MEGANE

I just finished watching this really beautiful film called "MEGANE" (2007) directed by Naoko Ogigami

There isn't much story to it and it's very minimal but hey, the cinematography is beautiful!!!!

/Y

1 Year!

Heyyyyyyy!!!!!

So I'm a few days late but this blog is over 1 year old now! Isn't that exciting? Does anyone have any ideas on how we could make it better? I've been kind of consumed by school stuff lately so I haven't had much time to work on the blog, but I'd like to get more involved in it again so it's more active or whatnot :D

Ok yay just thought I'd share that little bit of news.

Hi hi hi!

long time no see!
I am writing my thesis proposal as I speak and I am dying....to sleep.

It's been about 36 hours so far without any sleep! Woohoo but I'm sure y'all how how it feels,
I mean...studying design = no sleep, from at least what I've seen in the past!


Anyways, I am putting together an exhibition, with all the photos that were taken at the same time:
Sorry I didn't announce the time here, but hopefully there will be a next one!

www.everywherephotosatonce.com

check out the photos, they are quite nice!

Cheers,
Yuta

What If....

I learned how to make cute litle accordian books (and stab-bound books), and it is f-u-n, cheap, and easy.
WHAT IF I made a number of tiny little books (one for each of us interested in this idea) and sent them around and we each took a page in each book and did something to it, and then once we filled up the books we could each have one?

y/n?

:D

Hi guys

It's been a while, sorry.
But soooooooooooooooooooooooo if any of you are still around reading this, I just have a question that I am curious about.
School started again for me this week, and with the beginning of classes we were introduced to a school wide, mandatory (I think...) project that is not for a grade, but it being discussed in all classes and it creating quite a stir. Each student is required to make some sort of message to the future president on a piece of paper, and we will hang each throughout the school, and eventually mail them to the President. Last year we had a project that every student in any design/illustration/comic class had to participate in. I think they are a really interesting idea and a nice change of pace, but they always seem to get a lot of mixed reactions.


Do you guys ever have school wide projects like that? Do people at your schools have strong reactions either way?

Ok, sorry abut my strange question but it's just making me wonder.

allrighty, BYE!

Hi ^____^

Hey guys,

Sorry I haven't been around much at all lately, was finishing up school WHICH IS DONE NOW. yay ^____^, and I also went to Rock Werchter festival. But now I finally have time again and can do stuff for myself, so if that thing julie made isnt going around yet, you can send it to me if you want. Right now I'm just working, and trying to get all my stuff together for when i go to England. What's new with you guys, any exciting stuff? BTW I'm updating my website, so I don't know if people are interested in seeing stuff, but it's www.elinewieriks.com  . It's still a work in progress tips and stuff are welcome

byebyebyebye

Quicky

O.k. I just discovered this site since I am rather excited about motion graphics and stop motion...I like this site, well we could discuss the way it looks:) but I would ask to focus mainly on the content...I think it has inspiring stuff:

eatpes

have a laugh:)
daaag

Design For the Other 90%

Hi Guys,

I went to Minneapolis over the weekend and when I was there I saw some of the new exhibitions at the Walker museum, and although you smarties might already know if it, I think some of you might be interested in Design for the Other 90%.

Check it out! :D

SORRY GUYS!

Hello hello.

So I still have the collabo piece...

I had finals, then I went to Basel for three weeks for business then I came back to Japan for a job.
Now the job is over and I am finally free!!! So I can do all the stuff now and I will send it to you as soon as I can...
so who is still on the list that hasn't gotten it???

Also I made a book and it would be cool if we can send it along... I made it light so it shouldn't be too expensive to send it around.

BEST

Yuta

Antwerp Fashion Academy Show 2008

I was totally out of inspiration so i decided to go to the fashion show of the fashion academy of Antwerp. This school with international students is rather known in the fashion industry and the quality should be really high level...i did see a lot of cool stuff so to share some images with ya all here are some links...i especially enjoyed the kids collection and the show with the giant gorilla heads was really cool...but still a lot of other designs, really elegant and chic...

this one is of a photograher that was there...the pics aren't that great but he shows a lot of stuff:
lots of pics

there aren't any pics on the site except for backstage pics so:
some backstage pics

the show last year

if i find more and anybody is interested...just let me know
greeeeeeeeeetz

So yesterday I got bored and I made a collage that could be the start of a new collaboration piece if anyone is interested in giving it a go!  I didn't want to just send it off to whoever because I'm not sure how busy everyone is and I don't want to force anyone to worry about it.  But if anyone is interested, let me know and I'll send it your way!

I'll try to scan it sometime soon, also :D

PS:  Euro 2008, I'm sure some of you are watching, right?!?!  I'm addicted!  The Spain/Russia game was SO GOOD!

GOT IT!

I got the collaboration piece in the mail today! Hooray.
You said I can do anything to it...right?

Well then, SOMETHING will be done....and it will be mailed to whomever.

dutch design

everyones seems to be pretty impressed by dutch design at the moment and wanting to go on exchange to the netherlands. I would love to help you guys or give you information about other schools here in holland but yeah you really just have to look a little for yourself and see what interests you. In my experience and as i heard from other exchange students the dutch design part, yes you'll be exposed to it, but then whether you learn something from it really comes from your part and how you make use of it. It also depends what school you go to. I mean i don't know how other schools go about it, with mine it's... yea i dont really know how to explain it but its not like they teach you how to make dutch design. But exchanges are great i'm all for it, plus if you go here you do get the opportunity to meet other people who do make great design, and i would make full use of visiting as many studios as you can like experimental jetset, 75b, dumbar etc.etc. I lost track of what my point was to this post. Good luck though :D and yuh if i can be of any help or anything let me know.

dutch design & fabrica

Hey just wanted to add something quickly because some of you seem to want to go abroad...i am looking for a way to do that aswell actually but i will have to figure it out myself since i have become to old to stay in school for much longer and i can't get funding that eassily anymore...

...the netherlands are great i think...i visit a lot of seminars and lectures about new media and topology/mapping...everytime (just like yesterday in fact:) ) there are some dutch people with great stuff...as a belgian student i have always looked more at the dutch design than what my own country has to offer since we are still little slower:)

anyway in the future i would love to work with some dutch people i got to know a bit...the person i am going to start a graphic studio with also went to a dutch college and she is full of it...a friend of mine is going to talk to her because she also wants to go to the netherlands next year...so if you ask me dutch design schools are really interesting...

I have read some stuff about Fabrica in Yutsak's post...i have been to a lecture of the head of the graphic design department...omar vulpinari...i must say i expected more from him and fabrica...i found their work a bit to much in the advertising business and it wasn't that spectacular...they just have great contacts/clients with a lot of money most of the time which isn't that interesting to me as a graphic designer interested in typography, mapping, ... he also seemed to say that he looks a lot at how a portfolio is presented...for example if you send him a box where he has to put his head in to see pictures of your work...the box would be original enough to remember you and the chance would be great he would pick that person...i kinda have a problem with that because i know some people who wouldn't get picked because they would send in this classic styled portfolio...because they want their work presented in a sort of way that draws attention to the work and not the protfolio, mmm the packaging (hope this is clear what i mean to say:s)...so i was worried that he doesn't really look at the work itself...but just at the packaging...anyway you may correct me if anybody thinks i am wrong...i am already too old to apply so doesn't matter to me that much...just like to have more discussions on design...and the education of it...i think that is important...to share opinions that is:)

O.k. first of all...sorry people that i have made all of you wait...but in this master year it suddenly got stressy and busy as hell...i also contributed to an exhibition in Brussels since it is 50 years ago that we had the world expo in the city...even had to do interview with german press about that...which was funny especially that little moment of silence between your own explanation of your work+'and if there are any questions...?' and the actual fire of questions...

Anyway no time a lot of stress and well than that colaboration piece gets lost somewhere between the clutter of that desktop and a few feet arround it:s

The good news is I just pushed myself in doing just something quick so i can send it to the next person...what did i do?...euhm well...just like Eline i found it a bit hard to do something...but cartography and mapping seems to become the theme so...i transformed one of the basic things you find on city maps...'the you are here circle'...i made a rule to find a place for it on the page...based on the 'golden section'...and instead of being a mark on the map i tried to make it more of a window...

i couldn't put as much time in as i wanted and therefore didn't do what i had planned (adding a whole extra, transparant layer...) but hope you all like it a bit in some way...