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dda 12: pick of the crop

congratulations to the winners of this years dutch design awards, for which i was involved in the scouting committee once again

in particular to lesley moore for a well-deserved win in the category ‘communication’ and to christian borstlap for the ‘best motion design’ and the ‘golden eye award’, more news on the official website: sadly my client; the dutch national ballet wasn’t a winner in the category best client award but still they were amongst the nominees, which is a result…

m / 22-10-2012 07:49 - tags: , , ,  

sorry

this UK sanitary towel brand decided to respond to negative reactions on facebook in a slightly different way than most brands would, smart move…

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computer effects without the computer

(via ‘odilo’)

m / 16-10-2012 13:07 - tags: , , ,  

clarity and secrets

funny what you can come across on you tube sometimes…

three short interviews (made last year if i remember correctly) by a group of french design students visiting amsterdam, the subject was ‘poster design in amsterdam’ and the connection was the wonderful posters in amsterdam blog by ‘jarr (talking above)

secondly (above) the talented mister michiel schuurman whose quote … you only have one side of the paper so you can’t hide anything… really appeals to me

and finally me, although we didn’t have contact at the time these were made; it is interesting to see that we have similar views to share… although the interviews appear to have been heavily trimmed down here…

m / 16-10-2012 07:22 - tags: , , ,  

a knife in the eye

interesting documentary on belgian artist and rising star ‘michaĆ«l borremans’, there are english subtitles which can be switched on via you tube…

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