Branding for company named Hollandse Grond, selling old fashioned dutch vegetables of superior quality. Photos by Sven Benjamins.

I made cover illustrations for BB (Binnenlands Bestuur) for over a year and I just finished the last one. Really the last one, because cut backs forced them to let some people go and appear twice a month instead of every week. Too bad… I hope you can see how much fun I had making these illustrations!

Handboek voor de Popmuzikant Viral
To promote the Handboek voor de Popmuzikant/Musicians Guide website Elastique produced an online viral video.

Elastique created a tool in which unknown musicians could fill in their name and upload their own music, which we used to create a personalized videoclip in which they were hailed as Holland’s next big popstars with fans like Racoon, Giovanca and Moke, who danced to their music (at the actual tempo of the uploaded music!) and had tattoo’s and shirts with the bands/artist’s name.

The users could fool their fans or bandmembers with this personalized videoclip by sending them an email. This email had a link to a YouTube-like page with personalized comments. After the videoclip ended, the user was automatically redirected to the Handboek voor de Popmuzikant/Musicians Guide website, where he/she could make a personalized videoclip of their own.

Borinka & I designed these books that look like a glossy, published in Surinam. They’re sold cheap to encourage people to read these classics.

We decided to put a strip on the left side of the cover, which functions as a very recognizable logo that mixes the classic feel with a fresher look.
The space on the right has the same ratio as the original books, so if they lack a good cover design in the future, they can use the original cover design.
To give the books a magazine feel, we needed a lot of images. For each issue Borinka & I collected and created hundreds of images.

I designed the pictograms for Kijkwijzer, the dutch movie classification system. I also made their house style and for that I came up with a little caracter who’s nothing more than an ‘i’ (with feet and an eye for the dot).

Here are some campaign designs I did for Kijkwijzer.

I was given the job of building a complete website for the Dutch Institute for Pop Music (now merged into Music Center the Netherlands), explaining young musicians how to expand their possibilities, deal with taxes and so.
Text was written by Jan van der Plas, and I could never have done it without the great work of Elastique, helping me with the storylines, animation, actionscripting etc. etc.
It was a whole year working hard, but I’m really proud of it. Be sure to take a look at the site and click here!