Ancient History: Consciousness

A few years ago we designed posters for a charity event called Consciousness. This is the non-communicative poster featuring fluor typography in a clear white space. We also made one with the time and place and stuff, but this one looks much nicer. Image via Jarr Geerligs' Flickr, who has an extensive archive of posters in Amsterdam.

MTV Playground Berlin

Some pictures of the actual event... See previous post for more info.

Meanwhile in Berlin

After Athens, SWATCH MTV PLAYGROUND hits Berlin.
If you're in the neighbourhood, check it out.

More info: http://www.swatchmtvplayground.com/

For now, some pictures of last nights build-up.

MTV Playground: an Art Show - Part One

An art show by SWATCH & MTV is not about wandering through dull white spaces, not about endless discussions on meaningless paintings. It’s not about drinking cheap chardonnay, not about citing so called art critics. Not about endless debates on post modernism.

MTV Celebrates the future of art.

We did the concept, design and art-direction for the SWATCH MTV playground events. Adding meaning to the word "show" in "art show".

Below you'll find the first photo of the smallest event: a 120cm x 120cm x 220 cm box which fits an interactive screen, 36 par 20 fixtures, a 2000 watt strobo, a big smoke machine and a massive sound system.

More soon.

Royal Drinks

Prinsess Maxima was visiting New York for the Henry Hudson 400 celebration. Wearing a postage bag jacket by Dutch fashion designer Jan Taminiau, she signed a bottle of Bols Genever for the U.S. marketing V.P. of Lucas Bols.

Bootcamp

As promised in an earlier post, more pictures of the Nike Football Bootcamp at SV Bijlmer. With loads of black paint (some red), plywood and photo realistic on-the-spot paintings of football heroes by Robin Nas we created a first-class training environment for would-be football professionals.

Converse Compound 2009 at Lowlands

In august we did another Converse Compound at the Lowlands festival. This time it was much more than a walk-in billboard. It was a real stage where Elle Bandita rocked Slayer in the silent disco for a crowd of 600 frenzied party-people. More black than before, harder than ever...

Ouverture de la Maison

In a previous post we mentioned that we were busy rebranding the Maison de Bonneterie in Amsterdam and Den Haag. Last thursday was the official opening of both houses with a catwalkshow and champagne.

Marcel, a model & a wind machine

On 09-09-09 Dutch stroller brand Bugaboo launched it's (RED) product line. We did in-store communication, created a PR-image and organized a press event. Marcel van der Vlugt did the photography. This is him in the studio with meters and meters of red cloth, a model and a wind machine. More soon!

George WPA

Popular Amsterdam restaurant and celebrity-spotting-spot Cafe George opened it's second location on the Williams Park Avenue in Amsterdam. We designed the George W.P.A. identity and celebrated it's opening yesterday with cocktails. Someone was seen sporting our Anecdote shopping bag.