some new work to start off the new year, the ‘nutcracker’ poster in a large backlit version, a fake ballet poster for a photography student friend, the brief was ‘make a picture which pokes fun at yourself’ she is quite a large girl and decided to make a ballet poster for herself, i really love the image and was glad to help her…
and the latest poster for the ‘ssst’ campaign for the ‘sugar factory’ nightclub, shown below (image by student marinus heuvelman)
in preparation for the ’50 years of ballet posters’ event we are taking part in at the dutch poster museum starting late january, i am currently making a poster for the exhibition
the idea was fairly simple: an abstract tutu/dancing figure made out of folded ballet posters, actually getting it work is taking a little bit more time however… more news soon
we are currently working on some new posters for the ‘sugar factory’ in early 2012 whilst preparing the launch of their brand new identity which me studio has been developing over the past months, more news soon…
these are some more of the amazing posters i saw last week (see previous post) from a dutch (as yet unknown to me) artist/designer called ‘chris lebeau’ who was active in the period in between the two wars, he was an amazing woodcutter and typographer, lebeau eventually died in a german prison camp near the end of the war… definitely someone who i will be doing some more research on this coming year… any tips on this fascinating figure are very welcome…
on a visit to the dutch poster museum last week, i came across some beautiful work whilst taking advantage of a rare opportunity to sniff around in their cellar archives, the above posters are polish circus posters with a great and to my mind, strange ‘dark’ vibe…
the ‘dantons dood’ poster shown above by ‘nicholaas wijnberg’ from 1958, is said to have been the catalyst for ‘anton beeke’ to become a poster designer himself…
