Jan De Coster, communication consultant
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PINBALL
Prototype
After making the Jukeball virtual pinball, and restoring the antique counterpart of the pinball machine in real life, the idea to make a version of the game you could actually touch, kept growing in my mind.

So when I was invited to come speak at an Adobe Usergroup Meeting in Ghent, I knew the time had coming to make this idea reality. Or at least a working demo of the idea. Many attendees of the conference got their hands on the prototype and the reactions were very promising. Big thanks to Dobit for providing the nice display!

TAGS: Pinball, Installation, Hardware, Flash, Prototype

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GESP
styleguide & forum
As project manager of the Prevention 2.0 project at the Suicide Prevention Center, I am also in contact with the Government Agency for Health & Well-being.

That is how I got the opportunity to create a styleguide for this years Health Conference on Suicide Prevention. I also developed the forum that allowed the flemish public to send in their ideas on suicide prevention in Flanders. Visit the forum here.

TAGS: GESP, Suicide Prevention, Forum, Health Conference

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MEDIA ATTENTION FOR PREVENTIE 2.0
following award 'Ga Voor Geluk'

After winning the Go-for-happiness award with the Prevention 2.0 project, a lot of media attention came my way. You can read more about the Go-for-happiness award here.

There were articles in De Morgen, Het Nieuwsblad and Weliswaar Magazine. The lasts one included an amusing photoshoot with Stephan Vanfleteren. There was also an interview on Studio Brussel and on the Talkshow Goedele.

 

TAGS: Award, Media attention, Goedele, Studio Brussel, De Morgen, Het Nieuwsblad, Ga Voor Geluk, Stephan Vanfleteren

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JUKEBALL
Kick-ass gaming

During the last summer months of 2010 I produced a flash pinball game for Tequilla / Agency.com. The game was part of a launchcampaign for the Nissan Juke.

The campaignsite is offline, but you can still play the game here! (only the game, no interface, just for demonstration purposes)
You can read more here about the production process.

TAGS: Pinball, Flash Game, Nissan Juke, Tequila, Agency

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CHARACTER DESIGN
Universal Communication & Cuteness
I am a big fan of Pictoplasma, and I have been attending the conferences in Berlin since the very first one in 2004. But I started creating my own characters long before that.

Character design has always been very important to me. Without characters there isn't much to identify with in the games I produce.
Over the years characters have created a place for themselves outside of the games too.

TAGS: Character Design, Fur, Pictoplasma

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NEW GAME
coming in 2012
In case you were thinking 2D Flash games were a dying race, think again. If you are a descendant of the Maya's, and time is coming to an end for you in 2012, there should be at least some time left, to play this game.

 

TAGS: New game, 2012

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OFFF
Wondering Dude made the book
For many years I have been attending the wonderfull OFFF festival, in various locations in southern Europe. There is an abundance of inspiration to be found there, and I have made lots of good friends at the event over the years.

Last year, with the 10th anniversary of OFFF, it was a particulary proud moment, for an onliner like me, when my drawing of the Wondering Dude was published in the anniversary book; Aim High, Keep Moving.

TAGS: OFFF, Book, Published, Wondering Dude

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VERONIKA POT
Logo & Website design
Veronika Pot is a very talented and experienced photographer, who makes a point of working solely with analogue cameras. So when she asked me to design a digital logo and website, I'd better make sure it was something special, that connects with her work and world.
It became a logo in negative space.

The website shouldn't draw attention away from the photographs. That's why it even changes color to blend even more in the background of the photo. Read more about the project here.

TAGS: Veronika Pot, Photography, Logo, Design

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ZELFMOORDLIJN.BE
Suicide Prevention Online
I am a freelance staff member of the Flemish Suicide Prevention Center. The center is well known for it's suicide hotline, by phone and online.

I design and developed all of the websites for the center, and I am project manager of the Prevention 2.0 project.

TAGS: Suicide Prevention, Zelfmoordlijn

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HADHI
Fair trade online store
HADHI is a fancy fare-trade design store in Antwerp. In 2010 I made their website with online store. The website included various presentations of their beautiful products, with a content feed via Flickr. Unfortunately the website was recently replaced by a simpler version that is more friendly to iPad users and online buyers.

Read more about the project here.

TAGS: Fair Trade, Design, Online store

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NO BALLS
NO CHRISTMAS
In the darkest months of 2009, I made this documentary about a homeless christmas tree, living on the streets of Brussels.

 

TAGS: Christmas, Tree

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DIRECT MARKETING
Outside of the box
Mid 2009 I made this portable fully autonomous portable installation, thas was to be used as a direct mailing to prospects.

The case is dust and water proof. The basis of the system is a standard HP portable running Ubuntu. Interaction with the operator was possible with various buttons and switches and a telephone reciever. Read more here.

TAGS: Portable Interactive installation, Ipac, Launchbutton

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URBAN EXPLORATION
Photography with steelplated shoes on
I have been taking photo's from abandoned places for many years, before I learned such an activity made me in fact member of a sub-culture of Urban Explorers.

Sub-culture or not, there is something about finding exciting places that are overlooked by most people. Watch the photostream of Doel, Laken, or my other sets on Flickr.

TAGS: Urban Exploration, Photography, Abandoned places

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BABY COMMUNICATION
Introducing Lucas & Sofie
There are few things that spur the creative mind like becoming a parent. And I've been lucky enough to do that twice.

Here are the websites of Lucas & Sofie.

TAGS: Baby, Birth Card, Animals, Character Design

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USPACE
Portfolio site 2008
In 2009 I desiged a new online portfolio based on this footage shot in the Austrian mountains.

Along with this project came also the tune you can hear in the video above.

TAGS: Portfolio website, Austria

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DROPPING VIPERS
Dodge Dare Days
I did this project under employment at Proximity BBDO. So this is certainly a team effort. (together with copywriters Bout Holtof and Tom De Block)

For this project I did the technical concept and realisation of the on-board camera installation, the ground-floor video capture unit, the website and other online media, as well as the Art Direction on the whole campaign. The campaign won many awards in 2008, like a couple of Bronze Cannes Lions.

TAGS: Dodge Viper, Bungee jump, Cannes Award

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ATMOSPHERE
Game Concepts, Development & Designs
During my years @ Atmosphere BBDO, there was one kind of project I could really call my own, and that was flash games. I created dozens of games as a part of large campains for Snickers, Pepsi, NMBS, Telenet.... For these games I did the concepts, but also art direction and design, and the development in flash.

TAGS: Flash, Game, Design, Development, Concept

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BELGIAN NAVY
Damage Control System
In 1999 I developed and installed a Damage Control System in Macromedia Flash, for the 3 fregat class ships of the Belgian Navy. (F910, F911 and F912)

Twelve years later, one of the ships is still supposed to be in action, and most lickely still running the Flash 4 player...

TAGS: Navy, Damage Control System, Flash

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EARTHDANCE 1999
VJ Performance
In 1999 one of the 60 party locations of EarthDance festival, was @ the Cybertheatre in Brussels. Troughout the Cybertheatre and on a moviescreen begind the performers, I displayed a live VJ-show, during the whole concert.

The VJ-setup consisted of 8 seperate themes accompanied by 200 clips, in 3 layers. Everything was controlled by keyboard and mouse. In 1999 it wasn't easy to find a computer that could run the animations at full speed.

TAGS: Live VJ Show, Flash, Cybertheatre, Brussels

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HIP97
A Community Sprouts In a Culture That Resists It
This event in 1997 is probably marks the official start of my carreer in digital media production.

Who better then Lisa Napoli can explain what it was like to be there.

TAGS: Hackers Conference, Almere, Pizza, Jolt Cola

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