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thoughts on pixels
talking of similarities in design :) i myself cannot escape some close scrutiny from colleagues occasionally… a friend sent me this film pointing out the similarity between it and my ‘suikerdepot’ poster with sugar cubes (see ‘me work’)
well ok i guess there are similarities, the difference being that i hadn’t yet used the sugar cubes as pixels until now and only then for a poster advertising the new website because it then seemed highly relevant… the cubes were originally devised as a font but have now taken on a larger spectrum being used for various illustrations and icons, something which you have possibly seen done before as a technique, yes ok mea culpa…
thoughts on colour
congratulations to all of the winners at the recently held ‘european design awards’ in rotterdam last week, the dutch winners were once again numerous and generally well deserved…
however when i saw this bronze winning design (shown above & at the top), a corporate identity for a higher education school ‘NHL’ by design agency ‘koeweiden postma’ it rang a few bells somehow… now this may not sound very kind, but am i the only one who feels that there is a very, very strong similarity between this identity (conceptualy & physically) and the renowned identity for porto’s ‘casa da musica’ by sagmeister inc.? (shown here above & below)
both use the characteristic architecture as a basis for a series of crystal-like forms which are then implemented by colouring the facets using a variety of colourways for the various sub-divisions, typographically they are very different and the execution is admittedly not the same… but the majority of the thinking behind both schemes appears to me to be identical, but as a i say i may be wrong, perhaps somebody would care to comment? you can see the first one here and sagmeister’s one here (it isn’t apparently even on his own website currently)
as i said your views are welcome, please click (on the title of this post) to leave your thoughts on this subject…
all votes are covered
an interesting looking series of political covers for the dutch ‘vpro’ magazine, which is running with 11 separate covers for this one occasion… all from different designers/illustrators
the only problem is i haven’t seen them for real yet (due to my holiday) and they are virtually impossible to view properly on their site… so apologies for the incomplete post, i’m sure a few of them are pretty good ;)
nationalism never sounded so good
as the dutch approach a national election campaign that could prove as futile as the recent british one… recent graduate & provocateur ‘yuri veerman’ has produced a version of the dutch national anthem (the wilhelmus) as interpreted by a morroccan singer ‘teema’, to add to the debate about nationality and immigration, should get some publicity this one… at the very least it provides a welcome contrast to the frankly ridiculous publicity campaigns from some of the right wing parties plus it’s the first time i’ve ever heard a national anthem (any of them) sound remotely worth listening to… the official website is here