NRC Handelsblad 30 Nov 2013. Man of the Week, Ronald Plasterk

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek/

To day or not to day #88: Assad is stronger now he is the only one in Syria whom the world can do business with - He gave up half the country to the opposition, but Assad's pragmatism is a relief. His cooperative attitude comes while the West in utter confusion over Syria.

Source: Het Financieele Dagblad, Saturday 30 November 2013. Essay by Leo Quarters, Arabist and consultant for companies operating in the Middle East.

Illustration for an article on stalking.

Source: Het Parool

The winner of the Gordon Look alike Contest! (Gordon is a Dutch celebrity)

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek

Illustration about falling in love. Published in the Amarama, a free newspaper made by and for Ama's (Single Underage Asylum Seekers)

Source: http://beyondborders.nu/

To day or not to day #87: Thanksgiving 2013... And this year's amnesty goes to Popcorn!

Source: Max Kisman for Tcho - New American Chocolate - San Francisco USA

Vrij Nederland 30 Nov 2013 Dutch author WF Hermans always good for a brawl. Even posthumously.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek

Not in my backyard. The drowned of Lampedusa, victims of Europe's leaky migration policy.

Source: http://www.mo.be/artikel/vers-van-de-pers-het-decembernummer-van-mo

Serie of illustrations about some tips to properly calculate retirement

Source: http://www.levif.be/info/

for Movember Gdynia, Poland

Source: www.podkoscielny.com

To day or not to day #86: Values ​​embedded in remuneration policy is better than maximizing CEO rewards - On 24 November, a referendum was held in Switzerland on maximizing the salary of the CEO of a company at 12 times the salary of the lowest paid worker. Many Swiss have had enough of the increasing salaries of top managers and leaving the the lower paid right behind.

Source: Het Financieele Dagblad, Saturday 23 November 2013. Essay by Gijs van Bussel and Marijn Tielemans

Dutch author Gerrit Krol passed away. I made several portraits of him. Here's one for Vrij Nederland from 1981

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek/

Illustration for an article about the safety of the e-commerce companies like KLM, Bol.com, TNT, Zalando and Amazon

Source: MT Management Team

NRC Handelsblad 23 Nov 2013 Man of the Week: J F Kennedy

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek

"Wolfs come to the Netherlands" for University Magazine

Source: Wageningen University

Editorial illustration about referendums and petitions for "Kontakt" Magazine

Source: http://magazynkontakt.pl/problem-z-wola-ludu.html

About the tv show "Obese".

Source: Volkskrant Magazine

To day or not to day #85: Crisis caves the position of the central banks - Strong euro reflects strength of ECB. The relationships in the global currency war are largely determined by the policies of central banks. The political influence on monetary policy is increasing worldwide.

Source: Het Financieele Dagblad, Saturday 23 February 2013. Essay by Sylvester Eijffinger and Edin Mujagic.

Big data. What can you do with the growing amount of available data? And what can't you do with it? We asked experts about ten of the biggest myths and misconceptions around 'big data'.

Source: Tijdschrift voor Marketing dec 2013

Illustration for article about a number of magazines still doing well despite the current climate (against the current stream - 'tegen de stroom in' if you translate literal in Dutch)

Source: Adformatie.nl

Germany's 'Left' party is radically pacifist and rejects all wars. It would make it a difficult partner in a coalition government.

Source: der Freitag

Vrij Nederland 23 Nov 2014. With grim pleasure Grunberg shows us a glimpse of doomed individuals in Apocalyps, a collection of short stories.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek/

One in a series for "Investing in China". China plans for major financial reform.

Source: The Wall Street Journal International

Hybrid City, inspired by NYC

Illustration for a story about thinning theater attendance in the US.

Source: Variety

Het Financieel Dagblad: Fossil Fuel policy

Source: FD

Cover design for McKinsey's Advance Industries. The road to 2020 and beyond: What’s driving the global automotive industry?

Source: http://www.size9ph.com/The-road-to-2020-and-beyond

'Competition' For Staal bank magazine

Source: staal

Illustration for DIE ZEIT Chancen. Article about Master of Business Administration

To day or not to day #84: New American isolationism presents itself - The risk-averse nature of Washington's current foreign policy is a reflection of the mood in the country.

Source: Het Financieele Dagblad, Saturday 16 November 2013. Essay by Ian Bremmer is the founder and president of the Eurasia Group, an international consulting firm for political issues.

NRC Handelsblad 16 Nov 2013 Salesman PM Mark Rutte on his first official visit to China

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek

Find yourself here, article about coaching

Source: MT Management Team

Now that Sachin Tendulkar, the Little Master, steps down it's time to dig up this portrait that was published in NRC Handelsblad ten years ago.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek/

How to make an error, faute, fel or vulgarismo? In many European countries, inhabitants turn out to share habits of using their native language incorrectly.

Source: www.onzetaal.nl

A critical review of the festival of contemporary music - Warsaw Autumn 2013.

Source: Ruch Muzyczny. music magazine, 2013

Or not to day to day # 83: Smart Cities – The Smart City is a keeper. Technological innovation continues unabated. Big data and the “Internet of Things” are unstoppable. A smart city knows how to optimally organize the connection between the collective system and the individual.

Source: S+RO (Stedenbouw en Ruimtelijke Ordening) #5, November 2013 - Platform 31.

Online dating 2.0 - that's how it works! Today there are hundreds of dating sites. Both large, broad and specialty sites. Besides more and more singles meet online through social media like Facebook and Twitter.

Source: Tidningen Kupé

To day or not to day #82: Stop wasting with the Floriades: build the Markerwaard polder for new agricultural and horticultural land. Put the Netherlands back on the map as a producer of agricultural and horticultural products. Stop the attack on the agricultural area and even extends that.

Source: Het Financieele Dagblad, Saturdag 2 November 2013. Essay by Leo Q. Onderwater, architect and author of “De Markerwaard – een onvervulde behoefte”

Vrij Nederland 16 Nov 2013. Walter van den Berg's new novel Van Dode Mannen Win Je Niet (You Can't Win from Dead Men) tells the story of a violent stepfather, from his perspective. The author wasn't interested in the angle of the abused child , because it was all too familiar to him. He was one himself.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek

A rather strange horror story by Gaja Grzegorzewska - "A tomato summer"

Source: Literary monthly "Chimera" (Warsaw) Nov.2013

Illustration for Bloomberg View Making Risk-Taking Riskier Will Hurt Startups

Autumn cover illustration for IKAR - culture magazine

Source: http://www.torun.pl/sites/default/files/pictures/ikar_123_www_art.pdf

Rape Rick: This drawing is about my anxiety when travelling at night on public transport in Mumbai. Longer explanation on the click through link

Source: http://janineshroff.co.uk/2012/02/07/rape-rick/

My country was recently devastated by Haiyan (also known as Yolanda), one of the biggest storms in human history. I used this image on posters and online posts as a call to action for others to help people in affected areas.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151968118965202&set=a.10150136761815202.331813.232193395201&type=1&theater

Samsung is expanding into Silicon Valley

Source: Fortune Magazine

Editorial illustration for Charaktery magazine: getting to know oneself.

Source: www.charaktery.eu

To day or not to day #81: Let people pay for their own mistakes - Living dangerously puts brakes on risks. We take more risks after a numerical prediction. The predictors are rarely harmed, but it is better to know what he has done or will do. He then is the first to suffer damage. People who deal with risks should run their own risk.

Source: Het Financieele Dagblad, Saturday 5 January 2013, Essay by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former stockbroker, professor of risk management at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and author of Anti Fragile: Things That Gain From Disorder.

Re-think the modern city. Can we experience the city differently?

Source: http://www.kairospresse.be/

Streaming success: Video's new vantage point

Source: http://www.size9ph.com/Streaming-Success

Sweet market debut for Twitter

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek

Portrait of Krzysztof Luft for "Duzy Format" magazine.

Source: Duzy Format Magazine

Today's economic problems of Caribbean nations can be traced back to slavery and the industrial revolution in Europe.

Source: NYT, Op-ed

NRC Handelsblad 2 Nov 2013. Ousted Rabo Chairman Piet Moerland reveals the suggested new logo

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek

The Belgians are very cautious in terms of investments. They keep the financial crisis in mind and prefer to avoid as much risk, even though they know that the good old savings account is not a panacea.

Source: http://www.levif.be/info/

Vrij Nederland 9 Nov 2013. 'Luisteren hoe huizen ademen' (Listening how houses breath) is the title of Arie Storm's latest novel. And the author dwells in the void.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woldhek

Editorial about Social networks and the online opportunity in Brazil.

Source: http://www.size9ph.com/Brazil-s-iConsumer

The possible Dutch military intervention in Mali.

Source: Leeuwarder Courant

To day or not to day #80: People can not and will not live in a completely free market society - we are moral beings who can and want to be able to establish a link between prices and morality. We want the prices that express something of 'fairness'. We can't and don't want to live in a society where salaries are determined by nothing other then supply and demand.

Source: Het Financieele Dagblad, Saturday 26 October 2013, essay by Wim Dubbink, business ethics professor at Tilburg University.

Tackling tax evasion: The EU recently formed a commission to reflect on the problem of tax evasion... This commission is constituted of accountancy firm experts and corporation representatives, for whom the fiscal evasion is a big source of income.

Source: http://kairospresse.be/presentation

Portrait of German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, best known for his theories on communicative rationality, but also very much in favor of Europe as an economic and political union.

Source: de Volkskrant

This clean and messy vectorpiece contains a lot of thoughts about culture and technology presented in a simple and childish style.

Source: www.wynt.de

Illustration for the newspaper Bergens Tidende about people who are diagnosed with a severe disease and told by the doctors that they will die. Most of these pasients wish to spend their last time of life at home amongst their family in a familiar and normal environment. Too many dies in the hospital and the Norwegian health system wants to improve the system so that every pasient that won't survive can have their last wish fulfilled.

Source: www.katrinberge.com

To day or not to day #79: My contribution to the Great Amsterdam Art Calendar 2013 (GAKK 2013)

Source: www.groteamsterdamsekunstkalender.nl

For a column from Ernest van der Kwast, about student guild boys terrorizing the decent neighbourhood Kralingen in Rotterdam.

Source: Erasmus Magazine Rotterdam

Deleting black piet... Especially the grown ups in the Netherlands are having these discussions. The children just can't wait for 5 december.

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