Design Spotlight: Erwin Van Hesteren

Our Design Spotlight falls today on Dutch artist Erwin Van Hesteren, who joined GCU in May 2014. We like his style!

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My name is Erwin van Hesteren, graphic designer from the Netherlands. I design brandmarks, websites, posters etc for companies.

My wish was to design something for my own. My passion is making great, funny an adorable illustrtions. And when a friend asked me to design a birth announcement for his daughter I designed a new style by my own..

Since one year I started my own website in the Netherlands. At that site I sell several birthday announcement cards. What I missed in birtday announcement cards were fresh, funny illustrated cards, so I made a unique style in which I illustrated several characters. The customer can change all cards in color and fontstyle.

Next to my own site I design more greetingcards and birthday invitations at a big Dutch website (kaartje2go) similar with GCU.

For now I designed 3 cards at GCU. This card is one of them

The owl was the first character I designed for my collection. In the illustration I use many patterns and textures combined with graphic elements. It seems a bit that I use a 3D program for that, but It’s a 2D image.