
The shirt design Usain Bolt was supposed to win the Memorial Van Damme race in last week. But faith decided differently. Maybe next year…

What if 1500 copies isn’t limited enough? Check out how this publisher took care of it.
From september 11th you can get yours at the American Book Centre or the release party.

This afternoon in the Trouw building in Amsterdam Alter Ego took place, an expo by photographer Melissa Scholten. She portrayed 120 Dutch graffiti writers, old school kings and less know writers. Music by Serch and Suez, Cat22 and Zender, and opening words by Diana Ozon. A great get together – respect to Melissa for throwing this initiative.

When he was a schoolboy he made gifts for friends by carving out their names on pencils. Nowadays 45-year-old Dalton J. Paul Getty sometimes works for months on one pencil.

These images are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations between 1939 and 1943.

Sadly, one of the best calligraphers of modern age – Raphael Boguslav – is no longer with us. Still, his fabulous work should not be forgotten.

Day Trip is a bimonthly publication that is curated, designed, published and distributed to W+K offices and clients by Attack. Limited to 125 copies per issue, Day Trip offers a unique look into the lifestyles, work and perspectives of the individuals who push New York’s creative culture forward.

For his recent concert in Brussels, I got to do the artwork. It was a bit of a search, but the night of the concert, mr. Doom endorsed the portrait and posed proudly for the pictures backstage.

For the exposition 140 Hits in Art, 140 artists were asked to redesign the sleeve of their favourite song. Woes van Haaften chose ‘Tour de France’, a track by Kraftwerk. In his design, he trimmed the artwork of the original sleeve down to the bare essentials, rendering instant recognition.

Look at this cool installation from cardbox by four Dutch students from the HKU, Sonja van Vuure, Saskia Freeke , Fin Kingma and Davy Jacobs.

Last Saturday we celebrated both the opening and publication of Mont Purgatoire, the first photo book and solo exhibition (in Holland) of the kid wonder Adriaan van der Ploeg. We enjoyed the opening words by former prime minister Dries van Agt very much and thank De Volkskrant for their undivided attention.
Dutch doodlers are joining their doodle forces every thursday on Twitter. Want to join? Just add #doodledonderdag to your tweets. Cool idea by Bart Aalbers.

A great collection of editorial, commercial and personal illustration work by Denis Zilber from Tel Aviv, Israel, just got featured on Behance. In my opinion it totally deserved it. And you got to give a man credits for drawing his own avatar like this.

The Bleed Orange campaign supports the dutch team at the upcoming World Cup. On behalf of Nike we worked together with contemporary art gallery YourOwn to create an art challenge with five artists creating work inspired by Oranje. More designs and photos here. Also check out this nice Bloed Oranje video by fellow NewWorker Johan.

Like most Mac users did, Brooklyn based designer Mark Pernice played around with Apple’s illustrious Photo Booth. He took a picture of himself, manipulated it and turned it into a rubber 3D mask. Nice concept of brining virtual world into the real world.

Alexa is a 23 year old girl from Washington DC who paints in a pretty classic style. Boring? Jeah, except that it is on real people, who start walking in subways and art galleries.

There it is. An (s)exhibition by ‘de dope drie’. Selwyn Senatori, Ottograph and Royalsteez are making work at this moment for their exposition. A theme: SEX, ART and ROCK&ROLL, a challange; setting up an expo and making works in just one month. A serious ‘go see’.

Since yesterday Utrecht hosts the unique project Trajectum Lumen. Trajectum Lumen is an exploration after dark, which follows artistically lit locations throughout Utrecht’s centre. When night falls, a trail leads from Vredenburg past a large number of installations by renowned light artists. Festina Lente and we are responsible for all marketing.

Seen on Behance, these funky vintage paper Gameboys by French graphic designers duo Zim & Zou. Looks like they spent a crazy amount of time to get the details right. Respect!

These images just took my breath away. This is what happens when you abandon a building and let it be for half a century. Motor City won by losing…

Is one of the best city’s in the world. Polaroid is one the coolest ways of taking pictures. So put them together and you’ve got the best!

Why haven’t I shared this way back? Yep, this one is about Adriaan van der Ploeg. A young and talented photographer good friend from Rotterdam with whom we are working on a special project called Mont Purgatoire. He’s one of a kind. I love him. Hope you will too.

Check out the nice photography (series of 12) of Axel Hoedt, who shot the traditional masks that lots of folks are still wearing during Fastnacht…an exciting ritual in the south of Germany.


For a contest, Directtovideo made a recode of the V&A Decode ident, in C++ and using shaders, the decode logo is formed from 250,000 cubes which separate, swarm and flock realtime on a (high end) consumer PC.

Artist Caleb Larsen built this nihilist-type sculpture called ‘A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter’. The object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. Currently going for $6.858

A new documentary on prolific artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, it features unseen interview and painting footage. Directed by Tamra Davis and music by Beastie Boys Ad Rock and Mike D. Speaking of Basquiat, if you are in Amsterdam on March 18th, you can see his Downtown 81 film at Seeing Sounds.

We’ve seen the work of Philip Toledano on NewWork before. This time he was interested in what we define as beauty, when we choose to create it ourselves.

“The old Bayeux Tapestry depicts the major news events of 1066. The New Tapestry depicts the major news events of right now.” “The old Bayeux Tapestry was created by anonymous French needlewomen. The New Tapestry is created by 44 illustrators from around the world.” A KesselsKramer project on display in Amsterdam between the 28th of January and the 2nd of February.

Irish artist Claire Morgan’s palette consists of flower leaves, feathers, garbage bags, thistle seeds, rotting meat, insects, taxidermied animals and fresh strawberries. And wire, a lot of wire to create these dramatic three dimensional scenes, frozen in time, frozen in space.