Backgrounds for the animates short ‘Deep Shit’. For this film i did the script, the design, the direction and the music. Most is drawn in illustrator, even the characters. It was kind of hard to work with the right colour schemes as this film needed to shout in every way: as you can see, the backgrounds at the rehearsal spot gather everything that possible can amplify sound as the punkband ‘The Brides of Mayhem’ wanted to be the loudest of their town.
In the ‘decor’ are several secret jokes that are hard to see in the movie because everything moves and scenes are really short. So enjoy the original designs here, not moving and on your screen as long as you want!
This is a carpet for the meeting table of Rabobank Heerenveen. My client Anne Douwe Knobbe stressed the importance of the need for a bank to be ‘modest’ as they’re trusted with other people’s money. In this carpet lies a bit of the mutual history of Rabobank (originally a cooperative between farmers to afford costs for the community) and the ‘Grietenije’ (the Frysian bounties).
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.
For ‘Septacost’ i wrote the script and did the initial direction. I wanted the musicians to interact with the videos and the screens: this was the stage as i desinged it for the show. Frank van Hietbrink turned this design from paper to steel in a way it could be transported with trucks.
Members of Amsterdam Klezmer Band were could move the screens by turning wheels and the big surprise was at the end: what seemed to be a cliché ‘curtain at the theatre’ would be opened at the end of the gig to show a quire of ladies singing from a projected screen, The band had to play with the recordings, that were pitched by playing faster and slower, and even backward.
Backdrop for Amsterdam Klezmer Band during their Oy Oy Oy tour – the peacock is silk printed in white on black fabric and a video mapped image of the peacock with a moving eye is projected over it. And in the feathers appear -one by one- aspects of the ‘dark site’. On the black parts we projected cosmic and hallucinogenic images of the band (photos of the band members by Fred van Diem) that seemed to float in mid air while the peacock was sharp and bright due to the projection on white.