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Sikkens Prize

1981 JAAP DRUPSTEEN — Because he found the medium to express himself in a very individual way in images, movement and color, using television. — Jaap Drupsteen, a graphic designer and artist for the VPRO, was awarded the 1981 Sikkens Award for his uni- que activities as a graphic designer and television direc- tor. The graphic and graphic-electronic possibilities of the television medium were signifcantly extended by his work. Many probably still remember the technical jokes he played with the VPRO logo: for example, swimming through the TV aquarium like a goldfish, the VPRO clo- sing down image, such as the singing lady falling down a sort of Broadway glamour staircase, the starting film for the news programme Den Haag Vandaag, the arts pro- gramme Het gat van Nederland, or the television film Het grote gebeuren after the book by Belcampo. Drupsteen was awarded the Nipkov disc for this last work in 1976. Next year, 1982, the Groninger Museum, where Frans Haks was director, made an exhibition about Jaap Drup- steen’s television work and graphic designs. Back to index Download text as pdf