
Shop opening!
05 11 2020Happy to announce that I started an online store this week!
Besides working for clients I am always busy with
personal projects. And instead of keeping them
in the drawer I decided to finish my ideas and put them online.
Expect handmade products, printed cards and artworks. :)
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Rabo & Co
14 10 2020Illustration for Rabobank magazine.
About Job opportunities per region (NL)

Animation
14 10 2020Explainer video I draw and animated
for the town Diemen (NL).
About the importance of sorting your
waste and how to order wheelie bins.
Check video on youtube: HERE


Analog materials
04 11 2019I added a new page on my website!
Mostly collage art, ink-experiments and
commissioned work using analog materials
(and a touch of psd ;).
Hope you like it > Collage/Ink

Summer column
20 08 2019Next to a summer column series on books and
traveling for newspaper Trouw:
This was about the ‘The Green Road’, set in a
small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast.
Author Anne Enright.
Check Trouw to read all the columns:
https://www.trouw.nl/dossier-op-locatie

Journal time
19 02 2019Illustration and especially animation means a lot of computer time, I love it, though I also try to keep in touch with real materials; collages, paint, ink, all kind of things I test, practice and play around with. Every monday I share my last works in a personal journal while using these analogue materials! :)
Check my instagram

Coloring Page
18 02 2019Fun assignment for The Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem. I made a few pages for the children’s workshop. And tried to capture his beautiful loose painterly brushwork into a coloring page
The officers of the St George Militia Compagny in 1639, Frans Hals

Me too
18 02 2019Last year I made a few illustrations concerning the # me too topic.
It's always relevant and so important to keep opening peoples eyes about the misuse of power, the sexual harassment and discrimination of women and man.
DNA Magazine, UMC Amsterdam

Ease Illustration
18 02 2019UMC Amsterdam is opening a new department for people under the age of 18 to find a place where they can find psychological support.
DNA Magazine

Call for action
08 01 2019Bahreinse vluchteling in gevaar na uitzetting door Nederland.
Lees artikel hier
Online illustration for campaign
Dutch Council for Refugees

Music video Cold Song
03 01 2019I made a new music video! For the amazing Nora Fischer en Marnix Dorrestein.
Check the video here!

D.R.E.A.M.
31 10 2018Poster illustration & design for a new and interesting series of programs with short films & talks on the future of living in cities, called D.R.E.A.M. (Data Rules Everything Around Me).
For Deep End Film
Check event here!

Newspaper Trouw
19 09 2018 Illustration for an article about philosopher Timothy Morton in newspaper Trouw today * Morton claims climate change is a hyperobject, Morton uses the term to explain objects so massively distributed in time and space as to transcend localization (to big to handle for man).

Animated artwork for San Franscisco
19 09 2018Watch videoclip here!
<3 Music by franc thomas timmerman
<3 Artwork by cliff van thillo
And animated by me! :)
#aftereffects

Illustration Refugee Magazine
19 09 2018Refugee Camps
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Two years after the EU-Turkey deal the conditions are horrific at Greece’s ‘Island prisons’ for refugees and the European leaders turn their backs on them.

Couch surfing
08 06 2018Snippet - More images and info soon!

VIDEOCLIP!
22 10 2017I made my first ever videoclip! For the dutch band Second December, song 'Dear e'.

A satisfaction survey
08 06 2018For Alrijne (hospital) magazine

Online Panorama Painting
09 06 2018To end a year of a Luther 500 special
I drew a 3d version of Luther's room.
It's on newspaper Trouw's website.
Look around HERE!

Caregive or take
06 03 2018Caregivers are often overworked - They should take good care of themselves.
@ Newspaper Trouw

POSTER
06 03 2018Deep End Film - Little film festival Utrecht

Cold
06 03 2018Illustration for Hard/hoofd's illustrated news special: Putin's war talk / propaganda

Fake news
06 03 2018(Dutch) recipe for fake news
@ newspaper Trouw

LOST
06 03 2018Special newspaper Trouw about losing a loved one to depression.

Let's talk about sex
22 10 20171 of the 9 b/w illustrations I made for a book called Sex op z'n Duits.
A collection of columns written by Linda Duits about sex, sexuality and student life.

Bookcover illustration & Design
22 10 2017llustration and design for a collection of short essays about dutch writers and their pets.
Compiled by Rutger Lemm, published by De Geus

TRANSPARENCY
10 04 2017Transparency human rights policy.
For Magazine Opzij about the dutch elections.

BOOKCOVER
20 03 2017My first bookcover! Made for the talented writer Lotte Lentes.
A reprint deluxe of De jongen, het stof.
Publisher Wintertuin

VPRO GIDS
18 02 2017I was asked to make an illustration for the tv guide of my fav broadcaster VPRO!
An editorial about the tv show Politicologica - The Dutch elections and how framing works.
This particular broadcast was about the political party PvdA.

Health care special newspaper Trouw
18 02 2017For one week I made every day an illustration
about the upcoming Dutch elections & Health policy issues.
Have a look at my Behance account to see (almost) all of them.

Animated logo
18 02 2017A logo I designed and animated for
a new coaching and consultancy company Press Start.

Exhibition from now till the 4th of March!
12 01 2017I'm exhibiting in the nicest place of Utrecht! :)
DB's Studio's: CAB-Rondom 100 (near Zuilen station)
Have a look!

Little Strollers
04 12 2016Little Strollers is personal project
exploring the strange and the unknown.
Tiny scenes painted on wood (10x10 cm).
Have a look at the strollers on Etsy !

Wartburg
04 12 2016The luther serie for newspaper Trouw continues.
Now at the Wartburg in Eisenach.

Special for Trouw
01 11 2016The Next 12 months(!) I'll be illustrating every 2 weeks for Newspaper Trouw.
It's a yearlong special about Martin Luther' s 500th anniversary, nailing his 95 theses to the door of the castle church of Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, officially launching the Protestant Reformation.
Journalist Gerrit-Jan KleinJan will travel around the world to research Luther's influence.

Elusive expo on tour
01 11 2016The exhibition with drawings en illustration has now moved to Amsterdam!
It's at the beautifull co-working space The Thinking Hut near Oosterpark. Until the beginning of December.

EXPO PUHA - ELUSIVE
16 10 2016This month (oktober) I'm exhibiting in the design clothing store Puha in Utrecht.
I'm showing some illustrations and some personal drawings. Come and have a look at the Voorstraat 48!

Open Studio
17 09 2016This sunday the 18th of september!
From 11:00 till 18:00 O'clock.
Vlampijpateliers - Vlampijpstraat 50 in Utrecht

Stateless
17 09 2016Illustration for newspaper Trouw.
Article about how stateless people have no rights and struggle to survive

Worldproblems
17 09 2016illustration about how theater directors use current world problems on stage
For dutch performance art magazine De Theatermaker

LOWLANDS FESTIVAL
28 08 2016Small selection of the animations I made for a book presentation at Lowlands!
Pictures from the event here

Summer!
19 07 2016Little animation test.

Le Bazarre market Utrecht
22 06 2016This Saturday (june 25) I'll be selling some cards and other stuff at the lovely Le Bazarre market in Utrecht!
You'll find all the details here

The Scariest
22 06 2016Article about the psyche of a lone wolf in newspaper Trouw.
Article in dutch here

Passive Spectator
08 06 2016Illustration for dutch performance art magazine de Theatermaker.

New studio!
28 05 2016Superhappy with my new studio which I moved in last April.
There's enough space to mess around and I
finally start working on some personal projects again.
For more recent works check out my instagram

Illustration for AMC / VUmc
25 05 2016Plans for one big heart centre in Amsterdam

The bank as a climate saver
14 04 2016Illustration for newspaper Trouw.

Performing arts / Theatermaker
01 04 2016 Illustration for a Dutch theater magazine.
About how performing artists try to stay afloat.

Mapping
21 01 2016The Netherlands will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union beginning this year and I was asked to make a small map of the highlights in the area where it all takes place.

Bluebird
08 01 2016A logo I made for a client. Inspired by a Poem of Charles Bukowski called 'Bluebird'.
Manja Kamman helps people to overcome their addictions and bad habits.

Spectators
11 12 2015Speaking about watercolor. This one I painted last week. I'm planning to make a small collection of people watching. Stay tuned!

Dark Net
11 12 2015
Journalist and tech blogger Jamie Bartlett wrote a book about the dark side of the internet.
Newspaper Trouw interviewed him and I made this watercolor illustration for it.

Mayors get a lot on their plate these days...
07 11 2015Illustrations for newspaper Trouw

Animation / GIF
12 10 2015I really enjoy making little animations these days!
This is a GIF-animation I made for the online magazine De Optimist to accompany a (dutch) poem of Ezra Hakze.
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I'm still quite new to the whole animation/gif technique, so if you'd like to see me practicing, take a look at my online sketchbook: Instagram


De kampioen / ANWB
10 10 2015A nice project of the ANWB (the dutch Automobile Association). Hand in an old children's bike, it will be refurbished and given to a child without a bike.

Waiting
12 09 2015Today in newspaper Trouw: A story about young boys trying to take care of their family. Surviving in tent camps hoping for a safer and better life.

Illucation
14 10 2015Illustration about education

Lose way
25 08 2015Getting Lost in Joshua Tree park. For online magazine Hard/hoofd.com

Welcome to my new site!
07 07 2015A freshly baked website, powered by Blogbird.