a fascinating flickr set from the ‘american library of congress’ collection with photographers appearing inadvertently in the images, the best of which is the reflection revealed in the eye of geronimo in the famous portrait of him… when greatly enlarged, see the whole set here
(link via ‘design related’)
…prior to the announcement, our youtube announcement page is the most subscribed channel of all time in the UK and 4th largest in the world of all time… the YouTube channel had 3.4million views across the tease phase in a week and over 2 million views in the first 5 days since launch together with global news coverage, featuring on stations such as ITV, ABC, CNN and leading European news channels…
my friends from london-based studio andersen m got in touch to share their beautiful new stop-motion work for the recently launched harry potter online portal ‘pottermore’, as usual immaculately executed and a fitting style for the subject matter
see an online launch film with their handcrafted paper animation here complete with a rather grumpy looking ‘jk rowling’…
one of my posters, but then improved somewhat with the help of the weather and some nice decay…
a fascinating online archive of first issue magazines and the accompanying launch statements from the editors
(tip via dorien franken)
wednesday was spent judging some 400+ posters for the annual ‘dutch theater poster awards’, it’s always fascinating (and quite unique) to see a years worth of poster design from one country all in one go in one space…
this year the graphic designers were quite heavily represented amongst the jury members (including my friends ‘lernert & sander’) which led to some difficult discussions during the day, on the whole i feel very happy about the final selection and the winner, more news as soon as the finalists are announced next month…