Walter Van Beirendonck - de Standaard

[roupas]

Mostly for the Belgians and Dutch I guess. There will be a special 80 page newspaper tomorrow of which Walter will be the editor.

[Fibers]

Mostly for the Belgians and Dutch I guess. There will be a special 80 page newspaper tomorrow of which Walter will be the editor.

This let me think about the magazine that will published saturday along with NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Paper). The guest editor of this magazine will be Dries van Noten.

By The way: The editor in chief of NRC (Peter Vandermeersch) was editor in chief of De Standaard. Coincidence?

[Faust]

Mostly for the Belgians and Dutch I guess. There will be a special 80 page newspaper tomorrow of which Walter will be the editor.

If you are starting a new thread, please have respect for this forum and post something substantial. Links, dates. What use is this?

[droogist]

Thanks for the head's up - I picked up a copy at the newsstand this morning. (See Faust, it wasn't totally useless after all.)

De Standaard is a Belgian Flemish-language tabloid. They've invited other promiment Belgians in the arts to guest-edit the paper in the past. This year they chose Van Beirendonck, probably with his current exhibition at the Antwerp Mode Museum in mind.

It looks like the same news coverage they would have had otherwise, but Walter decided what went in the arts & culture section and messed with the layout in a big way (e.g. the culture section is the "main" section and the news section is the insert, all the mulitpage articles are printed on non-facing pages, and Walter's icons and slogans appear liberally throughout).

A link: http://www.standaard.be/artikel/deta...MF20110915_029

[Dane]

He frightens me. If I saw him in a dark alley I would walk away briskly.

[Prezens]

He frightens me. If I saw him in a dark alley I would walk away briskly.

from the sounds of it, the only reason you'd "walk away briskly" as opposed to run is so he doesn't chase you and beat you to a pulp right there and then LoL,
hmm I shall look him up immediately, although his role as editor is now only secondary interest, ha

[Prezens]

haha good lord, after taking 1 glance at him, I think i'd run at the risk of gettin caught

[Patroklus]

I guess if you want to be tired and violated.

[Faust]

He frightens me. If I saw him in a dark alley I would walk away briskly.

Actually he's one of the sweetest and most intelligent designers I've had a pleasure of interviewing.

[tweeds]

To make this thread a little more worthwhile:

Tying in with the exhibition, Walter Van Beirendonck is editor-in-chief of the Belgian newspaper De Standaard for their edition of September 16th.

Over the past few years, De Standaard has built a real tradition by inviting prominent Belgian in the arts to guest-edit the newspaper: artist Luc Tuymans in 2007, Jan Fabre in 2008 and photographer Carl De Keyzer in 2009.

It was an exiting project and De Standaard took the challenge to let someone who is primarily concerned with the visual aspects of a product take charge of the news. The culture section became the “main” section, and the news section is the insert, all the multipage articles are printed on non-facing pages, and Walter’s icons and slogans appear liberally throughout the pages!

Also check-out De Standaard of 17/09 with a free ticket for the Walter Van Beirendonck – Dream The World Awake exhibition!

http://blog.momu.be/2011/presspr/walter-editor-in-chief-de-standaard/

[tweeds]

Kiss the Future !

WOOF

Source: blog.momu.be

[tweeds]

Something BYYG is Coming

[tweeds]

No, you're right, it's not the most outstanding thing he's done - although maybe if we read the articles we might find a different coverage/tone to that of the paper's? Something else.

My favourite publication 'appropriation' projects have still got to be those by Bless, who embed their lookbooks - always something odd in them - into the publication they infiltrate. Something of themselves more clearly sited in the magazine, and in some sort of way something of the magazine in their edition. Their most recent collaboration for Nr. 43 was with mono.kultur - a small, beautifully executed little piece.

[endersgame]

[Faust]

Went to see the exhibit at MoMu yesterday. It's actually a lot of fun.