Interview 1
Name
Rens Marten
Age
32
Profession
Teacher Grafische onderwerp at the HKU, typographist, owner of graphical development company ‘Rens.’
Academic training
Beeldende kunsten at the HKU
Personal quote
'Do or do not. There is no try.' - Jedi Master Yoda
Favorite colour
Blue
Hobby
Collecting Hip-hop
3 words to discribe Rens Marten
umm… typographist…teacher and…
Most visited websites
Nu.nl, Hotmail, online CD shops.
- Believes site’s look or navigation isn’t as important as its functionality.
- Tends to look at a website’s pictorial content, then the text.
- Finds results more important than process
- Not a gamer
- Likes nice typography in a site.
- Encourages artists to only upload best work.
- From a site, I expect to know where I am and who’s site it is.
Interview 2
Name
Ton Markus
Age
41
Family
Married with 2 kids
Occupation
Director of one-man company for CSS programming, HTML teacher at HKU
Interests
Making efficient websites, tools for making sites
Personal quote
Anything you can explain to a computer is science, the rest is art.
Favorite websites
Daring Fireball, Roughly Drafted.
Worst Personal Feature
Has trouble letting go of things.
Favorite colour
(Looks at orange shirt)
- Believes the purpose of a portfolio is to see what the student is up to.
- Hates when he can’t find what he’s looking for in a site, since this is the purpose of a website.
- Is a teacher at the HKU because he was asked. (Joking.) He always wanted to be a teacher and likes to teach college students because he knows we want to learn. (Compared to, say, high school students, who have to be there.)
- Only teaches one day a week
- Likes to delve into and learn about new ideas and goings-on in the technology world. (EG: relationships/arguments between Apple, Adobe, etc.)
- As long as you can still read it, grammar and spelling are not important to Ton. Likes information to be concise and to the point: no bullshit padding.
- When Ton works, he storms his customer’s brain so he can know exactly what they want. Some customers don’t like this, because they feel then that they’re paying for nothing.
- Ton can work in a team: he works with the University of Utrecht and other companies on a daily basis.
- Has a deep dislike for Comic Sans font. He feels it instantly undermines the content of a page.
Name
Joeri Lefeure
Age
24
Job
Teacher at HKU, freelance art, Monkey Business (concept art company) 2 days a week.
Interests
Drawing, drinking, chess, watching films, playing guitar, music, NOT sport
3 words that describe Joeri
Troublesome, ‘eigenwijs,’ (does their own thing) dyslexic
Frequently visited sites
Gmail, art blogs
Personal quote
When something’s good, something’s good.
- Artwork on a website should, if possible, have no text. The art should speak for itself.
- Composition and navigation are very important in a site and shouldn’t be too cluttered. Should also fit context.
- Hates advertisements on sites, as well as broken links and pages that take unnecessarily long to get to.
- Artwork in a portfolio will be the first thing to catch Joeri’s attention.
- Impulse is as important as planning in art
- Has dyslexia
- Feels he is a concrete person
- Likes to work in a team, except when doing personal work, like painting.
- Uses Google Chrome and has a Mac Pro.
- Is an artist because he likes to make things he internally finds beautiful and gives lessons because he likes to offer wisdom externally.
- Doesn’t mind humor in a website’s text, as long as it’s appropriate. (Not in articles about cancer.)
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