Author Archives: Michiel

About Michiel

Michiel is studying a Master in Strategic Product Design and interested in the fields of design, psychology and faith. He became a child of God through Jesus in 2004: if you want to know more about that, ask him. He has experience in graphic designing and webdesign, and a bachelor degree of industrial design; which enables him to think from the perspective of to user and to solve problems with creativity.

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Inspirational – Harmony Sketchtool

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While browsing through the web and converstating with others, a lot of interesting sites and resources are given and found, and every week I’m going to share some of my findings to you. Well, I try to do it weekly, but sometimes I’m on a holiday trip and not able to post or find something interesting. The first Item of the Week is the harmony sketchtool, which is an online basis sketchtool. It has a wonderful feeling and I’m showing you just the basics today.

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Online Printing Reviewed – Next Day Flyers

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I have several friends where I design posters and brochures for.  However, most artwork is on my computer and needs to be printed out. The last time I designed a poster my client was asking where it could be printed, since I mostly only stick to the designing part. Travelling over the web reveals a great amount of online printing companies, and I came into contact with a particular one: nextdayflyers.com. In this post I’ll review this printing company. M-Sign.nl is starting to review!

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Old Paper Textures

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Some years ago I got a present from my neighbours: some old psalm and songbooks. At that moment, they were only usable for begin in the museum or as a decorative item in my room. However, these books have some excellent old paper surfaces which provided some pretty neat old paper textures. Here on this post, 47 textures from old paper and psalmbooks, shot with my camera.

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Building a CSS-Sprite Based Website

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What is a sprite? A CSS-Sprite is a single image which containt multiple images and is used and placed using css on such a manner that you use each image in it. Ok, this sounds a little bit vague (a more detailed description can be found on: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/), but a css sprite helps to limit your http-requests. In other words, it is used for optimizing your website loading times. It reduces your loading times. This is especially important when having a very big site with many visitors. However, it is also interesting to learn this technique for own purposes.