bas brinkman

the wonder years

When he was five, he planned saloon-type doors between the pine trees in de back of his yard. When he was eleven his teacher commented on his essay for being too wildly imaginative. At eighteen his teachers urged him to study neuroscience. At eighteen and a half he studied dramaturgy.

combining creativity and dramaturgy

When he finished his study, he co-started an animation production company. Then he became one of the first experience-marketing-designers in the Netherlands. Then a creative and copywriter for a television production company. Yet somehow he always remained a dramaturg. And a planner of saloon doors.

introducing 'the make-up' artist

And now? Now he lives on the Caribbean Coast of Mexico where he works for clients all over the world. When you ask him what it is he does he tells this story:

I don't know how to describe what I do. I am a copywriter, yes. A concept-designer. Sometimes an art-director. I used to tell people I was a make-up-artist on the account that I make things up for a living. But here is how I think it works: my clients like my mind, the way I think, the solutions I come up with. And if you like the mind, there is no real boundary in the sort of projects I do. It is very diverse: I co-write a children's television program, draft out a city marketing campaign and write cartoons. To me it is all the same. And my clients agree.

book'em!

Bas is praised for his all-round creativity and his versatile writing. And he can whip up a tasty illustration if you need one. Oh, and two things: the doors never got made and the school teacher was wrong, it is even wilder, you could even say 'untamed'.