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My name is Geert. I'm a flash developer at Nascom, a self-employed web designer, founder of the design magazine GizMag, and co-founder of the gallery Alley.
Contact me in English, Dutch, or a little bit of French.
Geert Bollen © 2010
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Everything on this blog remains the copyright of the authors
It has been a busy week. But between all the work and being sick, I luckily found the time to finish up the new GizMag PDF (with one mistake though :) but I managed to correct it). It’s another issue I’m very proud of. It has some great artwork in it, and I’m very happy with all the work the artists put in the interviews again. It’s amazing I’m still having so much fun with it after 2 years. And there are some awesome things coming, just wait and see…
Check out the new issue, download it from GizMag.eu. Or check out the Issuu version.
This is a rather bad, blurred, unfocused snapshot of the upcoming GizMag PDF. I know. But I’m very thrilled about it, it’s going to be super sweet! This picture is part of a work from Simon Kim, he was selected from the Society6 Grant I organized a few months ago. He’s very talented, and I’m very excited to show you his interview. I’m not going to spoil anything, so I’m not revealing any of the other artists. You’ll just have to wait and see.
I knew this was coming, but I still forgot about it yesterday… Exactly 2 years ago (yesterday), GizMag went live with its first web issue! In the past 2 years, the magazine gained more visitors than I could ever imagine, which is awesome! So thanks a lot everyone! I won’t bore you with the technical details, but I am going to brag a bout it. :P The last few months the amount of visitors is slowing growing again, and so are the downloads of the PDF issues. When I first started, I told myself I wouldn’t continue if I didn’t get to 100 visitors a week. And I can assure you that we left this number behind us, even on a daily basis, a long time ago.
I’ve been thinking about trying to do some new things with the magazine. Actually a lot of people asked me for a print version, so who knows, if enough people are interested in it… But I’m not promising anything… I think the hand-written interviews are a big success, I get a lot of positive feedback on it from readers and participating artists, and I’m always amazed with the result. So we’ll keep doing that for sure!
For now, keep a look out for the next PDF issue. Which is going to be super awesome!
Update: I did some more digging in the archives, the website was launched on 08/02/2008! :)
Wow. It seems that I haven’t updated my blog for more than a month. I’ll never become rich and famous that way. :(
Anyway… What happened in the meantime?
At Alley we started our second expo with El Neoray, Vagabundos, Daspasfunky and Botlek. Definitely something you need to come and check out! I really enjoy this new expo, and I hope you will too. We expanded our shop with some new items (and new stuff is still coming in). And we even launched a new website! So you see, we’ve been very busy!
GizMag is still going strong with an average of more than 6000 downloads per PDF issue now. Even though the time I could spend on it was limited, I managed to keep updating the website with fresh links during the past 2 months. At the moment I am working on a new PDF issue. And I have some plans for something totally new, but I’m not sure about the details yet. So more on that later. From now on, I think I won’t be updating this blog with much GizMag news. So you’ll need to visit the website and my Tumblr for updates.
For all the cool stuff I’ve been doing at Nascom, I forward you to the company blog. Most of the awesome stuff ends up there anyway! :)
I promise I won’t wait too long for the next blog entry this time…
We (Debora, Daan and myself) have been working hard this weekend to get our gallery ready. There is still a lot of work to be done. But we’ll get there. :)
In the meantime, let me entertain you with number soixante neuf of GizMag, roaaarrrrrr…. http://gizmag.eu/issue/69/
By the way, I hate linoleum.
After taking a week off, I’m back with a new web issue!
http://gizmag.eu/issue/68/
You might have noticed somewhere (on Twitter), that I’m working on a new project “Alley”, together with the very nice people of Postcard of a Painting. (They are also the ones behind Mr Lapin.) There is still a lot of stuff to be done, but it’s going to be awesome! I’ll reveal more about it very soon.
In the meantime you can explore a new web issue. It didn’t arrive in time. But with all the preparations for Alley, I really didn’t had a chance to update GizMag sooner.