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19 Jan 2010

Interview with artist Benoît van Innis

One of the websites I made in the spring of 2009 was for a Belgian contemporary artist/painter/illustrator and friend of mine, Benoît van Innis. His website is a portfolio of his artworks and projects. Recently, I did an interview with Benoît, asking about his work method and the things inspiring him. The interview was done in Dutch but i'm translating it to English. (I’m not a native English speaker, I appreciate your correction/comment)

Illustration Art & paintings Webdesign Projects Bene news

08 Jan 2010

Interview with artist Dirk Zoete

One of the many New Year's Resolutions I made this year, is to blog more. I want my readers to know about the projects i'm working on this year. On of the websites I made in 2009 was for a Belgian contemporary artist and friend of mine, Dirk Zoete. His website is a portfolio of his artworks and projects. I really enjoyed making this website.

Dirk Zoete's gallery is currently Annie Gentils in Antwerp.

Recently, I did an interview with Dirk, asking about his work method and the things inspiring him.

The interview was done in Dutch but i'm translating it to English. (I'm not a native English speaker, I appreciate your correction/comment)

Webdesign Projects Bene news

25 Dec 2009

Default avatar set in ExpressionEngine 2.0 Public Beta

Some time ago, I was designing some avatars and wrote a little about the use of avatars when I read on the EE Blog they were looking for a couple of new avatars for the new default avatar set in the 2.0 version.

Art & paintings Craft CMS & Blogs Projects

Illustration

Hopper’s quiet realism

04 Dec 2009

I have a few art books and every time I see the Edward Hopper book, i cannot resist to open it and start looking and reading about his paintings. Although Edward Hopper lived from 1882 till 1967, his work looks still very "modern". He is known for his quiet and silent realism but I think he reveals a very strange and honest beauty in the everyday objects and lives.

Illustration

01 Dec 2009

Graceful Green

Some time ago, a client asked me to do a "green" logo, meaning it had to reflect 'eco-friendliness', 'connected to earth', 'nature' and so on. I liked his briefing and decided to go for it. After doing some research and gathering some ideas and inspiration I started to draw and color.While I was looking for the 'right' green color, I found out that it's hard to find a beautiful green. It took me a long time to decide what green I should use. I created a Graceful Green Flickr gallery to collect inspiration from the color green and the green idea.

Art & paintings Graphic Design Webdesign

19 Nov 2009

Creating a unique avatar

Yesterday, a person on Twitter was complaining about the fact that some other company/person had stolen his/her avatar. It resembled the original avatar quite a lot. In fact, there are a lot of avatars with the same look, same colors etc... I think you can avoid having your avatar looking similar to others if you spend a little more time when you choose your avatar and look for some ways to be more unique, more special, more attractive ...

Art & paintings Webdesign

29 Oct 2009

Attending the EECI conference as a designer

Last week, Tim and I went to the first european Expression Engine and CodeIgniter conference, held in Leiden, Netherlands. The conference was held at the Scheltema complex and organised by Whoooz! webmedia from Leiden, they did an excellent job! It was the first time we had the chance to meet with the EllisLab community. As a webdesigner myself, i was very anxious to meet with and listen to the speakers and attendees.

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