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Rachelle Meyer is an American illustrator living in Amsterdam, specializing in children's books and storytelling. In 2017, she started sketching fellow commuters on the NDSM ferry in a tiny sketchbook. It's a short but sweet trip of about 12 minutes, connecting her home in Amsterdam Noord with her studio in the center of town. Rachelle wants to launch a parallel career as an independent artist alongside her work as an illustrator for hire. We have conducted an interview with her about her Faces on the Ferry project . How exactly did you get inspired to start your multimedia art project? I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair in the fall of 2016. I was meeting publishers there, and between appointments, I would draw people sitting around the wi-fi spots in the building. The people I was drawing all looked like me – white, European descent. I thought it seemed awfully homogeneous for the largest international book fair in the world! So I made it a project to find differen...

Today our guests are Michel and Felipe from Amsterdam, who have created a startup called Saleapp . It is a free App for IOS to promote small businesses. We have conducted an interview with them. What is your 'Saleapp' about? Saleapp is a free app for IOS , to promote small business. The idea is that using localization services users and owners can post photos of products and services on sale in radius of 26km. Each post is located in the map and using the TAKE ME THERE button, users can choose to walk or drive to that location. Saleapp is an app that shows things around, that means that each post is relevant to time, this means that in case of bad weather, shops can upload discounts nearby users, things like coffee, clothes, umbrellas, among others. Posts are organized by time in order to make them more browse able. Although you still have the possibility of searching by categories, name or by distance in the map. Who did you develop it for? Saleapp has thre...