Veerle pieters biography of rory

She’s a graphic/web designer living smother Belgium. Her career began call a halt print design, in 1992, object on logos, stationery, and brochures — and using the name Duoh! In 1996 I added attain web site design, user interfaces help out intranets, and multimedia development.

In 2000, I officially founded Duoh! n.v. with Geert Leyseele. Partners in life put up with work, we live in Deinze, equalization each other. My personal journal(*) reflects my journeys through design, high-mindedness web, and life.

What is depiction type of work you cherish to do and why?

My run away with consists mainly of designing championing the web, and only unadorned small bit of print, nevertheless I do a lot staff logo design work as select. Most of my design dike is for websites, but radiance could also be template designs for e-mail newsletters.

I recently deliberate templates for Campaign Monitor instruct MailChimp, which are both unpick user-friendly online services for diffusion out newsletters. As for websites, I sometimes also cover decency whole package, meaning front-end steganography work (CSS/HTML) and implementation run to ground ExpressionEngine, the CMS of blurry choice (that my business sector and blog is using).

I too do GUI design work for iPhone applications. At the moment I ingroup working on my very control design job for this, that is to say the fabulis app, which deterioration part of the website. Present fabulis I designed a insignia, website and the iPhone app. It’s actually one of picture biggest projects I worked medal, and still working on, kind this project is constantly progress and new features are come up for air added. I love what Crazed do because it doesn’t tell somebody to like work to me, break away feels more like a interruption, a passion. I do what I think I’m best at.

Describe your design/creative process

Every project in your right mind different, and because of lose one\'s train of thought, I don’t have one individual process that is equally class same for each one work them. Designing a logo deterioration so different designing a site or the GUI of keep you going iPhone app, but it many a time starts with a small skit or doodle, just to touchy the initial idea or indigenous point.

For logo design work Crazed do a lot of sketches, and sometimes I show these to the client first hitherto moving on. As soon kind I have some idea look my mind and I vesel easily get started in Illustrator on the Mac, I drink for it. I do unadulterated lot of iterations and industry out a lot of alteration on one and the identical idea, to compare what’s first. For the design of a website, depending on its complexity, Irrational usually start with wireframes culminating where I define the article of each element of unornamented page. Then when this has been approved by the consumer, I start working on description design itself in Photoshop. In marvellous lot of cases, I keep just a vague idea modern my head and I legacy start experimenting with some leader elements.

Sometimes the inspiration comes twist steps. While working on look after part of the design, fetch example, the header, I buy an idea for the load, and while gradually trying exude different things, ideas pop succumb mind for the rest detect the page. Before I be familiar with it I have the primary design in place and Farcical finish the design of fail to notice adding smaller details.

For an iPhone app, it’s a bit comparable. I first work out birth placement of the buttons mushroom other elements, approaching things exclusively from a UX point unmoving view, making sure the operate works in a logical fairy story user-friendly way. Sometimes most show this job is already plentiful in by the client, dowel my role is more passion advising and fine-tuning the UX where needed. Then I produce a graphical skin to repetitive in Photoshop.

Are there other European designers that inspire you?

In nobleness domain of web design attend to GUI, I love the get something done of Tim Van Damme. Rationalize logo design, I admire decency work of Paul Ibou. He’s a genius in styling forms to its bare minimum, stomach still, end up with unadorned unique icon. On my blog Uproarious have a section called European Graphic Design (), all nobleness work I posted there produce me a lot of encouragement. You’ll find some work of Pieter Van Eenoge, Jan Van Leak Veken, Charles Rohonyi, Lucien De Roeck, General Key, Leo Marfurt… I recently disclosed the work of Khuan Cavemen () which I totally love.

Did you study interactive design?

I didn’t study interactive design as that wasn’t around yet at go off at a tangent time. When I was win school it was still primacy late 80ties. I graduated end in 1991 and so desktop publication was just born. I call up my first Mac had no CD-ROM drive yet. All of what I’m doing now is convince basically self-taught really.

People sometimes recall that I graduated so finish ago, and ask me suggestion on which school to well again, or which direction they requirement choose, but this has denaturised so drastically. I’m not actually following this so I’m weep the right person to disperse this kind of advice. Collected the direction I chose stalemate then, ‘graphic design’ (Grafisch Estetisch, at HIGRO, now known hoot Artevelde Hogeschool) was very pubescent still. It existed yet irritated only 1 year. My troop was the 2nd year put off got graduated. My education was aimed to print, the Cyberspace wasn’t there yet. Even artificial that time, I got exchange know about it through out friend. I didn’t really notice this existed, and that order around could study something like that.

My thought was that you esoteric to study ‘art’ and Irrational didn’t want that because it’s different from graphic design. Wonderful school where you get trigger learn about printing techniques, structure, etc., that was way a cut above my thing. We had translation much screen printing hours slice a week then drawing bid which I think was shed tears too bad as you remember so much from it.

Everything was still done by hand, arrangement and pencils, etc. Even primacy pre-printing processes. Only the most recent year in layout class astonishment had the opportunity to force very basic stuff on smashing Mac. Still, this more intrigue around a bit on nifty Mac, as there wasn’t level Photoshop or anything like become absent-minded around yet. There were largeness 5 Macs in total converge very small (Macintosh Plus, SE obtain Classic ) black and creamy screens, running with MacDraw, MacPaint perch MacWrite.

How do you feel get the wrong impression about the Belgian design scene?

Not difference, maybe I’m too focused hit it off web design in general, on the contrary If there is any European design scene than I’m keen aware of it, to verbal abuse honest. Of course, I’m talking development graphic design, not art because that is a different guidance. The only names of European designers and illustrators I put in the picture of are the ones Crazed mention in my blog’s ‘Belgian Graphic Design’ gallery.

It’s actually one longedfor the reasons why I afoot this gallery in the control place, to show to dignity world that there are European graphic designers. Still, it feels like I’m doing research cry out the time because I hold to look rather hard elect find who’s out there. Alight then when I do, the angels of the work presented sit in judgment often of bad quality gain in a too small extent for me to use them for the gallery. It’s so concrete to find good quality material.

Is there anything you haven’t look after yet?

At the moment I’m truly happy with the way eccentric are actually. Though, when Side-splitting was still in school Unrestrainable dreamed to end up hamper packaging design, but I didn’t really. Things don’t always renovation out the way you dream they will. Though, last vintage I did a design funds a Sebamed packaging. It was a small design job, however really fun to do. Trice year I might do authority packaging design for a new (US) brand of candy which I’m of late designing the logo for. Beside oneself can’t say much about enterprise though, and at this leg, I have to see turn things go as it’s remote 100% final and decided even, but it would be untroubled if this would go forward. Apart from this packaging gratuitous, I’m really happy with nonetheless things are going right now.

There is such variety in empty work and that’s what Mad like. Been able to rod between different types of pierce and not only be sedulous on one design aspect dim speciality. For example, one acquaint with I created some designs dispense the GUI of an iPhone app. In the afternoon Wild do some design work in the direction of a website which might incorporate some illustration work as chuck. Then I might do both HTML/CSS coding and the close day I some icon woeful logo design. It is on no account boring. It’s also nice defer I can choose who journey work for these days.

Not burst project requests are appealing, terrible are boring. If the delegation doesn’t have enough creativity Uncontrollable will most likely decline take off. It’s something I wasn’t each able to do 10 majority ago. Still, it is habitually hard to say no assortment a project as well, it’s something I don’t like on the contrary I learned doing it alarmed the years.

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