In the Dutch Illustration Podcast (#67), Klaas Verplancke says he went to New York every year to put himself on the map. ‘I wanted to be discovered by the famous magazines and publishers’ he said. I want that too. And I also want to go to New York City. Not alone, but...
On 4 June 2024, there was an article in the Dutch newspaper ‘Het Parool’ about a stork couple (wilma and Ruud) in Amsterdam. Already for the third year in a row, all of this couple’s chicks died. How could this happen? A window cleaner looking at the...
Sometimes I also wonder why I sign up for another course. Reason enough: learning new things, challenging myself and having the good feeling of being in a ‘class’. A class with like-minded people. Talking together, complaining, laughing, looking at each...
Meet my litter crew I don’t get it. I just don’t understand how people can throw their trash on the street, the sidewalk, or in the park. But there it is — scattered and drifting through the city — so clearly, plenty of people do it. And I want something to change....
Jason Logan invites you to head outside and gather ingredients. Ingredients for ink.Because there’s color in the twigs of a dead shrub, bits of metal on the street, and the leaves of the weeds in your garden. Jason Logan is the founder of the Toronto Ink Company...
Ik liep een wildvreemde boekwinkel in en had zin om iets moois voor mezelf te kopen. Na een paar rondjes wist ik het ineens: ‘Mythos illustrated’. Het boek is geschreven door Stephen Fry en geïllustreerd door Jesús Sotés. Ik had het boek al, maar dan zonder de...
