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

We’re making our second book on printmaking with LEGO® pieces.

The first one is Print & Play. The Art of LEGO Letterpress, which showcases works that Martijn and I have made over the years.

Since then, we regularly get questions about how we do this. That’s where The Hilversum Method comes in. We’re going to explain the technical how, ponder the philosophical why and share the joy that is embedded in this way of designing, building and printing.

Please, have a look, and support this project if you can. Thank you!

Letterpress with wood type is the main ingredient for the second session of my Print & Play workshop. Using the relatively large letters as shapes. Monoprints from the first session provide interesting starting points for adding more layers.

Want to try as well? Join the Print & Play sessions at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.

Currently working on this poster. Have to print this in two runs because not enough letters ‘c’ and ,‘t’ to spell these four words all in one go.

That means the technical challenge here is to build a forme that allows for moving the type around within it, exactly so that the words end up in the right place.

After some measurements before printing and corrections of those measurements after printing tests, I got the text into a nice position on the paper.

There’s bit more kerning to do before starting production. Not much I can do about that LA combination, but IN, NNE and NE need a bit more air between them I think. And replace that grainy O.

There’s a TA combination in there as well which normally creates more than enough white space inbetween them. I was already using a letter T which had a part sawed off when I thought ‘wait a minute, that’s probably because of…’ and indeed, there was an A that had a notch sawed off exactly so that the TA combination could be made more compact:

This Sunday is the last day of my exhibition elementair in ontwerpfabriekje in Hilversum. I’ll be there from 2pm to 5pm. If you’ve been thinking to go and have a look then this would be the moment. You’re very welcome!