Portfolio websites

My first portfolio, 2008

Early 2012

Later 2012

A single-page design, 2013

Responsive Angular app, 2016

Print work (invitations, posters, ...)

Happy 2015 greeting card

To wish my friends a happy new year, I made a funny, personalised, and... yeah kinda nerdy greeting card.

Every person got a personalized link with adapted content.

Zior: my first "company"

Zior is a mini-enterprise, founded by 11 students of my school (including me). We offered nice juwelery for a good price. I was responsible for marketing & design.

Skaa.tk

Skaa.tk is the second site I wrote in php/mysql. I learned a lot while building my first portfolio, and I've put those experiences in a new blog-like site

There is a lot of beautiful or funny stuff to find on the web, but nowadays people, when they are bored, only check Facebook. So, those treasures stay undiscovered. Skaa.tk collects them and tries to be a new source of entertainment. The articles are written in Dutch.

Pixxery

Young Stijn dreamt of of becoming the next big shot, like Mark Zuckerberg is with Facebook?

A friend and I had some (crazy) ideas about how a brand new social network could look like.

Maybe we'll bring these ideas to life, one day ;)

Restomatic

As an assignment during my first year Applied Informatics, Stijn Van den Eede, Andy De Boeck and I worked on a restaurant management system.

Restaurant managers can add ingredients, create dishes and menus and manage customers and their reservations.

The program is written in Java (SE), the database used is an Access-database (via JDBC).

W3C XHTML 1.1 compliant website

This is a site I made for the course Internet Technology. The theme is music.

One of the requirements of the assignment was that all pages were fully W3C XHTML 1.1 - compliant.

Cohousing

For economics we had to make a business plan for a self-imagined co-housing project.

Several people, from diferent families, go live together. Some rooms, like the sleeping room and the bathroom, are private, but other rooms, like the toilets and the kitchen, are shared. This is a great way to get rid of loneliness and to save some money.

To empower our ideas, we also made this site. 2 years later, I received a mail from someone who found the site on Google and who was very interested in participating in this project. She felt a bit disappointed when I let her knew that the project was just fictional.

Applying design patterns while building my own Illustrator

For the course Design Patterns, we got the assigment to create a Java-application that lets you create vector drawings. The goal: to demonstrate our skill in rightfully applying design patterns.

You can draw ellipses, rectangles, paths and arcs. You can unify or subtract 2 objects. Ofcourse you can resize, rotate, duplicate objects. You can change the fill color, border color and border style. And you can save and load files, or export them to jpg. Lots of possibilities!

Downloads

• Download the program!
• Here are some examples, which you can open with XtremeDraw

Building a Windows 8 app at a hackaton

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I participated at WOWZAPP: an hackaton organized by Microsoft. We got a crash course in developing apps for Windows 8, and from the afternoon until midnight I developed my first Windows 8 app in XAML and C#, together with Thomas D'hauwe and Jarrich Van De Voorde. Introducing: Vlaamse Verkeersinformatie or VVI.

This app downloads (Flemish) traffic information from the internet and presents it in a clean, simple way.

Guerilla marketing

During the first semester of my last year at college, I took the class "Entrepreneurship". Together with 5 other people, we invented our own business and created a business plan.

Our company was called "Hype!". It is a marketing company which specializes in "guerilla marketing". This is a super cool (and very aggressive) marketing technique.

At the end of the year we presented our "company" for a jury. The jury decided that our idea was one of the 3 best ideas of the year!

Friendly electronical learning environment

During our third and last year of college, we (Kevin Lauwers, Thomas D'hauwe and myself) got the task to create a web application, build in Java with JSF and JPA, and a Windows Phone application.

VELO stands for "Vriendelijke Elektronische Leeromgeving", which translates to "Friendy Electronic Learning Environment". In this application, professors can exchange documents and calendars with their students, in a very clear, simple way.

Photoshop "art"