creative network ‘behance’ are organising worldwide review events in the coming months and i’m taking part at the local event in utrecht in early may… many thanks to ‘autobahn’ for the invite, it’s always a pleasure to meet the next generation
we’ve been a member since 2007 and my first piece of advice is… join! it’s free, well organised and free, what’s stopping you?
…clearly at a point in his life his view of the client has shifted. “The right client (or one that shares your view of the world) can be your greatest asset,” he says. “The wrong client, who wants to use your skills to accomplish his sales objectives, can destroy your sense of yourself. Like good friends, good clients are hard to find…
interesting read this: a short interview with mister ‘milton glaser’ who has just published a new book to share some of his wisdom and experience
Do no harm. Do good work.
a lovely, minimalistic little publication arrived on the doormat this week, designed by duo ‘niessen de vries’ it takes a look at the working methods of photography duo scheltens & abbenes
1:1:1 is a documentary series in print exploring reproduction and the rationale behind the works of artist and designers, in which printing matter converges with the subject matter, the image with the text, the reproduction with the original and the designer and the printer with the client.
i have been an eye magazine subscriber since the very first issue when i was still a student and that kind of cash was hard to find… in my opinion it is still the only really serious magazine out there when it comes to covering the field of graphic design in the broadest sense
atypically for a british magazine it doesn’t and never has had a an anglo-centric bias in its writing and choice of subject matter, the cover of the first issue showed a detail of piet zwarts’ seminal ptt book and paved the way for the balanced and international vision that has characterised the magazine ever since
aside from its consistently strong (and critical) editorial content the covers (usually with a layered image made up out of several content-relevant topics) are in themselves almost a ‘who’s who’ of graphic design and its collective vocabulary over the past century, here is a quick selection which i plucked off their facebook page… and before anyone asks no i wasn’t paid to say this…
my first contribution to the new ‘amsterdam ad blog’ visual inspiration column was posted this morning, our brief is ‘somehow related to amsterdam’