26 February – 10 March

Exhibition in Brussels presenting the bookawards and nominations of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009

At the BIP, Rue Royale, 2-4

1000 Brussels

Opening on 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm

-Agenda was nominated for the prize, and appears in the photo above

- The international jury convened at the ERG to choose the most beautiful books that were designed, published or printed in Brussels and Wallonia in 2009.

The jury consisted of the following six members:

Roger WILLEMS, graphic artist, publisher, chairman of the Jury (NL)

Willem OOREBEEK, artist, teacher (NL)

Jean-Marie COURANT, graphic artist, curator, teacher (F)

David POULLARD, typographer, teacher (F)

Jan WOUTER HELSPEEL, graphic artist, teacher (B)

Drita KOTAJI, book historian, teacher (B)

The 83 received books, presented by category (general literature (fiction), general literature (non-fiction), artists’ books, art books and catalogues, architecture and urban planning books, books for young people and comic books) were placed at the disposal of the jury.

20 books were nominated and the Prize was awarded to 10 books, that were given the title “Winner of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009”. The three parties of the award winning book; the graphic designer, the publisher and the printer, will receive an honorary diploma.

The Fernand Baudin Prize is supported by Brussels Export, Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI) and the Walloon Agency for Export and Foreign Investments (AWEX)

For More on the Fernand Baudin Prize, click HERE.

‘Feeling a little off-colour this winter? A bit stressed out with listening to what is going wrong with the world? Anima is offering some light relief for the head and desire for the heart with a little cure of animation. There’s nothing like it for putting the neurons back in phase with the zygomatics and vice versa.’

The Brussels Animation Film Festival, Flagey, from 12th to 20th February.

More info: www.animatv.be

PS: note the ever beautiful artwork for the poster by François Schuiten.

JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects will have work exhibited at the Musee du Point de Vue, a traveling artwork by Swiss artist Jean-Daniel Berclaz, from 4-18 February.

You are cordially invited to the vernissage on 4 February at 19h00.

The Musee du Point de Vue is located at 192 rue Antoine Dansaert, 1000 Brussels, and open 24 hours a day/7 days a week

For more on the Musee du Point de Vue project click HERE.

This morning on the France culture station of Radio France, François Chaslin interviewed Julien De Smedt on the weekly radio show Métropolitains.

In case you missed the broadcast this morning, you can listen to it on Radio France website HERE.

A new episode in the Fringe Project.

22 Jan – 05 March 2010
The Circular Series, Section 2
Solo exhibition at Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus, Bremen

LINK

If you are in New York tonight, you might want to join the opening of  “Terra Infirma”, at ISCP. The exhibition will be on display from the 14th January to the 14th february 2010. More info here.

The following is from the press release:

Yökalenteri means, in Finnish language, “Night Calendar”. A calendar that displays the minutes of night time in Helsinki throughout the year. Designed by Antonio Scarponi, Yökalenteri hosts “Rêvalités”, a work of Finnish Poet and writer Cia Rinne. “Rêvalités” consists of 36 mini prose pieces, dreams recorded during the time span of a year, which thematically deal with a variety of issues.

READ MORE »

The Weave, our project in Groningen, will be exhibited in The Hague / Den Haag (NL) at the Ministry of Spatial Planning (VROM), Rijnstraat 8, from January 11th to January 29th.

The exhibition will display the study projects made for the Campaign Intense Lowrise/Intense Laagbouw for the City of Groningen; the campaign features the work of 52 different Dutch and International offices. READ MORE »

The new Holmenkollen Ski Jump game is now available to play on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

“Holmenkollen Ski Jump is an addicting ski jumping game.  Easy to play, really hard to master!  The game is situated in the new Holmenkollen, Norway’s national ski jumping arena in Oslo.  Jump as far as possible with maximum style!” -from Agens, iTunes App Store.

The game was just released today and is available on the iTunes App Store.  Click here for the link.

You can also compete against your friends on Facebook with the Holmenkollen Facebook app.  Click here for the link.