Bound: 2023
Binding: case bound with a paper cover

Description:
Stichting Handboekbinden handed out signatures for the book 'boekbanden' (=bookcovers) . A book that honours Rens Top as he retired as head conservator of the Bookbinding collection at the Dutch Royal Library.
I bound the book with a dynamic, three dimensional cover. The cover opens and closes as you go through the book, functioning as a bookstandard when the book is halfway opened.

Bound: 2023
Book for AreYouBookEnough
Binding: case bound book with linnen cover

Description:
This is a 'book' I've made for the monthly AreYouBookEnough-challenge on Instagram. This is a bookart community hosted by Sarah Maker that makes a book every month inspired by a certain theme. This is my answer to the theme 'Expectations'.

When I studied architecture, I expected to be designing and making houses. Now I design and make books instead. This is the short version (two sentences) of what was a very long proces (ten years) of managing and adjusting expectations and dealing with all the feelings that went along with that.
In this design both my great passions finally come together.

Bound: 2020
Binding: Mountain Fold Spine with 3D printed covers

This is a very bulky/compact yearbook I designed for the upcoming year. Combining a variation of my mountain fold structure with 3D-printed bookcovers. The book contains 365 spreads and I will write/draw something every day for a year.

Bound: 2020
Book for AreYouBookEnough
Binding: bound with metal binding screws

Description:
This is a book I've made for the monthly AreYouBookEnough-challenge on Instagram. This is a bookart community hosted by Sarah Maker that makes a book every month inspired by a certain theme. This is my answer to the theme 'weathered'.

On the first of September I hung 31 white sheets of paper on my drying rack out in my garden. One for every day in September and one extra.
As the month went on I photographed them regularly, during all weather types.
More then ones, I had to go out during the early morning to gather all the sheets that had fallen down and were scattered around.
As expected the colour changed, due to the sun, and they curled and tore up.
To my surprise they became stiffer and stiffer. I expected that they would end up as a big pile of pulp, but the opposite was true. At the end of the month I could get rid of the pegs and they would just stay on the line in their curled up shape.

On the 30th of September, I 'bound' my weathered papers into a book that holds the weather data of September 2020. On each page I stamped the average temperature, the millimeters of rain and hours of sun of all the days in September. It represents the weather conditions these papers endured.

I have been prototyping this binding I call the Mountain Fold Spine. It is an adjustment to the case binding, with an extra hinge in the spine, so the spine can fold into the hollow space that emerges when you open the book. This video shows the first couple of models. None of them perfect, but it's a learning curve and I am now in the process on perfecting it.

Bound: 2020
Book for AreYouBookEnough
Binding: blizzard box

Description:
This is a 'book' I've made for the monthly AreYouBookEnough-challenge on Instagram. This is a bookart community hosted by Sarah Maker that makes a book every month inspired by a certain theme. This is my answer to the theme 'gather'.
I gathered these pebbles, during a family-trip through the USA.  They found their way into this folded structure. The structure is called the blizzard box, designed by Hedi Kyle as described in her always inspirational book; 'the art of the fold'. They are guided by the lyrics of a Dutch song by Bram Vermeulen called 'The Stone'. Describing how when you move a pebble, you for ever change the course of the water.

Bound: 2020
Book for AreYouBookEnough
Binding: case bound

Description:
This is a book I've made for the monthly AreYouBookEnough-challenge on Instagram. This is a bookart community hosted by Sarah Maker that makes a book every month inspired by a certain theme. This is my answer to the theme 'closed'. At first glance a very normal case bound book. A linnen spine, headbands, decorative paper on the cover. But taking a better look, you see it's a book that nobody will ever know the content of.

Bound: 2019
Binding: case bound book with linnen cover

Discription:
A one of a kind notebook with a lego-closure.

Bound: 2020
Client: Stijn van der Putte
Binding: Variation to the long stitch binding
Edition: 50 copies (12 English, 38 Dutch)

Description:
This poetry book was designed in close collaboration with the poet.
As a poet and a geologist, the poems contain many references to geological terms and themes, as well as to dreams or dream states.
The title is a geological term that is used to describe an area of land where the underlying rock is exposed to the earth's surface.
I thought this could be nicely portrayed by torn tracing paper. The torn lines represent the capricious shapes of the land and bedrock.
The transparency gives it a bit of a dreamy look.
As for the materials, everything works together to give the book an earthy feel. The linnen thread, the stone-surface paper, the torn edges of the flyleaf.

Bound: 2020
Binding: case bound book, covered in leather

Description:
A one of a kind note-/sketchbook filled with a cloudy, gray/green paper and covered with a silky soft, freckled leather. Finished off with subtle details like handmade silk headbands, coloured edges and a single embroidery stitch.

Bound: 2020
Own work for a miniature exhibition

Description:
I was asked to make something for a miniature exposition organized by Roswitha Witten and Christel Harms. They asked a selection of artists/makers to make a work, no bigger than a matchbox that could be send by mail.
I've made a tactile, intuitive work; two paper pebbles with a content. One light, one dark.

Due to Covid-19 the exhibition has only been shown online so far. A preview to the exhibition can be seen in the following video shot by Nikolai van Nunen:

Bound: 2020
Book for AreYouBookEnough
Binding: blizzard box

Description:
This is a book I've made for the monthly AreYouBookEnough-challenge on Instagram. This is a bookart community hosted by Sarah Maker that makes a book every month inspired by a certain theme. This is my answer to the theme 'heal'.
The most beautiful kind of healing (repairing) I know, comes from the Japanese art of kintsugi, in which broken ceramics are repaired with gold. I love the philosophy behind this; cracks (and imperfections) are not something to hide, but instead be displayed with pride because it's what makes you unique. It's a testament to life and it adds to ones beauty. I found a similar Japanese approach to repairing textiles called sashiko in which beautiful patterns are stitched on torn fabrics.
My entry is inspired by these two methods of mending, freely translating it to paper. I've glued 'broken' pieces of paper back together with golden glue and stitched and woven the holes with golden threads.
For the structure I used Hedi Kyle's blizzard book construction. I've torn and repaired the folded cover to match the theme of the book.

Bound: 2017
Binding: case bound book with linen cover in a clamshell box.

Description:
This book was inspired by an old book about an organisation of Finnish pulp factories; Finncell. The original book completely fell apart, but it still stood out because of its beautiful graphic design. Throughout this notebook I've reused some beautiful transparent papers with graphic patterns as well as some photographs of the pulp factories in the night for the endpapers.

Bound: 2019
Entry for bookbinding competition, organised by Marja Wilgenkamp and Andre Nuyens
Binding: German Binding covered in parchment.

Description:
The book tells a story about a girl who travels by ship pretending to be a man in the times of the VOC.
I've created a book that suggests that it was bound on the ropes of a ship. I've used characteristic deadeyes and ship knots on the cover. When you open the book, you will find the sails shining through de parchment cover. I play with perspective by making the title only visible from a certain angle.
The use of a parchment as the cover material refers to the fact that they used to reuse old parchment nautical chart as book covers.

Bound: 2020
Book for AreYouBookEnough
Binding: blizzard box

Description:
This is a book I've made for the monthly AreYouBookEnough-challenge on instagram. This is a bookart community hosted by Sarah Maker that makes a book every month inspired by a certain theme. This is my answer to the theme 'ticket'.
The beauty of tickets to me lies in the torn edges along the perforated lines. Those play a main role in this little book, where all the pages are torn on all sides.  
Strong magnets give the book a subtle closure.