Tamar

Portrait of Tamar Guttmann.  

DIONZ Academy Launch | Visual Notes

Visual notes for DIONZ Academy and Platform, made online during its launch event.                      

Illustrated Brainstorm: Art&Culture in Alphen aan den Rijn

I made these drawings during an online brainstorm session organized by KHABBAZ/Alphen aan den Rijn municipality. The goal of the brainstorm was to hear young people’s voices and ideas, in order to inform policy on local art and culture.                                 […]

Visual Notes: A Cultural Deal For Europe

Live visual notes for an online conference organized by European Cultural Foundation. Curious how to implement a livestream with on the spot drawings in your online event? Feel free to contact me any time!        

Podcast Visual Notes: A World From Scratch

For Podcast A World From Scratch, I make visual notes of each episode.                                                                                     […]

Portraits

Some portraits I made of women I like.    

Impact Learnings – Illustrated Presentation Deck

Illustrations for a presentation deck for Impact Learnings, supervised by Tamar Guttmann.                                              

Forces Of Art – Book Launch

Forces of Art is a wide ranging series of investigations into diverse cultural organisations and projects around the world. In 2020, I was involved in this project by making live visual notes during a series of workshops (for participants only), as well as the Forces Of Art book launch.       Summary video of […]

Leafbook

BUY ‘HOPE IN 2020’ This notebook is a collaboration with Paper on the Rocks, a company which makes nature-friendly notebooks out of non-tree materials such as stone and plant-waste. ‘Hope 2020’ is a collection of soft-cover ‘leafbooks’ designed by illustrators. You can buy the books as a set, or separately. To order, click here To […]

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Drawings of the protesters I saw at the Black Lives Matter protests at Dam Square, Amsterdam on June 1st, and in Nelson Mandelapark, Amsterdam on June 10th.                                     If you want to help, here are a few things […]

Van Moof Townhall – Visual Notes

Live visual notes made live on my iPad during the annual VanMoof Townhall at EYE, Amsterdam. The visuals were later printed as thank you-cards, and a poster for the office.    

Visual Notes at Schoolism Live, Berlin

I was lucky enough to be at Schoolism Live in Berlin in 2019, because my friend Lois taught a workshop there and brought me along. Here are some visual notes I took during the workshops for fun.                                    

Women’s March 2020

Drawings of people spotted at Women’s March Amsterdam. Some of these are available as prints, if you’d like to buy one click here!                             Based on a picture by MyFragileSelf               Based on a photo by […]

CLEAN PETE – Er is mij verteld

Album artwork for Clean Pete.      

One World

Portraits for One World Magazine.                      

Physical Education

A video about physical education, accompanying a PhD thesis! “Physical Education: A Gold Mine for the Development of Future Successful Athletes?” By Sebastiaan Platvoet, HAN Sport en Bewegen. Concept and artwork by me, edited by Getekend Verslag.                    

Live Visual Notes at WOMEN IN AI Event at L’Oréal

Live visual notes I made, not as a commission, but for fun, on my iPad during this L’Oréal Women In AI event.            

NRC – Vrijetijdsvloggers

2019 Illustrations for the NRC newspaper, about vloggers hoping to gain a following.  

Live Drawing at a Wedding

If I’ve ever been part of a special gift, it’s this wedding present: I was hired as a live illustrator to capture moments from this couple’s big day.  

Livedrawings Awkward i Luistervogels session @ Swordfish and Friend

  Digital livedrawings I made during a Q&A session with Awkward i, during Luistervogels at Swordfish and Friend.  

United Network Of Young Peacebuilders

UNOY is a network of 111 youth organisations in 67 countries, united around the vision of a world free from violence. These are some illustrations for UNOY’s website and Strategic Plan.               Barriers versus Changes:                           Advocacy, […]

Tekenbeest

2019 A group exhibition at Het Huis Van Betekenis, Utrecht: ten illustrators respond visually to one of Manuel Kurpershoek’s little drawings.                    

Sexuality Case Studies

For BLEND Leren, I illustrated a series of teaching modules meant for professionals who work with mentally disabled people, on the subject of their clients’ sexuality. The drawings I’m sharing here are portraits for anonymized case studies. Although inspired by pictures of real people that I found during my own research, the people in these […]

European Radiomakers

Illustrations about European radiomakers for Common Ground Magazine.  

Coloring Book

– Currently not available – This book started out as a present for my 3 y/o niece’s birthday, with drawings made with her in mind (for instance, one of her parents is French, hence the coloring pages with French food). It has since evolved to include more drawings that I myself would like to find […]

Video Clean Pete – Het Park

2018 Music video I made for Clean Pete.

Plan International

How to work with youth-led organizations? An infographic I made for Plan International shows quotes from those young people (unrelated to the drawn characters).              

Women In AI portraits

Portraits I made for Women In AI. Most are based on real women in AI, a few of them are fictional.    

Infographic for EPHA

An infographic I made for European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), about how ‘Food Environments’ influence our eating behavior. This illustration shows an unhealthy food environment.  

Live Visual Notes: Culture in Europe

Visual notes, drawn and broadcast live via iPad, at a European Cultural Foundation meeting in Bozar, Brussels. The notes are a record of a conversation between cultural organizations, members of the European Parliament and others, about the place of Culture in European society. Client: European Cultural Foundation          

Custom CV

An illustrated CV with portrait.

Coaching Infographic

A year-long coaching trajectory for two groups of people working at the same company. I’ve visualised their ‘journey’ with this infographic, with real quotes and fictional characters and setting. Some of the text has been changed for the privacy of the groups. Client: Dat Moeten We Vaker Doen (coaching buro)    

PresentU

Promotional illustrations for training buro PresentU, which gives people workshops in presentation skills.            

Pitch.

An infographic. I made it for a client, but made all the text and logos generic, as the original is currently in use as a visual for a tv show pitch.  

Women’s March ’19

The Barefoot Guide 5

For the 5th edition of The Barefoot Guide, I got to illustrate one of its chapters, as well as the cover illustration of the book. The Barefoot Guide is a collection of stories by many different organisations on every continent, on how they are working to improve inclusion worldwide. Click here to download the PDF […]

Lettering

Sometimes I do handlettering! For instance, for this menu. I didn’t have to do the graphic design, so this is just a lot of nicely written words, which my client used to make something of her own.  

Dat Moeten We Vaker Doen: team development infographic

An infographic for team development buro Dat Moeten We Vaker Doen. This is a visual representation of the (metaphorical) journey one of their client teams embarked upon. The text balloons feature quotes from the team members about their experiences, and some of the drawn characters are based on real participants.           […]

TV proposal cover illustration

Plan cover illustration for Pupkin.  

Real Men Don’t Get Abused – The story of Gabriël

Illustrations for OneWorld, platform for sustainability and human rights. In six episodes, the article about Gabriël (who is depicted in the illustrations) discusses the subject of human trafficking, and the taboo that exists around male survivors of sexual abuse.