Gaming can help people who have trouble reading.

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This is SiepFor the people who live in my home town of Den Bosch probably know him already. From the posters, the pictures on the library walls and furniture in the children’s department. Making Siep was one of the best projects I have done. The Den Bosch library was looking for a brand mascot and Message […]

“Marijke, how did you come up with this?!”I don’t go for less. I admit it: I am a perfectionist. My client should be really happy and I draw endlessly until we are both 100% satisfied with the result. Most sketches end up in my thrash.When I’m asked to make a cartoon, I start with collecting […]

Working out a cartoon takes me a few hours of diligent work. But making up the cartoon, that is the hard part. When I’m stuck or in doubt, I look at the great cartoonist Dan Piraro. I graze through his website to get ideas (cartoons), to read (blog) or hear (interviews) how he solves dilemma’s […]

“We don’t know problems, we only know solutions”, I heard a manager say. To make it easy he skipped the ‘challenges’. But even this manager will have to bite the bullet sometimes. And then he and the organization need tot get to work. TralalaUneasiness in an organization. Confusion about who does what. Big differences in vision. […]