From 21 to 23 December my first year graphic design class 1B of the The Hague art academy held an exhibition after a 2 months project on Wim Crouwel. The exhibition was a tribute to one of the most influential designers of the Netherlands. The master himself attended the opening and was guided and informed by the students. He was really excited and happily surprised by the results.

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Made a new website for my friend and photographer Marques Malacia. From January the 3rd he exhibits work of a new project called Unlayered at De Balie. Vernissage on the 6th. Monquichot

The 8th of November Kennisland organized a working conference at De Glazen Zaal in The Hague. Theme was the cross-over and solutions between the Dutch cultural institutes and the corporate world. I made the publications that were used by the attendants during the workshops as they were able to react on the articles and add notes. My students of the first year Graphic Design class of the KABK gave assistance in binding the publications in a Japanese fashion.

Zeeburgia Saturday 2 presents the new home kit for this season. It is a new formation idea, in this version we chose to have numeric lines on the chest to express positions on the field. These first portraits show some of the team members that cover the field’s axis or center-line, full body flix will follow.

In the meantime Blood in Blood out is building a new website. The development and the new Zeeburgia formation line-up can be explored here.

A new season has started so the infamous Saturday 2 of Zeeburgia has a new kit. Again the kit design is based on team formations. Compared to last year’s black version we’ve taken the white one to the next level. Here are some previews of the upcoming official presentation.

Yesterday I had a presentation of the provisional proposal for the facade of the Heesterveld building complex. I made a maquette from the printouts where you can see the design for the outside walls. The walls on the inside still need to be ‘filled in’ by the inhabitants / the users of the complex. The definitive design will be presented and signed off by all parties somewhere in September. We are aiming for a complete finished building somewhere around February 2012. More designs for Heesterveld are found here.

For the exhibition in the Graphic Design Museum in Breda I had made a shirt that expresses the regional rivalry between the two cities Breda and Tilburg. All though the shirt is taken into the museum’s collection it is a piece that will never be shown. Just before the exhibition started the board of the museum didn’t allow us to show it, not even under heavy surveillance, due to alleged hooliganism, personnel safety reasons and uncovered insurances. People read about it in the newspapers and spoke about it on the web. Some tried to get a glimpse of it at the museum depo. Others made fantasy impressions of it. The shirt became a myth. Well, finally here it is in shear reality:

Last Friday my friend Fran and I started a new project called Impresion de Cafe. As you can see it is a silk screen project with the aim to produce proper coffee prints on the long term. We try to make the ink as dark as possible and to avoid the liquid coffee to come through the screen. We are working on that. But we like to share our first results here. Any advice is welcome!

photos: Omar Mendez Careaga

Youth Theater 020 is looking for dancers between the age of 16 and 23 years old.

Voor een nieuwe dansproductie van Jongerentheater O2O zijn wij op zoek naar gedreven dansers in de leeftijd van 16 t/m 23 jaar. De bekende (Brusselse) choreograaf Laurent Flament en zijn assistent Sebastien Chavée zijn de choreografen en coaches van dit bijzondere project. Ze zijn geïnteresseerd in allerlei dansstijlen en dansachtergronden, zoals klassiek ballet, moderne dans, jazz, hiphop en break dance.

Gedurende de maanden Oktober 2010 t/m Maart 2011 wordt er twee à drie keer per week gerepeteerd. In Maart 2011 gaat de voorstelling in première tijdens het Goesting Festival in Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond. Daarnaast wordt het getoond samen met drie andere jongerenproducties die vanuit eenzelfde thema starten.

Goesting is een initiatief van Jeugdtheater de Krakeling, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam en Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond. Met Goesting wordt het beste van het Vlaamse (jeugd) theater verbonden met ontwikke-lingen op Amsterdamse bodem.

Ben je net zo enthousiast als wij en wil je meedoen met de audities op zondag 26 September in Amsterdam? Meld je dan nu aan en stuur een mailtje naar Marijse Binsbergen: Marijse@jongerentheaterO2O.nl Geef in de mail aan in welke dansstijl je goed bent en wat je ervaring is. Voor meer informatie kun je bellen met: 020–6121387

This Sunday, the 1st of August, vinger.nl launches their new project de virtuele straat. It will be a virtual tour through the South East of Amsterdam with work of international artists. Some of the work will be placed in the ‘real’ world, others remain digital. Apps like layar will be used to walk the actual tour and the project will last for at least 5 years. Great project and supported by de straat van sculpturen. Check the eflyer…