Hi, I am a creative freelancer available for responsive webdesign, webdevelopment, graphic design & WordPress + PodsCMS

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I'm experienced with almost anything web.

What do I do?

I am a webdesigner, webdeveloper, graphic designer, online enthusiast, which makes my skillset rather broad. See the next three columns what skills I possess.

i am a designer

  • Mobile & Website Design
  • WordPress Theme Design
  • Branding and Corporate Identity
  • User Interface Design (UI/UX)
  • Graphic & Print Design
  • Blogging & Social Media
  • Interaction Animation (jQuery/Flash)

i am a developer

  • Responsive Webdesign
  • HTML5 / CSS3 / jQuery
  • SASS, LESS, ..
  • PHP, MySQL Website Development
  • WordPress Development
  • Information Architecture
  • SEO

i am a chameleon

  • Branding and Corporate Identity
  • User Interaction
  • User Experience
  • Usability
  • Using WordPress as CMS
  • Speaking on Webdesign
  • Communications passionate (web/mobile/opensource)

WORK / PROJECTS

I work or worked for these companies and brands on all kinds of projects, designing the web, print, logo's or developing code.

working for:

  • Sony
  • VAIO
  • Nascom
  • Famous
  • Darwin BBDO
  • Hill+Knowlton Strategies

worked for these guys:

  • Software Advies
  • Alligence Communications
  • Telenet Business
  • Internet Architects
  • Cipal
  • Big Media Group

and for these as well:

  • Hyundai
  • Agfa
  • Rosy Blue
  • Jupiler
  • Photo Studio Graphics

Recent Works

Take a look at some recent projects (web / print / ..)

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Lingerie-Fashion

Lingerie Fashion responsive website

Simple website for Lingerie Fashion, a local store with two outlets. The owner wanted a attractive site, which reflected her company look and style and gave her the opportunity to easily switch and add information and pictures. We chose for a dark background, with subtle pattern in brown, which complements the existing purple (and green) logo and font very well. The whole project was built from a mobile first approach, some time ago actually, the project was put on hold for a while. Nevertheless, the client now has a flexible [...]

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Website Graphic Designer Bart Luijten

A good friend and great designer, mainly specialising in print, magazines and big books asked me to help him with his new portfolio site. The idea he had in mind was pretty well-defined, and being a graphic designer himself, the front-end coding was precision work at times. Basically it’s a fluid site which has a brick layout, not as chaotic as other pinterest-like sites, but more precise and well-aligned blocks with set sizes. For this purpose I created a system in which he can choose with a two simple dropdowns [...]

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Website Interior Design

EXID, a team of exceptional interior developers, a simple website was built, with focus on their projects and accessibility on mobile and tablet devices. Design was done by Ken Bekaert of Frozenyogurt and together we put together a simple, but effective UI. Site was built according to the principles of mobile-first, responsive webdesign with enhancements through media queries. Although the interface stays very minimalistic, a choice put forward by the client and designer. I built the front-end, with WordPress as CMS and a nice touch-friendly slider, although the filtering options [...]

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Recently Published Blogposts

I've also been blogging, have a read of my latest posts. Just like the section above, I'm also editable!

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My view on responsive webdesign after Responsive Day Out 2013

March 1st I attended #responsiveconf in Brighton. A place where a lot of web industry professionals gathered to learn and discuss the state of Responsive Web Design almost 3 years after Ethan Marcotte’s article on AListApart. The conference was one of the best I attended, regarding talks, way the whole day was setup (3 small talks + small Q&A session and then pause). Kudos to all presenters and Jeremy Keith in particular. Whether you’re a seasoned RWD using WebDesigner, just starting out or somewhere “in between”, the conference had a [...]

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Facebook apps blokkeren, permissies bekijken en event invites weigeren

Omdat ik er zelf al mee geconfronteerd werd, en omdat nog veel meer anderen er in mijn stream hierover klagen, heb ik even een korte blogpost gemaakt, met enkele screenshots, hoe de vervelende apps uit je stream te houden, hoe je profiel info beter te beschermen tegen apps en hoe de ergernis van spammende “vrienden” te minimaliseren. (Klik op de screenshots als je een grotere versie van het beeld wil zien) App verzoeken, Event uitnodigingen etc.. Eerst en vooral kan je zo’n verzoek direct verwijderen dmv het pijltje rechtsboven (verschijnt [...]

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Responsive Web Design WordCampNL 2012

At WordCampNL 2012 I presented on the importance of thinking future friendly regarding webdesign. That means that you no longer can hold on to the existing self-defined paradigm of what the size of a website is. We derived too much ideas from areas like graphic design, but like Marshall McLuhan said ‘the medium is the message’. And that also has it’s implications regarding possibilities and constraints. You might think that constraints are a bad thing, but when it comes to sizing the web (640×480, then when screens became larger 800×600, [...]

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Information

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E-mail: tomhermans@gmail.com

Twitter: @tomhermans

Skype handle: tomhermans

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