New concept: Soundtracks

Fresh out of the creative oven: a new concept for Mini that Robbin and I created for our portfolio:

See the whole case on our website Robbin Waldemar.

John Jay on creativity

When working for W+K Tokyo we had the chance to meet John Jay. In fact it was one of the most memorable moments of our Japan time. Early on a Saturday we met him at his Hotel to talk about our Tokyo experience over breakfast. Robbin and I both agree that so far John Jay has been one of the most inspiring individual we've met in the industry. He has a very distinct point of view on things and if we'd have to sum up the two hours we had with him in three points it would be these three things:

1. Embrace culture: be conscious about your own culture but really try to immerse yourself in other cultures that are different from yours, try as many different things as possible, break out of your cultural comfort zone.

2. Be part of your community: always take an active part in the society that surrounds you, talk and meet as many interesting people as possible, go far beyond the world of advertising and mingle with artists, fashion designers and other kinds of talented people

3. Do things: stop talking about all the ideas you had, have, and will have – and do more things, bring your ideas to life.

The following video interview by Fast Company gives you a good idea about John Jay and his inspiring nature.

The Styleograph

This weekend I ran into the Styleograph, a quite talented street fashion photographer. Do check out his blog, it's rather lovely.

A new Redesign

It's spring, time for newness. It's been a while since I changed something here, the blog design was getting a bit dusty. Especially the title 'Wal's Hyper Island adventure' was out of date, since I graduated last year – time flies. Sure, everything is still an adventure, but now it's pHI, post Hyper Island. Hope you like the new design, it's fresh and clean. Here's a last glance at the old layout.

A family crest

While the Royals were getting married I had my own share of family history. My dad turned 50 last week and because of us being such a large family I decided to create a family crest as a gift for him to bear.

It holds a few symbols but mainly speaks of solidarity, growth and the joy of life. It was great fun to work on.