Triggerfinger gave us permission to use one of their best songs on their latest album (What Grabs Ya?) to support our showreel. The combination is quite explosive.

So set the video to fullscreen, turn your volume to 'ARE YOU MAD!' and get blown away.

A data body is a collection of personal data that consists of all the information you have ever left behind through your buying behaviour, mobile phone, surfing habits, online social communities et cetera. Everywhere you fill in something personal it immediately enters your data body, which then grows without you even being aware of it. And the only thing you have to do is be a consumer or civilian. Therefore our existence has become increasingly transparent on virtually every level. Decisions are aligned with our desires and needs, and technology is used to track us as accurately as possible.

The ‘Transparency Suit' visualizes the unseen flow of information around us (in this case as a result of our buying behaviour). It shows us an aesthetic and expressive solution that reveals a new field of visual code. The hidden information of the data body is made visible through a second skin, a suit that falls outside of the everyday experience.

This work was commissioned by Graphic Design Festival Breda and will function as the leader of the 2010 edition of the festival.

Retro-futuristic interface design for an alternate reality game that was played during the Night of Culture 2011 in Breda. The goal of the game was to hack and disable the data mining machine. The event was organized by Lumineus.

This work was commissioned by Lumineus

Promotional animation for The Next Nature Book.

Today, the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, synthetic biology, mass urbanization - ‘We were here' echoes all over. Although many people have tried to improve our relationship with nature, only few have asked the elementary question ‘what is nature?'.

This book will radically shift your notion of nature. It shows how our image of nature as static, balanced and harmonic is naive and up for reconsideration. Where technology and nature are traditionally seen as opposed, they now appear to merge or even trade places.

We must no longer see ourselves as the anti-natural species that merely threatens and eliminates nature, but rather as catalysts of evolution. With our urge to design our environment, we cause the rising of a next nature that is unpredictable as ever: wild software, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us!

Check nextnature.net/book for more info.

Edited and designed by Koert van Mensvoort and Hendrik-Jan Grievink. Video Trailer by Studio Smack.

Documentary short on one of the world's most underestimated billionairs by well-respected filmmaker and friend John Grierson. Narrated by Graham Alexander.

What if you had a brilliant idea for a film, an animation or even a game and what if you could realise this idea without leaving the building,..

Promotional Animation for the AVhuis in Breda.

This work was commissioned by Red Concepts

We live in a time where everything or everyone can be upgraded or ‘pimped'. After the worldwide acceptance of plastic surgery, it was time to subject our worldly possessions (Pimp my Ride) and digital identities (Facebook) to an esthetical and/or functional upgrade. So it's likely that eventually everything will be pimp-able. Even our own planet.

Studio Smack presents ‘PIMP MY PLANET". A short animated film and game trailer in which the possibilities of playing God are explored. Redesigning the planet according to your ideals or aesthetic values. What are the consequences of your actions?

This work was part of an exhibition called ‘HIER&DAAR' in the summer of 2009. At the invitation of art institutes MU and KOP, 20 promising artists and designers from Breda and Eindhoven, all born after 1970, show new work in two groups both in Eindhoven and in Breda.

Silver Award Winner at European Design Awards 2010 (cat. Motion Graphics) and Nominee for the Dutch Design Awards 2010.

This work was commissioned by Stichting KOP and Stichting MU

Chickens interact in incredibly defined manners and form complicated social structures. Contrary to popular believe, Scientific research at the University of Sidney pointed out that chickens living in a battery cage are happier. Their free range sisters suffer from more stress, constantly living in fear of predators.

Nominee Playgrounds Award Best Local - Playgrounds 2009

Nominee NPS Early Bird Short Film Award - IFFB 2009

This film was commissioned by 't Haantje Jeans

Animated promo for the Health[e]Foundation. Health[e]Foundation aims to give healthcare workers access to information and knowledge that is essential for their daily clinical practice.

This work was commissioned by Health[e]Foundation

A commercial for the first ever NANO Supermarket.

The NANO Supermarket presents speculative nanotech products that may hit the shelves within the next ten years: medicinal candy, interactive wall paint, a wine which taste can be altered with microwaves, a twitter implant, invisible security spray and much more. Visit the shop, taste & test the products and experience the impact of nanotechnology on our everyday lives.

You can visit the NANO Supermarket during the Dutch Design Week which will be from 23-10 until 31-10-2010. For more info check the Next Nature website

This work was commissioned by Koert van Mensvoort / TU Eindhoven

Studio Smack had the honour to make the official trailer for this year's International Film Festival Breda.

The second International Film Festival Breda (IFFB) takes place from the 24th until the 28th of March 2010. The focus of the festival is cinema and its influence on current visual culture, with links between film, internet, photography, performance and gaming.

This work was commissioned by International Film Festival Breda

Graphic Design Festival Breda (GDFB) celebrates graphic diversity through exhibitions, workshops and lectures in the city of Breda. Design spreads and evolves, crossing boundaries between disciplines. The trailer focuses on the omnipresence of such an element of design.

Best Local Award - Playgrounds Audio Visual Arts Festival 2008

Nominee Jury Prize - Dutch Design Awards 2008

This work was commissioned by Graphic Design Festival Breda

Award-winning Typo-Animation that gives you a clear impression of the enormous amount of visual stimuli that plague us every day. Due to the immense scale of the visual bombardment, the commercial effectiveness has become utterly dubious.

1st prize SAM Awards - Keying into the Brain Festival 2006

Breaking out of the Frame Award - Amsterdam Film Experience 2006

Golden Egg Award - Film Front Festival Gorinchem 2007

Special Jury Mention - Hull International Short Film Festival 2006

Special Jury Mention - Independent Exposure 2008

Nominee Juryprize - Nederlands Online Film Festival 2006

This work was commissioned by the Graphic Design Museum

Camera systems have been programmed to predict human behaviour and recognize the risk potential of individuals. Forget artificial intelligence, this is artificial judgment, and its for your own security.

Trivia: A year after production, the protagonist returned to the shooting location and was questioned by security. Why? Because he came across as suspicious on the surveillance cams.

Special Mention - HAFFtube 2008

This work was commissioned by ON

Documentary on the infamous members of Studio Smack by well-respected filmmaker and friend John Grierson. Narrated by Graham Alexander.

Part 1 - Ton Meijdam.

Click here for Part 2 - Thom Snels

Common knowledge is too often based on assumption. In the VARA television program Is dat eigenlijk wel zo? (roughly translating as O, really?) this process is up for review.

This work was commissioned by VARA

The behaviour of individuals on a microscopical scale, naturally interacting and organizing themselves. By forming a social structure, they rise above the sum of all. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough (without him knowing, though).

This work was commissioned by ON

In a 20 episode television special named De Toekomst (The Future), broadcaster VPRO documented worlds 25 years ahead. Scenarios ranging from pitch-black darkness to nothing but sunshine were carefully laid out. The leader is inspired by the book 'Megatrends in Nederland' by Adjiedj Bakas.

This work was commissioned by VPRO

Money, politics, show-biz, gambling, hamburgers, White House, entertainment, stars, stripes. A deconstruction of the American dream.

When you buy a pair of sneakers, where does your money go? Lets take this icon of modern culture apart at the seams and find out.

This short film was screened at Festival Mundial 2008. Concept of the film is based on Millenium Goal #8.

Nominee Jury Prize - Milieudefensie Filmcompetition 2009

This work was commissioned by Mundial Productions

Television: don't you just love/hate it? This is a series of short animations, each portraying an aspect of one of the most dominant and demanding media.

Best in Show Award - Created By U Festival 2006/Direct TV/US National Television

A perpetual mobile creating life to sustain itself.

This work was commissioned by 't Haantje Jeans BV

We all know that every man wants to be a sailer. Forever traveling, stacking adventure on adventure. Kapitein Reetneus and his crew live their dream. In this series we follow their epic quest for an island that does not exist. Made in cooperation with JensenFrisbee productions, featuring the voices of Michiel Romeyn and Peer Mascini.

Check www.kapiteinreetneus.nl for more info

An animated short telling the story of 't Turfschip van Breda. A local legend with an international appearance. It's the Dutch version of the mythical tale of the Trojan Horse.

This project is made possible with the support of Gemeente Breda, Breda's Museum, BKKC, Voordekunst.nl and a whole lot of family, fans and friends that donated during our crowdfunding run.

We recently released a sneak preview of the film. Check it here.

A tribute to French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine and their turbulent friendship. Arthur RImbaud is considered to be the founding father of symbolism and decadism.

Check www.letitrain.nl for more info