DESIGN PRACTISE. Who is Erik Kessels?

Erik Kessels (1966) is a founding partner and Creative Director of KesselsKramer, an independent international communications agency located in Amsterdam. Kessels works and has worked for national and international clients such as Nike, Diesel, J&B Whisky, Oxfam, Ben, Vitra and The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel. He has won numerous international awards.


http://iloveoffset.com/stage/kesselskramer/

I found quite a lot of links to different pages that somehow connect to Erik Kessels. One was really starneg. i don't really get it. It's really kitschy.

http://www.kesselskramer.com/ <---- every time you press it, different things appear that don't make sense at all.

http://www.kesselskramerpublishing.com/ <--- this has quite a lot of designs.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/november/24-hours-in-photos <--- an article in creative review.

Founded by Eric Kessels and Johan Kramer in 1996, this is one of the most creative agencies in Amsterdam – and Europe, for that matter. The agency, based in a church, is famous for not liking advertising awards, showing irrelevant information on its website and for its many very creative, non-commercial side projects. Given the broad interest of its founders, it is no surprise that Johan Kramer left the agency in 2005 to become fulltime film director. And though Kessels is still working full time for the agency, his photography related projects draw a lot of media attention. KesselsKramer’s best work was for Hans Brinker – it very effectively promoted the budget hotel as the greatest shit hole in Amsterdam. Other work was published in 2005 in a book called 2 Kilo of KesselsKramer.


A talk from Erik Kessels:

Some of his work: