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clarity and secrets

funny what you can come across on you tube sometimes…

three short interviews (made last year if i remember correctly) by a group of french design students visiting amsterdam, the subject was ‘poster design in amsterdam’ and the connection was the wonderful posters in amsterdam blog by ‘jarr (talking above)

secondly (above) the talented mister michiel schuurman whose quote … you only have one side of the paper so you can’t hide anything… really appeals to me

and finally me, although we didn’t have contact at the time these were made; it is interesting to see that we have similar views to share… although the interviews appear to have been heavily trimmed down here…

m / 16-10-2012 07:22 - tags: , , ,  

posters of madness

madness in deventer: me talking about ‘music & design’ in two weeks time…

m / 15-10-2012 12:04 - tags: , ,  

new (printed) work

m / 12-10-2012 10:34 - tags:  

for the benefit of mr. kite

…as the story goes, when John Lennon was writing “I Am the Walrus,” he received a letter from a student at his former primary school explaining that the English teacher there had given his pupils the task of decoding and analyzing Beatles lyrics. So, in true Lennon fashion, he resolved to make his new song as inscrutable as possible, including nonsensical lines about yellow custard and dead dog eyes adapted from a nursery rhyme he sang as a child…

…the song… might seem like a similarly obtuse flight of fancy, but it was actually inspired by -and, in many cases, lifted wholesale from–a Victorian circus poster Lennon had picked up at an antiques shop some time earlier…

serious beatles fan peter dean recreates the poster in question in the most painstaking fashion possible… great story
(many thanks to ‘el generalissimo’ jean-louis denis)

m / 11-10-2012 14:46 - tags: , ,  

n8 12

the new ‘museum nacht’ (n8) campaign from the festina lente collective, currently around town… very nice, a big improvement on the previous one

by festina members: design ‘baster’ photography ‘léon hendrickx’

m / 11-10-2012 12:57 - tags: , , ,