Whether I am communicating in presenting a product, talking about an environment or visualising a network; the relationship, of the various parties involved, is core to set a strategy and design a campaign to fit its culture.

The subject could be new, known or incredibly famous, but in the end: graphic design is story telling and I aim for an appropriate, creative and innovative solution of every manifest I can get my hands on.

SPECIALTIES
Branding / Identity design
Community design
Information design
Environmental & Event design
Photography

EXPERIENCE
Employer Marketing
Commercial Marketing
Event Style design
Book & Magazine design
Festival design
Web design / (Social) Media Strategies
& more.

LANGUAGES
Dutch, English, French.

RESUME
2010 - Current
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Graphic designer at Unimail: a publishing and communications agency
that specialises in employer marketiing. With clients in Australia,
New Zealand and Canada: Canon, CBRE, GE Canada, TomTom, and many more.

2008 - 2010
PARIS, FRANCE
Freelance designer:
- Graphic Design with concept and design for several magazines
like: ‘Le Bonbon’ and with the first issue of L’Edito Magazine.
- Assistance in shootings ‘Fairytale magazine’ by Studio ‘Vier5’.
- Assistance to Gloria Velandia; GV Art Conservation
(chiefconservator Artfair Basel).
- Photography for ‘ShootMyFood’ on Terrace culture.
- Graphic design for Festival Jules Verne
(filmfestival in Paris and Los Angeles to preserve the earth).

Independant designprofessional:
- Identity design within different media for clients in both the Netherlands and France.
Clients inlcude, but are not limited by, the public and cultural segment.

2007
THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS
Graphic Designer at VormVijf:
- Clients: Government (and related) institutions, experience in Identity design,
book design, magazine-redsign concept, photography style.

EDUCATION
January 2008:
Graduated in Bachelor of Design on the Willem de Kooning Academy;
Academy of Arts, Media, and Design in Rotterdam.

Erasmus exchange 2006:
Designskolen Kolding, Design University in Denmark.
Experience in small film, language and typography.

June 2002:
Graduation on Grammar-school: Aloysius College,
The Hague, The Netherlands.

WORKSHOPS
- Photography Fear/No Fear by photographer Juul Hondius.
- Design-experiment by Roel Wouters Luna Maurer.Flash .

SOFTWARE
- Adobe Creative Suit 4 & 5
- Flash & Dreamweaver
- Worked with Final cut Pro
- Experience in both disciplines:
Web-realisation, Print preparation.

OUTSIDE DESIGN
Market-research and translations (Paris / 2009)
Bar & Restaurants (‘99 – ‘07)
Pianoplayer (since ‘89)
Amateur theater (‘94 – ‘03)
Snowboarding,
Surfing & Scubadive.