NZ Aftermath
As we wrote a while ago, we spent a large part of February in New Zealand, on the occasion of TypeShed 11. We had such an incredible good time, words fail to describe it. We hung out with old friends, made plenty of new friends, saw The Ruby Suns at The Bathhouse, danced the night away at The Mighty Mighty, and stumbled our way through our lecture.  Right now, it's hard to sum up all the marvelous people who made this trip memorable; we'll keep that for a later post. For now, we just want to thank Catherine Griffiths for organizing this, inviting us, and well, what not. What a beautiful trip this was. An interview we did for NZ weblog Cheese on Toast can be read here. A two-part interview we did for Typeradio can be heard here and here (BTW, Erwin wasn't there during the recording of that last interview; he managed to escape).
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TypeShed 11
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
We're not the lecturing kind: we dislike speaking in public (read: we're nervous wrecks), and we are usually so wrapped up in work (read: stressed out) that we seldom find the energy to travel. But once every while, people push us to do a lecture. Last November, we did a lecture in Lima (Peru), together with Linda van Deursen and Paul Elliman, and we had such a good time; thanks to Studio A for putting that tour together. Right after that, we went to Miami, to deliver a toast to Wim Crouwel; thanks to the Wolfsonian for organizing that. In February 2009, we will be travelling to New Zealand, to give a lecture during TypeShed 11, in Wellington. We dread the idea of doing the actual lecture, but we are psyched to travel to NZ. When around, do check out TypeShed; it promises to be an interesting conference, featuring speakers like David Bennewith and Luke Wood.  |
Sixth day of Christmas
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
And so, in that weird twilight zone between Christmas and New Year's Eve, we finally managed to launch our updated website. It's far from finished yet; we still have to describe and photograph tons of work. But at least, we're halfway there.  So what did we do? First of all, we restructured the whole site; we can now upload items much easier. Secondly, we added some new features: a homepage that randomly picks four items every time it refreshes, a preview mode that shows all the archived items as thumbnails, just to give two examples. Last but not least, we added a lot of new items to the archive. There are still some technical bugs haunting this site. When viewed on a PC, some images might appear bitmapped. We are trying to solve that right now. [edit: fixed] The only thing we still have to do is wishing you a happy New Year. To speak with John Lennon, let's hope it's a good one, without any fear. |
Zonder Pardon
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
A couple of months ago, we received a phone call from renowned Dutch comedian Theo Maassen, who introduced himself as a "graphic designer who dabbles in comedy". In short, he asked us for permission to use the 'dripping Netherlands' drawing that we originally made in 2003 for the Venice Biennale WATW project. We gave him permission, and Maassen's posters hit the street last week. So in case you were wondering; we didn't design these posters, but we did give permission to use the drawing. We are still waiting for the free tickets though.  Other designers that have used the 'dripping Netherlands' drawing include Irma Boom and Harmen Liemburg. |
