low animation clip for Dialoque

Dialogue’s Jan Jaap Snellen, also the initiator of Studio Blackbird, where i produce all my music, asked me to make a ‘moving illustration’ as a videoclip for their single ‘Iguana’. This was a lot of fun to do. I wanted to catch the vibe of the music with a single illustration with minimal moves, fitting the style of the music.

This is a moving background for the animated Vlogger Little Sister.

Poster (and logo) for Please Don’t Stop The Music, an initiative by Andries van Wieren, to help Dutch music acts through the Covid-19 period. Peter Hordijk (who also built this site) and I worked overnight to launch the site just the morning after we got the assignment.

Poster for ‘Don’t Stop The Music’, an initiatief by Andries van Wieren and 3S music to help Dutch bands and music artists in times of the Corona pandemic.

‘Don’t stop the Music’ is a site where you can hear Dutch artists, listen to their music, buy their records and services, mostly as music teachers or coaches. It had to be realised over night, and Peter Hordijk, who built the site (and this site, too) and i had to work pretty hard. But with effect, i like to think!

poster for an evening with live music by Arthur Sauer. The poster refers to the notion that he wanted to be a motor crosser as a kid and now he became a composer – the music gave him the same energy and to most it sounds like motor crossing.

silk printed poster (autonomous work).

‘In the future, the revolution will be history, so act now’

Poster to promote the show of the Spinshots at the yearly ‘Haarlem Comic Days’. Laura A Dima did a go go dance on stage dressed as my character ‘Lucy the Home Made Maid’

Poster for an event where The Alliage Orkest played a live soundtrack to the 1929’s film ‘Menschen Am Sonntag’, which was restored and projected. For this poster, we scanned a 32 mm still from the film and blew it up.

Poster for the event I organised with Patrick Moonen: once a month we had acts, dinner and dj’s in a circus tent.

Poster (autonomous work) with Kali – stating ‘Nothing lasts Forever’. I called this poster ‘Kali Maya because Maya posed for it and ‘Maya’ means the ‘veil between us and reality’. The poster is silk printed by hand in 5 colours and is 1.20 cm high.

If you want to buy a print (there are two left) mail me!

The body is not the soul is not the spirit, says the nun.

Poster for Hotel Modern. I wanted to emphasise the loneliness one can have living in a city: the feeling that ‘much is happening, but you’re not part of it’ can be heavy, especially for young people. So i asked photographer Tza Tza to make these pictures of the actors and i ripped the prints into this poster.

Poster and flyer for Amsterdam Beat Club, a ’50s/’60s oriented club night with bands, dancers, acts and deejays.

Dim’ lights was an event for people who love dancing but hate electronic beats: that’s me!!! I loved to do this poster.

Poster for a circus. I’d love to get more assignments for which i can use this style of drawing! Drop me a line!

This is a silk printed design; in fact, not a poster but the world’s biggest business card. i made it for a philosopher who brought talents together.

‘Je moet niet denken dat een ander denkt zoals jij denkt’ means ‘you should not think someone else thinks the way you do’, and ‘Wijze Lessen’ means ‘Wise Lessons’ (if this is even English). I thought my client was a person crying in the wilderness: loud, with good ideas but unheard by policy makers. So i made a huge business card for him: it is one meter high and about 65 cm wide.

Poster for the Amsterdam based spy fi band ‘West Hell Five. The photo was made by Myrthe ter Maten, the model is Marieke Bos. The typography is projected on the model so i had this sketched out very carefully and the model had muscle strains the next day. It never ceases to amaze me how unnatural models must bend their bodies to occur natural on photos.

on the back site of the poster is a novelle written by drummer Wilf Plum. I did the typography of the story on seemingly torn pages from a book with a hole in it to hide a gun.

At the Rabobank in Heerenveen, a 10 floor high building, there obviously was a top floor. My client Anne Douwe Knobbe wanted a ‘place for philosophers’ on that spot and he pulled it off to get a free pass to experiment from the director. Anne Douwe asked me to design a 16 meters long carpet (produced in east Germany with 6 inks and transported to Heerenveen) and i made a map showing the connections between Heerenveen and places of influence. Note the ‘bell’ logo i also designed for ‘Frysian Quality’.

The carpet was laid on the ground and stuck to the walls, and the dark part was for projections during speeches. The light part had a meeting table designed by Flat Architects.

Photos by Arend Loerts.

Design for ‘Please Don’t Stop The Music’, an initiative by Andries van Wieren to help Dutch musicians surviving through the Covid-19 pandemic. Peter Hordijk, who also built this site, built the site.

Artwork for West Hell Five, an Amsterdam based spy fi jazz combo. The photo is made by Mirte Ter Maten and to keep it real, the title is, James Bond style, projected on the girl. No photoshop here peeps. (well the photographer obviously did some colour correction)

Inside was a gigantic poster of the lady with the gun. On the back side of that poster we see a spy fi novel drummer Wilf Plum wrote on pages ripped from a book. The book has a hole in the middle hiding a gun.

i designed this cover for Cardboard People, an Amsterdam based New Wave Rock band. Unfortunately they did not like it, but I do, so that’s why its here for you to see 😉

Gainsnord is an initiative of the Dutch DJ Guuzbourg, who coined the term ‘Zuchtmeisjes’. He asked several Dutch bands to make a cover of a Gainsbourg song – the Spinshots chose ‘Qui Est ‘In’, Qui est ‘Out’, which became the single of the album.

For this record i had the honour to work with Dutch well known comic artist Hanco Kolk, who made the beautiful portait of Serge for the cover.

When Guuzbourg asked the Spinshots to contribute a song to the cover-album ‘Gainshorth’, a tribute to Serge Gainsbourg, he also asked me to do the design for the records. That is, our single and the album itself. He already asked Hanco Kolk for the artwork, so I could work with one of the greatest comic artists the Netherlands have to offer.

Cool Buzz was a ‘Blues’ record label from Amsterdam. i did a lot of their record covers, and when they brought out a compilation they asked me to paint a bee in an ice cube. It seemed like a good idea, so I did it for them.

Bernie’s Lounge was a latin crossover funk band – they wanted to communicate their ‘street credibility’ through the artwork, so I made stencil portraits of them.

Nasmak was a band that made lots of demo tapes on cassettes somewhere in the 80s. When they brought out these tapes in 2019 (!) Joop van Brakel asked me to do the sleeve design. I loved what they made and did the design like i would have done in the 80s: with a typewriter, punaises and glue. The cover is just a photo, everything is really glued and pricked there.

The cover illustration with the meat flag is made by the illustrious band member Joop van Brakel, in co-operation with Rembrandt.

logo for the rockband Gunnmol – that is, it is supposed to work as a sign for the cult around it.

letter brand for Job Chajes, composer

logo for ‘de Inktpodcast’ – a surrealist storytelling podcast by Patrick Bassant.

Dialogue’s Jan Jaap Snellen, also the initiator of Studio Blackbird, where i produce all my music, asked me to make a ‘moving illustration’ as a videoclip for their single ‘Iguana’. This was a lot of fun to do. I wanted to catch the vibe of the music with a single illustration with minimal moves, fitting the style of the music.

Poster (and logo) for Please Don’t Stop The Music, an initiative by Andries van Wieren, to help Dutch music acts through the Covid-19 period. Peter Hordijk (who also built this site) and I worked overnight to launch the site just the morning after we got the assignment.

Logo (and poster) for ‘please Don’t Stop the Music’ – an initiative to help Dutch musicians through the Covid-19 pandemic. You can also visit the site peter Hordijk (who also built this site) and I designed here

Logo for ‘Please Don’t Stop The Music’, an initiative to help Dutch music artists through the Corona pandemic. (https://pleasedontstopthemusic.nl/)

De Schlachterij was a shop in Heerenveen, Friesland, selling local quality products. I don’t think they made it but nonetheless, logo’s here to stay!

Logo for the Norwegian band ‘Fint Fransk Orkester’ based on the Norwegian tradition of ‘Rosepainting’ but then in a more French Fin du Siècle style.

logo for copy writer Floor van Dijck

Hayemo is the logo for my accountant. He is very secure and very helpful and always finds the detailed ways to get me through the tax situations.

logo indicating ‘Frysian quality’. It could be used three ways, depending on what it needed to be printed on. There was an option with the whole word ‘Fryslan’, or just the A with the bell, or just the bell. I tried to make the physical identity so strong that, had you seen the word version of the logo, you’d recognise it if you saw only the bell.

The bell is borrowed from a frysian phenomenon called a ‘Klokkenstoel’, a tower with a bell made by farmers who were too poor to build a church but need a place for their ceremonies. It therefore has a social connotation and stands for the solidarity amongst the frysians. In the old times, they got the copper bell imported from Amsterdam, so there was also a connection with Amsterdam in this logo, which was something my client Anne Douwe liked very much.

logo for friesian thinktank ‘Koersk’

3d of june was a bookings agent. I designed to logo and the website – but they stopped business. Not causal.

Poster (and logo) for Please Don’t Stop The Music, an initiative by Andries van Wieren, to help Dutch music acts through the Covid-19 period. Peter Hordijk (who also built this site) and I worked overnight to launch the site just the morning after we got the assignment.

Haarlem Comic Festival asked the Spinshots to perform live and have a fashion show with Comic Sexy. We had a very nice stage and dancers in the dresses: the dancers were drawn by a comic artist at the spot.

These photos were made by Thijs Tennekes.

With the Spinshots, our music styles varied too much to be easily bookable. We decided to start our own booking agency and this was the logo. i mad this with stuff that i had lying around in the house, i actually have a special room for assemblages and styling objects called ‘the treasure room’ – and this could be made in one day!

One of the brighter kids I had the pleasure of teaching at art school was Marlon, who was in transition and wrote a book about his previous life. Not only was he bright, he also was very sad to hear that I would not agree on this book being his examination work for art school. Then he made a smart move: he ‘directed’ a movie for which he asked al kinds of people, mostly criticasters to show how the work is done and made it one of his examination stunts to present a very long lasting movie about his life, seen through other people’s eyes. It was a bit of a stunt, and I think it was more ‘producing’ than ‘directing’ but conceptually i thought it was a strong idea.

So I had to make this in a few hours: choosing one of the chapters from his book and turn it into a visual. Smart ass. i hope they are doing great, out there.

Oh I wrote the music too – played by the Spinshots.

Ir Vendermeulen, the ‘Godfather of Amsterdam’ and initiator of the Amsterdam Beat Club, asked me to perform with the Spinshots and create a fashion show with the models presenting the designs while the band backed them up live.

This all happened at Paradiso, the rock temple of Amsterdam.

Part of the fun of making promotional art for your own brand, is the freedom with which you can do so. I had to laugh out lout when I came up with the pay off – ‘Aliens Today, Sisters Tomorrow’ – but then again, this really reflects a concept I use more often in my work. It also reflects the MAYA principle (coined by Raymond Loewy), which shows that people are always scared of the new but we can overcome our fears by simply getting acquainted.

Heck, let’s not get philosophical now, just enjoy these nice and smart girls wearing Comic Sexy dresses and listen to the music I wrote, executed by The Spinshots.

The song ‘Balkan Dinosaur’ was written for the Spinshots, during their ‘Seven Bullets, One Gun’ period. You can here the full song here.

In 2013, The Spinshots had the honour to back up Arthur Brown at the Amsterdam Beat Club Paradiso Show

Poster for ‘Don’t Stop The Music’, an initiatief by Andries van Wieren and 3S music to help Dutch bands and music artists in times of the Corona pandemic.

‘Don’t stop the Music’ is a site where you can hear Dutch artists, listen to their music, buy their records and services, mostly as music teachers or coaches. It had to be realised over night, and Peter Hordijk, who built the site (and this site, too) and i had to work pretty hard. But with effect, i like to think!

Birth card for Maksim, by Thamar and Axel. This lovely couple met on a party where I introduced them and after alcohol drenched night they met again and became partners for life. So the birth card of Maksim has a linkt to the vodka i poured them that night.

Booklet that comes with the record of the ’10 years of Amsterdam Beat Club’ record.

Poster and flyer for Amsterdam Beat Club, a ’50s/’60s oriented club night with bands, dancers, acts and deejays.

proposal for a poster campaign. Client chose another proposal i made but i still like this just as much.

Presentation for the head of Fine Arts’ at AKI, the art school where i used to teach. It’s based on the official identity but less sleek and with a more ‘autonomous’ feel.

My friend Balder designed the titles for the movie ‘Dunya and Desie’ and asked me to help. The camera would pan and slide over various items that were related to the main characters and hoover over credits. I did a few things more, but the ‘Cosmopolistan’ with Flora Dolores of the Spinshots on the cover was such a funny thing to do that I thought I’d show it here.

business card and identity items for band promotor Pepita La Pistolita.

Birth card for Juno.

Mischa den Haring, the guitarist of T99 builds his own reverb – and other pedals. For this pedal he asked me to come up with a design in exchange for him fixing some broken pedals of mine.

I don’t really remember why i drew this cute punk. Maybe a greetings card or a teeshirt?

Illustration for the crafts festival (Amsterdam edition) 2024. Oh, and i also did those letters.

A Room With A View originally was made for the theatre show ‘Some Kind Of Golem’ by Amsterdam klezmer Band but the song for which this work was intended needed another image during the development of the show. So now it found its home at the waiting room of the Doctor’s Office of my friend Esther.

Birth card for Maksim, by Thamar and Axel. This lovely couple met on a party where I introduced them and after alcohol drenched night they met again and became partners for life. So the birth card of Maksim has a linkt to the vodka i poured them that night.

Drawing for my friend Sjoerd who, at some point, went to India on a motor bike.

Maison Tonale is an Amsterdam based live acid house band. They asked me to provide them with a key image that captures their vibe.

Poster for the ‘Szikra’ tour of Amsterdam Klezmer Band with Söndörgö. Since i made their album look like a board game, i thought of the idea of playing cards being used to read the future by a Balkan mysterious lady. After all, a tour poster is a window to the future is it not?

Poster for the event I organised with Patrick Moonen: once a month we had acts, dinner and dj’s in a circus tent.

Poster (autonomous work) with Kali – stating ‘Nothing lasts Forever’. I called this poster ‘Kali Maya because Maya posed for it and ‘Maya’ means the ‘veil between us and reality’. The poster is silk printed by hand in 5 colours and is 1.20 cm high.

If you want to buy a print (there are two left) mail me!

The body is not the soul is not the spirit, says the nun.

Poster and flyer for Amsterdam Beat Club, a ’50s/’60s oriented club night with bands, dancers, acts and deejays.

Dim’ lights was an event for people who love dancing but hate electronic beats: that’s me!!! I loved to do this poster.

Poster for a circus. I’d love to do more assignments in this style – drop me a line if you have interest!

portrait of Tagore for ‘Religie & Mystiek’ Magazine

Bernie’s Lounge asked me to do do their record, poster and some identity illustrations. We chose to give them some ‘street credibility’ with a latin ‘big city’ feel to it and i made the cover illustrations with stencil print techniques.

illustration for the magazine ‘Religie & Mystiek’.

This is a design for a button. You could buy buttons from Buzzworks at record stores and comic stores, and on festivals. Buzzworks asked several Dutch comic artists to make buttons, and i had the pleasure to be one of them.

‘the booker’s gun’ for Pepita de Pistolita.

As the song goes ‘Pretty woman, walking down the street’ – she is a background figure in Deep Shit.

Well, when one lives in Amsterdam and one draws – this is what you get as a side character for your animation movie.

Autonomous work. I used to sell hand made prints with this design. I have always found it miraculous that the stories in the Bible are so patriarchal. Is Mary really supposed to be happy to be impregnated with a child that she will survive and is not made with her consent?

Learn to play Guitar was one of the fake-ads i made as a series of autonomous work.

Inflatable Elvis was one of the fake ads that I used to make. I wished i still had time for these fun projects. But, now that i am developing ‘Baby Boom in Amsterdam’ a lot of this kind of ideas are implemented in the comic.

There was a time i made fake ads as an autonomous project. this was one of them. I am sure you can see that Lucy The Home Made Maid came from this idea, much later.

When Yma was born, Flora and Joel asked me to do the card.  ‘Yma’ comes from ‘Yma Sumac’ – so i thought it was nice to have a link with the magic Exotica feel of the artist. The little kolibri was used as a stamp.

Little Sister is an animated Vlogger. I was asked to do the design and the graphics behind her.

This illustration had absolutely no practical need but it was nice to make.

Luce is a character for a film I never had time to make. She is of course based on the Monster of Frankensteijn, which i thought was funny for a cut out animated figure.

Although I never made a film with her, i still toy with the plan. So far she came to life in two tests and on stage, when Laura A Dima performed as her with the Spinshots at the Haarlem Comic Festival.

Portrait of Lae as a nun: study for what would become ‘Do Bad Habits Wear Off?’ from the series ‘Everything Must Go’. Lae is one of those friends who are kind enough to pose for me.

Birth card for Maksim, by Thamar and Axel. This lovely couple met on a party where I introduced them and after alcohol drenched night they met again and became partners for life. So the birth card of Maksim has a linkt to the vodka i poured them that night.

these are sketches of a friend, mostly 15 minutes – and it needs be said, from a photo.

There was a time I drew a pencil portrait almost every day. This was one of them.

Portrait of Mischa Den Haring for his 50th birthday.

I forgot which short-lived magazine this was for. They asked me to do a one-page comic for each edition, reflecting on the news. News was that the police would start mobile drug test labs and I thought this would be a funny translation. Actually, I like the police officers outside, in the Dutch rainy night, the most – you can feel the crankiness, hahaha.

Comic in the Dutch Hustler magazine. At the time (in 2004) it tried to change itself into a left wing magazine with sex pictures – great concept – but I wasn’t asked again after the experiment of the editor in chief to ask me to draw a comic and do an interview. The storyline was written by Philippe Machin

Laura as a nun – 2019, acryl on canvas, 27 x 27

Dani and Serge invited me to their loving home and ask me to make something for me. It could be anything, as long as it was a bull – hahaha, and I accepted. I made this bull using many layers of oil paint, each round adding a different colour to get these dark red-blood and saturated other colours. There’s blue in the black, yellow under the white.

I asked my friend Walley to make the frame: it should fit perfectly around this strange from. A frame exclusively made for this painting! We painted the backpart of the frame black and the front cakey – looks like gold because of the context of the colours. The wood is still visible everywhere, and Walley made a unique system to hang it.

The body is not the soul is not the spirit, says the nun.

I made this painting because I believe that there is a lot of racism in not helping refugees. I am trying to use humor as a tool to reflect on our social behaviour a lot, and although this painting is very sour, I am afraid that is true that a boat of Dutch white citizens would be saved easier and without hesitation – how different is the case when a boat full of refugees from Africa.

Portrait of my life partner as a nun, acryl on board, 30 x 30 cm

‘Family Matters’, for my friend André and his family, painted with blockprint on wood.

This is my first attempt to use oil paint – study for Wackers Acedemy.

For an artist, every image is political. One of my friends said this was a very ‘sour’ painting – and it is. I try to use ‘humor’ as a medium often – however sad or cruel reality is – sometimes it seems the only way to deal with sad facts that are beyond our control.

Portait of Bowie, made for a friend.

Portrait of sir Onvlee, acryl on wood board, 45 x 45 cm

This work was made for a group expo, for which the curator had a really cool idea: she had a pack of tarot cards and let all the artists pull a card. That was the card you had to redesign, and I had ‘strength’.

I thought a raging bull is strong, but to sleep between his horns is stronger.

I had teeshirts printed with this. but alas, they are sold out. Find enough friends and mail me if you have interest 😉

silk printed Teeshirt (sold out, sorry peepz)