Enkeling is het alias van Symen Veenstra. Hij is illustrator en werkt vanuit Amsterdam. Zijn werk vond o.a. zijn weg naar kranten, tijdschriften, websites, jaarverslagen en folders. Hij maakte illustraties voor o.a. Blaadje, Bright, COC, Defiant.tv, Geldgids, Vara’s Kassa, Kop of Munt, La Vie en Rose, Maandag, OOM, het Parool en Shell. Daarnaast maakt hij vrij werk. Een gedeelte van zijn typografisch werk heeft hij inmiddels geëxposeerd. Enkeling streeft ernaar elke dag een verse illustratie of tekening op enkeling.nl te plaatsen.
Enkeling is the AKA of Symen Veenstra. He is an illustrator who works in Amsterdam. His work appears in papers, magazines, websites, annual reports and folders. He made illustrations for a diverse range of clients. It’s Enkeling’s aim to put a new illustration or drawing on his site every day.

Britney Spears

Britney Spears typography, spam series

533 Spam Series, cover versions, typography | Sat 23 Feb 2008 4:23 pm

Oude geschiedenis van Pa

Oude geschiedenis van Pa, die leefde als een dier want hij schaamde zich nergens voor en hij was erg practisch

Oude geschiedenis van Pa, die leefde als een dier want hij schaamde zich nergens voor en hij was erg practisch, the title of a book by J.M.A. Biesheuvel, brought to my attention by Wim Wepster.

522 cover versions, typography | Sat 9 Feb 2008 10:00 pm

Haste Makes Waste

Best wishes from Enkeling

Based on a lyric by the Jungle Brothers from their still extra fresh Done By the Forces of Nature.

“treble, bass, haste makes waste
nature puts things in the right place
hot baked carrot cake
in life there’s many things at stake”

I can’t really explain why but I just love these lyrics. Maybe because they’re from a time when hip hop was a bit more playful and I don’t know, goofy.

513 cover versions, typography | Wed 30 Jan 2008 12:33 am

Artificials, Manmades

Best wishes from Enkeling

Based on a lyric by the Jungle Brothers from their still extra fresh Done By the Forces of Nature.

“artificials, manmades / they don’t use lemons to make lemonades
everything i see is half real / zipped-locked, rapped up signed and sealed”

512 cover versions, typography | Tue 29 Jan 2008 12:33 am

Justice - †

Wolf Eyes Human Animal alternative cover

An alternative cover for the album by Justice I made for kindamusik.net. To see it in its original context click here.
I did one too last year, for Human Animal by Wolf Eyes. Click here to see that one.

492 commissions, cover versions, drawings, typography | Thu 13 Dec 2007 1:16 pm

Celio and Fufu

celio and fufu, typography based on a note I got in my mailbox. cover version

Based on a little note I got in my mailbox.

celio and fufu, typography based on a note I got in my mailbox. cover version

Detail.

476 cover versions, typography | Fri 19 Oct 2007 5:38 pm

Painting at a Party

murals at a form party in Delft

part of a Spam Series painting I did at a party in Delft.

murals at form party in Delft

The whole thing the day after. It was a collaboration beween different artists. Photos by Micha de Bie.

472 cover versions, drawings, typography | Wed 3 Oct 2007 11:59 am

Es wär nicht so wie es ist… [version 3]

Es wär nicht so wie es ist war es damals nie gewesen wie es wahr

471 cover versions, drawings, typography | Sun 30 Sep 2007 10:04 am

Es wär nicht so wie es ist… [version 2]

Es wär nicht so wie es ist war es damals nie gewesen wie es wahr

470 cover versions, typography | Fri 28 Sep 2007 12:00 am

Es wär nicht so wie es ist… [version 1]

Es wär nicht so wie es ist war es damals nie gewesen wie es wahr

I was reading Juice Magazine while in Germany. In it a rapper called Bass Sultan Hengzt [really] quoted a song by a femcee called Cora E which went Es wär nicht so wie es ist wär es damals nie gewesen wie es war which translates as ”Things wouldn’t have been what they are now if they wouldn’t have been like they were then”.
I did three versions of it, this is the first one.

469 cover versions, typography | Wed 26 Sep 2007 2:24 pm

A Nice Comment From Xenophon

A nice comment from xenophon, typography, spam series

Back from Urlaub in Deutschland! This drawing appears in the latest edition of LFTFLD magazine from Amsterdam.
Click on the image to enlarge.

Next to this I wrote the following text: [in Dutch]
GEEN COMMMENTAAR
Ik heb een site, enkeling.nl. Daar probeer ik elke dag een nieuwe tekening op te zetten. Je kunt ook commentaar geven. Veel mensen doen dat dan ook.
Plotseling begon ik merkwaardige reacties van afzenders met rare namen te krijgen. Zoals Haralambos. Of houston gay bar. En bastard magnificent, teenage girl swimsuit, frog sex xxx, of hot female fire fighter.
Deze personen geven raadselachtige reacties. Soms zijn ze heel positief. Dan schrijven ze bijvoorbeeld: “Your site has very much liked me. I shall necessarily tell about him to the friends.” Zoiets is altijd fijn om te horen. Zo’n zin wordt dan wel gevolgd door “gaara costume gaara of the sand sasuke vs gaara episode gaara naruto sama video youtube gaara sasuke gaara sakura fan fiction gaara shukaku”, waarvan de betekenis wat minder gemakkelijk te achterhalen is.
Veel reacties lijken uit abstracte mantra’s te bestaan: “Buy phentermine online buy. Phentermine online. Online pharmacies phentermine same day shipping. Phentermine money order pharmacy online. Buy phentermine online. Cheap phentermine online. Online phentermine. Cheape… phentermine online url….” Door middel van herhaling wordt een soort trance opgeroepen.
Vaak ook heb ik het gevoel dat iemand me iets wil vertellen maar niet precies weet hoe: “Relevant information about nude black tit….” of “Value information about funny retard picture…” of “Top news about everywhere shave….”
Het is alsof een soort innerlijke stem me vertelt dat ik deze boodschappen moet doorgeven.
Heb ik wel een keus?

468 Spam Series, drawings, typography | Mon 24 Sep 2007 1:10 pm

Afternoon of Wonders [day two, finished]

afternoon of wonders, middag van wo

Based on a little advert I got in my mailbox, mixed with some keywords from the site of this religious organisation.

454 cover versions, typography | Tue 24 Jul 2007 5:10 pm

An Invitation To An Exhibition

Vanaf 18 juli tot en met 12 augustus exposeer ik typografisch werk tijdens de Guerrilla Gallery # 2 in de Guerilla-Store in Den Haag. Tijdens de opening op vrijdag 20 juli [vanaf  17.00] maak ik live een muurschildering.

451 Spam Series, cover versions, expo, typography | Mon 9 Jul 2007 10:02 pm

The Soul

The soul is that most curious of commodities– a resource whose worth fluctuates wildly, making most spectators wary of investing in its growth or market share.

Based upon a quote from David Byrne’s The New Sins.

450 cover versions, typography | Thu 5 Jul 2007 2:53 pm

José

José, typography based on a note I found in my mailbox

Based upon the text of a little note I found in my mailbox.

447 cover versions, typography | Fri 22 Jun 2007 5:00 pm

Karine

Karine, typography based on a note I found in my mailbox

Based upon the text of a little note I found in my mailbox.

446 cover versions, typography | Tue 19 Jun 2007 1:27 pm

Neuma

Neuma, based on a note I found in my mailbox

442 cover versions, drawings, typography | Fri 8 Jun 2007 6:04 pm

Boris

typography based on a note I found in my mail

440 cover versions, typography | Mon 4 Jun 2007 1:58 pm

De hele werk hard weken [Rose]

typography based on a note I found in my mail

438 cover versions, typography | Thu 31 May 2007 12:33 am

No Taste [day two, in progress]

Based upon part of a lyric of a song by John Squire I never heard.

423 cover versions, typography | Mon 23 Apr 2007 11:10 am

Ohne Seele [day two, finished]

typography based upon a lyric by Jan Delay

Menschen ohne Seele kaufen Dinge ohne Seele, kaufen Plastic
Might have made a spelling mistake there. Based on a lyric by Jan Delay from the song Plastic.

422 cover versions, expo, typography | Thu 12 Apr 2007 3:40 pm

Linda

Based upon the text of a little note I found in my mailbox.

421 cover versions, expo, typography | Wed 11 Apr 2007 2:05 pm

We zijn drie vrouwen

Based upon the text of a little note I found in my mailbox.

419 cover versions, typography | Tue 27 Mar 2007 6:05 pm

A nice comment from Removal Pop

Based on one of the many, many s*p*a*m comments I get.

411 Spam Series, cover versions, typography | Tue 6 Mar 2007 10:51 am

A nice comment from Jason Kidd

Based on one of the many, many s*p*a*m comments I get.

409 Spam Series, cover versions, typography | Thu 1 Mar 2007 9:00 pm


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