MISS FLIS

I’d like you to meet our new pet. He’s called Lux...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:32:04 +0200

I’d like you to meet our new pet. He’s called Lux and we are very happy to provide a home to him.

How do you like my balcony makeover?

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:55:53 +0200

Before

After

How do you like my balcony makeover?

One out of three. They will be finished tomorrow! And yes: the...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:14:03 +0100

One out of three. They will be finished tomorrow!

And yes: the fabric is my own design, you can buy it over at Spoonflower.

Doesn’t it look fabulous?

Over the last year I started baking my own bread. It is fun to...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:04:20 +0100

Over the last year I started baking my own bread. It is fun to do, good for your health and often more tasty and less expensive then bread you buy from a regular store.

Yesterday I made my first “epi”, and today I decided I needed to practice some more and made the second.

In time, I’ll dedicate a website or blog to my homemade bread. For now, it’s just this epi, that I am very proud of!

This made my morning.

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:58:52 +0100

This made my morning.

Photo

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:07:00 +0100

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Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:33:19 +0100

For those that do not speak binary or english I designed a...

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:58:56 +0100

For those that do not speak binary or english I designed a different card.

Photo

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:20:50 +0100

Plush toy I made as a gift to my friends baby son.

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:49:49 +0100

Plush toy I made as a gift to my friends baby son.

There is a lot going on (or should I say wrong) in the...

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:49:55 +0100

There is a lot going on (or should I say wrong) in the Netherlands nowadays. I have been a bit quiet lately, thinking a lot about what I can do to help make things right again. I am still working on that. Today, in the whole of the Netherlands, there will be a “yell for culture” (“schreeuw om cultuur”). That translation probably sucks, but let me tell you about what it means.

In the Netherlands, as in any human community, culture plays an important role. You cannot think of a community without culture. Whether you think of it as a good or a bad thing, humans always bring their culture to a community. The new government has decided that the VAT on “culture” (let’s not go into the different defenitions right now) will rise from 6% to 19% starting January the 1st 2010. Apart from that fact, which will hurt everybody who produces art, wants to buy or see art (from paintings to theatre and all things in between), the government has also decided that a lot of important cultural institutes in the Netherlands will lose their financial support.

You can like this or not. It is not surprising the cultural sector itself dislikes this action. Yet it is not (only) about the money. The problem is much bigger. If you ask me personally, it is not entirely a bad thing to rethink the financial support for instance. But, if you do so, you can’t at the same time expect people to be more reliant on “the market”, ánd raise the VAT by 13%, with 5 weeks notice. This is just plain rediculous. Apart from this fact, the government is sending the message that there is something wrong with culture, while in fact there is probably something wrong with the government and even the whole world.

So this is, summarized, why the Netherlands will be yelling for culture today. I am not sure if I will join yet. Even though these measures will affect me personally, there are things that hurt me much more, and I don’t know why people aren’t yelling for those. The same government is ruining society by dividing classes. I sometimes wonder if we will sort of relive the ’80s. There is racism, which is nowadays stated as a positive thing. There is the degeneration of the healthcare system. There are huge corporations taking adventage of the average men, and they do get financial support from the government. Educations is getting more (too) expensive, while quality is deteriorating fast. As long as we aren’t, I am not, yelling against these things, I am ashamed to “yell for culture”. This used to be a country where all was well, most certainly in retrospective. Healthcare, education, a basic living: all was provided for all, while at the same time there was freedom for all. I don’t want to go back to that time, I think we could do even better.

Art and culture are a necessity in order to get people to think, and take action. So maybe it IS appropiate to yell for culture first? I am not sure yet, what are your thoughts?

The “I am not here to make friends” T-shirt is...

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:48:14 +0200

The “I am not here to make friends” T-shirt is available in the shop now!

Remember this? Don’t worry, I still have ten fingers, and...

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:16:53 +0200

Remember this? Don’t worry, I still have ten fingers, and I did not spoil everything by cutting across when nearly finished.

Cheers!

My new business cards arrived today! They are in dutch and I...

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:38:14 +0200

My new business cards arrived today! They are in dutch and I will be using them next to the universal business card I have been using for 3 years now, to clarify to people what kind of business it is I do exactly.

I am not here to make friends. Design for a T-shirt print,...

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:23:08 +0200

I am not here to make friends. Design for a T-shirt print, available soon at http://flis.nl.

Promotional card I designed for my own company.

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:33:04 +0200

Promotional card I designed for my own company.

Business card for a photographer. The details side is custom...

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:00:58 +0200

Business card for a photographer. The details side is custom designed. The other side is a mini portfolio, containing a selection of 10 photographs, to use as “show and tell”.

This is the business card I designed for a client. He needed a...

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:52:00 +0200

This is the business card I designed for a client. He needed a business card that symbolically took the netherlands to China, and had something representing himself incorporated as well.

The new design for the FLIS art & design website has been...

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:27:03 +0200

The new design for the FLIS art & design website has been launched.

I have redesigned the whole site in order to make it more easy to navigate, rewritten the code, and added the page “Textile Design”

You can visit the page here: http://flis.nl. I’d like to know: what do you think of it?

I am currently rebuilding and designing my website. The current...

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:43:39 +0200

I am currently rebuilding and designing my website. The current one (http://flis.nl) is a bit messy, and since I happen to have some time at hand I thought it would be a good project to redesign my site.
Not sure yet if I am going to spend even more time attaching a CMS behind.

Today I did a lot of work, the new site can be launched next week or even sooner!

What do you think?