Except Integrated sustainability.
Flourish in a changing world.
Multi-disciplinary consulting, innovation and development organization working on advanced sustainability projects around the globe.

Gerard Vink

Communicatie Strateeg

Gerard Vink

Weakness: Music trivia
Enjoys: People, traveling (preferably over land), endurance sports (hiking/cycling/climbing), self-learning

Areas of expertise:

  • Graphic Design (print/web/spatial)
  • Typography & Typedesign
  • Concept development
  • Visual Communication
  • Photography

Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Contact

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Gerard has always had an inquisitive mind; his favorite question is: “why?”. At a young age he literally took apart everything that came across to investigate how its workings (driving his parents insane). His never-ending energy to learn and explore stills keeps him going strong every day.

Wanting to to become a scientist, electric engineer, truck-driver, architect, Gerard eventually became enchanted by graphic design. After graduating at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague he set off on a world-exploration trip. In september 2009 he returned to the Netherlands and situated himself in Rotterdam, opening his own design studio.

According to Gerard, every valuable message needs a suiting visual appearance to attract the attention that it deserves. As Except’s communication strategist, Gerard strives to design the content of Except so that it informs and inspires larges audiences all over the world.

Projects

Excellente Gebieden

Mrt 01, 2018, Leren van Nieuwbouw

Under the name of Excellent Areas ("Excellente Gebieden"), a number of Dutch home construction companies and municipalities are engaged in an experiment to use the building standards of 2015 and 2020, today. By the nature of these future building standards, there is much to learn for these actors before they can profitably apply them.

AgentschapNL is the facilitator of the Exemplary Neighborhoods project, and they asked us to evaluate the instruments they have set up for the learning trajectory.

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Warmtevisie Tilburg

Sep 22, 2020, Duurzaam, eerlijk en betaalbaar

Dit is de visie voor de doorontwikkeling en verduurzaming van het warmtenet van Tilburg, ontwikkeld met onze consortiumpartners.

De visie dient als startpunt voor de verdere ontwikkeling en samenwerking in Tilburg om tot een duurzame warmtevoorziening te komen, in opdracht van Essent, Gemeente Tilburg, Attero, Brabant Water en MOED.

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The Except Website

Jul 20, 2016, Communicating the network

You are currently looking at it: a beautiful and functional website for our happy organization.

Developed by our software architects, web designers and communication specialists, it became exactly what we wanted: snappy, cool, informative and with a back-end that helps us streamline internal communication.

 

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Huis Vol Energie

Jan 16, 2019, Inspiratieboek Energieneutraal Wonen

Routekaart Tapijt

Feb 28, 2018, De tapijtsector in kaart tot 2030

Samen met Modint en DNV brachten we de Nederlandse tapijtsector in kaart met behulp van slimme ketenanalyse en visuele hulpmiddelen. De kaarten geven direct inzicht in de gehele sector keten en mogelijkheden voor interventies om een volledig gesloten en circulaire industrie in 2030 te realiseren.

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Routekaart Vleesverwerkende Sector

Mrt 01, 2018, Naar een integraal duurzame sector

We developed a roadmap of the Dutch meat process sector, production and processing companies and their suppliers, together with DNV. The road map shows opportunities for optimal use of all energy and material flows in the product chain of chicken, pork and beef, and maps their sources. The maps bring insight to all stakeholders involved, and enables decisions on improving entire sections of the production chain at once.

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Mooi en Duurzaam Schiebroek-Zuid

Feb 25, 2021, Na-oorlogse sociale woningbouw herontwikkeling

Except ontwikkelde deze visie en flexibel plan van aanpak voor het opwaarderen van de naoorlogse sociale woningbouwwijk Schiebroek-Zuid in Rotterdam.  De integrale visie transformeert de wijk gedurende 30 jaar naar een zelfvoorzienend en duurzaam woongebied. Het past een breed scala toe van innovatieve energiesystemen, stadslandbouw, sociaal en economisch programma, en renovatietechnieken.

“Mooi en Duurzaam Schiebroek-Zuid” is ontwikkeld in opdracht van woningbouwcorporatie Vestia en het InnovatieNetwerk.

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