Matthijs van der Meulen

I'm a website concept developer with a passion for snowboarding, photography, electronic music, (new) media and arts & culture.

I founded Dutchdamage.com, one of the oldest and biggest graffiti websites on the net and run an onlineshop with art supplies.

I love giving graffiti workshops and enjoy painting big murals with friends in my spare time.

I studied audio engineering, interactive media and media culture. I did research on the use of social media in a museum environment and used to be responsible for all things digital at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

I'm currently working at Q42, a happy place for nerds, as a project lead. There I can perfectly combine my passion for arts & culture and new media, as I am working for various clients in the cultural field.

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- Matthijs van der Meulen
  
  Project lead at Q42
  
  Online Media | Amsterdam Area, Netherlands, NL
  
  Summary
  
  During the nineties I started to document a part of modern-day youth culture I was, and still am, very passionate about: graffiti art. As a hobby photographer I created an collection of thousands of pictures on the subject. It was in 1996 when I decided to publish this collection on the internet when I started the website www.dutchdamage.com .
  
  To my surprise the website rapidly became one of the most successful ones on the subject of graffiti art worldwide. With over 15.000 daily unique visitors it didn’t take me too long to see the huge business potential this website had. An online shop specialized in art supplies was started, in cooperation with one of the leading distributors in art supplies in Europe. Intrigued by the almost overnight success of both these websites and the possibilities that new media seemed to have, I started a study Interactive Media at The Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences.
  
  Interested to see what differences there would be in the use of new media and new technologies abroad, I spent a year in Austria where I studied Media Design at the Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, and did an internship in Finland, working in a company that creates mobile content and applications.
  
  After receiving my bachelor degree in communication and multimedia design I was still eager to learn more about how new media change contemporary culture; I studied Media Culture at the University of Maastricht, a selective, one-year international Master of Arts programme where I did research on the use of social media in a museum context.
  
  At the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, I was responsible for all things digital. A job where I could perfectly combine my passion for arts & culture and new media.
  
  I currently work at Q42, a happy place for nerds.
  
  Specialties: social media, media culture, (new) media, concept development, web design, online marketing, street art
  
  Experience
  - Oct 2012 - Present
    Project lead / Q42
    
    Projects and tasks to be determined
  - 2002 - Present
    Online media consultant / Graffitinetwerk
  - 2000 - Present
    Workshop teacher / Graffitinetwerk
  - May 1998 - Present
    Contentmanager onlineshop / Henxs
    
    Developing (online) marketing strategies.
    Developing and designing web applications and the web site.
    Direct web site content creation, enhancement and maintenance.
  - Apr 2010 - Sept 2012
    Digital communications manager / Webmaster / Stedelijk Museum
    
    Improve and develop online concepts and online strategies.
    Direct web site content creation, enhancement and maintenance.
    Build and maintain a content distribution network by way of social media channels.
    Coordinate web projects across departments.
  - Jul 2009 - Apr 2010
    Concept developer / Community manager / Web editor / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
    
    Improve and develop online concepts and online strategies.
    Direct web site content creation, enhancement and maintenance.
    Build and maintain a content distribution network by way of social media channels.
    Coordinate web projects across departments.
  - Sept 2005 - Jun 2006
    Student Assistant Design and Interaction / Hogeschool van Amsterdam
    
    Assistant for the course Design and interaction
  - Jan 2005 - Jun 2006
    Student Assistant Media Culture / Hogeschool van Amsterdam
    
    Assistant for the course Media Culture
  - Jan 2001 - Oct 2001
    IT specialist / Sonera
    
    Providing technical assistance to computer system users.
    Answering questions or resolve computer problems for clients in person, via telephone or from remote;
  - Jan 1998 - Jan 2000
    Salesman / Mid-Town Records
    
    Working directly with the public, providing information.
    Selling merchandise and establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships.
  Education
  - 2008 - 2009
    
    Maastricht University
    
    Master in Media Culture
  - 2006 - 2007
    
    Fachhochschule Vorarlberg
    
    Media Design
  - 2004 - 2007
    
    Hogeschool van Amsterdam
    
    Bachelor in Interactive Media
  - Cornelis Drebbel College
  - School for Audio Engineering
  Additional Information
  - Websites:
    
    Dutch Damage, Graffitishop.eu, Graffitinetwerk.nl
  - Honors:
    
    2nd Place Interactive Talent of the Year 2005 | DIT - VEA, The Netherlands Nominated "best final project / thesis" Golden Dot Awards, Interactive Media, Hogeschool van Amsterdam
  - Interests:
    
    Snowboarding, photography, art, (new) media & culture