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thoughts on pixels
talking of similarities in design :) i myself cannot escape some close scrutiny from colleagues occasionally… a friend sent me this film pointing out the similarity between it and my ‘suikerdepot’ poster with sugar cubes (see ‘me work’)
well ok i guess there are similarities, the difference being that i hadn’t yet used the sugar cubes as pixels until now and only then for a poster advertising the new website because it then seemed highly relevant… the cubes were originally devised as a font but have now taken on a larger spectrum being used for various illustrations and icons, something which you have possibly seen done before as a technique, yes ok mea culpa…
thoughts on colour
congratulations to all of the winners at the recently held ‘european design awards’ in rotterdam last week, the dutch winners were once again numerous and generally well deserved…
however when i saw this bronze winning design (shown above & at the top), a corporate identity for a higher education school ‘NHL’ by design agency ‘koeweiden postma’ it rang a few bells somehow… now this may not sound very kind, but am i the only one who feels that there is a very, very strong similarity between this identity (conceptualy & physically) and the renowned identity for porto’s ‘casa da musica’ by sagmeister inc.? (shown here above & below)
both use the characteristic architecture as a basis for a series of crystal-like forms which are then implemented by colouring the facets using a variety of colourways for the various sub-divisions, typographically they are very different and the execution is admittedly not the same… but the majority of the thinking behind both schemes appears to me to be identical, but as a i say i may be wrong, perhaps somebody would care to comment? you can see the first one here and sagmeister’s one here (it isn’t apparently even on his own website currently)
as i said your views are welcome, please click (on the title of this post) to leave your thoughts on this subject…
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the designpolitie are one of the groups responsible for organising a new design event in amsterdam roughly a year from now, entitled ‘idea’… the event promises a series of lectures, presentations, exhibitions and much more, as a kick-off they are hosting a ‘pre-event’ in the coming month (7th of june) to explain the idea behind ‘idea’ and to get people involved
unfortunately i will not be able to attend the kick-off but will certainly be keeping my eyes open when any new information becomes available online… speakers for the kick-off include ‘reza abedini’, ‘thonik’ and architects ‘mvrdv’
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