Erik is a multi-award-winning director of commercials and branded entertainment, and a prolific maker of experimental films. His diverse body of work is renowned for its elegant visual design and nuanced storytelling. As an ex-creative director he is concept driven and brand aware.<\/p>\n
His projects include collaborations with celebrated agencies Wieden+Kennedy, BBH and BBDO, and commissions for global brands Ikea, Heineken, Volkswagen, Coca-Cola and Citroen.<\/p>\n
He studied art. He studied robotics engineering, but turns out more for the sculptural and sci-fi aesthetic and because he didn’t know what else to study as social pressures of getting a ‘real’ degree came into play. He spent a disproportionate amount of time watching films and drumming for art school bands.<\/p>\n
After getting his hands on a Cannes awards reel he decided to try advertising. He created a portfolio from scratch at home and managed to land a job at Ogilvy. Shortly after, he joined Hunt Lascaris, one of the world’s most awarded agencies as well as an independent powerhouse at the time. <\/p>\n
He then joined Velocity Films and became a commercials director. He joined Independent UK, then Anonymous Content USA, and now his own production company Monument Los Angeles as co-founder.<\/p>\n
Erik spends his time between Los Angeles, London and Cape Town.<\/p>\n
Erik is co-founder and creative lead of production company Monument Los Angeles<\/a>, owner of experimental studio A Little Company London, owner of creative production studio Lovers & Fighters<\/a> and co-owner of film facilitation company Baxter<\/a><\/em> in Cape Town.<\/p>\n [words by SQUAREBLOK]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Erik is a multi-award-winning director of commercials and branded entertainment, and a prolific maker of experimental films. His diverse body of work is renowned for its elegant visual design and nuanced storytelling. As an ex-creative director he is concept driven and brand aware. His projects include collaborations with celebrated agencies Wieden+Kennedy, BBH and BBDO, and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erikjohannvanwyk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erikjohannvanwyk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erikjohannvanwyk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erikjohannvanwyk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erikjohannvanwyk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.erikjohannvanwyk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/www.erikjohannvanwyk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erikjohannvanwyk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}