Most Art in South East Asia feels like kitsch and has mostly a religious purpose, though sometimes you can find beautiful pieces of modern/contemporary art and street art if you look the right way. Modern Art For example in Phnom Penh, the capital of cambodia, there was an augmented reality exhibition in The Plantation of …
Did you know Dali was the Graphic Designer behind the Chupa Chups logo?
The excentric surrealist is well known because of his famous painting of the melting clocks and stilt walking elephants, but did you know he also created the Chupa Chups logo? It all started when the catalan business man, Enric Bernat, child of Cake shop owners, bought the apple jam company he was working for in …
A train ride from hell
It was the most uncomfortable and awkward train ride I’ve ever had. Traveling through the middle of China from the far south of Guangzhou to the capital city Beijing in a 22 hour train ride. On top of that I was sitting on a hard seat with noisy Chinese all around me. It wasn’t pleasant to say …
Transcending myself. Climbing Mount Elbert.
It was a few years ago that I discovered the existence of a mountain in the US that has the same name as I have. Mount Elbert. It was during a routine fun-search on maps.google.com that I found my equal. A 4.401 meter high mountain that is the highest of the Rocky Mountains and the second highest …
Creative design attempt #2: The impossibles
For my second design attempt I was inspired by the works of M.C. Escher. In particular the impossible triangle. I love that piece of art. Further more I also made a remake of Stromae’s logo, which is – obviously – also strongly influenced by Escher’s work. I also thought it would be fun to – …
Throwback Thursday: Website Roo
Het is al een behoorlijke tijd geleden. 3,5 jaar geleden al weer dat de muzikale gebroeders Roo bij mij aanklopten om een website te maken. Ze hebben daarna de website zelf draaiende gehouden en met hartelust de website gevuld met blogs, video’s en foto’s. Een paar weken geleden hadden ze me echter weer even nodig …
Creative design attempt #1
I decided for myself that I should do a weekly design attempt. This is my first design attempt and hope you will like it. It’s roughly inspired by Feridun Akgüngör’s Minimal Pure, where he made soothing settings by using calm gradient backgrounds. (Take a look at his work on Behance) However, I, on the otherhand, …
Huisstijl en website voor 24seven
Het jonge en ondernemende koppel, Eddy en Kimberly, zijn in 2015 samen hun eigen Personal Training avontuur begonnen. Bij dit nieuwe avontuur hoorde natuurlijk ook een eigen huisstijl en website, dus klopten ze bij mij aan. Het logo Na wat communicatiewisselingen via de mail en een persoonlijke meeting met Eddy en Kimberly ben ik aan …
Website Wok- & Tapas het Oosten
Wok het Oosten is hét wokrestaurant in Amersfoort en is gevestigd in een prachtige locatie aan het spoor met een even zo mooi interieur. De oude website van Wok het Oosten weerspiegelde dat echter totaal niet. Daarom vroeg eigenaar Joseph Wong mij om zijn website te redesignen en er een professioneel ogende site van te …