So much to do, so little time…

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Almost every­one will know the famil­iar feel­ing of hav­ing too much to do in too lit­tle time. The past few months have been hec­tic to say the last. Me and my part­ner have jump­started an inter­net com­pany spit­ting out one full­blown CMS a week. While the site your look­ing at was designed and built over […]

Business Card NexusStudios.nl

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After hav­ing our sec­ond cus­tomer for our new com­pany NexusStudios.nl I decided it was time to cre­ate a busi­ness card. I’d actu­ally fin­ished a busi­ness card design for a client of mine so I already was in the busi­ness card mind­set. Com­pared to the busi­ness cards I’d actu­ally received in my life, the ones I […]

New website: WOZwaardeinfo.nl

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Made a redesign of the wozwaardeinfo.nl site. Try­ing to have an out­put of one site per week, this one is the fourth install­ment. I call it my “white hat link farm” prin­ci­ple. Build­ing upon the strongest of SEO prin­ci­ples: link build­ing, I decided the best thing would be to cre­ate my own clus­ter of sites […]

Business Cards Sportlink

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Fin­ished the graphic for a set of busi­ness cards. To add a lit­tle graphic twist I put the cards on a vir­tual wooden desk emphasing the trans­parency of one of the cards. It’s dif­fi­cult to cre­ate a sense of tex­ture com­monly used in busi­ness cards with an Illus­tra­tro design but the wooden back­ground cre­ates a […]

New website: GoudenGoud.nl

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After buy­ing the SEO tool Mar­ket Samu­rai and play­ing around with it a bit, we thought of mak­ing the site GoudenGoud.nl with the sole pur­pose of mak­ing money with the help of Adsense. I designed a com­pletely over the top site where peo­ple would be able to find buy­ers of their gold. Our lit­tle experiment […]

New website: NexusStudios

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It’s kinda stu­pid when you sell web­sites but you don’t have a web­site your­self. Com­mon prac­tice is to put your cre­den­tials in the footer of every site you make, but we didn’t have a site to link to. It was one of the main rea­sons I cre­ated our cor­po­rate web­site NexusStudios.nl. Besides this site it’s […]

Flyer Sportlink

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As an exten­sion to their cor­po­rate iden­tity I designed a flyer for Sportlink. This flyer would be added to a goody bag vis­i­tors would receive at the start of a cer­tain con­ven­tion. The Dutch descrip­tion reads “Your sport­sad­min­is­tra­tion is given a head­start with Sportlink Club”. Sportlink pro­vides sports soft­ware to Dutch asso­ci­a­tions. Flyer Graphic Design

Creating a Corporate Identity

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After I had designed the look and feel of the Sportlink web­site, I got a request to fur­ther deepen the cor­po­rate iden­tity beyond just a web­site. They would need some­thing catchy for an adver­to­r­ial. I had tin­kered with the sil­hou­ettes in the logo of Sportlink and after some delib­er­a­tion decided to go all out with […]

Lynda Learning Curve

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I once was a illus­tra­tor for fash­ion mag­a­zines. Now I work part-time at a small com­pany where very recently my job title changed into “senior web designer”. I’ve always been a lit­tle envi­ous of peo­ple know­ing all kinds of soft­ware pro­grams. They put me out of busi­ness as an illus­tra­tor because I just couldn’t keep […]

Search Engine Optimization revisited

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The last cou­ple of months I’ve worked on the site that should make me finan­cially inde­pen­dent within half a year. Now I’ve been putting myself on the Google SERP’s as a design guru but this is some­thing else, even I admit that. But it was only after I stopped mess­ing around with SEO and had […]