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The Hague, Zh, Nl

Global / Based In Nl

CitizenM is transforming the hotel experience, delivering the new kind of hotel with its contemporary take on affordable luxury. I look after the strategy and execution of the hotels brand activations, programming of our rooftop bars and our biggest projects: our hotel opening events as we are launching new locations to welcome our guests ever year. I successfully delivered 5 hotel opening events in my first year and another 4 the following years.

New York, Usa / London, Uk / Amsterdam, Nl

We help good locations become strong brands. Our global hub of strategists, designers, storytellers and developers help online and offline locations; (work)places, mixed use venues, hospitality and events. Together, we move their brand experience forward. Whether you’re about to expand to new areas of business or improving current activities: We will make your location work for your Hub of people. For this we craft brand experiences, employee cultures, brand communities, design environments and memorable moments to amplify team engagement, business networks, industry events and mixed use destinations. As the owner and Creative Director of Hub Town City, I work closely with our clients to identify best strategy and plan of action; manage resource and oversee the design of our creative productions. www.hubtowncity.com

Uk / Us / Aus / Based In Nl

Very excited to be back with my friends at Red Engine; the team based in London behind Flight Club (The birth place of social darts) and Electric Shuffle (Where we’ve taken the lightning rod to the traditional game of shuffleboard). I now support both brands globally; creating consistent brand experiences in venue and online. So keep an eye out as venues re-open and new spectacular places will open their doors, while lockdown comes to an end and people all over the world can physically reconnect again.

Nl / Be / Gm / Based In Nl

I joined Van Der Valk Hotels & Restaurants Group at the Valk Internet team and was responsible for the UX and design of new and ongoing activities across all business channels including both digital and physical deliverables for the central departments, products and services, including Valk Business and the production of the newly launched Valk Online:Under Valk Online I designed and managed the UX for our very own hybrid events streaming platform; supporting the business of 70+ Van der Valk Hotels & Restaurants across the Benelux, Germany, France, Spain and the Dutch Antilles

New York Usa

After having freelanced with them in London, I formally joined the US side of DesignScene. As a global creative event production agency we deliver total brand immersion worldwide. We work with some of the most innovative global brands: delivering business activations, conferences & galas, all the way through to private parties and charity events designed to make an impact.As Art Director in New York I look after the strategic brand approach and the design of our creative solutions, managing studio projects for the US team, working across time zones with our LA and London offices and client locations; always making sure the narrative, design and interactive experiences are aligned, on schedule and on point to maximise outcome for these exciting brand activations and events.Clients included: Snap, Hulu, Amazon Business, Shopify, Google, Live Nation, Netflix, ITV and Braze.

Amsterdam Area, Based In London

Today is Amazing is a teambuilding and event production company that initiates social connection through workshops and interactive events. Our creative concepts are to contribute to happier work lives and healthier performance by bringing people together better.As Partner and Creative: I developed our storytelling, co-initiated events, translated themes, ideas and client objectives to inspiring concepts, content and built the right experience to the right story.

London, United Kingdom

At the award winning Flight Club we’ve taken the traditional game of darts and supercharged it – we’ve developed a range of fast and exciting multiplayer games and housed it all in a breath-taking bar where outstanding food and drink is served to you as you play. We call the result ‘Social Darts’. I've been responsible for rolling out almost all design and communications at various budgets and timelines: Creating scalable brand systems, online and offline communications and campaigns to help launching and maximizing the experience for the second, third and fourth venue, creating seasonal promotions, promoting new products as well as developing the strategic marketing for business events, designing the internal staff-engagement, all in-venue and online market communications and social media. For the guest experience I looked after analogue game tools, scenic interior pieces and digital game interfaces for our interactive multiplayer game screens as well as hosting management tools. Helping this amazing brand go global was an awesome experience! What a joy!

New York, London, Amsterdam, Sydney

As a brand strategist and integrated designer, I've managed content strategies, creative teams and designed experiences and communications through brand identities & global brand activations, while based in global hotspots, including Paris, Sydney, London and New York before landing in Amsterdam. I’ve worked with clients like; Canon, Snap, Hulu, Glenmorangie and Chivas, LEGOland Hotel, DHL, L’Oreal Paris, Unilever, GE, Kellogg’s and Mars. Supported global events like Rugby World Cup, NY Fashion Week, New York Advertising Week and The Open Golf. I’ve also done National conferences for Amazon and international Pharma employers like Pfizer, GSK and Nestlé. And helped the Dutch and Australian Government, multiple Supermarket brands, the French cultural sector and several global big banks. www.sikkobaltus.com

London, United Kingdom

Within the SMA Shopper Marketing team of LEGO, I was responsible for designing immersive experiences at the LEGOland hotels, in particular the new Windsor Hotel; Delivering 'everything is awesome' in the LEGO Castle Hotel theme, creating character narratives and designs that meet the children's imagination through the wonderful world of LEGO.

London, United Kingdom

INVOLVE is an engagement agency that creates live involving experiences to drive business growth. At only 6 months in; I've already designed fully integrated comms for HR channels – from repositioned strategic branding, numerous experiential pieces for (inter)national conferences & events to complete one-on-one toolkits for leadership trainings – a great variety of work.

London, United Kingdom

With Bright Partnerships I was responsible for creative execution of brand activations for various global brands that partner with the greatest of sport, arts and cultural events to build inspiring interactive experiences and connect their audience through international events and cross-market engagement.

Sydney, Australia

As Senior Designer at Harteffect, owned by The Unimail Group, I develop strategy and design for our commercial clients and employer branding projects. As part of the team I keep track on all creative, organise resources and manage timelines of creative workload.Key projects I delivered have been: several large format experiential brand activations and product exhibitions for Canon Australia such as at light festival Vivid Sydney and The Digital Show in Melbourne, the design of a Canons first ever event magazine, a complete POS design system for Canons in-store and online product segmentation, global employer brand creation for Avanade, strategy and design of the graduate recruitment engagement for Suncorp Bank, Coles Supermarket and Ubank as well as the rebrand of our very own graduate jobs platform Unigrad.

Sydney, Australia

The Unimail Group is a publishing and communications agency that specialises in employer communications. It is with our full service creative and our own online platform & jobsguide Unigrad, that we work closely with organisations and get engaged with recruitment candidates to get the best and creative solution for the business. As part of the creative team, I am responsible for strategy and design of various projects large, small or complete roll-out of campaign solutions to stand out on events, in-store, for print, in public media or online. We work globally for clients in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. So that means in multiple languages too.

Paris Area, France

Working field: Graphic design, creative direction, brand development, editorial consultance, visual communication strategies.As a freelancer in Paris, I worked as a generalist; building my experience on a horizontal level, as at the same time my independant position forced me to be as critical as a specialist (vertically developed) within these segments. Clients included mostly (but were not limited by) the public and cultural segment.

Paris, France

Teammember of the crew behind 'Jules Verne Aventures' Film Festival Paris - Los Angeles. A film festival that pays attention to documentary film and adventure-films, who explore the world. And by that preserve the earth and its treasures. As a graphic designer i supported the realisation of identity, publication of the association and the next festival.

Paris, France

I supported the realisation of the first issue of L'Edito Magazine: a free bimonthly fashion-magazine in Paris. A magazine that reaches for people outside the fashionworld.

The Hague, Netherlands

From an internship of three months changed to a seven month period of time, I worked on a great book project, identity design projects (new and existing), a magazine-redesign and photographic style guide for corporate brands like ING and Rijkswaterstaat. .Clients include: ING, Dutch government departments, like Rijkswaterstaat, several cultural organizations and international trade firms.

Bachelor, Design

The Academie of Art, Media and Design in Rotterdam was a conceptual yet well profesionbased design-education to me, where I found my way.

Design In Communication

During my exchange at the Design University in Denmark, I worked on several creative projects. And interesting social projects that.

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