My Print & Play students are very talented.

My Print & Play students are very talented.

In the performing arts, the work is described in a form that is different from how it is performed. The score for a piece of music, the script for a play, these function like a recipe for how the performance can executed.

What might the score for a visual work look like? In a way that leaves room for variation in its performance? That question became the starting point for the print series Sporadic. The score consists of a notation of position and rotation for a number of visual modules. By varying the selection of which module is place where, different versions are created. Each time, the score is performed using different instruments.

Both the score and a couple of different performances of it are on show at the Volume #8 zines exhibition in Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.

Due to unforseen extra busy-ness last December and January I just about managed to create my Koppermaandag print for this year. At least in the week that it should have been shared. First Monday after the Christian feast day of Epiphany is the date for this printers’ new year tradition. I finished mine the Friday after so that I could at least hand out a few at the new years drinks in the printmaking studio.

Of course, Ton was on time, on Monday January 12, finding a playful connection between Personal Knowledge Management and his own (Personal) KopperMaandag print.

As for mine, it was an exercise in layering multiple layers of inks of the oil based type, which I do have less experience with compared to the water based ones. It re-uses a small bird motif I designed for another project. Since it was an experiment printing wise, I of course couldn’t help myself and printed all kinds of variations just to see what happens.

The Dutch text is an inversion of our version of lights, camera, action. A literal translation would be spot off, lights on.

Yes, the other way around. Because ‘spot’ also means mockery.

Over the course of 2025 I reserved 10% of the proceeds from two specific prints to be donated to a charity. The idea: not only make good work, make the work do good as well.

• The Small things, 1 print resulted in a €105,- donation to the Radboud Oncologie Fund
• The Common Kestrel print made possible a €195,- donation to Sovon.

2025 was the year of the Kestrel in The Netherlands. This year there’s extra attention for the Little Owl. Well, I already made that print in 2019. One last print from that edition is still available. If that sells this year then another donation to Sovon will be made. Who grabs it?

The same arrangement stays in place for the Small things, 1 print. As long as supplies last.

Thank you very much!

Kickstart your own creative practice with some experimental printmaking: join the Print & Play sessions at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.

My Print & Play students are very talented.

Want to make some experiments of your own? Join the Print & Play sessions at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.

Around four weeks ago we started the crowdfunding campaign for The Hilversum Method, our second book about LEGO® letterpress. It’s been truly heartwarming to read the comments by the crowdfunding supporters. Thank you thank you!

I also print with LEGO bricks, here in the USA. I have always loved your work and you continue to inspire me with your beautiful prints!

Great artists and fabtastic project!

We printed with Roy & Martijn in 2024: they are creative, talented, and generous printers; you will not go wrong supporting their campaign.

We’re almost 80% of the way there. If you’ve been considering to support the project but haven’t yet: we’ve added two special edition prints to the campaign.

Peace by piece

This motif was part of the design process for the Collared Dove. I felt it deserved to be developed into a standalone print. Voila. It is available as part of the crowdfunding campaign for The Hilversum Method.

QUNZ Elementa poster by Martijn

En nog een prent, speciaal gemaakt voor de crowdfunding campagne is deze typografische poster gemaakt door kunstbroeder Martijn van der Blom. Hij ontwikkelde de afgelopen jaren de QUNZ letter-familie. Op deze handgedrukte poster de onderkast letters van de QUNZ Elementa.

See you this Saturday?

Curious to learn more about The Hilversum Method? Come by this Saturday at our Open Lab.

Martijn and Roy are working on their second book on printing with LEGO®. This time, in The Hilversum Methode they will explain how they do it :-)

During this Open Lab on Saturday November 29 you get a peek behind the scenes of the production process of this special new publication

Dinosaurs are a recurring theme we use in our research of this technique. They appeal to the imagination with their extreme shapes. Long tails, massive heads, protrusions in weird places… Lots of design fun to be had there. So that’s what we’ll be focusing on during this open lab. Come and see!

And if you want, you can print a dino card yourself.

Presentation on The Hilversum Method

At 15:00 we will give a presentation with more background on this unique way of designing and printing.

Meet the artists in their natural habitat! You are allowed to feed them!

Free entry at the Noorderweg 96b, from 11am to 4pm on Saturday November 29.

Last Friday I attended the opening of this printmaking exhibition in Wrexham, Wales. On show is a diverse yet consistently high quality selection of works from printmaking studios from all over the United Kingdom, accompanied by Printing in Dutch, a selection of works created in The Netherlands.

Many thanks to Printing in Dutch curator Ed Catley for this opportunity.

Printing in Dutch is now on show at:

Print International
08.11.2025 - 24.01.2026
Ty Pawb, Wales