
Freelance Creative Director | Founder/Creative Director Texelse Boys | Coordinator/Lecturer I/M/D KABK
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Freelance Creative Director | Founder/Creative Director Texelse Boys | Coordinator/Lecturer I/M/D KABK
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
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creative problem solving, art direction, coaching, lecturing, idea generation, transmedial concept development and storytelling, consultancy, innovation, tinkering, branding and identity, project initiation, strategic design, crossmedia communication, cultural concepts & projects, matchmaker, connector
(Media Production industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
The Creative Company Conference is an international conference that brings business and creativity together in one arena, deconstructs the DNA of creative companies to understand their business models, presents the entrepreneurs that play the game of value creation, innovation and creativity in business.
Held on April 1st 2008 at Amsterdam's spectacular Muziekgebouw, the CCC secured 10 leading innovators from four continents for its inaugural event, including Marc Mathieu, Stanley Hainsworth, Arkadi Kuhlmann, Bill Moggridge, Robert Brozin, Richard Reed, Ivy Ross, Carlos Miele, Peter Diamandis and John Howkins.
The CCC is the place to connect, get inspired and learn lessons from business and creative thought leaders from every corner of the world.
The next CCC will take place on Tuesday 26 May 2009, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(Design industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Check here for full details http://www.creativecitylab.nl/.
Dutch only.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
The BNO represents designers and design agencies in the Netherlands. The BNO promotes their business, social and cultural interests and brings together over 2,500 individual designers, as well as 200 design agencies and design departments within companies.
(Design industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Mastermundo is an intimate, active and informal gathering where interesting people share ideas, stories, passions or something that they love/hate/do/did/know/care about/obsess over with a curious, engaged, interesting audience. What all participants have in common is an endless passion and drive for what they do. So much, that they don’t mind sharing their knowledge, stories, ideas and insights with others.
http://vimeo.com/3116438
(Higher Education industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Setting up, manage and lead an entire department and teach Concept Development. As the coordinator I'm also in charge of publicity, network, acquiring new students and teachers and the reputation of this newest department of the KABK.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
November 1999 — Present (9 years 9 months)
Texelse Boys is a non-commercial international network of approx. 900 creatives worldwide in every thinkable field of creativity. What all these creatives have in common is the passion to create, within but also far beyond their comfort zone. Since Texelse Boys was founded in '99, it rapidly grew and got international recognition. Result: dozens of projects with collaborating creatives, a truckload of publicity in the media worldwide, several events, innovative new music, tv shows and a lot more. One of the highlights: an embedded festival within the Lowlands Festival in 2005, visited by 55,000 people. Currently, the Texelse Boys Foundation is preparing new creative and innovative events in the near future.
(Design industry)
1996 — Present (13 years)
Works and has worked for e.g. KLM, Centraal Beheer Achmea, Fabrique, ...,staat, Nothing, Creative Company Conference, AW Bruna, Mupps, Veronica Holding, Kink FM, PICNIC, Syndicate, Sanoma, NS, Waacs, FrieslandCampina, Microsoft, Universal Records, Supertracks Records, VPRO, VPRO Gids, VPRO 3voor12, MTV, WAACS, Melkweg, Excelsior Recordings (Johan, Supersub, Spinvis, Daryll-Ann), Lowlands Festival, Ben®, Henkel, Rabobank, Pritt, Livy, OJ Storytellers, Dommelsch, several municipalities and local governments.
Work: creative consiltancy, brainstorms, talks, concept development, format development, graphic design, strategic design, business/process innovation, identities, websites, games, interactive and multi-medial presentations, product design, illustration, photography, bumpers/leaders, music videos, events, etc.
Presented A+B, a modular shelf system for a modern way of living, at the Salone Internationale del Mobile in Milan in 2006.
(Design industry)
December 2007 — October 2008 (11 months)
Waacs is a multi-disciplinary design team located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. We combine user-centered design, research, an ability to incubate ideas at a strategic level, design talent, to create outstanding and innovative design solutions for leading brands and ambitious challengers. We thrive on tackling the toughest challenges and designing elegant, functional, effective solutions that make people happy (and address our customers’ business and branding needs). We believe that user experiences happen at multiple touch points, however we don’t create all deliverables in house. In complex projects that require multiple disciplines Waacs fulfills the role of director and producer. Clients work directly with designers and creatives, with no intervening account management.
Waacs works and has worked for clients like Microsoft, Wacom, Friesland Foods, SaraLee/DE, Henkel/Pritt, Swatch, Alessi, Auping, Velda, Indesit and Philips.
(Graphic Design industry)
2006 — October 2008 (2 years)
(Design industry)
September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Worked in a team on projects for e.g. TNT, Discovery Channel, MTV, Heineken International, SIRE, WatWasWaar, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Het Geheugen van Nederland, Staten Generaal Digitaal, Shell, Albert Heijn.
Initiated The Naked Poodle, a mash up of a pressure cooker brainstorm session, speed dating, simultaneous chess, a rap battle and a free fight gala with a touch of theatre.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
April 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Worked in a team on projects for e.g. Heineken UEFA Champions League, DIAGEO (Gordon's Gin, J&B Whisky), BNO/BIS Publishers, Bugaboo International, Concrete architectural associates, Heineken International, Levi’s Europe, ON.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
September 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 7 months)
Worked in a team on projects for e.g. Mexx, TPG/TNT, Heineken Nederland, NIBC, Archis, Mo'Media, World Press Photo, HP, PANL, VROM/Nétive, McDonald's, KPN, Philips.
idea generation, concept development, new technology, cooking, self-initiated projects
Texelse Boys Foundation, SomeTimes, Association of Dutch Designers [BNO], Mastermundo Creative Conference, The Naked Poodle, ADCN Jury, Day of the Interactive Talent (DIT) Jury, Creative Company Conference, CreativeCityLab, PICNIC, The Amazing Idea Machine
Multiple national and international design and communication awards. Work has been published in all major design and communication publications worldwide.