Filed under: fun | Tags: abandoned, photography, Photos, Urban Exploration, Urbex, Zuidstation
Last week I saw a presentation by Reginald Van de Velde (http://www.suspiciousminds.com/) about Urban Exploration. It was nice to learn there is now a name for what we were doing, when we were taking pictures in abandoned places and buildings, to show other people the hidden beauty and peace of these places. And at the same time, trying not to disturb this peace and beauty by our presence.
The picture above is from a set I took in the Zuidstation in Antwerp in 1996.
Click here to view the full set.
The picture below is from a set I took in a public pool near Hofstade.
Click here to view the full set.
View all my other pictures on my Flickr pages.
Last week I visited Pictoplasma in Berlin. Pictoplasma is a large conference gathering character designers and animators from all over the world, in 3 days of creativity and studies of the reduced human figure.
Filed under: work | Tags: Hazard perception, Kijk Uit Op De Fiets, KU Leuven, road safety, training children
When children are around 12 years old, and start taking their bicycles to school, they often know traffic rules and regulations.
What they often lack at this young age, is the experience to detect potential dangerous situations on the road. With this on-line training programme children learn where they have to look when they are on the road. The children are presented a series of interactive video’s, shot from the front of a bicycle. At certain moments they need to respond quickly by clicking on the right place on the screen.
This project is created by Prof. Jan Pauwels and produced in cooperation with Ives Jossa.
Also in coöperation with BIVV, KU Leuven and DVV verzekeringen.
…at least, what’s underneath it. The purpose of the soil certificate is to keep track of what goes on beneed your feet.
This information is very valuable to everyone that buys or sells a property in Belgium.
On this website you find everything you need to know about the certificate in less then 40 seconds en less then 4 clicks.
Project in coöperation with http://www.tocommunication.be/
Filed under: work | Tags: Suicide prevention, recruiting volunteers, Zelfmoordlijn, Zelfmoordpreventie, Zelfdoding, Cetrum ter preventie van zelfdoding, vrijwilligers
It’s not all fun and games. This flashbanner attracts people to a landings page, where they get more information about volunteering for the telephone helpline and chat box, of the Belgian Zelfmoordlijn, an initiative of the Centrum ter Preventie van Zelfdoding. The image and interaction shows without many words the idea: more volunteers are needed, you will be part of a community, every member of this community is equally necessary to help people in crisis.
Filed under: work | Tags: Advergame, Battle of the Sekses, Brandedgames, EK football, flashgame, gamevertising, LG, MediaMarkt
Last week I finished another game for Brandedgames.com, again with Art Direction by Jurgen Van Groeninge. The game is called “Battle of the Sekses”, and the aim is to knock out as many screens as you can with a football, and at the same time, compare your skills to the other sex. You can play it here: http://www.battleofthesekses.nl/ Have fun 
Filed under: events | Tags: Digital Contemorary Art Conference, OFFF Lisbon 2008
Last week I visited the OFFF-conference in Lisbon. This conference has become a meeting place for 2500 people, that are interested in the post-digital creation culture. In other words, motion graphics, flash design, digital installations an art projects.
In the last years we saw more exotic technical platforms, like Production, as a base for many of these offline digital projects. Now they are almost all done on the Flash platform, thanks to the new scripting engine for AS3.
With a very modest presence from Microsoft’s Silverlight platform, we can probably expect more effort from that side, to lurk the highly creative digital artists, into their camp.
It’s not a new trend in the world of advertising, to put the entertainment value of your message above the marketing value. But this trend is becoming a lot more prominent in the projects that are shown here.
The consumer chooses what message he wants to see, and if he is not entertained, you will only make a slim chance to get your message trough.
This is a good trend for people that like to put entertainment in advertising projects
Filed under: work | Tags: Advergame, arcade, Brandedgames, Campina, flashgame, gamevertising, platform game
Last week I finished this new game for Campina Netherlands, commissioned by BrandedGames.com. The Art Direction in this game is done by Jurgen Van Groeninge from Brandedgames.com. The objective is to collect as many cans of whipped cream as you can, and win a make over!!! You can play it at www.durftegenieten.nl/game
If you make it to level 2, you can fly around the clouds with an umbrella.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2D barcode, business card, matrix code, offline hyperlink, QR-code
Quick Response codes have been around for over 14 years now, but they are still to catch on in Belgium.
Nearly everyone carries a mobile phone, and a lot of them are starting to go on line.
When you have a QR-reader installed on your mobile phone, this code on the back of the card will redirect you to a mobile version of my website.
