About Boulevart

Just an ordinary day at work J Having a BBQ lunch at Boulevart Schelle.

Yves Venken has a real passion when it comes to developing websites and is eager to learn and grow in the domain of multimedia. During his training of 8 weeks at studio 100, he developed a gaming platform together with another recent employee of Boulevart. After graduating at “Karel de Grote Hogeschool”, he worked for a company building business applications. After this experience, he knows that nothing beats developing for the web.

Dennis Jaamann earned his degree in applied informatics at “Karel de Grote Hogeschool” in june 2007. He followed the multimedia specialization course at this school.After graduation, his first job was for IRelate of the cronos group (Siebel CRM) for 7 months.In February he decided that it was time for the multimedia challenge that is boulevart.

What’s a positive user experience?  What’s usability?  What’s user-centered design? How to design User Interfaces, how to standardise User Interface? All Questions we’re confronted with in every multimedia project. From now on Ward Monteyne can add Certified Usability Designer to his business card. PS. he graduated cum laude.

 Last Thursday Ethan Eismann and his colleague came over and gave a technical session about Adobe Thermo. Some of our developers and designers had some critical thoughts about the usage of this new tool, but this made it an interactive and interesting workshop.

“I’m Ethan Eismann, an experience designer at Adobe currently working on Thermo and Adobe AIR. My blog is about Flash, Flex, AIR, Thermo, RIAs, and design writ large”

Nicolas and Ethan had to talk about the Google Analytics User Interface en guess what; the final release of the GAS is going to rock …

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.