ABOUT
Bloknote = Marieke Blokland Behind the name Bloknote goes Marieke Blokland, a 28 year old artist, graphic designer and illustrator. She graduated in 2003 at the Art Academy St. Joost in Breda, the Netherlands at the graphic design department. Marieke obtained her Bachelor Degree in Design (Bdes) with a graduation project "The Gift", about gift giving.
Allthough her education was mainly focussed on the applied arts, Marieke discovered many new possibilities and freedom in fine arts.
Nowadays she works as an artist, designer, illustrator and... professional crafter!
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In Marieke's fine artwork one can still see her love for graphic design because of the usage of - handcut - stencils, rubberstamps and elements of type and symbols.
Themes she often uses are: hiding*, shelter, protection, concealing, theatrical sceneries, fragments, waste, desert, rage, rest(less), silence, calmness, searching, standing still, passing, going away, staying.
At this moment she is particularly
busy with the theme "Graphical environments or hiding places", searching for the ultimate graphical reproduction of her perfect shelter. ◄
Being a graduated graphic designer, Marieke has mastered the all the necessary creative software. For all your designs that require a somewhat more freestyle approach you can turn to Bloknote. Small housestyles, flyers, businesscards, logo's, etc. .
Please e-mail info [at] bloknote [dot] nl
for more information. ◄
Marieke has a quirky and cheerful drawing style. Next to illustrations for children, Marieke Blokland also creates illustrative designs for rubberstamps and decoupage papers for the crafts-market. ◄
my hobby, my profession
Crafts are Marieke's job! Three days a week she works at the marketing department at the head-office of the hobby and crafts chain-store Pipoos. She editted their anual catalogue Hobby Handboek 2007 and 2008, composed multiple brochures and nowadays she's editor for their hobby and crafts magazine Booordevol! Besides testing and reviewing new craft-articles, she also writes for several dutch magaizne such as Hobby Handig.
With an entire series of rubber and clear stamps designs and the dutch how-to book "Doodles 100% van jou!" on her name, Marieke Blokland may call herself an expert in the crafters-world. In her spare time she loves scrapbooking, artjournaling and trading ATC's (Artist Trading Cards). ◄
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