Education
* Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem (NL), MA (Marijke Cobbenhagen, 2004 / Chantal Hendriksen, 2005)
* Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht (NL), graphic design, BA (Marijke Cobbenhagen, 2002)
* Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (NL), graphic design, BA (Chantal Hendriksen, 2002)
Lectures & Exhibitions
* Soloshow ‘ABC Primer–Rainbow Series’, Magazijn, Amsterdam,
30 March – 01 April 2012
* Lecture ‘ABC Primer – Rainbow Series’, Utrecht School of the Arts for ‘The Weight of Colour’, January 2012
* Part of the exhibition ‘I have a room with everything’, 23 July – 5 August 2011,
Singapore
* ‘ABC Primer–Rainbow Series’, Magazijn, Amsterdam, 30 March – 01 April 2012 [exhibition]
* Lick my Typo at Recyclart, Brussel, 2010 [lecture/presentation]
* Presentation of the visual identity of De Hallen Haarlem, 12 December 2009 – 6 June 2010. De Hallen Haarlem, Grote Markt 16, Haarlem [exhibition]
* bt’09: Typography, Unify With New Life, in conjunction with the Icograda World Design Congress 2009 Beijing [exhibition]
* Niveaux de Gris Poster Collection at the 20th International Poster and Graphic Design festival in Chaumont, France, 2009 [poster exhibition]
* Best Verzorgde Boeken 2008 at the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam, 2009 [exhibition]
* Speelplaats at the Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, 2008 [lecture/presentation]
* Best Verzorgde Boeken 2007 at the Stedelijk Mueum Amsterdam, 2008 [exhibition]
* Zefir7 / Designers at Sea in Tag, The Hague, 2007 [lecture/presentation]
* A Man with a Turban, The Lucca Madonna versus The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht during the Opening week 2006 [lecture]
* Ship Happens at the Art-academy in Tallinn, Estonia 2006 [workshop & presentation]
* UCLA, Los Angeles, USA 2006 [workpresentation]
Teaching experience
* Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), The Hague, graphic design, interiordesign department, 2011–2012
* Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), Utrecht, final exam committee, graphic design department, 2010
* Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), The Hague, typography, 2006–2010
* Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam, graphic design, formstudy-programm, 2008
* Workshop typography and book design Ship Happens at the Art-academy in Tallinn, Estonia, 2006
Published in
* Tubelight May/June 2012, ‘B is for Beauty’ + ‘ABC Primer–Rainbow Series’.
* Introducing: Visual Identities for Small Businesses, identity Buitenwerkplaats and Land Art Contemporary, Berlijn, 2012
* Recht voor zijn Raap. Met stip 2010, catalogue Fonds BKVB, June 2010
* Plan B, interview about teaching at the KABK, The Hague, May 2010
* Grafik #185 (Showcase), Tubelight Special, United Kingdom, April 2010
* GRAPHIC #13 Visual Identity Issue, identity Netherlands Media Art Institute, Korea, January 2010
* Tubelight 67 (choice), exhibition De Hallen Haarlem, December 2009
* Haarlems Dagblad, exhibition De Hallen Haarlem, November 2009
* bt’09: Typography, Unify With New Life, in conjunction with the Icograda World Design Congress 2009 Beijing
* ISTD TypoGraphic 67, UK, 2008
* Area 2, Phaidon Publishers, London, curator: Irma Boom
* One hundred at 360 degrees, Graphic design’s new global generation, Laurence King Publishing, 2006
* Serialize, Family Faces and Variety in Graphic Design, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2006
Stipendium
* Practice grant Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), Amsterdam, 2010
* Starter stipend Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), Amsterdam, 2008
* Starter stipend Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), Amsterdam, 2006
In the collection of
* Museum voor Communicatie (The Hague, NL) added the sketches and images of our process for / and the stamp we made for the celebration of '125 years Vereniging Rembrandt' (TNT, 2008), January 2010.
* Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam added the Recruitementcampaign 2006/2007 of the Jan van Eyck Academy to their collection, 2007
Awards & Nominations
* Identity for De Hallen Haarlem nominated for the Nederlandse Huisstijlprijs 2009
[jury] Het idee om verschillende lettertypen op eenzelfde manier te bewerken en aldus een onderscheidend en herkenbaar beeld te creëren oogstte veel bewondering van de jury. Daarnaast waren er complimenten voor de nauwkeurige en consequente uitwerking. Het resultaat is een volstrekt passend under-groundachtig geheel met nagenoeg onbegrensde toepassingsmogelijkheden.
* Eating the Image, Mary A. Waters Best verzorgd boek 2008
[jury] Lifestyle is the starting point for this commercial gallery catalogue of Waters's work. The individual works are all printed on the first side of the sheet, set carefully in the white space with vertical captions. The other side of the paper is stuffed full of pages from twenty-first-century lifestyle glossies. Real or fake, it makes little difference. Consulting the publishing information at the back reveals that they are genuine, but just looking at the book it is difficult to establish: the printed sheets have been handled in such a way that the verso spreads haven't been cut open at the tail. The effect is that Waters's work confronts us head-on in generous spreads, whereas for what is printed on the back we have to squint through sideways. That prevents this editorial trick from degenerating into a blase juxtaposition of art and advertising.
The rest has been given an appropriate finish, with smoothly glossy paper and a periodical-style format and cover. The explanatory texts have been placed in two sections in a smaller format and coloured paper. The result is an art catalogue that not only presents the art but adds an extra layer to it.
* Identity for De Hallen Haarlem finalist for the Dutch Design Awards 2008
* Cornelius Quabeck – Hood Best verzorgd boek 2007
[jury] 'Hood', by the German painter Cornelius Quabeck, is an unusual book. This is principally because of the highly singular and idiosyncratic way in which it is finished, with each of the six sections packed in its own wrapper of thinner paper which is glued into the spine. The effect is that each section constitutes a separate exhibition. The wrappers are perforated at the fore-edge and are shorter in height than the rest of the book.
The panel were seized with curiosity at picking up this book. Had anyone ever seen anything like it? Are we supposed to slit the wrappers open with a knife? Or do we carefully unstick one end of each one at the spine? We decided on the latter course of action and in this way allowed ourselves to be surprised by the artist's work.