simple colourful playful
Annabel Keijzer is a painter, illustrator and graphic designer based in the center of Amsterdam (NL). After studying graphic design, she graduated from the University of the Arts Utrecht where she studied Illustration. Keijzers work is characterized by a simple, playful design language. Color and humor jump off the page, screen or wall to transform graphic shapes into characters and make ink blobs cuddly. Keijzer works for commissions in the worlds of art and communication. She also initiates personal projects. The award- winning picture book My Letter Friends shows it is possible to tell a story without using text. Keijzer combines her practice with commissioned work as designer and doing other commissions as long as she can retain her characteristic use of color and her playfulness.
Keijzers artworks are explorations of ideas, colors and associations in her mind. Keijzer uses these as a creative library for her designs, proza and poems – and for collaborates with writers, phylosophers, comedians and musicians. Keijzer is available for commissions in both the worlds of art and communication. So if you would like Annabel Keijzer to create an illustration, book design or brand identity, please contact her via info [at] studioannabel.nl
• 3x3 mag - New York. 3x3 no16.
professional show 2019 - SILVER
• 3x3 mag - New York. 3x3 no16.
professional show 2019 - BRONZE
• CA - communication arts illustration competition 2019 nominated
• Joseph Binder Award 2016 Winner Bronze
book illustration
• World Illustration Awards 2016 Shortlisted
• German Design Award 2018 Excellent Communications Design Nominated
Exhibitions / featured
• Heavy Pictorial NRC newspaper group exposition Amsterdam - may-june 2025
• Designforum Museumsquartier Vienna, nov - 1 jan'17
• LA Artbook Fair - the Geffen Contemporary MOCA, february'17
• Designforum Vorarlberg Dornbin, march-April‘17
• WEI SRAUMforum - Innsbruck, april –may'17