Calligraffiti

Vector art for T-shirt design (available 2011). Tribute to the (dis)organisation and poster design by Dr. Rat, 1980. Check out the book about it (Dutch only).

The original piece was done with black permanent marker ink on polypropene film.

Vector art for T-shirt design, detail (available later this year).

The original piece was done with black permanent marker ink on polypropene film.

Vector art for T-shirt design. Available on Unruly Gallery from April 1st 2011.

The original piece was done with black permanent marker ink on polypropene film (± 60 x 60 cm including passe-partout)

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him.
White acrylic on window. Christmas window for the local hairdresser. Stained glass by Zaanse Glas-in-Lood zetterij.

Unruly Big Baby Jesus 2011. White acrylic on window.

Vector art for DJ logo.

Vector art for T-shirt design (available later this year).

Vector art.

Vector art for skydiving company.

Mural with acrylics for Dutch Design week in San Francisco (± 9 x 3 m). Pelicans by Adele Renault. The text is known to be the oldest piece of Dutch literature.

India ink on paper (± 50 x 40 cm). Inverted.

Installing the Throw Ups exhibition (21 october – 21 november 2010) at Arkitip Incase Project Space, Los Angeles.
Video by Caleb Coppola/Logan

In calligraphic art you can only control a small part of the outcome. The rest is determined by intuition, flow and chance. It is only afterwards that you can look at the piece and be amazed and/or disgusted. The title is a reference to the movie A Shot in the Dark (1964) where Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) reviews a case with his usual clumsiness.
Carbon acrylic on linen (49 x 41.5 inch).

Well, you can write them. But you shouldn’t send them.
Carbon acrylic on linen (27 x 19 inch).

Refers to the kitsch centerpiece in the end scene of Scarface by Brian de Palma.
Carbon acrylic on linen (37 x 47 inch).

This line is like a snake eating its tail. The text could have been used for The Atheist Bus Campaign that included 30 buses across London for four weeks in 2009 with the slogan: ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.’
Carbon acrylic on linen (42.5 x 42.5 inch).