June 11th the first Museum entirely ded­i­cated to Graphic Design will be opened by our Queen Beat­rix in Breda.
For the open­ing my friend Teun Castelein will make his graphic state­ment out of con­cieved con­tent from 250 par­tic­i­pants. Every­body is wel­come to design its own flag and mail it to flag@graphicdesignmuseum.com. All designs will be printed on unique flags and put against the build­ing. The result will be an explo­sion of infor­ma­tion. A colour­ful art piece at the old baroque build­ing of the super­mod­ern Graphic Design Museum.
Really a piece of art that makes people think about modern visual com­mu­ni­ca­tion, about the posi­tion of musea in the con­tem­po­rary image-​culture and the fact that every­body is a designer/ image-​maker nowa­days.

So invest some 250 €, add another line to your CV and be part of the open­ing exhi­bi­tion. You can upload your images here.
It seems to be sell­ing quite well and I’m sure it will look amazing.

Teun did a sim­i­lar spec­tac­u­lar work of art inspired by the famous web­site ‘www.​mil​lion​dol​larhome​page.com‘ in 2005. He sold the façade of his Alma Mater, the Sand­berg Insti­tute in Ams­ter­dam to more than 300 com­pa­nies, organ­i­sa­tions and individuals.

They added logos and trade­marks, images of art, poetry and lovenotes. The façade con­sists of more than 16,000 tiles [35x29cm], each of which is sup­plied with its own indi­vid­ual printed plas­tic plate. The result is an over­whelm­ing mosaic of colour and infor­ma­tion – a project that seeks to push the bound­aries between com­merce and art, soci­ety and the move­ments of the market, the pri­vate sector and public space. The Sand­berg Insti­tute is located on the Ams­ter­dam ring road in the Zuidas dis­trict, the city’s new eco­nomic centre.

Teun Castelein, who is actu­ally the first man in real size on the web, grad­u­ated in 2002 at the Art Acad­emy of Utrecht with a research on Dutch sub­ur­ban town Hoogvliet, just out­side Rot­ter­dam.
This ghetto town had a very neg­a­tive image, so he decided to start a feel good brand­ing cam­paign for its cit­i­zens as part of the WIMBY! project. One of his pro­pos­als was a Hol­ly­wood sign of ‘HOOGVLIET’ [which was imple­mented in a park design by FAT archi­tects]. With this icon of Hol­ly­wood he wanted to give the people some­thing to believe in, that you can be some­body! By giving Hoogvliet a bit of Hol­ly­wood allure, he made its inhab­i­tants the stars.

So, go get your cre­ativ­ity boil­ing, con­vince your boss to spend those Euros and put some­thing more on it than just your aver­age com­pany logo!