About Me

 

 

Who’s Gerben van Erkelens?

Okay, born on a nice autumn day in 1984 I started exploring the vast world. After a few years my happy school days began. With some ease I walked into my junior college years. After that I went for a few years to a (similar to) high school where I started to develop my creative side. It wasn’t until the last year of high school I chose for an education in the graphical industry.

The year after that I went to Eindhoven to train myself as a multimedia designer. I learned about all the basics I needed to design web pages, make animations or design a brochure. Besides that I got training in 3D modeling, video and sound editing and a small amount of programming. There I chose for a distinct direction which was designing.

I also program a little bit in PHP, but it isn’t significant enough to me for making it a daily job. The programming part comes in handy when editing WordPress templates. I also managed to write a small CMS system which is easy to implement.

I worked for about five years after finishing my education as a multimedia designer. After that period I wanted to improve my skills even further and decided to go back to school again and started an education again. The choice of education was Communication & Multimedia design, a bachelor’s degree.

Design & Photography

Besides online gaming, I also like to design my own little projects in my spare time. However not much you’ll see wandering around here. Photography is also a hobby of mine. I just like to go out there and get some normal but out of the ordinary objects in my viewfinder.  You can find the photo’s I shot on my RGB Stock profile and also on Picasa. However keep in mind I’d like to be credited if you’re using one of my photo’s.

As a designer I’m kind of a minimalist. I like simple and clean designs and most of the time my own designs are very minimalistic. Less is more and keep it simple are my rules of thumb when designing.

Social Media

Recently I’ve also become interested in Social Media and it’s tips and tricks. It’s great to interact with people on the other side of the world and it I think it brings people closer to each other. Want to follow me? See the links on the right side and give me a Buzz or Tweet. I like discussing all sorts of things related to design and IT.

My resume

To see more contact information, education levels, skill level and work experience you can find my resume here (interactive PDF).

Why English?

A lot of people I know are questioning the fact that this blog is in English and not in dutch, my native language. However this is for a reason! So please read carefully, cause I’ll only write this once!

The reason for writing in English is pretty simple. I can speak English fairly well, of course I’ve a Dutch accent but people understand my English. However, writing a nice story or article is harder than I thought. So I started this blog to help me bring my English writing to a higher level. So expect some typo’s here and there and feel free to contact me about that.

Well that’s it for now, hope you got to know me a bit better. Feel free to contact me if you would like to know more about me or the work I created.