this is a new trend in amsterdam: ‘pepper pot’ advertising columns that were traditionally used to house a series of different posters, are increasingly being taken over by one large wraparound poster, like this i spotted yesterday…
more recent, striking examples can also be seen on the amsterdam poster blog
last week i spoke to designer ‘herman van bostelen’ who won the ‘dutch theater poster awards’ back in 2005 with this beautiful poster ‘mauerschauer’ shown (above left), since which time he has been collecting an amusing series of rip-offs of his design like this t-shirt…
the fabulous curated collection ‘typogaphic posters’ by andré felipe has just turned three years old this month, congrats from me
i paid a quick visit to the grafisch geluk exhibition in hilversum (of all places) this week and it was well worth the trip, as long as amsterdam has to survive without (virtually) any museums at all, these kinds of events are very welcome
if you get the chance i can definitely recommend it, the exhibition features work from a great many dutch designers, from the latest generation dating back to a hundred years ago… and if you go on wednesday it is even free…
last night was the awards ceremony for the dutch theater poster awards in amsterdam, i attended along with fellow jury member ‘sander plug’ and the winner was ‘paulien cornelisse’ (shown above), a decision i still firmly stand behind…
afterwards i was, as usual, confronted with all kinds of ‘sour’ and negative reactions from other nominees, the ususal blogs and ‘design journalists’ who like to criticise everything did just that, my own nomination also wasn’t without problems, as usual it earned me a lot of accusations of nepotism, the nomination was then withdrawn several weeks ago as it apparently didn’t meet the criteria (a decision which mainly reflects on the poor quality of the oraganisation itself in my opnion) it was then reinstated and last night i was lead to understand that being a jury member automatically disqualified me from winning anyway, a fact that has never been clear to me, in fact i had been told that quite the opposite was the case
all in all a very deflating and unpleasant experience to be honest, this is certainly the last time i will be spending so much time & energy working (for free) for a jury that earns me nothing but sour grapes from other designers… the jury report can be read online here and if you don’t agree with what it says don’t call me i’m not interested in your opinion right now… and my sincere congratulations to paulien