the portrait was shot by ‘ruud baan’ and we then created a collage of images taken from the archives of the dutch national ballet, shown below is an alternative billboard format version
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design trash
just completed before the sum[me]r break today:
a rather special new production from the underground activists known as the belarus free theater who will be performing a world première of their latest creation ‘trash cuisine’, tackling the issues of capital punishment, early october in amsterdam…
posters with different text dates plus a flyer, all made with small dinner plates and a bloody mess of handwritten words, the dates needed to be shown together on the flyer and separately on the posters, a problem which i eventually solved by piling the two plates on top of each other for the flyer image…
looking forward to seeing them hanging around town, soon after we get back
fluff stuff
two new posters for the ‘sugar factory’ just completed this week: a fluffy line-up poster made with bits of old felt
and one for the upcoming ‘ADE’ dance event in amsterdam, restrictions were using their black / yellow identity colours plus a series bright primary rainbow colours for the type, a tough brief…
i chose to make the type mostly black and use the colours as part of the backdrop instead; to ‘calm the chaos down’ a bit, i think it helped… it’s nice to be making the ‘sugar’ poster series grow, diversify and the idea behind the new identity starting to work as i intended
80
the first two posters for the new season of the dutch national ballet a regular one and a large format billboard version:
celebrated choreographer ‘hans van manen’ 80 this year
the portrait was shot by mister ‘ruud baan’ and we created a collage of hans’ long career, using old archive images from their enormous photo collection… the theme we chose for this years poster series is ‘jump’ and all of the posters will feature a jump in some form or other, in this particular case the ‘jump’ is hidden in amongst the small images
subtone
two new posters for ‘subtone’ dj series; just back from the printers this week, with thanks to my neighbour stefan for the knees…
