Cubicle Design

The Lego people have spoken

miritte — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:47:58 +0000

In the Siberian city Barnaul, following repeated rejections of the authorities to hold a sanctioned demonstration to protest the parliamentary elections results and Vladimir Putin’s expected return to the presidency, Russian activists have started a surreal trend of toys protests- hundreds of toys arranged on the snow, holding signs reading “I’m for clean elections” and “A thief should sit in jail, not in the Kremlin”.

The city’s deputy police chief was quoted at a press conference: “Political opposition forces are using new technologies to carry out public events – using toys with placards at mini-protests. In our opinion, this is still an unsanctioned public event.”
Police has asked prosecutors to investigate the toys protest’s legality. Apparently, since then the number of people wanting to take part in the toys protest has risen.

A petition to hold another protest featuring 100 Kinder Surprise toys, 100 Lego people, 20 model soldiers, 15 soft toys and 10 toy cars has been rejected because the toys are not “citizens of Russia… As you understand, toys, especially imported toys, are not only not citizens of Russia but they are not even people,” a spokesman for Barnaul told local media.

New and sophisticated technologies indeed…

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Photographs: Sergey Teplyakov/Vkontakte

Wall paintings on Van Diemenstraat, Amsterdam

miritte — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:36:25 +0000

If you walk along the Van Diemenstraat in Amsterdam, you will encounter four beautiful wall paintings. The wall paintings are based on historic sea maps and drawings from the collection of the Scheepvaartmuseum (The National Maritime Museum), as reference to the street’s location near the old port.
The project has been commissioned by Stadsdeel Westerpark and realized by Bont & Bruyn in 2007.

Frosty patterns

miritte — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:43:29 +0000

Banners design for the Jacques Lipchitz exhibition

miritte — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:04:33 +0000

I have designed the banners for the new retrospective exhibition for Jacques Lipchitz at the Beelden aan zee museum, Den Haag.
The beautiful exhibition design is by designer and curator Ronit Eden.

uhm studio

miritte — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:23:21 +0000

I have stumbled upon (or actually – almost sat upon) uhm studio’s ‘Cake + Coffee’ small booklet when I went to see ‘We’re all for the underground‘, a dance/ theatre piece by choreographer Hillary Blake Firestone, musician Mark Morse and vocalist Anat Spiegel.
The booklet had been placed on all the chairs in the theatre, offered to the audience as a kind of loose, associative supplement to the performance, which in itself was a collection of impressions, rituals and – as they describe it- “a triple bill of last hurrahs”, reflecting on the subject of death and funerals.

I like going home after a show with something to remind me of it- the booklet doesn’t have a clear message or deep theory, just a playful point of view on the matter (a pretty serious matter too).
uhm is the design studio of Rosalie Bak and Landry van der Stappen. Their website doesn’t include much work, but it reveals their fondness for using rough materials, a kind of dirty hand-made look. I found another charming example here: