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the felicity poster competition, featuring amongst others ‘david carson’ and ‘woody pirtle’ as jury members is closing for submissions this coming saturday, so be quick if you want to enter…

i personally, however, cannot even understand what the brief means… if somebody can understand what they are asking everyone to do/make, please drop me a line… i’m just baffled:

…does graphic art have a sense in times of crisis? When the life conditions of a community are put into discussion and everything seems to take on a connotation of urgency, graphic art can be a tool for channelling a statement, to sensitize and propose new solutions, to transmit ideas, sensations and opinions. Over the years the needs of people change and diversify, professional qualities also change and diversify as well as the way of representing and communicating them. Felicity aims at providing a contribution to reflection beginning from an anthropological vision and arriving at modern times, in the expectation of a future where the city can be a better place for self-improvement.

m / 27-07-2010 13:50 - tags: , ,  

in progress

i am currently refining two new ballet posters which should be ready in time for the new season in september… see also this previous post about the photoshoot, a while ago

m / 27-07-2010 13:41 - tags: ,  

if

spanish poster designer ‘isidro ferrer’ was first brought to my attention after reading an interview in the latest issue of the excellent new design magazine ‘elephant’

he uses a mix of photography, illustration and found elements to very striking and often humorous effect

he appears to be quite reclusive and doesn’t really have an internet site where all of his work can be seen together, so i’ve indulged myself here and posted a large number of his beautiful posters, see below for some of the links i did manage to find…

here are a few links i found about him online

m / 22-07-2010 13:51 - tags: , , ,  

kieler woche

…every year, in the last week of June, more than three million people from 70 countries visit the biggest summer festival in northern Europe. Over ten days, Kiel puts its best foot forward with a unique mix of cultural, musical, political and social highlights…

interesting archive of all of the posters for the ‘kieler woche’ event since 1948, showing a chronological history of some of the predominant (typo)graphic styles from then to the present… from graphic/geometric and understated to the over-indulgent

m / 21-07-2010 11:47 - tags: , , ,  

theaterafficheprijs 2010

congratulations to all of the nominees for this year’s dutch theater poster awards (text in dutch only) the full list of nominees can be seen on the website and seeing as i was a member of the jury i would just like to point out that the selection shown here bears no reflection on the juries favourites or the winner, merely a random batch i picked… the prize will be presented early november at an, as yet, unknown location…

m / 20-07-2010 14:06 - tags: ,