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 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.