nice colour combination for spring… rené knip’s latest poster offering for ‘het concertgebouworkest’
me news
50 years of protest
the guardian is hosting an overview of some of the best of 50 years of amnesty international posters, from amongst others ‘pablo picasso’
culture clash
this weekend i met and had a chat to ‘royalsteez’ whose one-man campaign to raise awareness of the current political climate and the impending crisis in the arts & culture can be seen all over the netherlands, right now… as his website states:
“YOUR ART COULD HAVE BEEN HERE” is a one-man campaign initiated by artist ROYALSTEEZ. A campaign to make other artists aware of the fact that they could have been there. Aware of the fact that opportunities will never come easily and to get opportunities you’ll have to create them in order to been seen. Also to be aware of the fact that you cannot let your creations depend on grants and benefits but on hard work and showing yourself…
perhaps the most surprising fact he told me is that he actually travelled around the whole country ‘solo’ fly-posting the posters himself, which took weeks… the reason being he felt that this was part of the manifesto: to do it yourself, impressive… (top image courtesy of mister ‘jarr’)
the ballet interview me
an interview that the dutch national ballet have just published in their latest magazine with ‘me studio’ on how the posters are created and what the work process is…
new work
three new posters arrived back from the printers yesterday: two for the dutch national ballet and one for the ‘amsterdam music theater’