Amsterdam
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- cosmik0
would like to move there, i'm cdn.
- sfeske0
see, I was pondering this same question recently in relations to broadcast-design. what's the situation look like now in terms of gaining a visa and/or picking up work?
- CALLES0
i heard amsterdam is like the ginger capital of the world... iss it true?
- ukit0
Don't many famous designers come out of teh Netherlands? Even some really famous ones?
- all of themDr_Rand
- take me for example...neue75_bold
- and Rand...janne76
- SigDesign0
Isn't the Werkplaats Typografie in the Netherlands? What if you went to school there?
- I reckon it'd be great.. but it's more of a post-grad program...neue75_bold
- right...cause it doesn't have a MFA program... just an MASigDesign
- neue75_bold0
- *books flight*ukit
- isn't that Sweden?janne76
- nup... that's no.4, Holland is no.10...neue75_bold
- ukit0
- SigDesign0
I had definitely not heard of the rampant dog poo...
- it's true...neue75_bold
- yet, some of that was me...neue75_bold
- honest0
Well, it's who ya know if you want to get a job.
I hear all the designers are on call day and night and they even have weekend shifts to meet big account retainer demands. They're all shagged out and drugged up and all in therapy (and that's just the account handlers) their apartments don't have ovens and new year's is always a good time to run in the streets by the canal to throw fireworks at people you don't like the look of.I hear the night life is pretty cool though and it's a bicycle-friendly city but there's dog poo everywhere - correct me if I'm wrong...
- if you work at 180 or W+K...neue75_bold
- and who would want to work there?neue75_bold
- *raises handjanne76
- neue75_bold0
yeah, nike is here and there, he initially came over to visit, fell in love with the city and decided to set up shop here too...
but once you settle down a bit, have a house etc over there, and get older, it starts to seem less logical...
- ukit0
Why does he split his time like that? Clients in both places?
- SigDesign0
neue you rock... that's like living in a dream world
- not if you've been going back and forth every other month for 6/7 years :)neue75_bold
- i don't know... seems pretty cool to meSigDesign
- neue75_bold0
Sig if you want the best of both, you could try my mate Andrew, he runs a shop where he splits his time between Portland and A'dam.. they do motion, interactive and print...
- jfletcher0
I was in Amsterdam for half a day and didn't dig it that much. Maybe if I were more local....
- SigDesign0
weed cafes... gotta love em
- not anymore if you have to stand outside.Jnr_Madison
- wait... it's still legal to smoke outside?SigDesign
- Jnr_Madison0
Is it true they are about to ban smoking indoors in Amsterdam? Even with all the coffee 'hash' bars?
- as of today...neue75_bold
- FUCK.Jnr_Madison
- well, there go my plansSigDesign
- July 1st 2008janne76
- ..as of today indeed. hehjanne76
- ukit0
it's cold in Amsterdam...but they do have weed and whores
- what else do you need?doesnotexist
- COLD?? MOTHERFUCK! HOW FAR COULD YOU BE FROM THE TRUTH RIGHT NOW!!!janne76
- was super cold when i visitedukit
- SigDesign0
maybe I'll just try for Seattle...
- SigDesign0
well then... time to develop spectacular-ness...