Illustration
“Dag, lieve kijkbuiskinderen”
2025/03/23 18:13
Meneer de Uil is a character in the popular Dutch television series ‘De Fabeltjeskrant’. He is a somewhat long-winded and forgetful owl who often interrupts his sentences with “Eh…” and ends with “Jawel!”. Well-known sayings: “Dag, lieve kijkbuiskinderen” and “Oogjes dicht en snaveltjes toe”. In 2022, this permanent farewell greeting was included in the Dutch Dikke Van Dale [dictionary].
I’ve drawn this pixel character for my family social media group [named ‘From the archive’] and as an icon for my digital archive [extended hard disk].
Ceci n’est pas une pipe
2025/02/08 06:53
The cigarette was one of a collection of ‘bad habits’ icons designed by Susan Kare (an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986) for the bookstore at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. They were featured on magnets, sticky notes and stationary. Other bad habits were represented by a frosted doughnut, television, cake, pill, cocktail, pizza and dice.
Add another 4 slightly different layers, refresh them in 0.1 seconds … et voilà: there you have a smoking chimney! ;)
Bless this mess
2025/01/01 19:48
My pixels took a break until 6 January. Best wishes for the new year!
Bless this mess. The inspiration for these three words in ‘cross stitch’ (pixels are fun to play with!) comes from a publication I have recently made for the Scientific Council for Government Policy with the—revealing nothing—title The Netherlands in a Fragmenting World Order.
Jaws
2024/12/26 14:48
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.)
“Moksi baby!“
2024/12/26 13:07
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’).
TTYL ;)
2024/12/26 13:07
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.
Caffeine & Sugar
2024/11/17 18:31
Doctors say we should consume no more than 300 mg of caffeine per day and between 90 and 120 grams of sugar per day. What about our drinks?
A two kilo wrecking ball …
2024/04/26 16:03
You are 30 times more likely to die from a falling coconut than from an attack by a shark …
- Coconut: 150 deaths/year
- Shark: 5 deaths/year
Dienstfiets [part II]
2022/05/26 18:36
In the past 10 years I’ve travelled roughly 24,000 miles between Utrecht and Zeist on my MTB!
[Compare: a ride around the equator = 26,000 miles]
