Veerle Pieters uit Deinze
Veerle ‘we don’ t serve tagsoup’ Pieters is een webdesigner uit België met een opmerkelijke weblog die wereldwijd in de belangstelling staat. Zo publiceerde het gerenomeerde Digital Web Magazine vorige maand een interview met Veerle.
DWM: Many formally trained designers are also artists, but you clearly say that you aren„t. Yet, there are hints throughout your sites that you are an artist at heart. Can you give us some insight here?
Veerle Pieters: What is art, exactly? How would you define it? Is design – graphic design in particular – an art? If so, than I am an artist. I just think of myself as a designer, a graphic designer, rather than an artist. An artist, for me, is more like a painter or a sculptor; someone whose work is less connected to the real world. I guess it depends on how broadly you interpret the words art and artist. Some might think that visionaries are artists.
Veerle Pieters started in 1992 as a freelance graphic designer under the name of Duoh!. The first 3 years were mainly filled with print orientated work such as logos and stationary. From 1995 onward, designing websites and user interfaces for Intranets together with multimedia development was her main focus. In 2000 Veerle founded Duoh! n.v. (n.v. is the equivalent of an inc.) together with Geert Leyseele. Veerle is the CEO of Duoh! n.v. and lives in Deinze, Belgium a small but beautiful country in the heart of Europe. During those past years Duoh! has been working for the Library of Congress in Washington DC for a project called “The Learning Page”. An overview of all this work can be found here. In 2003 Veerle discovered Web Standards after seeing the Zen Garden and the work of Douglas Bowman. Since then she never looked back and is actively promoting the benefits through her personal journal. Veerle is the author of Veerle’s blog, an online journal started in September 2003. It’s a source for a wide range of topics going from XHTML/CSS to graphic design tips and personal impressions.
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