Curriculum Vitae
Developments in my career
Freelancer
2022 - current
I just started to receive some interest for commissions I have always wanted to start my own website and now I feel like its the right time to do it officially.
Intern illustrator Ploegsma
2021
For my exam internship I made illustrations for a manuscript. It as a book for young teenagers. This was a practice although it did make me familiar on how to professionally work with auteurs.
Student Art and Design Da Vinci College
Studying here really conditioned me to work in a transparent and client friendly way. The professor's put a lot of emphases on process and research.
2017 - 2021
Intern Graphic Design Claudia Rietveld
2020
Working with Claudia Really tought me to keep asking the right questions in order to truly deliver what the client wants. This company worked with online marketing and communication for young female entrepreneurs.
This of course inspired me to start something of my own.
Student Desktop Publishing GLR
2015 - 2016
Full name Graphic Lyceum Rotterdam. Before getting into Graphic Design I first spend a school year getting familiar with the proper technics in Adobe. Desktop Publishing is all about getting to know the programs, making everything complete and functional.
After this I also spend a year in Graphic design at this college but later changed to Da Vinci College.
Voluntary work
2016 / 2015 / 2011
At various times when lost I would need an occupation. So I decided to give back to the community while also working with things I found Important.
In 2016 I worked in the Tuinen care facility with the elderly who have Alzheimer. Mostly just spending time with them. I did something similar when I was much younger but in a retirement home. Serving coffee and helping with fun activities such as painting classes.
From 2011 to 2015 I worked in various animal care positions. From the vet's assistant helper to working in a predatory bird shelter.
Student Animal care Wellant College
2011 / 2015
I started to doubt I'd be able to make a living as an artist, because I was initially not accepted into graphic design. My second choiceI was to try and be an animal caretaker. It later turned out that those are otfen voluntary but I still wanted to try my luck and finished the college years. During this college I kept drawing and used it to showcase my knowledge of anatomy.
It thought me endurance and gave me a variety of experience in both internships and the animals at the college grounds. I worked with horses, farm animals, reptiles and other exotic pets, predatory birds, volière birds and more. Especially the stables where I worked with horses was hard work.
Student printmedia - Print & Press GLR
2009 / 2011
My first experience in the graphic media field was with print and press. I tried to use it as a stepping stone in order to become a graphic designer although I took a bit of a detour after. Here I learned the whole printed media process. This includes various press techniques and Turing it into a finished product. At my internship I worked with silkscreens. We printed mostly on clothing from one to 5 colours with where hand mixed.
At college I worked with tools and machines such as silk screens, offset and digital printers, folding machines, cutting tables and also a bit of preparation on the computer. This is where I discovered my fondness of Adobe programs as we dit fallow a DTP class. I got the hang of it quickly and later run out of assignments as I took any time I had to work on them.
However This made me try to run before I could walk as I tried to go directly to graphic design after this and ended up failing the entrance test. After some learning later on I would eventually get in.