I became a freelance illustrator just after graduating from my Bachelor’s (BA (Hons) Graphic Arts) in 2013, but I was plagued by nonpayers. I’m back practising the profession now I’ve come to Amsterdam. I’ve been vegan since 2016 and as such I don’t use any animal products in my illustrations (so no paints with yolk in, for example).
I’m available for illustrations, graphic design including typesetting, calligraphy, and small-scale photography (so illustrative photography but not event photography). Send an email to illo at madbob dot nl for a quote!
Illustration
Humane washing

Cycling tips
Mental gymnastics

Ageing in women
Graphic design
Mad Bob
Access Tech Tips (a long time ago!)
Photography/photo editing
Bookbinding
200 Puns
French-folded 90gsm, PVA on scrim, paperback: calligraphed wordplay, distilled from a selection of 632.





Outside In
French-folded 70gsm, PVA on scrim, hardback bound in bookcloth with a soft spine: my dissertation.





The Waste Land
A 2m-long scroll of 200gsm paper, screenprinted: an edition of the T S Eliot poem, set with typefaces from its time and illustrations aping the style of Pamela Colman Smith.






Dolphin Boy
Zine made from a folded A4 sheet of 110gsm paper: A short comic about a dolphin-boy hybrid.





Building websites
I’ve made the following websites with WordPress, along with all their illustrations, calligraphy, and design:
- This one you’re looking at.
- This one for the vegan language café, which I organise: vegantaalcafe.nl
- This one for Horeca United (apart from the “fresh union in town” sticker): horeca-united.nl