HELLO,

I’M JIL, A SENIOR CREATIVE & ART DIRECTOR CURRENTLY BASED IN AMSTERDAM.

SOMETIMES I’M ALSO A PHOTOGRAPHER, DIRECTOR AND WRITER BUT DIDN’T WANNA OVERCOMPLICATE THE TITLE AND INTRO.

I TRIED TO WRITE ABOUT MYSELF IN THE THIRD FORM BUT IT BECAME A BIT UNCOMFORTABLE AS I’M NOT DEAD YET.
ALSO I THINK THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO TALK ABOUT SO I HOPE THE WAY I PUT THIS LITTLE SITE TOGETHER GIVES YOU THE IMPRESSION AND FEELINGS YOU NEED.

BEFORE AMSTERDAM I WAS LIVING IN BERLIN AND LONDON WITH A TEMPORARY STAY IN MEXICO LAST YEAR.
A LIFE BETWEEN BRUTALISM, BREXIT AND GUACAMOLE.




THE PART WHERE YOU TALK ABOUT AWARDS AND SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.


WHEN NOT DOING COMMERCIALS OR PETTING DOGS, I LIKE TO ANALYSE HORROR FILMS AND DO FILMS WITH MY HALF SERIOUS PRODUCTION COMPANY CALLED ‘HARD TIMES PRODUCTIONS’.

I’M ALWAYS HAPPY ABOUT A ‘HELLO’, SAD ABOUT A ‘BYE’.


CONTACT

hello.jilleister@gmail.com



VITA


2024 - 2025

SR. FREELANCE CREATIVE
& ART DIRECTOR


2022 - 2023

CREATIVE

WIEDEN + KENNEDY
LONDON


2022

SR. CREATIVE ART

ANTONI


2021 - 2022

SR. CREATIVE ART

JUNG VON MATT/ ALSTER


2018 - 2021

SR. CREATIVE ART

JUNG VON MATT/ SPREE



2017

DESIGNER
BOROS


2016

JR. ART DIRECTOR
ANTONI


2014

INTERNSHIP
HEIMAT BERLIN


INTERNSHIP
LODOWN MAGAZINE



2011-2015

COMMUNICATION DESIGN
BACHELOR OF ARTS

(IMG: FRANCIS BACON - THE ONLY BACON I LIKE)




CLIENTS



MERCEDES-BENZ
BMW
MINI
LODOWN MAGAZINE
NIKON
DMCASTING/ PIERGIORGIO DEL MORO
NIKE
FORD
HORNBACH
SPOTIFY
SIXT
EBAY
HYUNDAI
BOSCH
ROLLS ROYCE
STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN
AMORELIE
FIELMANN



AGENCIES



LONDON

WIEDEN + KENNEDY


BERLIN

MOTHER

BERLIN & HAMBURG

JUNG VON MATT

BERLIN

ANTONI


BERLIN

HEIMAT

BERLIN

LODOWN MAGAZINE


BERLIN

BOROS










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