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2e prijs El HEMA ontwerpwedstrijd: Nellie Keijzer 2007 3 1

Duizendenéénnachtkussen

Alf laila wa laila

Pillowcase.
The Arabic word 'night' 1001 times printed on a cotton pillowcase.

: "One Thousand and One Nights" is the most famous and well known tale from the Arabic world. It symbolizes the mystery and beauty of the Arab World. So I took it literally and made an typographic translation of it.

: (El) Hema = massproduction and feelgood products Hema also want to be 'arty' in a way, they gave art student the oportunity to make Hema-design. I think this product fits in perfectly. But has an Arabic touch.

: In fact the 'ordinary' Hema customers and people who are inetresetd in the Arab culture and Arab people witch an modern view.

: I was sleeping in my bed and suddenly I had this idea, so I went out of bed to wrote it down... I used a selfmade font which already existed before I desigden this pillowcase.

: Cotton pillowcase size: 60 x 50 cm Silk-screen print (Zeefdruk, Dutch) But if there's an other way to print on cotton, is fine as well ink: black and magentha

: tools for silkscreen print (or an other way to print cotton) white cotton pillowcases

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Nellie Keijzer 
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Extended alf laila wa laila's

What if the stories from 'Thousand and One Nights' were printed on the suiting blankets, like Tiago da Fonseca does with his bedtime stories?

Annabel Storm
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14 Dec 2012,13:46
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