February 25-26 th, Felix Meritis Amsterdam. Design, technology, cool stuff … . Thanks to the Adobe team and Bert Hagendoorn, we were invited to the Adobe VIP Night, we could stay in a nice and comfortable hotel and could follow some inspiring sessions at the festival.
Having diner with some of Belgians finest designers, developers and strategic consultants.
A delegation of Boulevart, Nascom, Endrone, One Agency, HOWEST and 12 bottles of wine. When these ran dry we were ready to conquer the world. Thanks for the nice evening you guys.
Wim Vanhenden, motivator and inspiration for our new upcoming talent.
Guys we love to see you next week, not only as students but as colleagues for a couple of weeks.
Koen, themagician with the virtual “AIR” piano.
Closing down with his “Fly is dead application” gave me some complete new ideas of what is possible with new technology. Thanks for inspiring us and your animated session.
Erlend Debast has a bright vision on modern GUI design, web standards, xHTML and CSS GUI development and he will enlighten our team with smart conceptual ideas. If you want a sneak preview of what Erlend is going to share at our labs.boulevart.be feel free to visit his personal BLOG artueel.be. Erlend joined our graphical user interface development team.
Roel Hadermann graduated as a graphic designer at ‘Sint Lucas Antwerpen’. During his studies he did some freelance projects and worked at ‘Sprengers, Creative Communication’. Afterwards he started working at ‘ The Belgian Red Cross Flanders’ as designer for 6 months (so much for the noble work). Roel joined the graphical user interface designer team
Frederic is a CG artist with advanced expertise in 3D character concept design, digital painting and story boarding. He will broaden the service range of Boulevart and will strengthen the Flash team to support high level 3d productions. For the past 2 years he has been working in Germany at Crytek/EA Games where he worked on the immensely popular game Crysis.
Christophe Herremans, according to his BLOG: ‘I have a Bachelor degree in Multimedia & Communication Technology from the Technical University of West-Flanders (Belgium). After graduating I started working at the Technical University as a lecturer on web technologies and multimedia and later moved on to work full time at Indie Group as an Application Architect/Developer for the Products department.”
Adrenaline and relaxation were the keywords for our 40 colleagues and their partners. No time to waste; after delicious spaghetti Luc drove us into the woods for a nocturnal dropping. Wind, rain and freezing cold couldn’t spoil our fun; the first team raced to the bottles of jenever like the were chasing rabbits.
At 9 am we gathered around a wooden chalet to meet our guide and had some coffee to get us started. A one hour quad drive was the first on the menu.
Ok, yellow is not our company color, and the extra outfit was not that comfortable. Going through miles of deep mud puddles and beautiful landscapes was great fun for most of us. Occasionally one of the colleagues dropped of his bike, but this couldn’t spoil the fun.
Boys will always be boys
To end up with our outdoor adventures we climbed up some rocks (via ferrata) and enjoyed a deathride from 50 meters altitude. Some of us were highly concentrated, fighting their fear of heights, while other colleagues were fighting their own (paintball) war. To call it a day we went back for some Japanese TAIKO and relaxing massages.
