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House portrait D&J
The custom house portrait D&J is an illustration that I made for the couple Djim and Jeroen. In 2022 they bought a lovely house with lots of unique details in Utrecht. The house itself was […]
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Freckles
FRECKLES is a series of 7 espresso cups made of speckled clay. The beauty of the clay itself was the main focus of this series. It reminds on freckles that also ties the group together […]
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Postcard Calendar 2023
The postcard calendar 2023 comes in a glassine envelope with 13 cards in size A6. The nature inspired illustrations show flowers and plants from around the globe like a gingko leaf, a hop flower or […]
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Anabella
Anabella is part of FLORAntastic storytelling, a series of products, inspired by plants and flowers and the personal connections and stories that people associate with them. ANABELLA is the first product in the design line […]
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My cup of tea
MY CUP OF TEA are four cosy illustrations of ceramic cups I own and use in my daily life at home. Illustrated with watercolour the cups represent a collection of unique characters that give me […]
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Up-Do
The multifunctional ceramic piece UP-DO is made with the intension to create an object that is able to be used in different ways. With the idea to reduce the amount of items that someone owns […]
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Spa – travel illustrations
SPA are travel illustrations from my short trip to the city Spa in Belgium. I spend a long weekend there with friends and in this way I collected things we did and saw. It includes […]
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Tulips & snowdrops
Spring is the time of renewal and on that note I created two new illustrations called TULIPS & SNOWDROPS. Two beautiful flowers that perfectly represent the new season and the belonging properties of fresh colours […]
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Chile – travel illustrations
CHILE is a collection of travel illustrations from my journey through the country Chile in February and March 2019. The first illustration shows the famous Magellanic penguin that I could see in his natural habitat […]
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Book Cover | Whose land is it?
The book WHOSE LAND IS IT? is a dissertation about feelings of territorial ownership in settler societies by the researcher Wybren Nooitgedagt. I had the honour to design the book cover for it. Inspired by […]
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Branding | Beauty like Maya
The business owner Nura was looking for a logo design and branding for her beauty salon BEAUTY LIKE MAYA. It had to reflect her main business values: woman empowerment, trust and community. I created a […]
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Wild things
WILD THINGS is a photographic series of floral finds I collected during my travels around the globe. It is connected to my fascination for flora and its personal meaning to each individual which I further […]
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Pine Cone
The illustration PINE CONE is made with watercolour and is available as postcards in two versions. A plain one with just the illustration itself and one Christmas version which includes the words “Merry Christmas”. Both […]
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Sant-a-card
SANT-A-CARDs are perfect postcards for Christmas and the winter season, but nature lovers will probably enjoy them all year around. As the name SANT-A-CARD refers to these Christmas cards are meant to be send or […]
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Wedding card J&L
The wedding card J&L consists of an invitation, a logo and a thank you card in form of a beer coaster. J&L stands for the couple Jasper and Linda who don’t just have a big […]
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Grapefruit
GRAPEFRUIT is a handmade bowl set from stoneware. The bowls have a white glaze as a base and are decorated with pastel colours. The blush and yellow tones, that melt together in some areas, give […]
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Brush stroke
The sugar pot BRUSH STROKE is a wheel thrown ceramic piece. While the lid and the body were made in one go, I cut the separation line after it dried. The finish is a white […]
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Frost
FROST is a stoneware planter with a cool character that highlights the frosty glaze on top of it. The light blue glaze is riddled with tiny cracks and appears frozen in time. The smooth body […]
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Canadian Woods
This planter and bowl are part of the series CANADIAN WOODS. They are wheel thrown ceramic products that were decorated with illustrations inspired by the forests of Canada. While travelling through Canada in autumn 2018 […]
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Fragile
FRAGILE is a porcelain candle holder made by hand. The technique I used on this piece is called hand building. While layering slices of flat porcelain in an existing mold I got this shape. In […]
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Match
The planter MATCH is a stoneware piece. When I brought it home I noticed that it perfectly fit into this cork coaster (made by IKEA), as if this match was meant to be. Not only […]
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Dimpled bowl
This small wheel thrown porcelain bowl called DIMPLED BOWL in crisp white is handmade on the potter’s wheel. It has two dimples, two fingers perfectly fit into them and in this way they offer a […]
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Four
This family of FOUR cups was made to practise my wheel-throwing skills in producing four cups with the same shape, size and colour. I like that you can tell how well they belong to each […]
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Blue edged bowl
This wheel thrown BLUE EDGED BOWL is made from the white gold: porcelain. It was my first attempt to work with porcelain on the potter’s wheel. I created a regular sized bowl decorated with a […]
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Sugar pot
This handmade SUGAR POT was the first attempt to make a wheel thrown object with a lid. The shape of the lid is smooth and ergonomic and reminds on a drop becoming one with water […]
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Travel Newsletter | Jolanda to Asia
For the travel newsletter | JOLANDA TO ASIA (original title: Jolanda naar Azië) from my Dutch friend Jolanda I made digital illustrations. Since she decided to move to China and live and work there, she […]
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Soap dish
The little SOAP DISH has a round shape and is made of porcelain. It is created while using the technique of hand building. I included a pattern in the clay to give the soap bar […]
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A shade of salmon
A SHADE OF SALMON is a series of four photographs. The centre piece is the ceramic teacup ANABELLA that is shown in different uses related to one of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and […]
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Hairbarium
HAIRBARIUM is a collection of illustrations to preserve the beauty of different hairstyles. The name is inspired by the biological term herbarium (plural: herbaria), meaning a collection of preserved plants and flowers. Unlike the common […]
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Branding | studio katipeifer
The branding for studio katipeifer was done by myself. It consists of the logo, the website and the business cards. The logo itself is inspired by my initials k and p, which grew into two natural […]
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Leids blauw | research
The disappeared textile industry of the Dutch city Leiden inspired me to go on a journey to explore the technique of dyeing with indigo and wool in the project LEIDS BLAUW. These were two main parts of […]
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FLORAntastic
FLORAntastic storytelling, a series of products, inspired by plants and flowers and the personal connections and stories that people associate with them. The book ‘FLORAntastic – Flowers and plants as storytellers in design’ is a collection […]
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Wedding invitation M&M
The wedding invitation M&M was designed in commission for a couple that was looking for an extraordinary wedding card design. The initial point for the design was the colour blue/ turquoise, which was the colour of […]
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PLANT MobiEl
PLANT MobiEl is a baby mobile made from recycled materials. The mobile can be sent as a postcard. The recipient presses the parts out of the card to make the mobile. When the PLANT MobiEl […]
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Ich vermisse…
For the project ICH VERMISSE… I designed a photographic diary. I went into my past and my present and tried to discover and reveal my feeling of missing through that. In the book I used old […]
