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Community Inspires Creativity

2013-05-15T07:27:58+00:00

MAX 2013 - the creativity conference. Watch the full video - my personal highlight is Paula Scher, an iconic graphic designer and illustrator.

Stad van de toekomst

2013-04-24T07:14:21+00:00

Weeks ago, i made an illustration for iMinds that was published in a flemish paper. I was very curious to see the end result in the paper as working for print gives a total different result - you have to wait to see it. Before i submitted the final result, i sketched different ideas. I want to share that illustration process here.

Type Styles in Photoshop CS6

2013-03-26T08:08:00+00:00

In this short tutorial video, the new typography tools in Photoshop CS6 are explained. In case you worked with previous versions of Photoshop - like me - you will notice big improvements on the type features in Photoshop.

Drawing a robot

2012-12-07T15:33:15+00:00

My son asked me to draw him a robot. I did a few sketches from older postcards and started to draw the robot in Illustrator. I made this tutorial on how to draw a robot with simple shapes like rectangles, circles, triangles and other simple combined shapes. With this basic shape, you can make a Christmas robot out of it, like i did in the illustration or choose whatever you like to make the robot more stand out. Hope you enjoy it!

Designing a style for the opening of a new Unizo building

2012-09-11T11:55:58+00:00

In July, i started with a rather big project for the opening of a new Unizo office in my neighborhood. UNIZO (Unie van Zelfstandige Ondernemers) is a Belgian organization of Self-Employed and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME); it is mainly situated in the Flemish region of the Kingdom of Belgium. UNIZO wants to give SMEs a voice from the local up to the European level.

Together with 3 other key organizations, AB Partners (accountancy), Sociaal Bureau Vlaamse Ardennen (social security) and ZENITO (retirement plans and savings), a new office will be opening on Saturday september 15.

Summer holidays are here!

2012-07-12T11:37:58+00:00

We are closed from monday July 16th till monday August 6 2012

The design process of the Digimeter report and poster.

2012-06-24T17:38:58+00:00

Last week, i finished the design of the Digimeter Report, Wave 4 and a poster that is published together with the report Wave 4.
In this post, i give an insight in the design process i did for the different chapters of the report, the illustration work of the profiles, the icons i used to illustrate the different chapters, the info graphics i made, the reworked cover page, the reworked logo, the poster design and the color and fonts choices i made in this project.

A few short questions about the StartUps.be website

2012-05-20T13:30:58+00:00

Some weeks ago, i finished the logo for the StartUps.be project. You can read about the design process here.

The design process of the Startups.be logo

2012-04-12T21:42:58+00:00

Startups.be is a new initiative by several Belgian associations and the IBBT to support new startups. Giving support to new startups and helping them out finding needed services. The kick-off event is planned on the 19th of april 2012 in the Egg in Brussels and you can register here. You can read more about the Startups.be association on the IBBT website.

Creative workshops this summer

2012-03-29T20:40:58+00:00

A while ago, a good friend of mine, who’s a ceramist, Françoise Busin, proposed to do a workshop together this summer. She has organized several ceramist workshops before in the south of France, a place for ceramists. She asked if i could give a drawing workshop and a watercolor painting workshop. Because I love drawing and painting i agreed to help with the program and the lectures of the workshop. We also invited, my sister Sarah to give a workshop on sewing and making clothes and accessories, she has made her own clothing & accessories label Hummingbird and Bumblebee - that is now active as B is for Bird. So in the end, we decided to make it an allround creative workshop. The place where the workshop will be held is Russeignies, a tiny little village in the french part of Belgium, near from where i live.