Illustration

Editor’s Note: Stefan is an enormously talented illustrator and designer from Holland. JamsBio will be featuring more of his amazing illustrations in the future. We’re stoked!

Crate digging is a term used by DJ’s and collectors to refer to the act of checking record stores, flea markets or thrift shops for second hand music on vinyl. It’s extremely boring. It’s also very unhealthy. Actually, I can think of 13 reasons why you shouldn’t go crate digging.

Stefan Glerum was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on December 30, 1983. The son of a jazz musician and music store owner, he was bound to develop an interest in music. After high school he worked for a year as an assistant to Dutch artist and designer Joost Swarte. He decided to go to art school in Breda, a small city in the southern regions of the Netherlands. Not only did he leave with a Bachelors in Illustration, he also went back to Amsterdam with a big pile of cheaply found records.

Nowadays Glerum works as a freelance illustrator and designer. Additionally he is part of the turntable formation Truly Pheasant. More work can be found at stefanglerum.com, where he also sells prints of his “Crate Digging, Don’t Do It” series.

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