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12 Mar 2018

Social media dimensions cheat sheet

For my clients, often times i need to create avatars and banners to publish on their social media channels. As these dimensions often change, i created a file in Adobe Illustratior with different art boards for the avatar dimensions and the banner dimensions. I save those in the client directory as a reference and export file. I explain this file and i offer this Illustrator file for download together with the color palette.

Social Media Branding

18 May 2016

The new Instagram logo

Designer Tobias van Schneider gives his thoughts after many people ventilated their opinion on Twitter on the new icon and Instagram design refinements. This is a quick video about this. Sums up my idea about it.

Talks Illustration Branding Graphic Design Video

12 Feb 2014

Style guide collection

Lately, i have been doing more and more style guides to guide my clients in their online presence. Last week, an excellent article "Getting Started With Pattern Libraries" by Anna Debenham was published on A List Apart explaining the steps to take for coding and maintaining a pattern library. Anna explains how she did the ALA style guide, for web designers to use as guidance. She also wrote a book about this Front-end Style Guides, published by Five Simple Steps.

Tutorials Branding Webdesign

24 Apr 2013

Stad van de toekomst

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.

Art & paintings Branding Projects Bene news

11 Sep 2012

Designing a style for the opening of a new Unizo building

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.

Branding Webdesign Projects Bene news

24 Jun 2012

The design process of the Digimeter report and poster.

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.

Art & paintings Online & Offline concepts Branding Bene news

20 May 2012

A few short questions about the StartUps.be website

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

Events Branding CMS & Blogs Webdesign Projects Bene news

12 Apr 2012

The design process of the Startups.be logo

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.

Branding Projects Bene news

06 Feb 2012

A car lettering design in Illustrator

In this little tutorial, i'll guide you through the design process of a car design i made for a local company. Because this company bought some cars, they wanted a design on the car that related to the website and to the companies "corporate identity". So, i made a design in Illustrator based on the logo with a gradient in it and some other repeating elements. Starting from this artwork, i searched for the right car model and downloaded the vector file.

Bene news Graphic Design Branding Online & Offline concepts

05 Dec 2011

The design and code process of Plan & Bouw

Some months ago, i got the opportunity to do a redesign of a web site for Plan & Bouw, a plan and real estate company in the area.

Art & paintings Branding Webdesign Projects Bene news

06 Oct 2010

Making fabric textures in Illustrator

Since I've got an iPad and using it daily, i've looked deeper into the available wallpapers and the overall design of the software and other applications like Reeder (for iPhone and iPad).

Branding Graphic Design Webdesign

02 Jul 2010

Logo design Studio Bloom

A couple of weeks ago, Kevin from ThisConnect (my partner company) asked me if I was interested in designing a logo, stationary and a web design for a Brussels based photo studio. I took the offer and started with the project. This week, I delivered the last piece of the project, and i thought i share the design process.

Online & Offline concepts Branding Graphic Design Webdesign Projects Bene news