale flooding occur they have surprisingly never been implemented or published…

he decided to correct this omission and has produced a pocket sized cute ‘official’ manual explaining what to do before your knees get wet… (see english summary)

m / 08-07-2011 13:59 - tags: , ,  

random image

beautiful image of cate blanchett (well her well-dressed arse, at least) arriving at the armani show this year, we all know what she looks like anyway right?… (via vos broekema)

m / 08-07-2011 13:23 - tags: , ,  

enjoy neon

i came across this wonderful piece on the CR blog from a while ago (must have missed it)… about the old coca cola neon sign on picadilly circus, london from the mid 1950’s and how it ws made, great stuff… there is also a link to their official company archive website, but its awful stick with the CR piece i say…

m / 08-07-2011 13:01 - tags: , ,  

type player 2

a new book entitled type player 2 arrived in the post this week featuring two of our projects, published by ‘ginko press’ in china, the book is nicely made and well researched, although a few of the projects i noticed are clearly bad rip-offs from better known work by other designers… i guess it’s time i stopped allowing people to publish the ‘suikerdepôt’ identity however, it’s been in so many books in the past few years and is already more than four years old, time to move on…

m / 08-07-2011 11:17 - tags: ,  

pick n mix

all 45 DDA nominees have been announced this week, including the selection for the ‘communication’ category which i was part of… overall i’m pretty pleased with the selection but there is bound to be quite a bit of discussion in the field, as there was on the jury days too

by the way if anyone has a beef about the quality of the selection or the fact that you are not selected, you are kindly invited not to contact me and bitch about it (again)… just to be clear the group which selected this work consisted of more than 15 people not just me, nepotism isn’t a factor, you are naive if you believe it is and if you don’t believe me try sitting in a jury yourself someday or even better make some good work and win…thanks, now i’ve got that off my chest…

m / 08-07-2011 09:46 - tags: ,  
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