Don Quijote is afraid of virtual reality

Illustration for Filmkrant. Accompanying an article which compares contemporary technophobia with Don Quijote going crazy over chivalry novels.   Bewaren Bewaren

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.           […]

Filmkrant – Twin Peaks special

Cover image and illustrations for Filmkrant #398’s Twin Peaks special.         Bewaren Bewaren Bewaren

College trajectory infographic

An infographic I made for sports college HAN Sport & Bewegen, a Getekend Verslag client. It features their goals, values, and the people involved to make their ambitions come true.               Bewaren Bewaren Bewaren

GETEKEND VERSLAG – graphic recording

Are you interested in hiring illustrators to make live visual notes at your event? Please check out Getekend Verslag: the graphic recording company that I’ve been a part of with great pleasure since 2013.              

Sorry Not Sorry

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campaign for Het Financieele Dagblad

Illustrations for a campaign for Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch financial newspaper). The first set of doodles is American elections-themed, the second is on digitalization, the third on the pension system. Concept and design by Ceci n’est pas un bureau.                 Bewaren Bewaren Bewaren     My laptop is […]

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SCRUM infographic

This is a slightly altered version of an infographic I made for a Getekend Verslag client. It’s a SCRUM model, a concept used in many businesses as  a framework for managing product development.                 Bewaren Bewaren Bewaren Bewaren

Philip Glass X Subbacultcha

Illustrations for an interview with Philip Glass by Zofia Ciechowska for Subbacultcha.                                       Bewaren Bewaren

Illustrated pitch

Exerpt from an illustrated pitch I made for a Getekend Verslag client. On top of having their plan illustrated, this client had me handwrite all of their text, to give the pitch a fresh and consistent overall look. Bewaren Bewaren Bewaren

Illustrated job vacancy

I illustrated this vacancy ad for a Getekend Verslag client. The illustration includes elements of the municipality where the job is located, and situations and skills associated with the job.   Bewaren Bewaren

Colin Stetson X Subbacultcha

Portrait of Colin Stetson for an interview by Mateusz Monsalski for Subbacultcha.  

The Flood – preview

For a project with musician Edita Karkoschka and photographer Tom Roelofs, I made this mural of Edita’s face in her home in Berlin. More of this thing we’re making will be posted here when it’s done.   Bewaren

GETEKEND VERSLAG – illustration

Primarily, but not exclusively, a live-on-location visual recording company, Getekend Verslag also does many other illustration jobs, like these illustrations I made for a sports academy.       Bewaren Bewaren Bewaren

10 Things I Love About Beyond Clueless – Sacha x Menah for Filmkrant

Collaboration with Sacha Gertsik for Filmkrant. She wrote a love letter to teen movie ode Beyond Clueless. I made the illustration, in which I quote ten different teen movies. Can you name them all?            

Atonement book cover for ’10 illustratoren, 10 boeken’ – Preview

My contribution to a special book cover project for this year’s Illustratie Biënnale, sponsored by the Fiep Westendorp Foundation. More on this later!      

Illustrated dissertation – What’s the use of colour?

Illustrations for a dissertation written by my sister Sammie Tarenskeen, on overspecification of colour in our language. (Specifically, on the role of salience in referential overspecification – not the easiest thing you will ever read, but nonetheless fascinating!) To put this very very simply, Sammie’s text discusses the phenomenon of one, when referring to (for […]

Vincent op Vrijdag x Volkshotel > VRAAG HET VINCENT > with Gijs Kast and Lieselot Moed

Livedrawing session together with Lieselot Moed and Gijs Kast, during the Volkshotel edition of Vincent op Vrijdag at Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. The visitors came to us with all their most pressing questions about Vincent van Gogh, and we made drawings for them of what we thought the answers were (or should be).   All […]

Hotel Deep End

Poster for Deep End Film   Bewaren

Mermaid Tattoo Design for Marie

It may have been three full years ago that Marie, back then a girl I’d just met, by now one of my dearest friends, asked me to design a mermaid tattoo for her, as a marking of her time in Amsterdam. A lot has happened in the process. Our expanding ideas on femininity, our long […]

SUITE by AM\WESTEN

SUITE is a collab project of fashion label AM\WESTEN and five artists who have made work inspired by the label. The show took place at Academiegalerie, Utrecht. I participated by making three big portraits, of women that I feel represent the AM\WESTEN woman. To do this, I lived in the gallery for a week, creating […]

Mural at Sugarfactory

Mural for Sugarfactory, Amsterdam Depicting the moment during a Star Wars marathon when I looked beside me to see that my friends had acutally all fallen asleep. Photos by Anneloes Gerdien                                                 […]

Kidney Organoids – Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum

Illustration for LUMC Magazine on (kidney) organoids.      

Illustrated Interview with Karlijn Kistemaker and Liselore Frowijn

For Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, I attended the double interview of artists Karlijn Kistemaker and Liselore Frowijn, and made several illustrations of their conversation. This has been a collaboration with Subbacultcha’s writer Roxy Merell and graphic designer Tjade Bouma. Click here to see the interview and the rest of the E-zine.       […]

AvierKoerier @ T.I.T.S Amsterdam

An AvierKoerier quick portraiting session during 24H West festival had people cueing in Amsterdam’s finest T.I.T.S store all day! This particular AvierKoerier ensemble consisted of Steef Wildenbeest, Margot van Nuland and me. During the event, we painted five-minute-portraits of visitors as they sat across from us, drawing portraits of us in return.     Skip […]

Amsterdam Is Public

Livedrawings for We Are Public, made during the Amsterdam Is Public closing party at Compagnietheater, Amsterdam. These are drawings of the audience’s answers when I asked them either “what would you like to do in public?” or in some occasions, “what have you ever done in public that you pbobably shouldn’t have?”       […]

CLEAN PETE – Al zeg ik het zelf

Album artwork for Clean Pete.                     Booklet: the girls asked me to make all the illustrations for the booklet while listening to the cd. Each drawing had to be made within the duration of one song. So all illustrations have been made in under five minutes. […]

Het Manifeest x Naar Bukowski

At Het Manifeest, I made livedrawings of people’s darkest thoughts/secrets/dreams/fantasies as a side program of Nineties Productions’ Naar Bukowski, at Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam.                                                  

VERS magazine

Illustrations for VERS magazine, the annual magazine of VERS: a platform for film- and television makers.     Portrait of head editors Mensje van Puffelen and Jesse van Amerongen             Illustration for Aynouk Tan’s article on the aesthetics of rebellion            

Cheer up, pick me up

Postcard design for Volkshotel, to help the hotel guests cope with their terrible autumn depressions.                   This teary dude made it onto a postcard, but there were some runners-up:                      

VOLKSHOTEL BY MENAH (1st birthday party)

Live drawings of the people who sent me their pictures at Volkshotel’s 1st birthday party at Volkshotel Werkplaats, Amsterdam.     Photo  by Volkshotel                                                               […]

U Jazz Panorama – jazz(y) improv with live drawing at TivoliVredenburg

Live jazz and drawing improv at CloudNights: U Jazz Panorama, Club Nine, TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht. With Ad Colen (saxophone), Dion Nijland (bass) and Denise Jannah (vocals).   @Adcolen en #dionijland improviseren met #jannah en #menah lustig @TiVre_Utrecht. http://t.co/wcsn0Xk9kH pic.twitter.com/iqHQwpwUJf — U Jazz (@UJazz2011) June 12, 2015     #voetbal #improv #jazz door #jennah en #menah http://t.co/wcsn0Xk9kH […]

WILDGROEI BY MENAH

For their semi-last edition, Wildgroei asked me to make some visuals featuring the team behind the party. The portraits were projected during Wildgroeis Wilde Wodka Woensdag at Ekko, Utrecht. The first drawing was inspired by a photo made by Roel Bego, all the other drawings were inspired by photos by Olive Dahl.       […]

Self portrait

My father asked for a self-portrait for his birthday.  

CINEVILLE spring

Spring wallpaper for Cineville. Can you recognize these characters from various spring-related films?                         Related posts Nacht Bazaar | Club Trouw | Amsterdam

Bezetting van het Bungehuis

Monthly illustration of poems written by Loren Brouwers. Published in Vox (the student magazine of Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).    

EDITA – journal 78

Wie heeft mij opgepakt en neergezet

Monthly illustration of poems written by Loren Brouwers. Published in Vox (the student magazine of Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).                  

HAPPY 2015

This drawing tells the story of my past year. I have worked in a lot of elements symbolizing time spent with my family and friends, this year more than ever as a means to say thank you. To those who have been kind to me, those who have been there for me, those who have […]