Ben Jennings

A fantastic idea: Ben Jennings has based his personal logo on the moles on his arm.

Ben Jennings

...,staat

Here some outstanding packaging designed by ...,staat Amsterdam; a genever bottle for Bols and coffee and tea packaging for Bazar.

The typography of the bottle is inspired by the hand painted lettering on pub windows.

...,staat

Le Klint lamps

The pleated lamps form Le Klint range from classic to psychedelic. It takes up to three years to learn the pleating techniques!












































Le Klint

Booskabouters

An old favourite: the campaign to save the Amsterdam Forest Theatre by Lemon Scented Tea. The Amsterdam Forest Theatre is an open air theatre that stages plays during the summer months. Due to three poor summers in a row, performances were cancelled, resulting in a huge budget deficit.

The group hardest his by a possible closure of the Amsterdam Forest Theatre is the forest gnomes living in the Amsterdam Forest. To them, the open air plays are the only form of entertainment. Documentary style commercials reported on their attempts to disrupt normal life in order to pressure the Amsterdam people to donate to the theatre (Booskabouters = angry gnomes).

The campaign started many discussions on the web and on the radio. The result: the theatre was saved.

















Lemon Scented Tea

Yulia Brodskaya

Papergraphic by Yulia Brodskaya

Calligraphy

Some beautiful type.

































Marian Bantjes












Daren Newman

Hendrik Kerstens

I think there is a trend in portrait photography to light its subjects like the paintings of old Dutch masters like Vermeer. This photo by Hendrik Kerstens of his daughter Paula is my favourite. I like the calmness of it. And the humour: the typical Dutch headdress turns out to be a simple plastic bag.

















Hendrik Kerstens

Pieter Hugo

South-African photographer Pieter Hugo travelled twice to Nigeria (in 2005 and 2007) to follow a legendary group of itinerant street artists known as the Hyena Men. These men earn their money by performing on the streets with hyenas, pythons and baboons, and by selling traditional medicines.



































Pieter Hugo

Venom Yum

After an absence of half a year - I have discovered that blogging is a winter activity! - here some feelgood illustrations.

















































Venom Yum

Organic Packaging

Those of you who will be in London soon, should definitely check out the Whole Foods market in Kensington. I have never seen such a beautiful presentation. And the selected products are all so well designed.


















































I love the trend for handwritten text and quirky illustrations!