Annabel Keijzer is a painter, illustrator and graphic designer based in the center of Amsterdam (NL). After studying graphic design, she graduated from the University of the Arts Utrecht where she studied Illustration. Her work is characterized by a simple, playful design language. Color and humor jump off the page, screen or wall to transform graphic shapes into characters and make ink blobs cuddly. Annabel works for commissions in the worlds of art and communication. All drawings begin as fast pencil sketches that are brought to life digitally.
Annabel also initiates personal projects. The award- winning picture book My Letter Friends shows it is possible to tell a story without using text. Annabel combines her practice with commissioned work as book designer and doing other commissions as long as she can retain her characteristic use of color and her playfulness. Since its launch, My Letter Friends has started to conquer the world, one step at a time from Europe to the USA and Japan. Annabel is now working on the follow up.
Annabel Keijzer’s artworks are explorations of ideas, colors and associations in her mind. She uses these as a creative library for her designs, music and poems – and for collaborates with writers, performers and musicians.
Annabel is available for commissions in both the worlds of art and communication. So if you would like Annabel to create an illustration, book design or brand identity, please contact her via info [at] studioannabel.nl
Awards /nominations
• 3x3 mag - New York. 3x3 no16. professional show 2019 - SILVER • 3x3 mag - New York. 3x3 no16. professional show 2019 - BRONZE
• CA - communication arts illustration competition 2019 nominated
• Joseph Binder Award 2016 Winner Bronze
book illustration
• World Illustration Awards 2016 Shortlisted
• German Design Award 2018 Excellent Communications Design Nominated
Exhibitions / featured
• Designforum Museumsquartier Vienna, nov - 1 jan'17
• LA Artbook Fair - the Geffen Contemporary MOCA, february'17
• Designforum Vorarlberg Dornbin, march-April‘17
• WEI SRAUMforum - Innsbruck, april –may'17
Clear thinking produces playful design
Features and publications / bibliography
june 2019: WINNER WINNER WINNER!
The jury of 3x3 magazine New York awarded no less than two awards (silver and bronze) to the Ink Drop Bird poster. 3x3mag.com
SPOTS ON PAWS! The populair Dutch lifestyle and human interest magazine LINDA. has featured the Ink drop birds! - nov 2018
The ‘Spots on Paws’ poster has been nominated for the most prestigious competition for creativity in illustration, the Communication Arts Illustration Competition 2019. The Bird poster is selected by a nationally representative jury of distinguished designers, art directors and illustrators.
Exhibition at the designforum Vorarlberg in Dornbirn.
VIENNA - AUSTRIA - JOSEPH BINDER AWARD FOR BOOK ILLUSTRATION
The Joseph Binder Award is an international competition with a focus on graphic design and illustration and was first launched in 1996 by designaustria, the interest organization and knowledge centre for design in Austria. The Joseph Binder Award is an international competition with a focus on graphic design and illustration and was first launched in 1996 by designaustria, the interest organization and knowledge centre for design in Austria.
WINNER, WINNER, WINNER!!!!!
Interviewed by vormplatform (dutch only)
http://www.vormplatform.nl/lees-meer-mijn-letter-vrienden/
LONDON
My Letter Friends takes a small part during the exhibition: the shortlisted entries highlighted on the wall. The World Illustration Awards Exhibition presents highlights from the year’s shortlist of contemporary illustration, entered by emerging and established talent from around the globe to the annual competition.
KIDS READING MY LETTERFRIENDS (DUTCH)
FULL WINDOW at LeesLETTERS Dordrecht (Netherlands)
MY LETTER FRIENDS IN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKSHOPS
OF THE WORLD! Visit Boekhandel Dominicanen
Honored to receive this wonderful award and catalog publication! #JBA16
NOMINATION> So proud to announce that I have been nominated for the German Design Award 2018 in the categorie excellent Communications design.
“SOLD EVERY COPY WE HAD AT THE FAIR, PEOPLE LOVED IT” - Myles Haselhorst, Ampersand gallery at LA Art Book Fair
My Letter Friends will be featured at the LA Art Book Fair ( Los Angeles, CA) at the end of February. Visit Ampersand Gallery Booth Q05. The LA Art Book Fair is the companion fair to the NY Art Book Fair, held every fall in New York City. Over 39,000 artists, book buyers, collectors, dealers, curators, independent publishers, and other enthusiasts attended the NY Art Book Fair in 2016. Printed Matter
MY LETTERFRIENDS PROJECT IS SHORTLISTED BY THE JURY FOR THE WORLD ILLUSTRATION AWARDS 2016! Proud to be on this list: http://www.theaoi.com/awards/awards-shortlist.php?&page=3
VORMPLATFORM - SMALL INTERVIEW AND GIF ANIMATION -
SLANTED entry
https://www.slanted.de/
Gestalten - Blackboard entry
http://news.gestalten.com/node/37813
TO SEE OR BUY THE SCREENPRINTED LETTER FRIENDS you can visit VINNIES AT VINNIES DELI - AMSTERDAM (CENTER)
Good food nurtures and reminds you of home. Simple, pure and healthy. VINNIES is your living room-away-from-home. A place to enjoy good food and good company.
PUBLICATION Ouders Van Nu magazine
Mijn letter vrienden (dutch) is also available in the libraries
CARO - SCREENPRINT (A2)
MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) stocks copies of My Letter Friends in their store.
MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art. The museum is housed in three facilities: MOCA Grand Avenue, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and MOCA Pacific Design Center. The flagship MOCA store is in the courtyard of their Grand Avenue location.
The populair Dutch lifestyle and human interest magazine Linda has promoted the book.
MORE NEWS FROM Tokyo - JAPAN
EOS ART BOOKS SELLS MY LETTER FRIENDS
EOS ArtBooks is an independent bookstore located on the west side of Tokyo. Established in 1992, EOS specializes in books on modern and contemporary art, most of which are imported from western publishers. Because of its emphasis on research materials and scholarly volumes, university libraries and art museums are the store's primary customers.
EOS ARTBOOKS
UTRECHT - BOOKSTORE LOCATED IN JAPAN:
Probably very ambitious idea: to sell My Letter Friends in Japan...
I am proud that the book has arrived at this charming bookshop called 'Utrecht' in Tokyo. UTRECHT
MY LETTER FRIENDS ARE STILL TRAVELING
Just arrived in the USA: Proud that the book is featured at Ampersand Gallery Portland, Oregon. ampersandgallery
PROUD TO SEE MY BOOK IN COPYRIGHT BOOKSHOP ANTWERPEN.
25 years old Copyright Art & Architecture Bookshop is one of the best bookshops in Europe. For small self publishers like me it's almost unbelievable.
www.copyrightbookshop.be
UNIQUE SCREENPRINTS
TOGETHER WITH MIRTHE VAN DOORNIK AND AMSTERDAM GRAFISCH ATELIER WE MADE LIMITED EDITIONS SCREEN PRINTS.
handmade SCREENPRINTS A2 FAY & MORRIS
NICE REVIEW by THE Royal DUTCH LIBRARY