Veerle's blog

About myself

I'm a graphic/web designer living in Belgium. My personal journal is an online source for topics ranging from XHTML/CSS to graphic design tips.

I began my career 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, stationery and brochures.

From 1995 onward, designing websites and user interfaces for intranets together with multimedia development was my main focus.

In 2000 I've founded Duoh! n.v. together with Geert Leyseele. I'm the CEO of Duoh! n.v. and live in Deinze, Belgium a small but beautiful country in the heart of Europe.

During the past years Duoh! has been working for the Library of Congress in Washington DC for a project called "The Learning Page".

In 2003 I've discovered Web Standards after seeing the CSS Zen Garden and the work of Douglas Bowman. Since then I never looked back and I'm actively promoting the benefits of Web Standards through this personal journal.

My dream is that I have a small contribution in making the interweb a better place.

Worth mentioning

• Nr. 39 on 'NxE's Fifty Most Influential Female Bloggers'
• Duoh! was selected to be in the Adobe® CS3 Web Workflow Guide (p. 62 - 63 of the PDF) which is included in the Creative Suite 3 Web Premium box
• Winner of the pMachine shoot out "Personal" category, an ExpressionEngine contest by EllisLab
• 2006 Artypapers Awards Best Redesign
• Second best rated website on Stylegala (up until now)
• 2nd place in 'Site of The Year' and 2nd place in the category 'Blogging' on The first CSS World Awards
• My weblog on CSS Beauty
• NetDiver powagirrrl
• Interview on DigitalWeb
• Interview on CSSRemix
• Interview about illustrating on Subtraction
• Interview on Abuzeedo
• Interview on Vector tuts
• Panel speaker at SXSWi 2006, Austin TX - Starting Small
• Panel speaker on @media 2006, London talking about Good Design vs. Great Design
• Speaker at Web Directions North with Dave Shea talking about Finding Creativity in the Design Process
• Panel speaker at SXSWi 2007, Austin TX - Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic
• Panel speaker at SXSWi 2009, Austin TX - Color Angels, Episode 1: Colors: It's Not Black and White

Some of my work

• Veerle theme for Netvibes
• 'Girl On The Go' illustration theme for Scrapblog (partially implemented)
• 3 sets of Blogger skins in 3 color variations for Google (not implemented yet)
• A set of templates for Google Page Creator in association with Bright Creative, the web studio of Dave Shea
• Greenpeace 'Green my Apple' campaign (website design, including, icons and illustrations)
• SocialSignal (logo and website template design)
• Exonet (logo, housestyle and website design including icons)
• Xtreak (logo, housestyle and website design)
• Devia (logo, housestyle and website design)
• NetSquared (logo, housestyle and website design)
• MyAmerica (logo and website template design)
• Cecif (logo and website template design)

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