some amusing logo ‘mash-ups’ from johnson banks, you are invited to add your own to the list…
me news
dictaphone
british comedian ‘eddie izzard’ once did an absolutely hilarious sketch about the fine line between being cool & looking like a dickhead… the theory is this: you start of at the bottom of a circle (looking like a dickhead) as you become cooler you progress around the circle, gathering coolness until you go just a bit too far and… hey presto! you’re back to looking like a dickhead… brilliant
ipad = cool
hacking hardware to do stuff it shouldn’t = even cooler…
ipad phone calls = yep… it’s back to dickhead
give me…
for those who didn’t already know: ‘me studio’ started out as a duo (that’s where the name comes from martin & erik) the office has since changed location four times (and is due to move once again in october this year probably) we’ve worked for some fascinating clients and won numerous awards in the past few years, we’ve also had equally as much fun making all of the other less celebrated projects too… we’ve seen some amazing work from fellow designers & creative minds all over the world, which we like to share on a daily basis with everyone… graphic design is still the best job i could ever think of…
the ‘me blog’ recently underwent a pretty structural face-lift at the back-end (and will have another one in the coming months), the number of ‘unique page views’ is growing daily, we’ve received visitors here at the office from tokyo, denmark, london, italy, france and many many more from such faraway places as vietnam, chili, poland, china, kazachstan everyday via the blog… (thank you) i am also now blogging for ‘fontanel’ on a regular basis, sharing some inspiration in dutch too and the number of people who contact me with interesting stuff and invites to get my work published in books etc. is amazing
the point of all of this rambling is that we’ve got a birthday to celebrate, the time stamp on this post (8-8-8) marks our fifth anniversary as a company, i say ‘we’ because although i am the only person who sits in the office everyday ‘me studio’ is the result of a large network of fine people around me and talented artists i get to work with everyday, thank you all very much, if you feel like leaving a comment or even criticism here below, be my guest, here’s to the next five… cheers!
the silent majority
this is probably a bestseller amongst the members of the new dutch cabinet…
new shoes always hurt
a little post i made last week showing a sneak preview of the new vpro identity by ‘thonik’ received a few comments, mostly from ‘haters’ and a few careful positive reactions, i also received a few reactions by mail, all very negative… and after a re-post of my story by some design friends on facebook last week, the new design got a real bashing with some very harsh words being spoken… my own opinion is somewhere in the middle i guess, the new logo doesn’t seem to really add anything to the story and looks rather corporate, thonik here once again using their own corporate typeface to brand a client…
however i do feel that it could have been a lot ‘worse’ the essence of the old logo has been restyled (a question of taste this one) and although the logo has lost a lot of the quirkiness that the old one (made by max kisman) contained… it all feels a bit too rational and clean… as i said on facebook in response to the haters… maybe the ‘rational’ feel is a sign of the times, holland has changed a lot since that old logo was born… the country has become more corporate, more rational and certainly much much less left-wing than it was (see the news this week…sigh…) and in that sense this logo is perhaps a true reflection of the culture that it is part of… how sad…
as one comment pointed out, we should wait and see what the whole picture is when it is launched for real later this month… if my ‘sneak preview post’ proves anything, it will certainly be receiving very ‘mixed’ reviews whatever the story behind it…