Luna, bella Luna

It’s been 235 days or 7 months and 23 days ago since my little girl named Luna is born. She’s my little beauty, and it’s really amazing how fast she grows and learns. Sometimes i have the chance or question to make a birth announcement for somebody’s special day. And since this i my little kiddo, i wanted to make a birth announcement that stands out from the crowd.
My girlfriend liked the traditional announcements, but that wasn’t enough for me. So i asked her what she really wanted and that was that her picture (of Luna of course) was shown in the card and that it was girly of some kind.

So i started thinking, and came up with the idea of making a purse with little handles and a special branding on it made from stitches and a little metal plate with her birth date on it.

Farewell gift

For every occasion within my company we make special gifts. Think of gifts for marrying, farewell, birth giving or birthday having colleagues. This time it was a colleague leaving our company who was going to work with a friend of his up north in the Netherlands (Friesland). And since his function was a strategist I decided to make a remake of the game ‘Strateego’. The ‘Up north edition’ with a foamboard gaming board, and pawns. I used his picture with a painting of Napoleon on the front cover of the box and a painting of a soldier and his head on the manual of the game.
For the game board I used a satellite image of the province Friesland.

Here you can see a 3D mock-up of the game pack and the manual because i forgot to make a picture of the gift in the end.

Up north

For the blog ‘Blik op het Noorden‘, a blog about local marketing and inspiration from the dutch provinces Friesland, Groningen en Drenthe. I created a header image for their blog. The idea of using the cans for communication came from the main blogger Joost van Rooy.
Starting from illustrator using the 3D tools to create some cans, and finally I texturised and painted them with photoshop.

Rock on!

Spilled Milk, a cover band from the Netherlands where a colleague of mine plays the guitar. Asked me to create album artwork for their promo cd. I came up with the idea of using milk typography i saw earlier on the blog of abduzeedo where they made typography of pouring milk and the word ‘milk’. I didn’t want to use their already photoshopped word ‘milk’ so i decided to start from scratch.

When you open up the jewelcase you see a glass of milk that wasn’t originally green and didn’t had milk in it but some coffee. So i also had some photoshop work there to create the glass of milk. Within the 4-paged booklet, the band has a little word about themselves and on the last page of the booklet and on the back of the jewelcase you can see the tracklist of the demo-cd.

Public library Hoorn

For the public library in Hoorn, i created a new corporate identity. They wanted to be more youthfull, to attract more people to the library. But they didn’t wanted to loose there current customers/members.
They also wanted to show that they aren’t the library like all the others.., old and far from modern. So i created a logo with symbols in it, which will show that they are more than only a library with some old and dusty books in it. This library will lend you everything from books, CD’s, DVD’s (music and audio), listening books, eBooks, games. But they also have seminars, readings, and interviews, game-days and informational evenings. And of course an internet corner for all you’re interactive media.
So when you’re young or old, the public library in Hoorn has everything you are looking for or need….