Graphics  Design (chronologically)

 
It all started with my interest in using computer as a drawing medium and later as a medium for creating and editing different kinds of images. Since then I like offering my services to anyone who wants a catchy logo, a poster, a card or any kind of graphics, including webpages. The images and links used in my webpage are of course also self made.

In august 2003 I got married. It was a very unique marriage because most of the things were self-made. So was our invitation card. I designed the card and I also printed and assembled it myself at home.
The card could be folded in three parts. First the left "wing" folded to the centre and then the right "wing". When the card is closed, it looks like an old folded letter. The back was made out of two letters. One from me to Erwin, and one from him to me. (Erwin and I always wrote letters when we lived far away from each other.) The two letters merge into one another at the centre of the image. When the card is open, our pictures are shown and they "hold" a separate transparant sheet, which contains the text of the invitation.

Two PhD-students, now doctors in science, asked me to design the covers for their thesis' and the bookmarks that come with them. The bookmarks also functioned as invitations for the promotion-ceremonies. Here you can see small images of the two covers.

In framework of a project at my studies of architecture, we had to make a presentation of one own architectural design. I made a presentation about a design for a crematory. I put the computer-presentation on a cd and made a little book, cd-case and the label for the cd. You can see the whole presentation of this project in my architecture portfolio. 
Above left is the front of the closed case. 
When case is opened from right to left, one can see the booklet on the left.
When case is furtherly opened lifting the right lid, one can see the cd itself.		 One can browse through the booklet without taking it out of the case.
<= This were the pages that I read from during the presentation. 


One of my first "assignments" was a logo I made for a company named Celtis, Logistic Tools. The link leads you to the company's webpage!
The logo is a stylised PC-mouse with the form of the C- and the E-symbol.
Beside the logo, I also made the namecards, the mousepads, the stickers and the webpagelinks for the company.
celtislogo


To improve my skils, I became a member of the Commission for Graphics Design at the D.B.S.G. Stylos Students Society of my faculty (Faculty of Architecture). Within this Commission I helped making posters, flyers, brochures and other graphics needed for the public relations of the Society. Some of the results of a one-year-membership are:
A couple of smaller posters for a big workshop.
         A big poster (420*420 mm) for another workshop, using one of my handdrawings - "The Eye" - which you can also see in my drawing-page. 
A letter-paper for an introduction week for the beginning students.
The poster with The Eye was spread all over the building of the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology.


Beside this work, I still had personal assignments. One of these was a birthday-calendar, that I made for a couple of my friends for the celebration of their marriage. It was meant to be a reception-book at the party, where every guest could put his or her name on the date of his or her birthday. After the party, the married couple uses the calendar as a birthday-calendar in the bathroom, and of course as a memory of the special day. (It is a Dutch custom to have a birthday calendar in the bathroom.)
The calendar was supposed to show some personal characteristics of the couple, Jeroen and Annet, making a little bit fun about them. This certainly was a success, because everybody loughed about the pictures, including Jeroen and Annet themselves. I made a new image as a summary of the contents of the calender.
The images are 

not very clear.

I do hope you 

have got an 

idea of what the 

calender was like.


This is the design of a little book and the back-sleeve for a CD-case of the audio-CD, that is recorded by Richard Kleijhorst. He is an amateur songwriter and -singer, who has won a local contest with his music and was allowed to record a CD at a Record Company for free. This was the prise of the contest. He asked me to design his CD-case.
The cover
  The back 

Last modified:    25th August 2003


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