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Let's Talk Design # 6 06.08.2014
The Creative Network organises the conference Let’s Talk Design multiple times a year with national and international guest speakers, to inspire, motivate & network. For the summer edition 2014 the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium is chosen as the place to be with the folowing line-up of speakers: Maxime Heirbaut, shot taker, word slinger and creative director of HEISME studio (BE), Mark Borgions, illustrator and one-man-band-animator at Handmade Monsters (BE) and Boy Bastiaens, independent graphic designer / art director (NL)
Let's Talk Design # 6, August 21st. 18:30 - 23:00, New Zebra, Gustaaf Callierlaan 232, Ghent
Get your tickets here: www.creative-network.org/letstalkdesign
Star Graphic Designers: The Masters of Graphic Design is a compilation by editor Cristina Paredes of more than 80 current international graphic designers with the aim of offering a comprehensive showcase of their most prominent works and becoming a reference manual for graphic design in the 21st Century. The result of this research is a careful presentation of 400 projects that show the path that graphic design will take in the next decade. Dutch graphic designers are represented by Annelys De Vet, Ben Faydherbe, Merijn Hos, Leon & Loes, Catalogtree, Martijn Oostra, Roel Vaessen and Boy Bastiaens among others.
Star Graphic Designers: The Masters of Graphic Design, Page One / Loft Publications, Spain ISBN-10: 8499368832, ISBN-13: 978-8499368832
Following on from ‘Animal logo‘, Counter-Print have released a new fine logo book: Monogram logo. It's a wonderful collection of 452 categorised monograms and ciphers from around the world by great design studios such as: Bruce Mau, Italo Lupi, Woody Pyrtle, Louise Fili, Pentagram and many more. Very delighted to see the 'Language and Technology 2000' logo designed for the European Commission (1993) being included as well.
Monogram Logo: Monograms & Ciphers, Counter Print, United Kingdom, ISBN 978-0-9570816-2-8
By assignment of the Province of Limburg the Dutch Design Desk Europe selected four designers from Limburg to join the Limburg Open Lab (LOL): Maurice Mentjens, Gay Jongen, Boy Bastiaens and Albert Kiefer. The 4 designers will develop the next promotional gift for the Province of Limburg as a team and in only one day. The prototype will be 3D printed at the end of this intensive whole day workshop, that will take place at the Social Beta Event 2014 in Heerlen. The audience of the event will be invited to observe and interact with the designers while their working. Future is what's happening.
The Social Beta Event takes place every year in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine. It is a three day cross-over event for new technology and innovation that matters. Discover business opportunities and challenges in an inspiring, creative environment full of thinkers and makers. An event for today’s and tomorrow’s society. Read all about the Social Beta Event 2014 here:
