Fisker Studio

COP15

December 8, 2009

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Seeing the Climate Conference in Copenhagen on my screen every day has made me like their logo more and more. The creators of this fine piece are NR2154 which is a duo from Denmark who got their proposal selected out of 269 entries.

The design is based on graphs of scientific climate data, showing predicted temperature changes, and there are 192 lines, one for each UN member state.

The rest of their work is worth looking at, too. Their clean and simple style is very fit for the image Denmark wants use in their green campaigns. The stamps made in honor of the climate conference follow the same blue lines used for the COP15 logo.

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Axel Hütte

November 26, 2009

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At work we have the pleasure of being surrounded with contemporary artworks which are placed in the hallways. Most of it is contemporary in the sense of ‘I could do that’ but a few are truly amazing. Axel Hütte’s large format photo prints called ‘Explorer Glacier Alaska’ are worth a look every time I pass by them. I couldn’t find any digital versions but they fit in perfectly with the rest of his work of which a few examples above.

I love the way he uses the fog as a natural backdrop in almost every piece. Nature’s negative space really brings out the essence of what he wants to show through the lens by filtering the unnecessary surroundings. It reminds a little of Kim Höltermand’s work although in this case the orientation is kept more horizontally instead of Kim’s focus on the sky.

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Herman Van Rompuy

November 20, 2009

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It must be said I’m pretty proud of our prime minister becoming the very first European president. Nowhere near the executional power Obama has but still this is a great honor for a tiny country like ours. As said by some journalists, if this guy can keep together a country like Belgium (the French and Flemish regions don’t always get along that well) he can defintely keep Europe in one piece.

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