Nov 10
19 comments 2007 at 01.32 pm posted by Veerle
This weekend will mark another milestone in my little blogs history as my site will migrate to new servers. It’s like when you are grown up and you are ready to leave the parents to explore the big world. Luckily I am in the capable hands of the good folks of EngineHosting to make this as smooth as possible.
Nov 07
38 comments 2007 at 02.26 pm posted by Veerle
For me it’s usually a bit of fun to talk about a successful finished project. Every design project is a challenge, because it’s always different. Whether it’s a logo design or website design, to me, working on my own projects is the most difficult thing. That’s probably the case for every graphic designer. Because people have mailed me about when the new Duoh.com would be online, I thought I’ll share some of the designs that didn’t make it and explain my thinking process and why I rejected them.
Oct 22
25 comments 2007 at 03.23 pm posted by Veerle
It seems that my deadlines article has sparked an interesting discussion. One of them being an article entitled ”The Tao of Deadlines” by Andy Rutledge. To be honest I had to look up the meaning of Tao (Taoism) to understand its true meaning. Hey, I’m just a simple girl and don’t believe in making things sound smart or fancy job titles as those aren’t making you a better designer. The strength lies in what you create and not in what you call it :)
Sep 18
45 comments 2007 at 08.19 am posted by Veerle
Picture this: you are sitting along the river in beautiful surroundings creating what’s bound to be your best work yet and you aren’t feeling pressured. Sounds lovely, isn’t it? Too bad it isn’t reality. Now there seems to be an almost impossible deadline around every corner.
Sep 10
30 comments 2007 at 11.31 am posted by Veerle
Last week I linked to a cool new website called ”A Brief Message” by Khoi Vinh and Liz Danzico, which features design opinions expressed in short form - 200 words or less. The first article there was written by Steven Heller and was about print being as good as dead. As always opinions differ and with this article I’ll try to write down my thoughts about it. Unfortunately I didn’t stick to the 200 words limit :)
Sep 04
0 comments 2007 at 05.27 pm posted by Veerle
Some readers will have noticed that since a few days I began running ads from The Deck, Jim Coudal’s design-focused advertising network. I opted to integrate tasteful, unobtrusive and relevant advertising.
Aug 29
48 comments 2007 at 08.30 am posted by Veerle
People are e-mailing me with all kinds of questions. One of the recurring questions is about how I started my own business and if I could spare a few tips. In this article I’ll share my experience and what I’ve learned together with some tips and advice. Hopefully this will give people who are about to start freelancing some guidance in this big step.
May 31
43 comments 2007 at 02.08 pm posted by Veerle
Like I promised in the previous article, we will explore some applications that I have been testing to finally find the one I have been looking for. One of the most important decision factors is the ’User Interface‘, that’s why I said it has to have the attention to detail like CSSEdit to name one. There is one application that earns that title and it’s called Billings. You feel at home and you don’t see artifacts of badly designed icons or counter productive ways of working. It’s truly a Mac application and it shows the efforts that the engineers have put into it.
Mar 16
25 comments 2007 at 08.47 pm posted by Veerle
This is Veerle reporting about my SXSWi 2007 adventures in Austin, Texas :) I can’t really believe that it is over already because it feels like we just arrived in sunny Austin. The flights to Austin via Chicago went very uneventful so that’s a good thing. Returning back home we had a one hour delay in Chicago, but because of favorable winds we made up some of that time. I really had a blast this year and here’s my story if you like it or not :)
Feb 15
40 comments 2007 at 07.09 pm posted by Veerle
Web Directions North is over and I am still sick, but at least I now had the doctor coming over and he prescribed me some medication. When we arrived in Canada we hang out with Jeremy Keith and Dave Shea and enjoyed the local coffee art as you’ll see when I upload my pictures. It’s really cool what they do with the milk. You got to see them doing it to better grasp it but they wouldn’t let us film it.
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