Grafisch Ontwerp

Sagmeister m’inspire pour quand je serai grande.

Back in 2006, after coming back from the Netherlands, I registered to an intensive summer course at UQAM called “International Design with Karel Martens”. Mr. Martens is considered one of the greatest designers of the Netherlands and thought (and still does I think) at Werkplaats Typografie.

We worked on a book on the theme of “link” and I used an absurd poem of my friend and former housemate from Rotterdam, Rogier Stomp aka kO nOrderisk, to represent the subject.

kO’s poetry is a mixture of absurd humor and society critic. There is a genuine influence of Russian Absurdism in his work. His poem “The Greatest of the Biggest Song” which I used in Mr. Marten’s class has now turned into a real book published by Uitgeverij Nadorst which I had the honor to design. The book is called “The Greatest of the Biggest” and is, in itself, a critic on the trend of always wanting bigger, better, more… instead of savouring what is.

I’m waiting to receive my copy in the mail but, in the meantime, here’s the cover page I designed for kO’s first poetry book.

Published in September 2009
64 pages
12,5 x 20 cm
Paperback, 2 colours
In Dutch & English
ISBN: 978 94 90338 02 2

“Enough is enough. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released in late 2001. For its time, it was a decent browser, but in 2009, it is still in use by a significant portion of the web population, and its time is now up.”

Like many of my friends, I decided to STOP to support IE6. I no longer offer it in my offers of service and if my clients want me to support it, they will have to pay extra, that’s it.

Please help us, web designers, programmers and developers, to eradicate this abomination which is called Internet Explorer 6. Visit IE6 No More.

Ça fait déjà plusieurs mois que je me questionne sur ma relation avec le monde du design et ce qu’elle implique comme types de projets (certains qui vont à l’encontre de mes valeurs), compromis, stress, etc. Cette bonne blague, presque réaliste, s’applique à l’argent, oui, mais aussi aux propositions présentées à certains clients. Voilà pourquoi je commence à m’essouffler.

We are so late when it comes to fonts & the Web. Why is it taking so much time to get to a solution? Now, I can’t imagine designing a website with a font other than Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Lucida, Times New Roman or Georgia. I want to be liberated and I hope it will come soon.

At least we can learn a little about what’s going on on i love typography.