Winner — Virtual Worlds Competition, NewImages Festival 2026 Winner — Best Art World, Raindance Immersive 2024

I build worlds and everything in them

Durk van der Meer, building and designing worlds and characters for publishers, game and film studios, brands and festivals. Curaçao.

Selected work

Aku at his drawing desk, surrounded by sketches

Character · 2021 — present

Aku

The character Micah Johnson and I created, who ended up on the cover of TIME magazine, and in an award-winning New York Times bestselling book.

TIME coverNYT bestsellerJLG awardPlayable
The whole journey →
Suku — a red colonial gable at the end of a birch-lined path

VRChat world · 2024

Suku

An award-winning virtual world that feels like walking through a living painting.

NewImages 2026 — winnerRaindance 2024 — winner
Inside Suku →
Coming soon

In production · 2026

Coming soon

Something new is being built. Check back, or follow along on Instagram.

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A beige retro computer with a pixel drawing of a house, a sun and a stick figure on its screen

Archive · 2010 — present

Everything else

Other, older and personal projects: worlds, characters, illustration and film.

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