Review 2007: Luis Mendo

Luis Mendo runs the creative agency, Good Inc [goodinc.nl] out of his office in Amsterdam where he taps into, and works with, a hand picked selection of hi qual creative bods. Luis is passionate about magazines (he was lead creative on the Colofound magazine project [colophon2009.com/colophound] which he first introduced at the event early last year) and has a deep interest in the minutiae of creative process. He is also an irregular contributor to Boicozine — see, he’s on our list — when he’s not too busy with his own blog, bladblog [bladblog.nl], an excellent Dutch-language blog for reading about magazine design and global creativity around the world.

Publications
Monocle [monoclemagazine.com], because they came out with something truly new. Something many claim and few do /
 
Music
Spinvis, a Dutch musician [spinvis.nl] and Remate, an Spanish one [rematemusic.com]. Spinvis is making this incredibly interesting mix between low media (cassette recordings, sounds from the ordinary life…) and electronics, with a nice voice and great lyrics. Remate does a bit the same really but sings in English /
 
Film
ahem… Probably Control by Anton Corbijn [corbijn.co.uk]. Great photographer, great movie /
 
Design & Illustration
Probably this [ex7.org/laszlito-kovacs] by Laszlito Kovacs. Laszlito is a friend and I’m his biggest fan /
 
Purchases
The iPod Touch [wikipedia] is a lovely piece of electronics. Pretty, wonderfully well designed interfaces… Finally internet in my pocket plus my music and now, thanks to the hack I’ve installed, my email and Google Maps. Who needs the iPhone? /
 
Places to Visit
Ah… probably Tokyo… when I get a chance to go there. It is always on top of my list of places to visit. In the meantime Madrid is always excellent. I was there in March at the Puerta America [puertamerica.com] hotel. Beautiful /
 
Worst Film
Ocean’s Thirteen [impawards.com/oceans_thirteen]. I love those films, but the last one was terrible.

The image above is of a spread about Luis featured in Graphic magazine [bispublishers.nl].