December 2024
Everybody happy
2024/12/26 15:44 Filed in: Product Design
The smiley icon has been around since 1972 and remains relevant and inspiring. This bright light serves as a gentle and joyful reminder. Switch the led light on for 15 minutes at a time. Just enough to give the little moments in life that extra shine! A gift from ‘Schoonmoedertje’ for X-mas.
Think different
2024/12/26 15:38 Filed in: Photography / Product Design
One of my favorites under the X-mas tree this year: ‘Positive Potato’. “I may be a tiny potato, but I believe in you. Go do your thing.” A gift from EGO 4 Arda.
Jaws
2024/12/26 14:48 Filed in: Illustration
Are sharks really deadly?! In the USA alone (in 2020) 42,915 people died in car accidents. That same year, 3 people died from shark attacks. How much did you hear in the media about those shark attacks? And how much did you hear about the car accidents? Exactly! There’s a lot of fuss about those three shark attacks, but you hear almost nothing about deaths from cars. (And by the way—humans kill about 1 million sharks every year.)
No Pain, No Gain
2024/12/26 14:47 Filed in: Advertising / Product Design
SpongeBob SquarePants pal: Patrick Star—a dimwitted yet friendly pink starfish who resides under a rock. Patrick considers himself to be intelligent, with his ignorance of his stupidity being a key trait of his. By chance I came across this muscular starfish during X-mas shopping this year.
Kung Fu Fighting
2024/12/26 13:08 Filed in: Advertising / Product Design
SpongeBob SquarePants pal: Sandy Cheeks—a thrill-seeking and athletic squirrel from Texas who wears an air-filled diving suit to breathe underwater. She lives in a tree enclosed in a clear glass dome locked by an airtight, hand-turned seal and is an expert in karate.
“Moksi baby!“
The lion-dragon Barong is the king of the spirits and leader of good forces in Indonesian mythology. Very cool—and rare!—T-shirt for my son Niels (a.k.a. ‘Buffeltje’).
Red Lights
2024/12/26 13:07 Filed in: Photography
Monster Truck Fun Facts: Since 1999 there have been a total of 41(!) Grave Digger monster trucks built. Perhaps the most visible trademark is the red headlights which glow whenever the truck is in competition. The lights were first used when Dennis Anderson (the original driver) was building a transporter out of a school bus and removed the characteristic red stop lights.
TTYL ;)
2024/12/26 13:07 Filed in: Illustration
Since their international roll-out by Apple in 2011, little colorful icons known as ‘emoji’ have unstoppably infiltrated our (digital) communication. I draw and animated this one for my Divoom device (divoom.com). Reaction to tasty food (or person)—sometimes misunderstood as teasing.