Thoughts on Digital Life

Last week I was invited to visit the Hieronymus Bosch show currently showing at the Noordbrabants Museum. I was involved with the concept and realisation of the campaign website for the exhibition so I was invited to visit this amazing exhibition. Hieronymus Bosch As I stood there, alone, in front of a masterpiece I had seen on my screen over a hundred times in a period of just a few weeks I was amazed how interesting it really is. Hieronymus Bosch died 500 years ago this year. He lived from around 1450 till 1516. The paint on those paintings, the concept, the realisation has been made over 500 years ago. Yet, if you look at the big success of the exhibition, people still find his work amazing and want to see it. After 500 years it still matters greatly. Webdesign It's a big contrast to my work. My work is always fast and temporary. A website, app or anything else I create is not timeless. The campaign website for Hieronymus for instance runs from Jan 1st until the end...

Last Friday I got to visit the 2nd edition of Dsgnday in Amsterdam - many thanks to my employer Insiders for allowing me and 2 colleagues to visit Dsgnday. In this blog-post I would like to recap what I have seen and how I have experienced the talks. Simon Collison - The Designer's Guide to Being Essential The first speaker of the day was Simon Collison. Simon was very smart in combining his life story with his message. Simon explained how his life was modular and how he forgot some modules of his past and refound them over the past years. He continued that robots know it all. All the modules in webdesign can be designed by robots. So what makes a human webdesigner better than the machines? The answer to the question would be empathy. Simon quoted from an article by Travis Gertz. I've read it and I think its a must read. The part about AirBnb is very sadly so true. Its the most asked question of 2015 for me: can we have something like AirBnb? Great article , be sure ...