Projects
A mix of commercial and self initiated projects.

Guest lecturing at CEDIM, Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseno de Monterrey, Mexico

I’m truly happy to say that I’ve been invited as a visiting teacher at CEDIM, a place that felt like a candy store when I was there last year, full with unlimited potential to create anything. I will be there from 9 to 20 April. Looking forward to it!

Brikki

A while ago Ingmar told me about a spontaneous idea that sort of happened by accident and then took of. And his name is Brikki, available in Dutch or English. His? Yes. It’s a lion. Who enjoys great adventures. Adventures created by kids and brought to life by Karsten readmore

Out of Office — 404 network

I’m part of the network of Out of Office, an office on the move by two powerful ladies, Kirsten and Sam. ‘The flexible network consist of a web of experts — a mixed team that is talented, entrepreneurial, multi-disciplinary, visual thinking and future positive — grad students, designers, readmore

Next Tuesday May 31 at the symposium the department Communication & Multimedia Design (CMD) of the NHL Hogeschool in Leeuwarden, looking ahead ten years in time to celebrate ten years of CMD. I will be talking about Dreamschool and a bit more.

June 16 at UN Studio, an international architectural practice, situated readmore

Mexico, unexpecting the unexpected

Already a couple of days ago, but it feels like yesterday. And it was only a week, but felt like a month. My trip to Mexico was quite intense. A week, but with tons of things to visit, people to meet and places to talk. I readmore

Making the future happen today at Telmex initiatives, for free!

Today I had the opportunity to visit the initiatives Carlos Slim Foundation is undertaking. Carlos Slim is one of the world’s most important philanthropists and most people have never heard about his humanitarian activities. He owns stock in more than 200 companies that employ more than 200,000 people in Latin America and beyond. readmore

Visiting CEDIM, Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseno de Monterrey

Just returned from a visit to CEDIM, an applied design school in Monterrey. And I can only say that I was truly amazed. Housed in a brand new contemporary building in the valley, you will find a great active atmosphere. You could feel the activity happening, even though it was quite a quiet readmore

Frontpage news!

Great to wake up in the morning and at breakfast find out that you’re on the cover of a newspaper… Actually, Eva siad: “Hey, did you know you are on the cover of the newspaper?” Uhm, no. So she walked away and got one. Totally awesome! Although I feel that obviously the kids of Campamento readmore

Marcel Kampman en @SMCMXEducación en la Ibero

Ya que estamos en los aniversarios, nuestro grupo educativo cumple su primer año y lo vamos a festejar con una sesión educativa de lujo: Marcel Kampman (@happykamping) quien es líder del proyecto Dream School que está haciendo grandes aportaciones al sistema educativo Holandés y nos hablará readmore

Dreamschool in Mexico

LIFT was awesome. Led to a load of new contacts, quite impressive. Just after my talk, I had the mic removed and because the next speaker was already up, I found a place on the stairs, not wanting to interfere the audience too much. readmore

Yoomee joins Dreamschool

One of the highlights of LIFT was looking at particles at the HLC in Geneva. And doing that together with Andy Mayer, who what I learned while having a fun conversation in the bus, was the founder of Yoomee. So, what is Yoomee?

They’re different readmore

TEDxYouth Workshop

Ideas Worth Doing zijn er om uitgevoerd te worden! En dus ga je bij TEDxYouth zelf aan de slag. Wat vind jij nou belangrijk om te leren? Hoe ziet volgens jou de ideale school er uit? (nee, altijd vrij is geen optie) Maar stel readmore

The Sustainism movement is about to begin

At PICNIC ‘10 we had the privilege to premiere Sustainism publicly. Sustainism Is the New Modernism, A Cultural Manifesto for the Sustainist Era by Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers a bold document that combines a powerful idea with really strong iconic graphic design. I readmore

design mind Salon: How Design Triggers Transformation – in Innovation, Business, Art and Technology

Volgende week vrijdag ben ik spreker op de design mind Salon sessie in Amsterdam op vrijdag 23 april, 2010, 14:00 – 18.00 uur, georganiseerd door Microsoft en frog design. Onderwerp: How Design Triggers Transformation – in Innovation, Business, Art and Technology. Belangrijkste spreker is readmore

178 logo workout with Knowmads

I’ve asked my friends at 178 to help out Knowmads with their logo stuff. They had some terrible soul-less designs hanging on the wall, that so did not fit Knowmads at all. So they did a Logo Workout like only 178 can do, with some great results that perfectly fit Knowmads!

Vinkega, door Marije Kuiper

Vinkega is een portret van een klein dorp in Friesland door Marije Kuiper, als afstudeerproject van de Academie voor Popcultuur in Leeuwarden, waar ze in de jaren tachtig geboren is.

70 huizen en een pottenbakkerij zei ik vroeger altijd en om die reden vluchtte ik zodra ik kon weg uit dit gehucht. Inmiddels is zelfs de readmore

Contribution to Blend magazine

Currently working on a contribution for the renewed international edition of Blend magazine.

Johnny: India Experience actie!

Jonne Seijdel is derdejaars student Interactive/Media/Design en is momenteel op stage in India waar hij meehelpt bij een weeshuis. Op zijn weblog doet hij verslag van zijn avonturen. Erg leuk geschreven persoonlijke verhalen en Jonne is ook nog eens geweldig fotograaf, meerdere redenen om eens te gaan kijken. Vanmorgen kwam van hem het verzoek readmore

23 April I will one of the keynote speakers at a invitation only event by frog design and Microsoft, with as a special guest from Bill Buxton Principal Researcher at Microsoft USA and Tjeerd Hoek of frog design. All I can say is that you really want to be on that readmore

I’ve become Ambassador at Knowmads. Which is great! Nice to be part of a group of highly contagious and nice people. I received this definition from tribe leader Pieter:

Ambassador is is the highest ranking diplomat that represents a nation. Ambassadors are assigned to specific responsibilities, and they work to advise and assist readmore

Contribute to Picnic festival 2010!

Hurray! It’s live! To share what you want to share for Picnic Festival 2010, you can use this page. Remember: it’s always more fun when you bring your own stuff to a picnic!

I keep on talking. Coming up: Next thursday I will do a powertalk at Knowmads and in April I will one of the keynote speakers at a invitation only event by frog design and Microsoft, with a special guest from Microsoft USA. All I can say is that you readmore

Covermodel!

Haha, in plaats van een waanzinnig gebouw of een aanstormend architectuurtalent sta ik op de cover van het jaaroverzicht van de BNA.

Video opnames Adobe campagne ‘The Switch’

Vandaag te gast op de KABK, een delegatie van Adobe voor opnamen van het vervolg (rest is letterlijk geciteerd van de site van Bert Hagendoorn van Adobe) op The Switch, een Adobe campagne waarin grootheden uit het vak met een bepaalde expertise aan het woord zijn. Eind vorig jaar vonden tijdens readmore