Simon Buijs is an art director/designer of animated illustrations & illustrated animations. He is also known as Bobby Pola. But, for us, he is more than a very talented creator with a unique style. Because he is also one of our very dear Playgrounds Eye Candy editors! In Breda, at Blend on-site, we got to see and listen to his talking live. And we were even more inspired. So we’ve decided to share his insights to our international audience as well, during Blend online!
Simon Buijs has worked for Squla, BNO, Kunstmuseum, Karhu, Spotify and Ebay to name a few. He collaborated with Ambassadors, Submarine, Ka-Ching and Motoko. And he also used to be a tutor of visual design at the Willem de Kooning Academy.
At the moment he is a senior art director at BUCK. And he just illustrated his first children’s book ‘Liever Niet’ (‘Rather not’) written by Zarissa Windzak. The book is published by Wilde Haren, a fresh publicity company who aim to create inclusive children’s books.
“At a certain point I really stopped looking at other people” Simon said, “and started looking at myself. And channeling my energy into creating. And being prepared to fail. Because I did fail a lot!”.
A talk full of wisdom and hands-on tips, made possible by our principal sponsor Procreate.