In the spirit of enhancing the creative climate for up and coming talent across the globe, Raphaels has entered a collaboration with Boomerang - thé Dutch publishing house for “freecards” and creative communication in general.
Boomerang “freecards” and posters fill the racks and cover the doors of cafès, cinemas, fitness centers and clubs across the Netherlands. This month Dutch poet/actor/writer Jules Deelder (aka The Night Mayor of Rotterdam) is the boss. Huh?! This is to say that he’ll decide which designs will fill the postcard racks across the Netherlands in August and September. So, without any further ado, here’s your chance to get your design published and noticed in the Netherlands. Continue Reading »
Dutch Bombay Glass Designer competition winner: ‘Inner’ Beauty from Catiana Antonio
BOMBAY SAPPHIRE has enjoyed an ongoing relationship with design for nearly 20 years. Marcel Wanders, Karim Rashid and Eva Zeisel are among the designers who have created Bombay Sapphire inspired martini cocktail glasses for the premium spirit’s advertising campaign. This collection of Bombay Sapphire inspired work now extends into product design and includes lighting by Tord Boontje, a chair by Patricia Urquiola and a credenza by Jun Aoki. Continue Reading »
Verkiezing BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Designer Glass Competition Vanavond wordt de Nederlandse winnaar van de Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition gekozen.
De juryleden vormen dit jaar een gevarieerd gezelschap met één overeenkomst: de liefde voor design. Aan hen de taak om uit de inzendingen van vijf finalisten het winnende glas te kiezen. Deze winnaar vertegenwoordigt in september Nederland tijdens de internationale verkiezing in Londen en maakt kans op 10 000 pond en internationale roem. De nationale verkiezing wordt gehost door designer Piet Boon. De competitie gaat inmiddels zijn zesde jaar in en behoort tot één van de meest gerenommeerde designcompetities van Europa. Continue Reading »
Apart magazine meets Patty Crash. A 24 years old Rap/rock bitch from Philadelphia.
She already performed with the Roots and just signed her first record deal. Read more about her in the next issue of Apart magazine. You can check her music on http://www.myspace.com/pattycrash
Camera & Editing: Bart Jan Steerenberg ( www.deviator.nl )
Interview: Nauko Leong
To announce the arrival of the new brand store at the Kammenstraat in Antwerp, Levi’s® felt the need to be omnipresent around the city in the weeks before and after the opening. Why? To make youngsters enjoy art and culture again and to raise awareness for the fight against AIDS, a cause dear to Levi’s®. Teaming up with LUCY, the pop up lounge bar and creative place to be on the ninth floor of the former Alcatel Bell building in the South District of Antwerp (het Zuid), was the natural thing to do. Continue Reading »
Op vrijdag 16 mei vond in Studio Apart aan de Amsterdamse Prinsengracht 715 de lancering plaats van APART Magazine. Initiatiefnemers Olivier Varossieau (galeriehouder en uitgever), Nauko Leong (Artdirector) en Renson van Tilborg (hoofdredacteur) kwamen tot de conclusie dat er weinig magazines bestaan waarin creatieven wereldwijd direct met elkaar in contact kunnen komen. Een ‘clubblad’ zogezegd voor vrije geesten die werkzaam zijn in creatieve industrieen wereldwijd. APART Magazine dient deze lacune op te vullen, met in het eerste nummer vaste rubrieken als APART Vision (creatieve visionairs aan het woord), APART Work (portfolio’s van spraakmakende creatieven), en APART Column (columns over issues die spelen in creatieve industrieen.) Bekijk de foto's
If the fool would only persist in her folly she will become wise (W. Blake).
Please permit me to present this fool and her folly.
At the age of twelve this fool made her first photo and from that moment I found my folly. In short I don’t make images that are just pleasing to the eye. Yet I strive to scratch below the surface and leave an imprint that extends beyond the realm of cursory but provides an elegant reverse angle on a world consumed by fear and hatred of all, that is unknown.
I feel this project, aesthetically as well as regarding the content, engenders discussion and encourages mutual cultural respect, acceptance of diversity as well as an examination of the role women in our post 9/11 society.
As a finalist of the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards the series will be on exhibit in Le Palais des Festivals in Cannes Frabce from 21 till 25 of April 2008.
Door: Job de Wit
Gepubliceerd: gisteren 22:20
Update: gisteren 22:21
De overzichtstentoonstelling Mar-tha Cooper 1958-2008: a Fifty Year Retrospective laat zien hoe de fotografe wereldomvattende etnografische verbanden legt.
Twee jongens liggen te slapen op een bankje in een metrostel dat is volgekalkt met graffiti. Zijn het scholieren na een vermoeiende schooldag? Maar ze zijn de enigen in deze coupé en het ochtendgloren straalt door de raampjes naar binnen. Deze kids hebben er een lange nacht op het rangeerterrein op zitten, waarschijnlijk hebben ze uren gewerkt aan een enorme piece op de buitenkant van de wagon. Halverwege de jaren tachtig maakte het New Yorks openbaarvervoerbedrijf definitief korte metten met de activiteiten van de jonge graffitischrijvers die hun kunstwerken het liefst door de hele metropool zagen rijden. Continue Reading »
Observation
In the ‘real world’ there are many rules and regulations. Society requires that you place yourself within a certain group or else be considered an outsider. But there’s a genuine and sincere need for an authentic self and it’s further growth and development. Still, a visit to the virtual world enables people to take on a different identity, or even identities. And be someone they in essence are not.
Question
But are the friends that you make there for real? And can you hold on to your true identity while also being someone else in the virtual world? Is it not more exciting to discover all the beautiful things in your own, non-virtual world, in stead of creating an ideal situation in this other, virtual world?
Aim
To (learn to) see our own, physical world with bright new eyes. See the beauty of it, admire it, and adore it.
I would like to introduce myself:
My name is Ego Leonard and according to you I come from the virtual world. A world that for me represents happiness, solidarity, all green and blossoming, with no rules or limitations.
Lately however, my world has been flooded with fortune-hunters and people drunk with power. And many new encounters in the virtual world have triggered my curiosity about your way of life.
