Weblog of Sanne Wijbenga

Autumn update Erikborst.com

2009-11-09T10:00:01+01:00

Ten months have past since his last update. It was about time for a new one. From Amsterdam to Turkey, to the streets of NYC and back. All new work from past year. Take at look at www.erikborst.com! Read more

Good ol’ Plan West

2009-11-05T10:00:01+01:00

A couple of years back me and Erik created a series of flyers for Club 8 party Plan West hosted by the legendary but already forgotten duo Bobby Wombat and DJ Drogba. Monsieur Drogba reminded me about the flyers, good enough reason to post them here ;-). Images after the click... Read more

Brushes on iPhone

2009-11-03T22:43:01+01:00

Being an iPhone user I try out a lot off apps. I am a big fan of apps such as the superb twitter client Tweetie, T-Pain's auto-tune app I am T-Pain and alternative for text messaging Ping. Another little jewel I came across is Brushes, a small drawing app which turns the iPhone into a sketchbook. Connecting over wifi with a Apple computer makes it possible to view screen casts of the drawings you created on your iPhone in the Brushes viewer, a free application for mac. Great stuff! Read more

Crazy Birds nominated for two Dutch Bloggies Awards

2009-11-02T19:02:00+01:00

Hard work pays off. After a year of blogging like a mad man Gijs van der Togt's music weblog crazybirds.nl is nominated for not one but two Dutch Bloggie Awards. One in the category of Best Music Weblog and the other one being Best Design, which I would be responsible for ;-). On Tuesday the first of December at Paard van Troje in The Hague the judges will announce the winners, entrance will be free... Read more

New dutch illustration agency Dutch-Hub is online

2009-09-11T16:38:00+01:00

Online as of last week, new dutch illustration agency Dutch-Hub. I did their brand new website, Blaise Kal was responsible for the technical implementation and Ajax animations. Dutch-Hub is a small agency representing an exclusive set of international artists and designers. More images after the click. Read more

Het Proces X Grafisch Papier

2009-07-24T13:28:00+01:00

Old Studio Dumbar colleague Daniel Markides is now working at Het Proces, they created this interesting book for Grafisch Papier. Read more

New York New York II

2009-07-24T13:24:00+01:00

Again a column (in dutch) by Erik Borst. This time he talks about our recent city trip in the Big Apple. Classic! Read it at fontanel. Read more

Haaaaaaaallooooooooooooo

2009-06-02T10:49:01+01:00

Illustrator Merijn Hos aka Bfree did the new interactive billboards for this German dating concept. Haaaaaaallooooooooooo, why does the German language sound so funny? Read more

Bingo Bango

2009-06-02T10:23:01+01:00

Great news! I amsterdam.com the city portal for the city of Amsterdam we created at Fabrique won 2 awards last month. In Zurich we received a Bronze European Design Award in the category Promotional Site and in Hanover we received a German IF Communication Design Award in the category 'Struktur'. A good excuse to pop some champagne! Read more

Blend X Crazy Birds

2009-06-02T10:16:01+01:00

New concept by Gijs van der Togt aka Crazy Birds together with the dutch magazine Blend a monthly play list of exclusive tracks. Be sure to listen to it here! Be sure to check out the tracks by De Fakkelbrigade (Zwolles finest) and Major Lazer. Read more

Rock… Paper… Scissors…

2009-06-02T10:13:00+01:00

Great new sweater by illustrator Tiquestar! Soon for sale at a local clothing store near you ;-). Read more

New York New York

2009-05-16T14:40:00+01:00

Nice column (in dutch) about New York street photography by Erik Borst talking about the work of Jeff Mermelstein, Gary Winogrand en Joel Meyerowitz (see photo above). Read it at fontanel. Read more

NOVA on Frankwatching.com

2009-03-03T12:23:00+01:00

Today Frankwatching.com wrote about the new NOVA website. Read the post on Frankwatching (in dutch). Thanks Karianne! Read more

Live is live

2009-02-15T23:03:01+01:00

Great to see the new NOVA website working! Reactions are mostly very positive, NOVA even had a poll where users could give their opinion (in dutch). Also cartoonist Joep Bertrams made two versions of his animated cartoon for the launch of the website. Above chief editor Carel Kuyl chatting away at the launch. Already visited the site? Drop me a line in the comments to let me know what you think! Always curious... Read more

Augmented Reality

2009-02-03T21:24:00+01:00

Great to see this flash example of augmented reality. Using a webcam and a print of a pdf with a black square on it, users can manipulate a 3d object. Worth checking out if you have a webcam! Take a look at GE Smart Grid. One more movie after the jump. Read more

Setola en Gille

2009-02-03T15:28:00+01:00

Ex Studio Dumbar colleague and friend Bruno Setola has his own company together with Erik Gille called Setola & Gille. Antje Peters shot the pictures above. Nice! Read more

The New Black

2009-01-28T11:20:00+01:00

7th of February in Rotterdam 'Het Nieuwe Zwart' a party at de Beurs (kruiskade 55). From the guys who brought you fontanel. Say word. Read more

Fabrique Amsterdam moved

2009-01-27T16:50:00+01:00

We moved a while back from PostCS to the Vijzelstraat. To celebrate this Fabrique gave a party for clients and more. Food design and a real scent DJ (yuk!). Take a look at the polaroids! Read more

Merijn Hos for Yo Gabba Gabba

2009-01-27T14:27:00+01:00

Illustrator Merijn Hos aka Bfree did an animation for Nickelodeon's Yo Gabba Gabba... Read more

Really!

2009-01-20T12:55:00+01:00

A bit later then expected, but I amsterdam.com went live today! Since we already ate the cake last week I think it's time for champagne! Read more