me news

the image of korea

i received an email this week with a large pdf file from korean designer mister han changkyu and although the mail was a little difficult to understand i believe he wanted to share his work with me, so here they are (my selection)

the posters all have rather poetic titles such as ‘be warm hearted’ and ‘the beauty of line’ and the aesthetic is so completely different to the one my western eyes are trained with that i find it very difficult to judge them at face value… the mix of colour, found objects (classical statues and ceramic pots etc.) and a lack of a large central ‘focal point’ in many of them is however very interesting, thanks for sharing…

m / 10-08-2010 10:41 - tags: ,  

modular people

this little video piece made by ‘azalea lee’ (great name) is really charming, the solutions that people come up whilst playing with the coloured blocks is almost a sub-text to the main thread or plot: the people, their characters, style of dress and behaviour in front of the camera… very nice

m / 09-08-2010 21:02 - tags: , , ,  

give me…

for those who didn’t already know: ‘me studio’ started out as a duo (that’s where the name comes from martin & erik) the office has since changed location four times (and is due to move once again in october this year probably) we’ve worked for some fascinating clients and won numerous awards in the past few years, we’ve also had equally as much fun making all of the other less celebrated projects too… we’ve seen some amazing work from fellow designers & creative minds all over the world, which we like to share on a daily basis with everyone… graphic design is still the best job i could ever think of…

the ‘me blog’ recently underwent a pretty structural face-lift at the back-end (and will have another one in the coming months), the number of ‘unique page views’ is growing daily, we’ve received visitors here at the office from tokyo, denmark, london, italy, france and many many more from such faraway places as vietnam, chili, poland, china, kazachstan everyday via the blog… (thank you) i am also now blogging for ‘fontanel’ on a regular basis, sharing some inspiration in dutch too and the number of people who contact me with interesting stuff and invites to get my work published in books etc. is amazing

the point of all of this rambling is that we’ve got a birthday to celebrate, the time stamp on this post (8-8-8) marks our fifth anniversary as a company, i say ‘we’ because although i am the only person who sits in the office everyday ‘me studio’ is the result of a large network of fine people around me and talented artists i get to work with everyday, thank you all very much, if you feel like leaving a comment or even criticism here below, be my guest, here’s to the next five… cheers!

m / 08-08-2010 20:08 - tags: , ,  

spider m’am

a smart choreography piece ‘weightlessness’ by erika janunger

(with thanks to ‘ingrid baars’ via facebook)

m / 08-08-2010 13:37 - tags: ,  

los logos 5

‘gestalten’ publishers are due to release the fifth in their ‘los logos’ series of books, this time the format has changed… the book called ‘los logos, compass’ is now a larger size and has a more editorial format, with logos categorised into types and different trends in identity design, several of my projects will be featured in the book also but they won’t tell me which…

m / 07-08-2010 16:03 - tags: , ,