I just recently finished —another— project with Bjorn. We go way, way back. Back to the day we had to do our admission exam at Academy Minerva, School for Fine Art & Design in Groningen. Admission exams are in fact quite boring and impersonal — at

Putting Alfons in this Heroes list feels like sharing a secret ingredient. Actually, he should be everyone’s secret ingredient. Alfons and his family own a small firm with the most high-end equipment to transform any building, car, space or a simple sticker into something nice, just

If you want to make the world a bit better, start with yourself. If you don’t know how to do that, start with Pieter. I was introduced to Pieter by Itay Talgam at Picnic in September. According to Itay, we had a lot in common. And

Roel transforms everything and everybody around him. Brands, companies, agencies but most of all: people. And the greatest thing is: Roel is just Roel, a genuine, warm, kind, radiant, sincere human being. I first met him when I worked at …,staat and again later when I

At Mastermundo 2009 Ritzo decided not to do his talk, while he was invited as a speaker. Thank god he didn’t. He decided he wanted to do things with lots of people. Because he likes things with lots of people. And he became a hero in

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I met Dagan because I wanted to meet Dagan. Marco de Boer of Artmiks and then also facilitator at I/M/D accepted a place in the board of the ADCN. The place of Dagan. He spoke highly of Dagan. And since I value

In 1999, when skimming the web for talented creatives to participate in the Texelse Boys project I bumped into the work of Fons. Back then it was just Texelse Boys, but now looking back it has all the characteristics of a project. Even though for it really

On 2 May Jan Menses died at the age of 67. And with that, a small piece of me. If I remember it well, I first met Jan when I worked in a copy shop. I was I think 18 or 19. He was

Inmiddels gaat het al weer een stuk beter met mijn broer. En weten we ook wat nou de aanleiding was van de beroerte. Oja, ik heb het eigenlijk altijd over ‘broerte’, is een stuk makkelijker dan ‘de beroerte van mijn broer’. Hij had een een scheurtje

I’m a fan of the work of Anton for a long, long time. But this is not about that. I remember of getting his email address from his brother, because I wanted to invite him to the Texelse Boys project. A bit later, we met because

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I had lunch with one of the crew members of New Shoes Today and told about Mastermundo, the first edition. He recommended Devon as a speaker, if I remember it right. I looked her up at the website, and thought that was an interesting

When I worked at …,staat, we were designing the books for the BNO. We had to idea of having three-dimensional surfaces on the books, so we could make the two books one publication, like Lego in a way. Rita of the

When I had the opportunity to make a video for Johan’s Day is done I had myself a new challenge: how to make a ambitious video as a graphic designer? What do you need for that? How does that work? What problems will I