one of the most original poster designers i know ‘michiel schuurman’ quit his practice last year to go and work full-time as an in-house textile designer at renowned dutch textile brand ‘vlisco’
i’ve been meaning to interview him for a while now about how it’s going and whether he made the right decision… but too late: somebody at mercedes benz already has… sounds great (despite the multi-language website it’s a dutch only interview sadly)
during the latest edition of the graphic design festival i have been asked to do a lecture (on thursday the 20th of sept.) about my design practice and this year’s theme: visual storytelling
amongst those also doing lectures alongside me are: ‘trapped in suburbia’, ‘sean freeman’ (UK), ‘peter orntoft’ (DK), ‘gorilla’, ‘autobahn’, ‘father futherback’ and ‘snask’ (SE)… all lectures will be given in english, now i just have to think of something / anything at all interesting to say… oops, coud be difficult
i managed to visit the rietveld academy 2012 grad show late last week and as usual it wasn’t disappointing…. always a good crop and this year seemed somehow to be better than previous years in my opinion, lots of solid research behind projects and surprisingly in graphic design a lot more paper/book projects than usual even…
i spent some time talking to one of the photography students (above & below) in particular: ukranian ‘ola lanko’ who had some great projects… i’ll post more them and her later this week…
sad news this week: the dutch government in all of their wisdom (not) have decided to kill the ‘theater institute’, even a planned relaunch as a museum and financial constructions that would involve using accumulated assets have been blocked, so it’s goodbye tin
the collection will not be kept together and hundreds of years of invaluable material is now in danger of disappearing, the ‘dutch theater poster awards’ for which i have been nominated several times and been actively involved in for several years now will of course also never take place again… another one bites the dust
congratulations to my longest (11 years so far) serving client ever: the dutch national ballet, who have just been nominated for the best client award at this years dutch design awards, with heineken and schiphol airport amongst the nominees, the competition will be pretty stiff, still nice that they have been recognised in this way… and good luck guys!