Diederiekje Bok

Diederiekje Bok also known as Didi Bok (Born December, 1980) is an author, artist and producer and the developer of the John's Phone[1][2] with Hein Mevissen. She started John Doe Amsterdam in 2001. Famous creations of Diederiekje Bok are mainly her scripts and productions for MTV Europe as the MTV shorts Deutschland Liebt Günther (2005), Das Ist So Togo (2006) and John From Burlington (2010). Diederiekje Bok has also been guest curator[3] of an exhibition in museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam in 2009, the exhibition of the work of Rinus van den bosch.[4] For this exhibition, she created and published a book[5] with publishers AFdH called Rinus. Since 2014 she wrote a few successful children's books about main character Olli. In 2014 Diederiekje Bok wrote a weekly column[6] in Fab Magazine about her life in Los Angeles.[7] Some of Diederiekje Bok’s art work is part of the permanent collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Netherlands.[8]

Awards

Diederiekje Bok won several international awards[9] as a creative. Including a few times the New York festival[10][11] Gold World Medal. In December 2013 Diederiekje Bok and Hein Mevissen of John Doe[12] got awarded with the highest Dutch advertising award[13][14][15][16] the Golden Loeki[17] for the Olli campaign. The agency John Doe got the award in a Live television[18] show from Arian Buurman, CEO of the Stichting Ether Reclame who hosts the Loeki awards. At the World Intellectual Property Day[19] Diederiekje Bok won also an award[20] for being the person behind the best brand in the Netherlands for the brand Olli.

Charity

Diederiekje Bok is with designer/director Hein Mevissen also the creator of the character Olli that became a hype[21][22] in the Netherlands in March 2013 for the second time. Olli was part of a campaign that Bok and Mevissen created to save the Rotterdam zoo Diergaarde Blijdorp. She did also special charity events for Sophia’s children’s hospital in Rotterdam. Bok wrote also a novel[23] and donated the revenue to the hospital.

Author

Diederiekje Bok is an author of many Children's books, but she also wrote the 800 page biography[24] of the modern Dutch portrait painter Marike Bok.

  • 2017 - Marike Bok, author of biography Marike Bok (Giant Dutch Dog Books) (Dutch)
  • 2014 - Olli en het poepkanon, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Leopold) (Dutch)
  • 2014 - Olli is een olifant, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Leopold) (Dutch and German)
  • 2015 - Olli en de woestijndraak, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Leopold) (Dutch)
  • 2015 - Olli gaat op reis, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Leopold) (Dutch)
  • 2015 - Olli and the pudding rocket, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Leopold) (Dutch and English)
  • 2015 - Een kusje voor Tutje, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Leopold) (Dutch)
  • 2016 - Olli wordt later, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Leopold) (Dutch)
  • 2016 - Sugar Mousey It's always about love, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Ollimania) (English)
  • 2016 – The art of Ollimania, co-authored with Diederiekje Bok (Ollimania) (English)
  • 2016 - Happy Ollidays, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Ollimania) (Dutch, English, French)
  • 2016 - Olli Dreams, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Leopold) (Dutch)
  • 2016 - Tutje BFF, co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Leopold) (Dutch)
  • 2016 - The Art of Ollimania", co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Ollimania) (English)
  • 2017 - Practice Yoga with Olli", co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Ollimania) (English)
  • 2017 - Olli and the glorious shit storm", co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Ollimania) (English)
  • 2018 - Olli and the old forest", co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Ollimania) (Dutch, English)
  • 2018 - Santa Olli", co-authored with Hein Mevissen (Ollimania) (English, Dutch, French)

Entrepreneur

John's Phone is a mobile phone that and Diederiekje Bok and Hein Mevissen designed and manufactured.[25]

Bok is also the co-creator with Mevissen of the character Olli that was original created in 2004 as a character for a bottled mineral water.[26] Olli is a cartoon character and a stuffed toy. Bok and Mevissen are the founders of Ollimania.[27] Ollimania books are published in The Netherlands, France, England, Germany and Belgium.[28]

gollark: Wow, it already stopped sounding like a real word, the power of semantic saturation is truly immense.
gollark: Maybe it should be "premiere" instead.
gollark: What if CODE GUESSING 17259815?
gollark: Heav suggested submitting an entry containing pro-esoserver propaganda which wouldn't run without it, but that seems vaguely petty.
gollark: Oh, it's actually very easy.

References
  1. "Dutch launches no-frills mobile phone". Brandrepublic. November 16, 2010.
  2. "Nederlandse mobiele telefoon alleen om te bellen" (in Dutch). Nu.nl. January 21, 2012.
  3. "Exhibition" (in Dutch). afdh publishers. September 19, 2009.
  4. "Wintertijd" (in Dutch). October 26, 2014.
  5. "Publisher Book" (in Dutch). Omero. September 2009.
  6. "Artikelen van Diederiekje Bok" (in Dutch). FAB Magazine. April 29, 2014.
  7. "Los Angeles" (in Dutch). Fab Magazine. April 15, 2014.
  8. "Diederiekje Bok in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen". Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. June 12, 2016.
  9. "John Doe Amsterdam grossiert in prijzen" (in Dutch). Algemeen Dagblad. June 26, 2007.
  10. "New York Festival Gold Medal". 2007. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  11. "New York Festival Gold Medal". 2007. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  12. "John Doe grossiert in prijzen" (in Dutch). Algemeen Dagblad. June 26, 2007.
  13. "Olli wint Gouden Loeki" (in Dutch). Telegraaf. December 19, 2013.
  14. "Olli wint Gouden Loeki" (in Dutch). Volkskrant. December 19, 2013.
  15. "Gouden Loeki naar John Doe's Olli" (in Dutch). Adormatie. December 19, 2013.
  16. "Gouden Loeki 2013: Olli met reclamebureau John Doe" (in Dutch). Reclamewereld. December 19, 2013.
  17. "Gouden Loeki Awards".
  18. "Olli wint gouden Loeki" (in Dutch). Show News. December 19, 2013.
  19. "World Intellectual Property Day". WIPO. April 26, 2014.
  20. "Center Tone Award" (in Dutch). Center Tone. April 25, 2014.
  21. "Ontwerper Olli" (in Dutch). Rijnmond. April 2, 2013.
  22. "Stormloop op Olli" (in Dutch). Algemeen Dagblad. March 28, 2013.
  23. "Het bijzondere verhaal van Olli" (in Dutch). The post Online. January 2, 2019.
  24. "Nederlandse bibliotheek". Giant Dutch Dogs Books. October 27, 2017.
  25. Ingeborg van Lieshout. "Een telefoon om mee te bellen". Sync.
  26. "Olli en het poepkanon trekken de wereld in" (in Dutch). October 29, 2014.
  27. "Home of Olli". Ollimania LLC. September 10, 2015.
  28. "Miljoenen omzetten met een olifant" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. December 16, 2016.
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