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Every year, we follow a number of alumni who have written blogs about their development from the moment they graduated. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges after graduation is finding a new rhythm – a new structure, a new balance. Once you are in a position where you have to do everything yourself, the first questions start to emerge.
They talk about what they are going through and how they are getting to grips with their new lives by trial and error. These blogs are about pitfalls, insecurity, having to earn money, inspiration and successes in their daily work practice.
2019 / 2020
Lot Louis Veelenturf
Creative Wrinting, Arnhem
You're not just doing it for yoursef - 7 november 2019
'This is real' - 11 januari 2020
Fingers crossed. Let's cash in. - 3 maart 2020
A place of comfort - 6 mei 2020
It’s time for something new - 3 juli 2020
2019 - Last summer I graduated from the Creative Writing program without doing the things I had planned to do. I didn’t write a book or publish a poetry collection. Instead, I founded an online platform for queer art and literature, named First Person. It’s a personal project, because I noticed that as a genderqueer author, there weren’t so many places I could publish my work without having to answer for myself, my identity and my pronouns. Photography Leroy Verbeet
Thomas van den Bliek
Product Design, Arnhem
Introduction - 23 oktober 2019
Loneliness- 2 januari 2020
Step by step - 20 februari 2020
Online/Offline - 6 mei 2020
Final blog - 9 juli
I’m a product designer with an interest in new technologies. My fascination for the transition from an analog to a digital world has led me to explore the byproducts that emerge with these new technologies and systems. I want to question the frictionless life that the digital era promotes and recover the human aspect through design propositions.
Reinier Postma
Cross Media Design AKI, Enschede
The things that we easily overlook in the hubbub of everyday life - 6 november 2019
How do I make ends meet? - 15 januari 2020
Make the best of things - 29 februari 2020
I will use the standstill this coming period - 29 april 2020
A long, winding path full of obstacles - 27 juni 2020
Last year I graduated from the AKI ArtEz in Enschede where I studied Crossmedia Design. My ongoing research concerns how we view and use private and public space. With temporary interventions I reveal the things that we easily overlook in the hubbub of everyday life and I invite others to contemplate them with me. These visual and performative interventions disrupt everyday situations, lead to fresh encounters and open people’s eyes.
Ellis Tolsma
Illustration Design, Zwolle
'Just start' - 30 oktober 2019
Don’t underestimate the support of the people around you! - 8 januari 2020
The first year after graduation consists of throwing lots of little rocks at windows - 7 maart 2020
Also doing your taxes can be useful- 23 april 2020
The actual time you’ll spend will vary from project to project - 25 juni 2020
My name is Ellis and I just graduated from ArtEZ in Zwolle as an illustration designer, with my ‘Wheel of Fortune’, a playful project about insanity and absurdity in a rational world.
Max Kelm
Conservatorium, Arnhem
Finding Harmony where it is most deeply concealed - 30 oktober 2019
From Silence to Chaos - 30 December 2019
Between Tacos and New Challenges - 8 maart 2020
Stagnation - 23 April 2020
Let’s talk about money - 21 juni 2020
I am Max Kelm and I graduated this year in Composition for Film & Theater at the conservatory in Arnhem. When you read that, you might think of Hans Zimmer scores with huge orchestras and big drums and epic melodic lines, but I am paving a completely different way. I am not a Hollywood-style composer! I aim to be innovative in what I do and I’m trying to create a completely different concept of live music presentation. Originally, I was born and raised in Germany (Essen) and came to the Netherlands in order to study. Now, 4 years later, I moved to Cologne to fulfil my visions and to earn a living with my music.