Creative Director<\/p>\n\n
background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n My name is Paul van Ravestein. As Creative Director I am responsible for all visual output. I manage the designers and initiate the visually creative part of our projects. Together with Monique Mulder, I form the creative heart of Mattmo. Think of me as the bridge between strategy and the translation to the visual part of our projects. My pragmatic approach provides a balance between the two fields. <\/p>\n\n I think medium-independently and therefore also work as a film director or art director on photo shoots, and I continue to work on occasionally sketching the impetus for visual identities or spatial concepts. <\/p>\n\n I was born curious and started traveling as soon as I could. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n Investigate what is on the other side of the horizon, see, feel and experience it with your own eyes. I like to do research, that feeds my creativity. I always delve into backgrounds, history and visual research. Call it visual anthropological curiosity. That context gives me more insight. The book \u201cDe Zure Stad”<\/a> is a good example of this. <\/p>\n\n I like to find out how they think and who they really are \u2013 so I can serve them from pure empathy. This gives me the inspiration to express them visually. That’s where the conceptual layers arise. And so I can bring something unique to every project. <\/p>\n\n In 1989 I started at the Maastricht Art Academy, a romantic city, as un-Dutch as you can imagine. I chose agencies in Lisbon and London for my internships, because I could explore my limits there. After graduating, I started my working life for Kenmerk, a journalistic news program for IKON in Hilversum. That’s where I created my very first website \u2013 that was in 1995. After that I wandered around looking for the design agency that suited me. I found that in Mattmo, and I have been working there since 1996. <\/p>\n\n I TOUCH PEOPLE\u2019S IMAGINATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Growing up, I competed in athletics: I’m a natural sprinter. That side of me is also in my work. I have a no-nonsense sports mentality when it comes to speed in creation, that speed ensures that designs remain dynamic and spontaneous. I get satisfaction from switching between completely different projects and from one medium to another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Creative Director background My name is Paul van Ravestein. As Creative Director I am responsible for all visual output. I manage the designers and initiate the visually creative part of our projects. Together with Monique Mulder, I form the creative heart of Mattmo. Think of me as the bridge between strategy and the translation to… → Paul van Ravestein<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2430,"menu_order":5,"template":"","class_list":["post-2700","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattmo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattmo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattmo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattmo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattmo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}