Jasperstaal

My love for drawing on paper with markers, pencils and pens expanded into a newfound passion for digital illustrations. I can combine my graphic knowledge with my love for illustration to make all kinds of cool stuff :)

I've always been a big fan of both Hiphop and NBA basketball, and those things inspired me to do a series of digital illustrations.

I've always had a fascination for diagonal lines and graffiti influences, especially the way fills are done in lettering, and i've tried to implement that in my style.

Its worth admitting that the original inspiration for the NBA players came from my admiration of japanese designer Tadaomi Shibuya, who is the first person i saw making work that felt as if it was having a lot of parralels to my own work. In some sense this is as much a tribute to his work as it is a challnge for me to see if i can take elements of my own and elevate the technique in my personal way.

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February 2013 Filed under Posters

I was born in 1986, and my first memories originate from the beginning of the nineties. Being thrown in a world full of inventions that would see the light of day such as the internet, mobile phones and numerous memorable video game consoles, alongside with movies and musical genres that forever defined my youth, i experienced the nineties very vividly. To this day i am still living in the nineties a little bit, and i'm easily overwhelmed by nostalgia when i reminisce about all the things that made my youth in the nineties as awesome as i think it was. As a designer, my goal was to communicate my love for the nineties in a way they would be able to grasp. I took nine categories such as movies, games, comics, toys, culture, etcetera, and used a difference in height and size along with a color code to make a three dimenisonal inphographic about my love for the nineties.

I used PVC, print on cardboard, spraypaint and MDF wood to try and visualise what my experience with the nineties was like. I complemented the print on top of the PVC with an "authors note" about that specific subject. Since not everyone will recognise every single thing (and may be from a whole other generation) i felt it was necessary to provide those viewers who were drawn in to a specific subject with a deeper layer of information, regardless their age.

This is my way to visualise a love that is as nostalgic as it is materialistic, and as commercial as it is beautiful. Nostalgia has got me in a headlock.

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June 2012 Filed under Graduation project

Artwork i did for recording artist Supastition's "Blackboard EP", released january the 15th 2013. For more info on the album, go visit supastition.com or www.facebook.com/Supastition.

January 2013 Filed under Album artwork

These are some typographical assignments from school (2009/2010) which i am very pleased with. I'm a lasso tool junkie, and use kind of weird ways to get to my goals sometimes, which can generate quite cool results.

The 2 nameless fonts in here were made in 2008 (except Halal, which i made in one hour in 2012) and i've been dying to make some more fonts, and learning illustrator better and better is bringing this goal closer and closer. I'd love to make a whole collection of hand crafted fonts eventually. Also a thing for in my agenda! The HALAL font is the first one, i am currently trying to make lots and lots of digital font sketches.

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April 2009 Filed under Type design

These are some illustrations i made. Some of em' i made for money, other ones i made for free. I mostly work with black markers on white paper, and occasionally Posca acrylic pens. My next step is to digitalise my illustrations, which i tried with the green guy at the end of the slideshow. A lot of these illustrations are part of my project "10 euro illustrations" which i came up with after my Xbox360 broke and i needed money to buy a new one. Sometimes the best things happen by the weirdest reasons!

Filed under Markers & ink

These Logo's (and logo sketches) are made for varying clients, ranging from hiphop artist Supastition to a shop that sells custom made dog collars (Arte Perro). More to come very soon!

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Fyers!
The flyest!

January 2008 Filed under Various fly flyers

Jaspers(beeld) Taal (which in Dutch translates to "Jaspers (visual) Language", a playful take on my last name), is a 128 page book in which i made daily visual reactions to newspaper articles and everyday madness.

Everyday i read the newspaper looking for articles that are akward, or ones that provoked me to make a visual reaction. The reactions range from deep and meaningful to humorous and banal. Everyday presented a different challenge.

During the 2,5 months i engaged in this project, my ability to develop concepts has taken a leap. Reading this book from beginning to end is like taking a trip through my mind, which i trained to make better and smarter concepts in a small amount of time. This was one of my 2 graduation projects, along with "90 things i love about the nineties", and this project got my mental engines up and running at full speed and kept me busy on a daily basis.

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April 2012 Filed under graduation project