a planned exhibition i’m taking part in at at the ‘dutch poster museum’ early next year, has just been confirmed, more news soon…
me news
inkremental
…what’s the point of sticking up an identical piece when you could display an augmented image instead? […] respect the following constraint: produce an image that evolves with each new run of ink… each image, reflecting an extra run, will be presented to the public in four stages. Colour thus acquires a narrative potential…
a poster project featuring 13 designers from the upcoming chaumont poster festival website (26 may-8 june 2012), amongst them locals: mister michiel schuurman and pinar & viola, thanks also to michiel for the link
grote prijs
intro films for the contestants for the ‘grote prijs’ this year (a music competition in various genres held each year in amsterdam) the style, posters and leaders were developed by three of my neighbours: ’21bis’ ‘from the hill’ & ‘jihaa’, very nice boys…
see the whole set here
cash ‘n’ carry meets design museum
the black & white expo i took part recently in has been extended till late december (due to success) and the posters can now also be purchased online for a highly reasonnable fee of 10 euros, don’t worry all of the cash goes to charity and not me… oh by the way the website is in dutch so give me a shout if you need help ordering that pile of 100 posters you were going to buy for christmas presents…
a collection of collections
i have been looking around for this beautiful old poster from 1966, by dutch designer ‘jan van toorn’ for ages now and was reminded of it once again recently when i saw a copy at the ‘grafisch geluk’ exhibition in hilversum
this weekend i was sorting through hundreds and hundreds of posters in my own collection and of my own work (for an exhibition next year, of which more later…) and behold i discovered that i have already owned an original copy of the ‘berrocal’ for about 5 years now… found in a bookshop for 5 euros (lucky break) it seems i need to clean up a bit more often…