consultant, art director, designer
I wanted to be an architect when I was four, a car designer when I was eight and in highschool I was handdrawing typographic posters in the party committee. I wanted to ‘make things’ and was always looking for ‘beautiful’.
I studied industrial design and graphic design in art school. My first job was at an advertising agency in the south of Amsterdam where I learned how to make things ‘communicate’. Later I was a roving alchemist in search of graphic simplicity, truth and a splash and preferably all at once.
I published typefaces through FontShop, I started a design office with Pam and Peter, I was a teacher in art school, I made computer software, I worked briefly with my friends at Qua Associates and later at design machine Koeweiden Postma.
Some call me a rebel, but that’s not what I am. I just find that life in general and design in particular have a lot more to offer when you leave the trodden paths regularly. Which doesn’t mean I don’t walk those trodden paths myself every now and then, after all, they’re convenient and pretty quick.
Today I’m an independent design gun-for-hire. The alchemist and the ad boy are still there but more experienced and wiser. They are still the free thinkers that they always were but today they also know when to stay ‘inside the box’.
For more information you can reach me through LinkedIn or you can download my vCard. Of course you can email me too.
Below are some brands and clients that I’ve worked for in the past.
Media & publishingKPN (telecom) IndustryLinde (fork lifts) FinancialAchmea (insurance group) BusinessNetintegrators (corporate internet consultants) |
RetailInvito (shoes) CulturalTextiles Museum Tilburg Non profitDutch Red Cross GovernmentVelsen (county) OtherUniversity of Amsterdam |