there is still almost one week left to enter the annual chaumont poster festival, at least if you have made anything that meets the high standard, in my case the answer is no sadly…
me news
new clients
not so long ago, we made a conscious decision not to take part in pitches where creative worked is requested for free, a wise choice it seems… a decision partly fuelled by a frustration in dealing with clients who misunderstand the rules of pitching but also partly due to a frustrating tendency in the past six years of never actually winning one…
well it seems that the times have indeed changed somewhat: after winning a pitch in the summer last year (the amsterdam music theater) we are proud to announce that we have also recently won the commission to redesign the complete identity for amsterdam nightclub ‘the sugar factory’ (plus several small sub-identities for specific club evenings), secondly we have just won a pitch to produce the identity and campaign for a small arab film festival in amsterdam called ‘cinema arabe’ and as i write this news has just come in about a third new client, more news (and plenty of new work) soon…
by the way i am urgently looking for someone to help me with arab text, if anybody can write in arabic or knows someone who can i would love to hear from you
the hair bear bunch
local arty hairdressing salon betsys are opening their art exhibition season with a spring show by mister martyn f. overweel, opening (highly appropriately) on april the 1st
dare
i’m honoured to be doing the opening speech for an upcoming exhibition of eight years work by talented poster designer ‘paulina matusiak’ at the dutch poster museum (in nearby hoorn), the exhibition opens on the 27th of march and runs till mid may…
is dutch design dutch?
on monday my (small) studio was hosting a visit by a small group of young design students from the renowned ‘pratt institute’ in new york, accompanied by their friendly teacher mister ‘tom klinkowstein’, the visit and discussion was initiated by designer ‘helene bergmans’ (ex-dumbar, ex-barlock) and together with designer ‘erwin slaats’ (ex-EdenSpiekermann) and pam asselbergs (ex-EAT, ex-VBAT) we were asked to each show a few projects and to talk to the students about ‘dutch design’ and what their impressions were of the differences between the two nations (amongst other things)
the talk raised a few interesting topics for me and it was really fun to meet new people and ‘talk shop’, something which i wish we all did more… see you all next time in new york and thanks for the inspiration…