“What art does — maybe what it does most completely — is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don’t. There are whole worlds around us that we’ve never glimpsed.” Greil Marcus — Tuesday September 1st — —
The idea is to die young as late as possible. — Ashley Montagu — Tuesday September 1st — —
I love listening. It is one of the only spaces where you can be still and moved at the same time. — Nayyirah Waheed — Tuesday September 1st — —
Finally, after years (!) my good friend Marcel Kampman plugged his universe with ours. It became an inspiring, crazy, beautiful, happy and everything-in-between portfolio/blog/give it a name… Just like Marcel. haha… [ Continue reading ]
Rishi Sodha, the founder of Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (DAHRA) just contacted us to tell about their second book ‘3 Minutes‘. In 3 Minutes creatives were each given a 3 minute audio interview with a Tibetan refugee to translate using primarily typography into… [ Continue reading ]
Fantastic video work by graphic designer Adam Guzman and Julia Tsao for Nosaj Thing. “As the graphics become more spatial, the performer flattens, becoming a 2-D cutout version of himself.” Thank you Bas & Nalden for sharing!… [ Continue reading ]
As Benji Holroyd says: “I translate ethnic slurs for refugees, write award-winning operas and manage time efficiently. I woo women with my sensuous and god like dancing, I can ride a mountain bike up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and cook thirty-minute brownies in twenty minutes, but my real passion… [ Continue reading ]
Belgium based graphic designer Geoffrey Brusatto e-mailed me to tell he updated his website. He defiantly is my favorite designer of today!… [ Continue reading ]
My Dutch friends at Fontanel made a nice overview of the 2009 graduation shows of the dutch academies. Tonight the show of the design department at HKU will take place with the graduation project of Jonathan Looman (the code boy behind Anothersomething). [ Continue reading ]
Just got back from a short evening between new dutch talents at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam where I’ve mastered at the 5th Blend x Streetlab New Talent Portfolio Night. There were three people at my table worth publishing. 1. Floor de Bruin is… [ Continue reading ]
Very inspiring work by Copenhagen based art director / studio Mark Brunswicker. [ Continue reading ]
Beautiful graphic and illustrative works from Japan by Fumihito Yamamura. [ Continue reading ]
Hermès teamed up with Designboom for ‘les cravates par Hermès‘. A competition to design a pattern that could be either a re-interpretation of the Hermès classic patterns or something completely different. The deadline is august 05, 2009. [ Continue reading ]
‘Artists create to bring something into the world that couldn’t exist without them.’ Gino Orlandi contacted me to tell about his recently published eBook Fuel for Art. It counts 78 pages and it’s quite an interesting handbook about how to start a business with your creativity using the… [ Continue reading ]
A lovely video by Cool Hunting. They asked a little printing studio in São Paulo to make a poster for their 99% conference. Fantastic to see this craftsmanship and the love for the work on a 1929 German letterpress. [ Continue reading ]
Yesterday I came back from the New Talent Portfolio night and I was so happy to see so much new talent! It was a great mix of people with a huge amount of potential. They varied from being completely at the beginning of their career and creatives who already earned… [ Continue reading ]
Some of my inspirators in graphic design, art direction and illustration together in one post. Enjoy the beautiful works by Japanese duo Tomoyuki Yonezu & Erotyka, US based Mario Hugo and Johan Hjerpe from Sweden. [ Continue reading ]
My friends at Matte updated their website. Lovely work, great inspiration, fine aesthetics!… [ Continue reading ]
If you have read the 7 rules of mentorship and think you are the next big thing but want some mentorship and feedback on your portfolio, visit the new talent portfolio night by Blend & Streetlab. I’ll be there, together with Corriette Schoenaerts,… [ Continue reading ]
I like the idea of re-arrange and re-edit found books and bound anew. The Infinite Library, a project by Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda, does this with their expanding archive now shown online. [ Continue reading ]
Today, h(y)r collective brought a new issue, nr 11, with some great inspiration! I asked Ryan for some background information and received a beautiful story of the idea behind the online magazine and some future plans. — h(y)r collective was started by a couple friends who weren’t finding… [ Continue reading ]