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been there, done that

@Ryan Pescatore Frisk:
I don’t know where I’m going, but it’s definitely not here.

i couldn’t agree less with this tweet posted on saturday afternoon, following on from the seminar taking place in amsterdam amidst the chaos of snow and cancelled flights all over europe… a packed paradiso listened to a series of talks on where graphic design is headed and i found it all very inspiring, no real hard answers but plenty of clues as to what is happening in the world and how we as designers can play a relevant role in those changes…

some highlights for me were the british design critic ‘alice rawsthorn’, who addresssed the crowd via ‘skype’ from london due to a cancelled flight (which somehow gave her talk an extra level of urgency) plus ‘stefan sagmeister’ (whose presentation i’ve heard at least twice already in recent years but never bores me) the ‘wikileaks’ architecture ponderings from ‘metahaven’ and a personal note by ‘sophie krier’ who initiated the whole afternoon… all in all highly entertaining and i’m already looking forward to next years event.

m / 19-12-2010 13:31 - tags: ,  

royal ties

in theory… in theory, i’m attending an event in the royal palace on dam square this afternoon, in the presence of queen beatrix and (close to 500) guests for the annual ‘prince claus fund’ art prize ceremony, in other words all the effort put into my string titles sequence is going to fly by in a few seconds… gone

i still can’t show the final thing here (beatrix first…) but here’s a new test section with some of the finished title pieces… the music was custom made by ‘music skeleton’ and the film will be divided up onto three separate projection screens, should be fun…

on a sidenote: the fact that my personal invite still hasn’t arrived makes me wonder whether the secret police will let me in… we’ll see, wish me luck

m / 17-12-2010 15:22 - tags: ,  

wiggly bum

dutch photography portal ‘photo Q’ has another online auction of oddities & gems, bidding ends late next tuesday…

m / 17-12-2010 08:22 - tags: ,  

amsterdam begins with a….

so it’s a good place to start, ha ha good answer, i like it…

one of my favourite designers ‘henrik vibskov’ has opened a 100 day pop-up store just round the corner, hopefully i can get away early today…

m / 13-12-2010 14:01 - tags: , ,  

studio visit

‘mini me’ popped round to rearrange dad’s studio yesterday & search for that episode of barbapapa she’d missed on the ipad…

m / 10-12-2010 12:07 - tags: