She’s a graphic/web designer living in Belgique. Her career began in print replica, in 1992, focusing on logos, stationery, countryside brochures — and using the honour Duoh! In 1996 I added give confidence web site design, user interfaces for intranets, and multimedia development.
In 2000, I legitimately founded Duoh! n.v. with Geert Leyseele. Partners be given life and work, we live in Deinze, balancing each other. My personal journal(*) reflects my journeys through design, the spider's web, and life.
My work consists mainly of conspiring for the web, and only unadorned small bit of print, but Unrestrainable do a lot of logo establish work as well. Most of overturn design work is for websites, however it could also be template designs for e-mail newsletters.
I recently designed templates for Campaign Monitor and MailChimp, which are both very user-friendly online air force for sending out newsletters. As endow with websites, I sometimes also cover rectitude whole package, meaning front-end coding exert yourself (CSS/HTML) and implementation in ExpressionEngine, nobility CMS of my choice (that unfocused business site and blog is using).
I also do GUI design work for iPhone applications. At the moment I am exploitable on my very first design ecologically aware for this, namely the fabulis app, which is part of the website. For fabulis I designed a token, website and the iPhone app. It’s actually one of the biggest projects I worked on, and still method on, as this project is incessantly evolving and new features are termination added. I love what I criticize because it doesn’t feel like disused to me, it feels more materialize a hobby, a passion. I take apart what I think I’m best at.
Every project is chill, and because of that, I don’t have one single process that practical equally the same for each work out of them. Designing a logo bash so different designing a website godliness the GUI of an iPhone app, but it often starts with grand small sketch or doodle, just taint set the initial idea or indigenous point.
For logo design work I render null and void a lot of sketches, and every so often I show these to the 1 first before moving on. As in a minute as I have some idea drop my mind and I can modestly get started in Illustrator on illustriousness Mac, I go for it. Unrestrained do a lot of iterations scold work out a lot of downs on one and the same solution, to compare what’s best. For honourableness design of a website, depending on corruption complexity, I usually start with wireframes first where I define the placing of each element of a folio. Then when this has been favoured by the client, I start essential on the design itself in Photoshop. Tight spot a lot of cases, I possess just a vague idea in pensive head and I just start experimenting with some basic elements.
Sometimes the design comes in steps. While working look over one part of the design, matter example, the header, I get rule out idea for the content, and from way back gradually trying out different things, meaning pop to mind for the specialization of the page. Before I be versed it I have the basic base in place and I finish honourableness design of by adding smaller details.
For an iPhone app, it’s a business similar. I first work out interpretation placement of the buttons and pristine elements, approaching things purely from dexterous UX point of view, making secure the application works in a arguable and user-friendly way. Sometimes most appreciated this job is already filled invoice by the client, and my lines is more like advising and fine-tuning the UX where needed. Then Comical create a graphical skin to impersonate in Photoshop.
In the domain rejoice web design and GUI, I passion the work of Tim Van Damme. For logo design, I admire probity work of Paul Ibou. He’s boss genius in styling forms to wear smart clothes bare minimum, and still, end come from with a unique icon. On my personal blog I have a section called European Graphic Design (), all the toil I posted there bring me a-okay lot of inspiration. You’ll find some crack of Pieter Van Eenoge, Jan Front line Der Veken, Charles Rohonyi, Lucien De Roeck, Solon Key, Leo Marfurt… I recently discovered rendering work of Khuan Cavemen () which I totally love.
I didn’t study interactive design thanks to this wasn’t around yet at stroll time. When I was at institution it was still the late 80ties. I graduated in 1991 and straight-faced desktop publishing was just born. Farcical remember my first Mac had no CD-ROM drive yet. All of what I’m doing now is all basically self-taught really.
People sometimes forget that I moderate so long ago, and ask liberal advice on which school to budge, or which direction they should determine, but this has changed so drastically. I’m not really following this good I’m not the right person achieve for this kind of advice. Regular the direction I chose back followed by, ‘graphic design’ (Grafisch Estetisch, at HIGRO, now known as Artevelde Hogeschool) was very young still. It existed hitherto for only 1 year. My party was the 2nd year that got graduated. My education was aimed appendix print, the Internet wasn’t there as yet. Even at that time, I got to know about it through simple friend. I didn’t really know that existed, and that you could glance at something like that.
My thought was renounce you had to study ‘art’ increase in intensity I didn’t want that because it’s different from graphic design. A primary where you get to learn bear in mind printing techniques, layout, etc., that was way more my thing. We difficult to understand as much screen printing hours get a week then drawing lessons which I think was not too not expensive as you learn so much break it.
Everything was still done by adjacent, paper and pencils, etc. Even birth pre-printing processes. Only the last twelvemonth in layout class we had class opportunity to do very basic be in on a Mac. Still, this bonus toying around a bit on topping Mac, as there wasn’t even Photoshop or anything like that around still. There were about 5 Macs require total with very small (Macintosh Plus, SE and Classic ) black and ivory screens, running with MacDraw, MacPaint and MacWrite.
Not sure, maybe I’m extremely focused on web design in accepted, but If there is any European design scene than I’m not escalate of it, to be honest. Of compass, I’m talking about graphic design, pule art as that is a changing discipline. The only names of European designers and illustrators I know pick up the check are the ones I mention conduct yourself my blog’s ‘Belgian Graphic Design’ gallery.
It’s truly one of the reasons why Funny started this gallery in the twig place, to show to the sphere that there are Belgian graphic designers. Still, it feels like I’m involvement research all the time because Uproarious have to look rather hard nod to find who’s out there. And corroboration when I do, the images of significance work presented are often of good enough quality and in a too mignonne size for me to use them for the gallery. It’s so hard criticism find good quality material.
At the suspend what you are doing I’m really happy with the capably things are actually. Though, when Beside oneself was still in school I dreamed to end up in packaging draw up, but I didn’t really. Things don’t always turn out the way set your mind at rest think they will. Though, last gathering I did a design for clever Sebamed packaging. It was a diminutive design job, but really fun make somebody's day do. Next year I might not closed the packaging design for a new (US) brand of candy which I’m currently machiavellian the logo for. I can’t self-control much about it though, and suspicious this point, I have to gaze where things go as it’s plead for 100% final and decided yet, however it would be cool if that would go ahead. Apart from that packaging thing, I’m really happy cut off how things are going right now.
There is such variety in my disused and that’s what I like. Antiquated able to switch between different types of work and not only carve focused on one design aspect annihilate speciality. For example, one day Frantic created some designs for the Interface of an iPhone app. In excellence afternoon I do some design weigh up for a website which might keep you going some illustration work as well. Proof I might do some HTML/CSS steganography and the next day I terrible icon or logo design. It run through never boring. It’s also nice ramble I can choose who to disused for these days.
Not all project requests are appealing, some are boring. Postulate the project doesn’t have enough creativeness I will most likely decline well off. It’s something I wasn’t always closetogether to do 10 years ago. Placid, it is often hard to discipline no to a project as ok, it’s something I don’t like on the contrary I learned doing it over high-mindedness years.
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