Naked dino

Every time I post a collage I'm inspired to get my scissors and glue and create some new ones! However, I need a lot of time and space to make that happen.

birth announcement

Birth announcements have come a long way! This one looks so formal, nowadays the cards are much more joyful.

ho ho ho, merry xmas!

I'm always in doubt whether or not to make my own christmas-cards. I'm never really inspired but I decided to make a design anyway.

Untitled doodle

Doodles need no explanation.

Armless

This little guy is very fragile. I bought him at a yardsale in Los Angeles. Together we flew all the way to the Netherlands. Mind you, he was armless when I found him!
I think he used to be part of a footballteam, a table footballteam.

Learning Turkish?

While going through my small vintage graphic design collection I stumbled upon this cirkle. I had forgotten all about it. It looks so well thought out! I don't know how old it is but it looks pretty ancient. I think it children use this in school to learn words. Maybe somebody knows what it is? Enlighten me!

TypeDrawing

Since last week I own an iPhone and I love my latest asset! So do the kids... This is the first drawing I made with the TypeDrawing app.

Flip de Beer

Once a year we have a houseguest who sleeps over for one or two nights. He is called Flip de Beer and the pre-school children are supposed to take care of him. The parents are expected to make a report of this special occasion.

A day at the beach

I love this old postcard, greetings from Zandvoort. The postmark date says 13th of August 1929. Those were probably the early days of recreation!

On my desk

I have created a witches circle on my desk at work. Thanks to Albert Heijn and of course thanks to my colleagues!

Fisherman

I'm not the world's best 3-dimensional designer, nor the most creative, but I sometimes attempt to make something for my kids. I made this one for Lewis just before he was born.

Mila's friends

Of course Mila is a friendcollector as well. I made her a friendbook last year. She started in a new class, with new kids so she 'needed' a new book. It's great to see how enthousiastic the children react!

European cheesegirls

This is a great example of early information design. The arrows show how to fold the 'girls'. The girls are part of a collection.
I bought these at a Waterlooplein-fleamarket in Amsterdam. It's always great to discover little gems like these.

Cheesy

Great typically Dutch item!

birds of a feather

We'll soon cook these birds and change them into mashed potatoes.

Greetings from...

Can't remember where and when I bought this one. I love it! It shows how the children used to dress in the region where I was brought up.

Doodling away

Tonight was 'pakjesavond' in the Netherlands. Sinterklaas has left! He's sailing back home. 'Till next year!

Best design ever

My most favourite design ever is the London Underground map.
I bought this one in a small antiqueshop in St. Ives (Cornwall, UK). This map dates back to 1972, almost as old as I am...
Although the map is updated yearly the design is unbeatable! (the map below is the most recent one, which I downloaded off the website transport for London).

Poor Pepper

Pepper gets dressed up a lot. She hates it but she's always noble enough to let us take the pictures. Immediately afterwards she shakes everything off. However, she's always quite taken with the necklace 'cause that's the only item she leaves on. A real lady knows her accessories.

Ugly but cute

One of my first illustrations I did with a collage. I'm not a very good illustrator so by using the collage-technique I can still make quite nice pictures. I never use Photoshop for my collages, I do them with scissors and glue.

two-headed duck

I've used this collage in my birthdaycalender. It's quite small in the layout so I decided to show it in a post. I'll show the birthdaycalender another time. I'll have to photograph it first.

Co-production

Yvette and I made this children's book for grown-ups for a colleague of ours at Eden.

showing persistence at art college

This poster was part of an assignment I did at Art College (St. Joost in Breda). The poster is about 70 x 100 cm and painted by hand. Imagine the persistence I had back then!

Lewis' friends

New kid on the block needs a book to collect his friends, right?! So I designed this book for Lewis, he's very prood to have his own book. He's a very enthousiastic 'friend-collector'!

orange sky

While driving back from my parents yesterday afternoon we saw a beautiful sky behind us. The sun was setting was colouring the sky a beautiful orange. The only way to photograph it was in the rearview window.

Enlargement

For the Sinterklaas-celebration at Lewis' school I made this big key. The children use it to open the door to 'the castle'. As could be expected the key broke into two pieces the very first day... Handmade objects are far too fragile for 4 and 5 -year olds.

Hair

About 18 years ago our class had an assignment in Art College called circles. This was one of my design. Each line is drawn by hand using a pair of compasses and an inkpen.

flying low

My mother always wanted to fly, so finally, when turned 64 we gave her a flight in a small plane as a present. She enjoyed it very much. She saw her hometown and the region she loves so much from the sky. A really exciting experience for her!

4 years ago

Lewis was born on 13th of August, 4 years ago. I designed this birth announcement and used a collage which I had made a few years before.

Memorygame for the teacher

For Mila's preschool teacher I made this memorygame. I used pictures of her classmates, symbols, children's drawing, portraits of all the teachers. I was very pleased with the result and so was the teacher!

Keeping myself busy

The doodles people make during meetings always look interesting to me. I decided to use my own doodles for backgrounds etc. I used it in a design for Seyster Veste. Seyster Veste is a client of ours at Cascade, the company I work for.

Magenta rules!

I made this logo and websitedesign for a freelance office manager. Unfortunately she didn't use the design for the website. Too bad, it would have been my first website!

New and improved

A while ago Corné updated his website.

Check it out at www.cb-photography.com.

Creatures

This is the birthdaycard I designed for Lewis' 4th b-day. I made him a friend-book with these creature as well. I'll post that soon. The book is constantly 'on the road' travelling from one classmate to another.

Fruit of the day

For a while now I've been collecting fruitlabels. I use a small Moleskine for my little collection. While shopping for groceries I can never ignore the little printed treasures. My favourite one is the Mona Lisa. I have no idea what kind of fruit it was pasted on.