Floor Wesseling, mixing cultures and identities
Graphic design runs in Floor Wesseling’s blood; it was passed down from father to son. Just like his father, Rolf, Floor Wesseling studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. He runs a nine-person creative design studio based in Amsterdam. Yves Peters sat down with him for an interview.
How did you start in graphic design?
One thing led to another. By 1994–95, Amsterdam DJs began commissioning painted backdrops and, later, flyers from me, mainly for house music, drum-and-bass, and the like. They always asked for experimental designs. I was self-taught and designed everything in CorelDRAW. Together with the boys with whom I did graffiti, I figured after a while that we should learn design “for real” at a bona fide art academy. The first time I applied to Rietveld, they turned me down because, they said, my work was “too graffiti.” But I didn’t let that deter me: I had my mind set on becoming an excellent graphic designer.
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