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ART,

LOVE AND

COCKTAILS

By Kim Choong

Photos via Cocktail Professor

M agneet Festival 2011, a creative crowdsource chose to follow his passion for hospitality, where he

festival in Amsterdam. That’s where Jarl de had 15 years experience and had created a name for
Vries and Teisje Van Emmerik met. Jarl was himself, by winning cocktail competitions. Teisje
running the cocktail bar and Teisje did the
had this great idea about combining everything
marketing for the festival.
nerdy as the name sounds, it is as nerdy as it gets.
Both love creativity and have experience in art they knew into one venture – Cocktail Professor. As
and advertising. Teisje still owns the creative and So Jarl continued making cocktails but with
marketing agency she started in 2011. Jarl studied the help of Teisje, combining their knowledge in
Advertising at the Art Academy. branding, arts and research, they can now focus
When the two met, Jarl had just quit his on creative work. From the recipes, photographs,
advertising career. He didn’t like that it was too drawings, menus and presentations of their
commercial and missed the creative freedom. So he cocktails, the creative space is unlimited.

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