About a week before the Brabantsedag parade, Kees Buijsen, designer of our 2026 Rijten float, asked me to create a poster for the back of the float to fill an empty frame already built there. His only ask: could the visual convey the story that goes on “inside”? The historical fact that inspired the float:
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Insects have such weird, fun shapes to play around with. Like this colony of queen bee design sketches, created to explore character design directions. I played around with pencil, ink and watercolors to sketch variations to see what works and what doesn’t. These were commissioned for a happy insects project geared towards kids that never
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“Eindhoven is Groen” – one of the pre-show scenes I drew for Toekomst040 at Glow 2025. Since the original campaign identity (developed by Thinc Ahead) was based around colored pencil doodles, I wanted these animated visuals to spring from the same medium. Even though I drew everything digitally due to a tight deadline, I approached
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I 🖤 Analog Inking. So I filled a stack of papers with hand-inked characters and elements for last year’s moving Brabantsedag poster, all inspired by carnival iconography. Then I scanned them all to create a sculpture in Blender which I could animate. Here’s a little overview of all those ink drawings, since I never shared
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Eindhoven City Hall glow up ✨ The Toekomst040 campaign needed to convey the creative future of Eindhoven with a pre-show on city hall during Glow Eindhoven 2025. So Thinc Ahead and I collaborated to create fitting vibes through animation, capturing the ideas of hundreds of Eindhoven citizens in 6-7 colored pencil visuals I drew &
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Hey now, you party animals! Since it’s been carnaval here, I thought I’d share some behind the scenes contributions for last year’s De Rijten carnaval-themed parade float: “The FeastBeast Breaks Loose”. I worked closely with head of design Maarten van der Velden to help with the character design of the FeastBeast. I’m specifically highlighting the
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Got my traditional Brabantsedag mug! Certainly a highlight of designing the theme iconography of the festival is receiving one of these. Merci Brabantsedag for, and cheers to, another creative collaboration! Check a few more cool places the ‘Carnival Unmasked’ artwork showed up on as part of the campaign… including a surprise appearance on De Oude
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Who says rules can’t be fun? A series of safety posters, featuring cartoons drawn for Vriendenkring De Rijten’s construction site. Starring the little character from the Rijten logo, originally designed by Frank Schooleman.
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The new Brabantsedag Poster! Do you like it? I created it. Thanks to Brabantsedag for asking and trusting me to do so 🖤 Rumor has it there is also a moving version. But we’ll have to wait and see if those rumors prove to be true… Read the press release about the 66th Brabantsedag, with
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