About me

I’m a graphic designer working as a free-lancer since 1981. I’ve been teaching at the St-Lucas Art College from 1983. From 1989 till 1995 I’ve worked as an employee with Apple Computer Europe in Paris, France. From 1993 till 1995 I ran the ‘Digital Design Looks Nice’ studio in Paris, doing work for Apple Europe, Ziff-Davis Europe, SmithKline Beecham France and others. From 1996 I've been working free-lance from Mortsel Oude God, Belgium and the studio was called ‘re: e-media’. In 2020 I retired and am working for myself, doing only the stuff I like doing. See the tab "recent" where I present "SIT (Sit in Type", the first of my projects. It brings the word back to the object we describe as someting to sit on. I call it a WordWarp. In Flemish it is "WOORDWERP", relating to "voorwerp=object", and "ontwerp=design", "onderwerp=subject" and "woord=word".

Teaching

I was teaching at the St-Lucas Art College as well as at the Institute of Design, Lahti, Finland and Aalto University, Helsinki. Until 2005 I also gave lectures at the Plantin Genootschap, Antwerp (Museum Plantin-Moretus). The main project I was working on since 2004 was the Experimental Media Research Group (EMRG). This group is developing "NodeBox" an open source program to make design through code. For many years we have been working on the release of NodeBox 3 and NodeBox Live, which lowered the programming threshold by adding a graphical node layer.