Jaap Drupsteen is a Dutch graphic designer

Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

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Drupsteen worked as a graphic designer for NOS

Nederlandse Omroep Stichting

The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting , English: Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation, is one of the broadcasters in the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system...

 and VPRO

VPRO

The VPRO was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization. Falling under the Protestant pillar, it represented the Liberal Protestant current...

; he specialized in making leaders, music videos, and other video and television productions.

His best known work are his designs for a series of banknotes http://www.drupsteen.nl/Bank%20Notes/banknotes.html for De Nederlandsche Bank

De Nederlandsche Bank

De Nederlandsche Bank is the central bank of the Netherlands. It is part of the European System of Central Banks .-History:...

. In 1999, Drupsteen was assigned by the Dutch government to design a new passport

Passport

A passport is a document, issued by a national government, which certifies, for the purpose of international travel, the identity and nationality of its holder. The elements of identity are name, date of birth, sex, and place of birth....

. He also designed several stamps for PTT

TNT N.V.

TNT N.V., more commonly known as TNT, is an international express and mail delivery services company with headquarters in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. In the Netherlands, TNT operates the national postal service under the name TNT Post. The group also offers postal services in eight other European...

. Recently, he designed the exterior of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum

Hilversum

is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Located in the region called "'t Gooi", it is the largest town in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller villages...

.http://www.connectedcreatives.eu/kanalen/by+ecce/EN650_Jaap+Drupsteen+and+the+Institute+for+Sound+and+Vision.aspxhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/arts/design/26visi.html

Prizes

• Nipkow Schijf (1976)
• Werkman Design Award (1980)
• Sikkens Award (1981)
• Prix Italia
  Prix Italia
  The Prix Italia is an international Italian television, radio-broadcasting and Website award. It was established in 1948 by RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana in Capri...
  
   (1987)
• L.J. Jordaan Award for banknotes documentary (1988)
• Alblas Award en Holland Video Award (1990)

External links

• Studio Drupsteen (Mostly Dutch, some English)