ADCN award 2007
12-04-2007
The professional jury of the Dutch Design an Art Director’s Association (ADCN) awarded Studio Dumbar’s illustrations for the catalogue of the Dutch Design Awards 2006 with the prestegious ADCN award 2007 in the category ‘illustration’.
In 2005 and 2006 Studio Dumbar won the ADCN silver awards for the complete editions of the Dutch design magazine Items.
About the illustrations
The theme of cups and flowers as recurring factor in the visual identity of the Dutch Design Awards was already introduced in 2003. This theme returns in the new style , but this time composed of texts and figures that refer to the history of design, to art and culture or to modern social phenomenons (burka, the Queen etc). This approach resulted in a layered design: When you look through your eye lashes, you see the cups. Then you see the competition categories (graphic design, industrial design etc.). And last but not least you discover the hundreds of small texts and figures that, each in their own way, refer to these categories as well.
These layered approch have turned this event style into a representative of ‘slow design’. ‘Slow’ because designing this way is quite labour-intensive and the spectator will need time to fully understand the depth of the work.
