For the publication of the master thesis, C-MD requires each student to submit an abstract and an suitable image. I created this montage in Photoshop with pictures from Ed White’s space walk, the Hubble telescope, an old sundial and the moon. After some experimentation, I settled on this composition, which depicts the astrounat latching out his sundial. Visually, it communicates both the old (sundial) and new (space), and connotates the sense of exploration and endless possibilities. Navigation and exploration are two closely linked concepts which are at the foundation of this image, and are also the basis of my thesis.
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Voor de module Experimental Media moesten we een project maken waarin we experimenteren met media met als onderwerp journalistiek en tuinkabouters in Genk. We hebben een concept ontwikkeld waarmee mensen via hun mobiel routes kunnen aflopen in de stad waar tuinkabouters te vinden zijn. Bij sommige van deze ‘kabouterspots’ zijn ludieke opdrachten uit te voeren. Mensen kunnen zelf foto’s en video’s maken van hun uitwerking of rapportage hiervan en deze insturen. Bovendien kunnen mensen ook zelf ludieke opdrachten verzinnen en insturen. Deze worden allemaal verzameld en gepubliceerd, waarna mensen deze kunnen beoordelen. Het doel is dat er een levendige gemeenschap ontstaat van actieve kabouterspotters, mensen die een incidentele rapportage maken, en bezoekers die de stad willen ontdekken. Vanwege de geografische afhankelijkheid van dit concept is de belangrijkste interface de kaart.
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Voor de module Creative Design heb ik ervoor gekozen om een website van de nederlandse politie te herconceptualiseren. Deze website, http://politieonderzoeken.nl/, is bedoeld om de politie te helpen bij openstaande onderzoeken. Ik vond het design oppervlakkig, koud en niet engagerend. Mijn aanpak probeert meer sympathie voor het slachtoffer te creëren, het publiek actief te engageren bij het onderzoek, en het meer toegankelijk te maken door gebruik te maken van HTML, CSS en Javascript.
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Concentra is one of the largest Belgian media publishing agencies, with several newspapers and websites. To experiment with citizen journalism and user-generated content, the idea of a ‘going out’ website was born. In a collaboration with the Media & Design Acadamy, students were asked to create a visual design for this website. My contribution was selected as the basis for the website, and together with some students we worked out several pages in Photoshop that demonstrated all the required functionality.
After that, the design was delivered to a third-party ISV, who would create templates of it for their CMS. I worked out personas and scenarios for usability testing, but unfortunately, the ISV had many technical difficulties. After much delay, the newspaper editors decided that it wasn’t worth the effort and canceled the project entirely.
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This piece was made as part of a graphic design course at C-MD, in which we were taught the basics of Adobe Illustrator. The assignment was to recreate some piece of technology. I decided to use my (then) brand-new mobile phone, the LG K800 ‘Chocolate’. On the left is the original photograph, on the right is my recreation in Illustrator.
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This mini-website was created for a graphic design course at C-MD. It was mostly meant as an introduction to Photoshop, but I went a bit overboard and used the Mootools Javascript library to add an image gallery.
The main goal of the assignment was to originally depict an artist or art period, making creative use of foreground and background. At the time I was still trying to read Gödel, Escher and Bach, so I thought it would be fun to use Escher. He created a lot of lithos and drawings so the paper backgorund would be a good fit for his drawings. I integrated his work into this. Another part of the assignment was to use a repeating background, which is a very thankful job since Escher’s work is much about repeating and recursivity.
Unfortunately, I didn’t succeed in integrating the navigation arrows into the design, so they look as if they don’t quite belong there.
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