Name: Chris Versteeg

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Job: Graphic designer and part time illustrator/painter

Url: http://www.cversteeg.nl

About: Studied graphic design at both the Grafisch Lyceum and the Willem de Kooning Academie, did internship at ARA/BDDP, Design Republic and Works and knew from the beginning that this is the kind of work I want to do until my eyes get to old to see the difference between a light serif and a black caps. I’ve almost always worked alone, but in the future I wouldn’t mind getting a studio started with some like-minded people.

Get Inspired by: I’ve always been insired by the style of the 1920′s, ’30′s and early ’40′s. Everything was still done manually and therefore designers had to really think before they went into the process of printing or reproducing. Also people then felt that the world was changing in so many ways, that it gave them some sort of freedom to experimentate in both design as well as with art in general. Other main inspiration comes from travelling, I can spend hours in foreign supermarkets just looking at the package designs etc. Next to that, I couldn’t do without my dose of Lastplak. Some days I’m in a suit doing a presentation one moment, and a few hours later, I’m somewhere on a rooftop in the city, wearing old clothes and painting like horse!

Oke, back to work!