Who is
Berthjan?
My name is Berthjan Achterop, a passionate designer from Groningen, a city up north in the Netherlands. Ever since i was young I was interested in art/designs. It started out drawing comics and later on, because of my interest for art/design I studied Communication and Multimedia Design in Leeuwarden which I passed in 2007. After that I got a job as a corporate webdesigner in Groningen. I worked at a big internetagency named TFE.
After almost 4 years of working for TFE, I decided to quit my job and start for myself . With 4 years of agency experience and my passion for graphic design , me and two others (Thijs de Vos and Anthonie Smith) started an agency for online marketing and creation.This agency is called Sterkhouders. At Sterkhouders I am responsible for all the design work. Besides the designs i create for customers i enjoy spending time on personal work to keep evolving my skills. I do this within artgroups like evoke and intrinsic nature.
On my website you will find a combination of personal work, work i did for TFE and designs i made for Sterkhouders. Above each item you'll see a short description about the design(s).
Publications, interviews, contests &
Recognitions
- Feature Dutch Advanced Photoshop #39 August 2011
- Feature UK Advanced Photoshop #84 July 2011
- Interview UK Advanced Photoshop #83 June 2011
- Interview Australian Photoshop #02 2011
- Interview German Advanced Photoshop #07 June 2011
- Featured on abduzeedo.com
- Desktopography 2010
- lamecamag
- Cover & interview Publish #september 2010
- Publication in Advanced Photoshop #8 (NL)
- Tedde makeover winner
- Omega Code Contest winner
- Picture of the week @ advanced photoshop (UK)
- Interview @ Evoke
- Daily Deviation Omega Code
- Daily Deviation Corporate Braindamage
- Daily Deviation Fleeing creativity
A small list of clients
I worked for
- GGD
- Samsung
- Clients I worked with while working at TFE:
- Unigarant
- Ahold
- Syntens
- Tactus
- Apenheul
- Artsen zonder grenzen
- Evean