Part of the Madeforeachother campaign for FritoLays, I recently directed this 30 second ad through Post Panic/Patricia Claire.
Read More . . .February 25th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Moving image, Work.
Tomorrow, a petite exhibition dedicated to the production art of Kika & Bob, opens at the Printgallery in Antwerp. It has sketches, storyboards, backgrounds and model sheets showing the various locations and broad cultural diversity (so very accurately) portrayed in this series. All the production art can be purchased as giclée print reproductions.
Kika & Bob at the Printgallery
February 21-March 22
Muntstraat 8, Antwerpen, Belgium
February 20th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Notifications.
Cut&Paste is a tournament that puts designers on a stage with a Wacom to design in front of a live audience. Now, if you think this sounds like a devastatingly unstimulating activity, behold how this event has the ability to boost the audience’s enthusiasm by throwing sponsored beer into the mix:
It’s an ego trip that would almost make you forget about the actual challenge involved: on a pretty tight deadline (15 or 20 minutes depending on the category) participants are asked to create a 2d image, 3d thing or motion piece. That’s no cookie! Finalists will go on to compete at the global championship in New York with prizes including 3d software and hardware from Apple and Wacom.
I’ll be one of the judges at the Amsterdam edition in April (in a jury alongside Ewoudt Boonstra (KesselsKramer), Dylan Griffith (MTV Networks), Rob Huisman (Director BNO), Jochem Leegstra (Staat,) Tim Phillips (Glassworks) and Andrew Watson (Amsterdam Worldwide) among others).
And since it is my belief that nobody is a loser, just imagine what this means to the chances of winning!
I don’t know either!
Call for participants here
February 12th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Notifications, Public stuff etc..
I enjoyed this nice and simple drawing tool on David OReilly’s page.
February 10th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Art.
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Temperatures have dropped a little over here in the Bundesrepublik (exhibit A). In the warm and comfortable environment of my home, I suddenly found the “inspiration” for a tiny update.
Each year production house Submarine gives their employees something special for Christmas. Something special, as opposed to, you know, …kitchen appliances.
For last year’s gift they asked me to do a drawing (exhibit B), printed and signed in a limited run of 40. As may be clear from viewing the picture, it has as a subject several instances of Jesus, portrayed performing the act of imaginative brain traveling. Yes sir. In the most cunning fashion, the drawing incorporates several visual themes that apply to the company’s work and spirit.
B
and finally
Starting next week, some of my paintings will be in a (still somewhat secret) group show in Amsterdam. Part of profits will be donated to charity and part of the profit will be donated to me. Below is one of the pieces in the show (exhibit C).
More on this soon…
C “A Forest”
January 12th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Art, Moving image.
Last year, I’ve done a little character design for the Pictoplasma Character Collision Army, a Go-Kart derby in front of the Ministry of Environment during the Todays Art Festival in The Hague. The project was set up taking visual cues from military recruitment campaigns (I want you for..) and Mario Kart.
My pink hare was the face of one of three teams visitors could choose from, the two other teams racing under the flags of Motomichi Nakamura and Rinzen.
Although from the two versions above, the pumped-up Rambo bunny was generally prefered for its quirkyness, the right one was used, having a more direct appeal and providing a stronger contrast to the aggressive military context.
January 7th, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Design.
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Installation view
Excerpt of “Prototype of an unstable vision”
video in a box, version 1
November 15th, 2008 | | Permalink | Filed under Art, Moving image.
And so I have been painting.
Revolution Deformation is an exhibition of 20 original paintings, alongside prints and animation.
A 32-page exhibition catalog further explores the visual theme of the work.
Revolution Deformation
November 6 – December 21
Concrete Hermit
5a Club Row
London, UK
The work incorporates ideas and visual themes developed over the past few years, while I was working in design and animation. Exploring the subjects of transition, transformation and broken memory, the images linger between being recognizable and abstract. The so-called container character central to the theme of “Revolution Deformation“, is Jesus. Not the Son of God, but a small cartoon character previously dubbed ‘Badboy Lensflare – the albino in a wheelchair’. Jesus is an anamorphic figure that lends itself to the projection of ideas, and can withstand the intuitive process of painting, without losing its own features.
October 22nd, 2008 | | Permalink | Filed under Art.
Welcome to my new website. Perhaps nice to know, it is the seventh version of my site in the last decade. Besides the fact that this is the most basic and convenient site I’ve ever done, it is also the first to appear on the new url, which has my unpronouncable name in it.
New posts will appear on a regular basis. (ha ha). Supporting this ambition, the obligatory rss feeds are found in the menu on the right hand side and at the bottom of this page.
Also, I’ve been getting quite a few requests to provide some decent disclosure of my work (I guess as opposed to hiding it behind overly complicated self-invented interfaces). Therefor, this website should become a bit of an archive, which I’ll fill up in reverse order.
Hope you enjoy. Comments are open (please register as a user first ). Thanks.
October 8th, 2008 | | Permalink | Filed under Notifications.
Poster created for "Now Showing", an exhibition curated by Wearitwithpride.
A gallery-quality print of this design is available here Edition of only 25
October 6th, 2008 | | Permalink | Filed under Design.
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