Blog

15 Dec 2010

A happy christmas and new year

Bene is taking a break from december 24th until 3 january 2011. We wish you all the best for the coming year. Have a great christmas too.

Zalig kerstfeest en gelukkig nieuwjaar!

Events Bene news

13 Dec 2010

Drawing a (vector) christmas card

I started drawing a christmas card some weeks ago in my sketchbook. Some days later, I tried to make a vector based illustration from this sketch. I posted some parts of the christmas card on Dribbble and some people asked me to explain how I did this illustration

Art & paintings

11 Nov 2010

Optimizing a corporate brochure for web

Lately, i've been working on print related projects. Designing Adobe © InDesign templates for posters and leaflets and brochures. One question that keeps returning from clients is: can you optimize this design for web use? Although I constantly explain the differences between print design and web design, the same question keeps coming back: but can't you do some optimizing, so that we can use this design on our webpage? Or: can we put this leaflet on our webpage?

Graphic Design Projects

23 Oct 2010

5 questions I asked Veerle about Editorial Design

This year, I really liked the talk by Greg Wood on Editorial Design at EECI 2010. Greg Wood did a great job in showing and explaining what editorial design is and why it is important (his blog is an excellent example on the topic).

Events CMS & Blogs Webdesign

17 Oct 2010

Making labels with CSS3

I'm working on a redesign and am looking into the possibilities of CSS3. I made a Photoshop mockup for an "elsewhere on the internet" page in which i wanted to list social networks on a different way. So I made "flags" placed next to each other where each flag represents a "social network".

Webdesign

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

15 Sep 2010

Cool iPhone and iPad apps for children

Back to school ... that means homework mostly every evening of the week for my 2 boys (9 and 7). I try to make these homework moments as pleasant as possible and as short as possible. A short moment on the iPad or iPhone with a great app is guaranteed fun for the sons. A week ago, i search and found some real cool school apps in the iTunes apps store (most of them are only available in English). I share them here in a short overview:

Art & paintings Software Apple

31 Aug 2010

Interview with font designer Xavier Dupré

A couple of months ago, i got an e-mail from Xavier Dupré asking if he could feature one of my works on his website to showcase the use of his FF Masala font

Talks Typography Illustration

10 Aug 2010

Sheep love wallpaper

Recently i'm doing a lot of sketches. Mostly in the evening when it's quiet and when i'm done with client work. For inspiration, i look regularly on Flickr. I find a lot of impressive material. Lots of collections and sets from amazing people. I found this collection where I took some inspiration of for this drawing tutorial.

Art & paintings Bene news

16 Jul 2010

Summer vacation

We are taking a break after a year that has been great so far. Now is the time to reload our batteries so we can deal with all the projects that are coming our way in the second part of this year !

We take our summer holidays from monday 19th July till monday 9 August 2010

Art & paintings Bene news

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

11 Jun 2010

Truck Lettering

A good client of mine, asked me some time ago to design the lettering of a new truck they ordered. It was kind of strange to do such a design because it's not what I do on a daily basis, but I took the challenge and did some research before I started my design for them. This week I took some pictures of the end result: the final the lettering on the new truck.

Art & paintings Branding Bene news