Veerle's blog

Most of you will already know that I use Expression Engine as tool for my site (further referred to as EE) and that I enjoy working with this tool mainly because of its flexibility and user friendlyness.

On a regular basis I receive requests on how to create those Mac OS X backgrounds, so this weekend I played around in Illustrator trying to create a nice looking desktop using gradient mesh. This all goes well as long as I stick with 1 simple shape, some organic looking bow. As soon as I try to add other bows by adding gradient mesh points things fall apart. Using separate layers each using transparency seems to be the solution, but still this ain’t no walk in the park if you want to achieve the complexity as those real Mac OS X desktops. I congratulate and bow for the designer who made those. I gave up and resorted to Photoshop CS2 and hoped for a better result…

Regular visitors will know that from time to time I write about some projects that we worked on. So today I like to introduce NetSquared. I was very excited to jump into this project because it was one those occasions that I had the opportunity to create a brand/identity from scratch. This involved creating a logo, stationery, style-guide, brochure and a of course a website. To me personally a first impression in what kind of company you’re dealing with starts by looking at the logo. Maybe that’s because of my job, I don’t know, but that’s where my thinking pattern always starts.