Diederiekje Bok


Diederiekje Bok also known as Didi Bok is an author, artist and producer and the developer of the John's Phone 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, Das Ist So Togo and John From Burlington.
Diederiekje Bok has also been guest curator of an exhibition in museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam in 2009, the exhibition of the work of Rinus van den bosch. For this exhibition, she created and published a book 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 in Fab Magazine about her life in Los Angeles. Some of Diederiekje Bok’s art work is part of the permanent collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Netherlands.

Awards

Diederiekje Bok won several international awards as a creative. Including a few times the New York festival Gold World Medal.
In December 2013 Diederiekje Bok and Hein Mevissen of John Doe got awarded with the highest Dutch advertising award the Golden Loeki for the Olli campaign. The agency John Doe got the award in a Live television show from Arian Buurman, CEO of the Stichting Ether Reclame who hosts the Loeki awards. At the World Intellectual Property Day Diederiekje Bok won also an award 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 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 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 of the modern Dutch portrait painter Marike Bok.
is a mobile phone that and Diederiekje Bok and Hein Mevissen designed and manufactured.
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. Olli is a cartoon character and a stuffed toy. Bok and Mevissen are the founders of Ollimania. Ollimania books are published in The Netherlands, France, England, Germany and Belgium.