Willem Pirquin – Antwerp (BE) based illustrator and animator

I am an Antwerp (Belgium) based animator and illustrator. I mostly draw for projects about sustainable mobility, farming and city planning, but I’d also love to illustrate your book about boxing kangaroos.
I have a knack for isometric vector illustrations, hand drawn sketches and everything in between.

Take a look at my work:

Labland

My most modular set of illustrations yet.

Tour de France ‘Druivenstreek’

My biggest work yet.

But first, coffee!

A small illustration for a coffee project that never made it

European Alphabet

26 Instagram Stories of the European Parliament.

Merlijn

Simple and colorful illustrations for a daycare center for babies and toddlers with disabilities.

2019 – The Year of the Pig

A quick illustration to wish my Chinese Neighbours a happy new year.

Trajekt

A series of illustrations to help young asylum seekers.

MiWa

Look and find illustration against litter

Seaweed Farming in the North Sea

7 challenges for seaweed farming

“Women are actually not that complicated”

Sometimes Jelle Goossens writes about life. He mails me these writings and waits patiently until I send him back a weird illustration. Experts might call this “a layered multidisciplinary cooperation”, but we don’t use these expensive words. We have no idea why we are doing this. Read Jelle on Jasperwiet.be (in Dutch, the language of … Continue reading ““Women are actually not that complicated””

Some characters

An ever growing set of funny characters. I have no idea why I am making these. Maybe they’ll find a home in one project or another.

LVN april, the sketches.

On my porfolio you can find this illustration for the city magazine of Leuven. To give you some insight in the process, I’d like to share some stages of this illustration with you. The deadline for this project was very short, so I had to make everything in the course of one week. N°1 The … Continue reading “LVN april, the sketches.”

LVN April

Infographics about Leuven

Fedagrim

A Plan to Guarantee the agricultural sector in Belgium

2060 My neighbourhood

I live on a lively square in a multicultural neighbourhood in Antwerp (2060 Antwerpen-Noord). On the @2060mijnbuurt-instagram neighbours from all cultural backgrounds post pictures of their views of the district. As a change, In September 2017 I made a series of drawings.

MobiPunt

Building blocks for modular mobility hubs.

VVSG

Roles in living

AZ-Sint-Maarten

A Map to show the relocation of the hospital

Ik koop in Hoeilaart

Illustration to promote local shopping and tourism in the Belgian town of Hoeilaart

Carnival

Three illustrations to celebrate Carnival.

ACV

Equality Makes the Difference

TranslabK

Six short animations about sharing, recycling and sustainability

Flemish Climate Pact

Sustainability can be puzzling

City Council of Leuven

Celebrating 20 years of community work in Leuven (Belgium)

Impossible traffic

The traffic knot is impossible to disentangle

Things I see from my window

An exercise in minimal color use, design and creativity.

Castle of Horst (Belgium)

Isometric illustration of the castle of Horst(Belgium) for the Flemish heritage organisation Herita. Client: Herita

Cyclists

A collection to celebrate the diversity and versatility of bicycle life.

Mijn 2040

Ideas for the City Region of Turnhout (BE) in 2040

Sint-Niklaas

Climate City

Minor-Ndako — App illustrations

Minor-Ndako provides shelter for unaccompanied minors in Brussels. These can be kids without parents or young asylum seekers. A lot of these kids don’t speak Dutch or French very well, so Minor-Ndako started looking for a new way to talk with these guys on how they where doing. I made illustrations about the daily life … Continue reading “Minor-Ndako — App illustrations”

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