Last year I wrote about ‘This Aint No Disco‘, a website where creative (ad) agencies can show their often amazing offices. In 2010 their first book will come out! Check it out here.
Last year I wrote about ‘This Aint No Disco‘, a website where creative (ad) agencies can show their often amazing offices. In 2010 their first book will come out! Check it out here.
Categories: Advertising · Books · Design
Tagged: Amsterdam, Book, This AInt No Disco, UXUS, Website, Where We Work
On the 20th November, the very first TEDxAmsterdam took place at KIT. On their website they claim the following about the limited group of people who will be able to attend due to a strict invite only policy: “The diverse audience – CEOs, scientists, creatives, philanthropists – is almost as extraordinary as the speakers, who have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Paul Simon, Sir Richard Branson, Philippe Starck and Bono.” I think there was an extra category created for me, namely ‘lucky bastard’.
Anyway, they finally managed to post the talk I enjoyed the most, which is Bjarke Ingels’ ‘Yes is More‘. Here you’ll also find a beautiful performance by Amsterdam singer Karsu Dönmez, love the second song. One last talk I would really recommend is photographer Hans Aarsman’s about the mysterious ways of beauty in photography
Categories: Design · Music · Musings · Photography · Recommendation · Video
Tagged: #TEDxAMS, 20 november 2009, Amsterdam, Bjarke Ingels, Karsu Dönmez, KIT, TED, TEDx, TEDxAmsterdam
And that’s definitely not the case for the daily facts they put up on Learn Something Every Day. UK design agency Young is behind this website filled with funny comics with random facts. You can order the prints and t-shirts here. Cool is that you can submit your own fact at fact@learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk and they might just use it!
Since I had a very intelligent tweet about ketchup today, this one made me smile:
I love to read
Categories: Design · Musings
Tagged: Design, Fun, UK, Random, Comic, Young, Design Agency, Learn Something Every Day, Useless facts, Ketchup, Yawning, Blinking
I follow the online comic Toothpaste for Dinner every day (just as the Dutch comic Fokke & Sukke). It’s always good to start the day with a smile so here’s today’s comic:
Check out one of the other 2,000 comics here, or even order your own personalised comic.
Categories: Design · Musings
Tagged: Comic, Fokke & Sukke, Online_comic, Talking_with_asteriks, Toothpaste for Dinner, toothpastefordinner.com
Cleaning up my room made me come across a little souvenir from my Munich trip in September. I got this cute, paper bag when I bought some stuff at Aroma (great lunch place with an awesome collection of crazy gift and gadgets, must see when in Munich!). The bag is made of recycled Indian newspapers. It’s produced by a NGO which donates all income to street children around the Delhi station. Cool looking, eco-friendly, humanitarian bag, win³!
Categories: Design · Other · Trips
Tagged: Aroma, Aroma Lebensmittel, Brown bag, Delhi, Eco-friendly, Munich, Newspaper bag, NGO, theindiashop.co.uk
I’ve mentioned previously that I believe in the statement ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’. Well, I believe in it so much that I decided to get a WGACA tattoo. I got the font Soraya (by Jakob Nylund) through the great Copenhagen Bitchslap Magazine.
Categories: Design · Musings
Tagged: Bitchslap Magazine, Form Conspiracy, Jakob Nylund, Soraya, Tattoo, What goes around comes around
I’m a firm believer in this statement, and that’s why I love the following ad by Big Ant International for Global Coalition for Peace. Great example how the form strengthens the message! Simple yet brilliant. Maybe that’s why they won the Gold Pensil for Design at the One Show Design Awards?


via Molblog
Categories: Advertising · Design
Tagged: Big Ant International, Design, Global Coalition for Peace, Karma, Molblog, One Show Design Awards, What goes around comes around

I love it when great brands come together and create something new! And I love it even more when it concerns a product that I absolutely adore. I’m talking about a co-creation between two true Italian brands, namely Fiat and DIESEL.
The new Fiat 500 has been redesigned by Renzo Rosso, DIESEL’s designer. He gave the sport version of the Fiat 500 a typical look with DIESEL logo rims, special buffers and mirrors. The inside interior is partly in denim, with a funny detail being DIESEL’s typical 5th pocket on the two seats. And of course the car is available in different colours: DIESEL green, black and brown. Interested in this limited edition (10,000)? For around €15,000 you can order it online…
Categories: Design
Tagged: Add new tag, co-creation, DIESEL, DIESEL green, Fiat, Fiat 500, Limited edition car, Renzo Rosso