Conceptual illustration & more serious fun

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Conceptual illustration, with graphic simplicity and a stroke of wit. Unlimited scope: from serious business to serious fun, encompassing everything from children’s projects to corporate commissions. My techniques range from traditional drawing to totally digital, and nearly everything in between. Whenever time allows I create my own Ron Art: drawings, paintings and 3D objects.

Illustration

Various illustrations for editorial and corporate assignments: magazines, newspapers, books, annual reports, websites, brochures, posters, animation or any other imaginable illustration project.

Various illustrations for editorial and corporate assignments: magazines, newspapers, books, annual reports, websites, brochures, posters, animation or any other imaginable illustration project.
Illustration

Welcome!
My Hire An Illustrator (GB) promo card illustration 'SAW' was selected as a 'winner' in the self promotion category by both Applied Arts Magazine (Canada)
and Creative Quarterly 31 (USA)
Both magazines will be out this month!

Now available as Limited Edition Art Print.
'the Value of Sustainability'.
Editorial llustrations 'Modern Mobility'.

Client: Elsevier Weekly.

Detail: left

Detail: right

The right transport for the occasion...
'To drill or not to drill?'

llustration for an article about the advantages for private land owners

to allow small scale oil / gas drilling on their land.

Client: FD (Dutch Financial Daily)
'Bright'.

Self promotional piece, sent as a digital New Year's wish.
Based on an acrylic painting that I did earlier.

Selected as 'Winner' for Creative Quarterly, Summer 2013 issue.

Now available as limited edition, hand signed print in several sizes.
'The Political Toolkit'
Editorial illustration to accompany an article on the strategy and tactics lobbyists from the metal industry use to get their policy passed through the US house.

Client: Forward Magazine (USA) Nov/Dec issue. Art Direction: Nicole Dudka

Click here to read the article.

The illustration on the spread
'Snow White in the City'.
Editorial Illustration to accompany an article about cocaine use and misuse by investment bankers in the City of London.

Client:
106 magazine, a Cass Business School publication / London.

Selected for the 'Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2012'.
'Elections'
Editorial illustration for an article about voting in the non western world.
Above:
Digital remake of an analog illustration that I did earlier as one of my weekly cartoons in FD, Dutch Financial Daily.

Detail

Detail
'Cursing doesn't hurt'...

Editorial illustration for LAD, a Dutch Magazine for doctors.
Three illustrations for the annual report for Egeria. (spread 42 x 21 cm).
Egeria is a fully independent Dutch private equity firm, targeting controlling stakes in mid-market companies in The Netherlands or in companies having a Dutch link.

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Boemer Rental Services Group: a Pan-European group of 14 leading furniture and floor covering rental companies for the European trade fairs, exhibitions and conferences market.

Royal Mosa, Dutch manufacturer of ceramic tiles. The factories produce 6 million square meters of tiles for the international market. Royal Mosa is market leader in the Netherlands.

Sif supplies steel structures to the international offshore oil and gas industry, the offshore wind industry as well as the processing and civil industries.

Illustration detail : Boemer Rental Services Group.

Illustration detail: Royal Mosa.

Illustration detail: SIF.

Your illustrator (on the right) on location at the SIF plant.

The annual report.
Editorial Illustrations for BoekBlad (Dutch book trade magazine).

Above:
Cover Illustration: 'Book publishers need to find new marketing ways to get attention for their new books'

As opposed to US sales, and much as a surprise, e-readers in the Netherlands are mostly bought by 55+ female buyers.

Books are no longer needed, all trade literature is on line available.

Contemporary family situation on a Saturday night.

Digitalisation: ' Pressure on traditional educational publishers'.
'Networks in Transport, Banking and Healthcare'.
Three editorial illustrations for a series of articles on the benefits of networks in business.

Client: Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch Financial Daily) / Outlook Magazine.

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'Transit to tomorrow'.

'The banking scenery falling apart'.

'Binding in healthcare'.
'American Elections'.
Keyframes for an animation (pitch) project.

Client: Kompost / Switzerland
Editorial Illustration to accompany an article about spin-offs in the oil industry.

Client:
106 magazine, a Cass Business School publication / London.
6 Poster designs for HU (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands) for 6 studies in building and building management.

'Spatial and city planning'.

'Geodesy'.

'Ecology'.

'Civil engineering management'.

'Building engineering'.
'Brokering between cash and kilowatt-hours'.
Editorial illustration to accompany an article on matching knowledge and finance to explore alternative and solar energy.

Client: independent Medien-Design for Living Energy Magazine / Siemens AG / Germany
'SCAN Explorer / Global Search Solutions':
a company matching multinational companies and international operating advertising agencies through the internet.

Illustrations, keyframes and design for introduction video/animation..

Client: SCAN Explorer Global Search Solutions / Amsterdam
Animation: Sander van Dijk. Production: Merx - Amsterdam
'The world in 2012'.
Editorial political illustrations for a series of articles.

Client: Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch financial Daily).

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Disappointed in Western politics Eastern European countries look to Russia again...

The political games of Pakistan, The U.S.A. 'helping' Pakistan against Al Qaida...

Bye, bye, Berlusconi.

Israel: the present and the future...
'Mortgage'.
As part of a cooperation between Open Cartoon Society 'ToonPool' and the Berlin Metro this illustration was broadcasted in June 2009 on 4000 video screens in Berlin's subway trains.
'Sustainable paint developments'.
Editorial illustration for Dutch painters trade magazine.

Client: Sigma Coatings publication.
'The (in)convenience of the Euro'.
Series of editorial illustrations to accompany articles by local correspondents about how several EU countries look back to 10 years living with the Euro.

Client: Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch Financial Daily)

Spain: Suddenly something went wrong...

France: slowly getting used to the new currency.

Germany: still confidence in the Euro...

Italy: problems? Campari experiences a fast growing market.

Great Britain: cultivating the Pound Sterling.
'Save havens are becoming scarce'.
Editorial Illustration to accompany an article 'Investing Advise' for PurSang Magazine.

Client: Barnyard Publishers for van Lanschot Bankers.

The illustration on the page.
'The Standby Demon'.
Editorial illustration (in company colors) for an article on better 'stand-by' management in order to save money.

Client: Bladen & Co, magazine makers, for E.ON, Dutch energy suppliers.
Above:
Digital remake of an analog illustration that I did earlier as one of my weekly cartoons in FD, Dutch Financial Daily.

Below:
'This side up'. Digital remake of one of my 'Big Drawings'.

Both will soon be available as ciglee prints in several sizes.
More to come soon! Interested? please let me know!
Editorial Illustrations for a series of articles in the employees magazine
of van Lanschot Bankers, the Netherlands.

Client: Bladen & co, magazine makers, for van Lanschot Bankers.

Above:
'Continuity'.

'Recruitment'.

'Executive search'.

'No competition'.

'Emergency plan'.
Re-entering the workfloor, but where to start? Editorial illustration.

Client: UWV, Dutch organisation for work and (un)emploiment.
Two designs for the annual international 'Bodegas Terras Gauda Poster Competition' (Spain).

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My 2007 design was selected from ± 1700 entries and honored as 'Finalist' :D

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My 2011 design was not recognized at all ;(
'Knowledge, research and development'.
Three editorial illustrations to accompany an article about stimulating collaboration between university and the business world.

Client: Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch Financial Daily).
'Investing and Spending'.

4 editorial illustrations on the subject: money, and how (not) to spend it.

Client: Elsevier Magazine.

Debts and spending habits.

Early learning...

Different kinds of investors.
'Future City'.
As a result of the cooperation between Open Cartoon Society 'ToonPool' and the Berlin Metro this drawing was broadcasted in July 2009 on 4000 video screens in Berlin's subway trains.
'Outsourcing'. Editorial Illustrations.

Outsourcing, a new way of life? Or a passing phenomenon due to distance, cultural differences and raising wages in outsource countries such as China and India.

Client: Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch Financial Daily) / Outlook Magazine.

Even education is no longer limited by borders.
'Small investors'. Editorial illustration.

Client: Het Financieele Dagblad. (Dutch Financial Daily).
'The glass is Half Full'.

Editorial Illustration to accompany an article 'investing advise'.

Client: Barnyard Publishers for PurSang Magazine / van Lanschot Bankers.

The illustration on the page.
"The innovative road".

Illustrations for a brochure 'The highway of the future'. A survey on ideas for the construction of a new highway in the Netherlands.

Client: Provence of North Brabant, the Netherlands

Craddle to craddle.

The digital highway.
'The library as ideal meeting place'; the place for knowledge exchange.
Editorial illustration

Client: Dutch Library magazine.
'The Bland Canvas'.

Illustration to accompany an article about Arabic art, apparantly not influenced by recent revolution and political developments.

Client: 106 magazine, a Cass Business School publication / London.
'The New York kitchen'.
Small spot illustration, in my painterly style, for an article on the subject of New York as 'restaurant city'.

Client: Albert Heijn Supermarkets