Zender

At the age of thirteen, Zender started off as a graffiti artist, but as time passed, he began developing his skills and got numerous commercial, illustration- and paint jobs. In 1999 he spray-painted the Singel Studio together with Dutch graffiti artist Delta, with whom he got involved in a group exhibition called Post Graffiti. This Exhibition helped him gain a lot of public attention at a young age. During this period Zender decided to learn more about graphic design and went to the United States, where he worked as a trainee at a small design studio.

Back in Amsterdam, Nightclub Mazzo commissioned him to paint the walls of their nightclub. Zender asked an old friend (Christiaan Dros) to help him out. The exhibition became a success, so they decided to start up our their illustration company and called it: "Zender & Chaos". In this period they produced an enormous amount of paintings and backdrops, painted coffee shops and nightclubs and produced many illustrations for a Dutch art agency called Shop Around.
After five years working together, the company closed, and Zender started working as a freelance graphic designer. The first two years he was mainly hired by Semtex design (part of Boomerang) which gave him further insight into the graphics industry.
Not long after that, he found a new partner: Danny Merk, which whom he founded: KGB Amsterdam (the Kreatif Grafik Buro) in 2005. After nine years, KGB also shut its doors, and Zender has been working as a freelance graphic designer since.
Lately, Zender works a lot with his Signpainters collective and his old partner Christiaan Dros, with whom he once started his first company Zender & Chaos.

AUDIO
Besides his day job, Zender also works as a DJ and organises various events. His first event organisation was called The Rendezvous, the name he also used for his art/music happenings.
Later more collaborations followed, and different names were used. Amongst others, Zender organised 14 editions of the infamous Nachtspelen event and still holds the annual Costa del Soul festival together with Blijburg.