For InterMezzo Catering I had the honours of creating a logo, a visual language and website.
InterMezzo Catering is run by mezzo-soprano Wilke te Brummelstroete who, with her love for hospitality and hearty food, bakes and cooks the most wonderful food. She specialises in catering for cultural events, like classical concerts.
The visuals are reminiscent of vintage logo’s and etiquettes, poured into a warm yet modern colour-palette. Old-timey decorations are combined with flat, minimalistic surfaces and bold typography.
Check out the website here: intermezzo-cartering.com.
Samenspeeldag Opstreek
Utrechtse Studenten Cantorij
From 2020 onwards I design the promotional materials for the Utrechtse Studenten Cantorij, such as posters and flyers for their concerts.
The assignment is a new and interesting challenge for my skills to combine photography with graphical elements to create a uniform style which continues through the different iterations of the posters.
Eine Alpensinfonie
For the Winter 2019 project the USConcert performs the beautiful and impressive Alpensinfonie by Richard Strauss. A piece like that deserves some impressive promotion, so I designed a poster and visual style for their project. The poster was printed in poster and flyer format and spread in Utrecht and Amsterdam.
USConcert auditionposters
Two posters for the upcoming auditions of the Utrechtsch Studenten Concert. The overall theme forebodes the upcoming program, including Eine Alpensinfonie by Richard Strauss.
NeSP “Schijn bedriegt”
For the Nederlands Symfonie Project (Dutch Symphony Project) I designed the poster for their 2019 project “Schijn bedriegt” (Appearances are deceiving). The program revolves around mystical stories and fairytales including music by Debussy and Prokofiev and Strauss’s Don Quichote. The poster refers to the latter work and portrays a dreamlike and mirage-like dessert.
staatsgreep.art
A brand identity and website for STAASGREEP.
In 2017 together with writer and mezzo-soprano Elea Bekkers I founded “Staatsgreep”, an art collective focussed on radical new art. With Staatsgreep Elea and I want to take modern art out of high-society theatres and operahouses and bring it to the audience instead. By adressing modern issues in a confronting yet accessible way they make art part of modern-day society again.
usconcert.nl
A website and visual identity for the Utrecht Student Orchestra, or USConcert. While being the oldest still active orchestra in The Netherlands, founded in 1824, they are young and dynamic; the orchestra solely exists of university students who alongside their studies make time to make music together. The orchestra specialises in late-romantic works with a special emphasis on Dutch composers.
The new website is a step into the future for this historic orchestra, giving it a new and dynamic look, without being too forward about it. The website offers plenty space for the orchestra’s rich history and introduces a new color scheme based on the previous single color story. By adding a warm and earthy purple to the vivid orange/red the historic yet youthful character of the orchestra is emphasised.
NKK NXT 18/19
I am part of the Dutch Chamberchoir’s talent development programme, NKK NXT. I contributed to the project in many ways: I’m one of the eight singers, had a share in the concept, wrote new choral music for the choir, designed the marketing material and shared in the marketing tasks.
NKK NXT was tasked with one thing: create the choral performance of the future. For half a year with seven others Sem worked together on the concept. The result is “I Want To Be Like You”, a performance that blurs the line between what is real and fake by envisioning what role technology will have in the future of choral music. For the concept “Alex Inc.” was created, an AI wanting to be human, using the singers of NKK NXT 18/19 to find what it is to be truly human in a series of simulations.
NKK NXT 18/19 performed multiple times, including a sold out three-day concert series in Het Huis Utrecht and multiple festivals. For upcoming dates, check the concerts page.
Photography by Veerle Basitaanssen and Sem Hak.
NESKO 2018 & 2019
Since 2018 I have been the in-house designer for the Dutch Student Chamber Orchestra (NESKO), giving every edition its pronounced theme and its comprehensive materials. This includes posters, flyers, stickers, CD-cases and so forth.
The theme of NESKO 2018 was “full of stories”, 2019’s theme was “Off the beaten track”. Both themes got to have their own unique feel and look, whilst still keeping a continuity through the years.
The Dutch Student Chamber Orchestra is an orchestra which forms yearly from new members to tour The Netherlands and Belgium with classical chamber music.
