This was an end ’90s tv program (at the time, everything was shot on videotapes, kids!)

De Toekomst (the Future) was a Dutch TV program broadcoasted by the IKON. It was so-called ‘Slow-TV’: two intelligent people would be chatting about the future for an hour.

As a design choice, i had them sit in a pop up studio in a high building overlooking Amsterdam. We made sure the interview would be done during dawn, so you’d see the city become dark with the deepening of the conversation. It was really beautiful to see the traffic-, house- and commercial lights in the background playing a role in the background of two people cut off from it by the studio light.

(I have to say a big thank you to Tim Smith of the Cardiacs at this point – samples of intros by ‘The Cardiacs’ were used for this intro)

This was made in collaboration with Roelof de Groot, alias Potato Die. Wendy played violin for this so once again, we did this with the Paxy Dragon crew!

There was this cool music program I worked for, called Lola Da Musica. I did the graphic design and made ‘bumpers’ (the little animations between items) and some of the leaders.

We covered the Lowlands Festival somewhere in history, and I made films on the spot: the camera operator and I went into the multitudes and tried to catch material I storyboarded beforehand. I also had music prepped and whenever there was a moment in the mobile cutting room i edited the clips. Lowlands was friday, saturday and sunday – the program went on air sunday night.

This tv show opened with my car and out comes my friend Marleen, who did the camera except in this shot where we see her legs.

The material looks crappy, but hey, these were the ’90s! Everything looked crappy! I don’t have the original betacams – those were re-used in tv stations so this is what I recorded on VHS when it was on telly. Yes, VHS.

Okay people, this is old news. Somewhere in the ’90s – the ‘pre-everything era’ I was asked to make so called ‘Bumpers’ in a TV program. This was a program about movies and directors and the short animations were to make cool transitions between items. Its shot on video and I asked my friend Roelof de Groot – so we could do this together. Every 2 weeks, a new bumper was needed. We spent most of our time working hard without getting much sleep in between episodes. We also did the music, by the way.

When the COVID-19 crisis started, Club Amsterdam Klezmer went online. It was a mix of live gigs broadcasted  through internet and interviews through Zoom – and it needed an identity. i made the graphic design, stationcalls and other moving graphics.

I wanted to emphasize  the ‘self made’ but oh-so Amsterdam based character  of the band. The Amsterdam logo consists of three red crosses on top of each other on a black background, so I took some pieces of wood and made an animation featuring a home made cross.