Re: Piet Westendorp (1950 - 2008)

I want to add my voice to those expressing our sadness at losing
our esteemed and witty colleague, Piet Westendorp.

I believe I only met him in person once, at TU Delft on a visit
with Karel van der Waarde, but I enjoyed working online with him
in two contexts:

   #  firstly, in the little team of moderator/editors working
      together on compiling the InfoDesign list;

   #  secondly, as proofreader-cum-illustrator for Information
      Design Journal, in those happier days when Karel and Piet
      were the joint editors.

I also have a happy memory of the animated multimedia presentations
which Yuri Engelhardt curated for the "InfoArcadia" exhibition at the
Stroom Centre for Visual Arts at Den Haag in 2000.  One was a rolling
presentation of illustrations from "Open Here", and another intriguing
and funny one by Piet was a quickfire presentation of scores and scores
of people's freehand sketches of maps of the Netherlands...

Conrad
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