2009 - Brainbelt - This for that

A small project about interesting, weird, funny, scary etc. trades I found on the web. It makes you wonder what value things
have and who actually decides this.... 

2006 - Schermen met Letters

This project about dyslexia was supposed to have an animation as an end result, but as at the time my animation skills were
not developed at all, it ended up becoming a printed artwork made up from loose frames carefully displayed on a flat surface.

2009 - Transforming Attitudes - programme booklet

This typographical programme booklet was designed for a Transgender Human Right Conference and Educational 

Seminar organised by TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland). I tried keep the design pretty clean but also 

with a hint of playfulness.

2008 - TACE

This project was a really nice one to work on, even though it was just a proposal for a pitch and unfortunately it never has been realized.

Among other studio's we were asked to come up with a logo, business cards, letterhead and flyers for an organisation which was documenting Theater Architecture in the Central Europe region. (TACE). After making many many sketches I came up with the logo (you can see it in the right bottom corner of the posters). A very simple box holding the T (from theater) inside the box, the A (from architecture) on one of the outsides of the box and the CE as a sort of shadow next to it representing the a play.

I took the whole concept a bit further and also made a whole series of posters using manly recycle paper, silkscreening and the colour magenta and black & white. On the posters (and flyers) I was using the concept of the logo in a slightly different way. There where outlines of different theatre buildings from that region and next to them funny little shadows which would show the idea that theater can take you anywhere to any location for a moment. And underneath each building & shadow combination it would say the name of the building, the location and the name of a play (for instance: National Theatre, Prague, Romeo & Juliet). There could be the same building showing more then once, but having different shadows and there also could be a shadow shown more then once but being connected to different buildings. On top of everything there was the big strong typography.

Above you can see some of the (details of the) poster proposals (There were many more colour / print combinations)
.

2007 - Playing with reality

I designed this book for my graduation thesis. The theme I chose was playing with reality. More information about this coming later.

2006 - The Tragic Death of Helvetica

The beginning of the Typographical Cabaret went something like this. After a short but funny interview between Mr Helvetica and Typeradio (you can listen to that here) in the foyer of the theatre, the audience was slowly walking in to the theater space. On the stage was a couch and two of the actors were sitting on it, observing the entering audience. Behind them there was a projection saying something like 'you are late, the show has already started'. Slowly the audience finds it's seats, The actors are still staring at them and the projection behind them is giving the instruction now for the audience to take the white piece of paper (with a big black letter on it) which was laying underneath their chair and hold it above their heads. Then there is a live projection seen behind the actors, of the audience holding up the papers and together forming the title of the show (the whole thing repeats but with a black paper and a white letter on it) and so with a little bit imagination you can read from the loose pieces of the papers which are being held up: 'The Tragic Death of Helvetica, A Typographical Cabaret / Presented by / Multiple Master and the Fontasticles'. The atmosphere is nice and loose and as the actors stand up from the couch and carry it of the stage, the live projection stops and the last projected sentence can be read and it's saying something like: ' And now the real opening credits'.

Below you can see an overview from this stop-motion animation, the real opening credits. And a picture of the cast.

May 2006 | Opening credits, part of 'The Tragic Death of Helvetica' (a typographical cabaret) | Art academy project made together with Hannu Kyyriainen, Jiří Karásek, Isao Konuki, André Schubert, Ramon Avelino, Tomas Klaui, Floor Evers and Joffrey Hoijer | In collaboration with Gert Dumbar, Theater Zeebelt and Typeradio | And winning two design awards in Finland! | Made in Holland

2002 - Inspiration project

This must have been one of the first somewhat larger projects I made during my studies at the art academy back in 2002. 
The assignment was to play with language within the building of the school. I wanted to play with the word 'inspiration' 
as it can strike sometimes at the most unexpected moments, not always being clear where it actually came from. Some-
times even the smallest spot on an blank white wall could trigger our creativity. 

For this project it started of with a white painted wall where slowly over time the word 'inspiratie' (inspiration in Dutch) 
appeared due to pieces of paint and paper slowly pealing of the wall...