Designers are continuously faced with new challenges that require a change. A change of direction, of perspective and of world vision. For Dutch Design Week 2017 and together with the Dutch Design Foundation, we chose the theme “Stretch”. Because only by stretching can we make space to innovate and to renew.
For the campaign, we stretched the boundaries of key design themes such as uniqueness, originality and ownership and worked together with fifteen prominent Dutch designers. We created new forms from their existing work. The work was stretched, morphed, dented, cracked, blurred, contorted and warped again and again. This generated unrecognisable, exciting, aesthetic and sometimes even completely absurd images.
Made in a team at Fabrique
Animation by Rens Wegerif
Sound by Frank Sens
Still amazed by the fact that I’m getting paid for expressing myself and keeping up with today’s culture, I’m an Art Director with a continuous drive to develop ideas worth thinking about, engaging with, sharing, joking about, playing with and arguing over.
While my background is in design, I have worked as an Art Director in (digital) advertising for over 14 years. I have developed everything from visual identities, apps, advertising campaigns, photoshoots, brand films, websites, in-store experiences to a bronze speaking sculpture.
I am experienced in building and leading teams of creatives and having worked on both agency and client side, I understand the complexity of what is asked and that which is actually needed.
In my last job as Creative Director of the renowned Dutch Design agency Fabrique, I focused on bringing strategic ideas to life in experiences that interest, engage and challenge reality. My work has been internationally recognised by organisations such as New York Festivals, Cannes Lions, the European Design Awards and the Webby Awards.
I am currently available as a freelance Creative / Art Director.