Cas' Blog: Archive

Cas' Blog

January 2012

1 post

“Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don’t quite know how...”

– Exploratorium

December 2011

3 posts

My first three months at Somewhat have finished, and it has been an amazing journey so far. The team is fantastic, the projects we’re receiving are super exciting and vibe at the company is just great. Unfortunately I can’t say much about the projects we’re doing, but you’ll surely hear about it when they go live. One project I’ve been working on in the passed months,...

iPad Grid Omnigraffle Templates →

I made two Omnigraffle Templates of an iPad Grid System I found here. Free for all of you to download. Enjoy!

BBC iPlayer: Designing the iPhone app →

BBC iPlayer is a brilliant project from the BBC to bring their television and radio programs to a large amount of different devices, going from smartphones, to tablets to internet TV’s. Their UI is very consistent and well made. Every button has its function, you hardly get lost and you can always quickly find what you need. Recently they launched an iPhone version of their iPlayer, on...

November 2011

4 posts

October 2011

4 posts

September 2011

3 posts

“The field of creativity may need to shift its current focus from identifying how...”

– Freakonomics

August 2011

3 posts

I'll be moving to London in October!

After several months of job hunting, I’m very glad to announce I’ve found a new challenge in London! From October 10th onwards I’ll be working for a small new agency called Somewhat_. As one of the first who joins their small team, I’ll be working as a Creative Technologist and develop strong mobile concepts for some very exciting clients. I honestly can’t wait to...

“What begins with intuition is fueled by insights. If you’re lucky, these...”

– Susan Wojcicki

July 2011

4 posts

5 Rules for a Creative Culture by MailChimp

I just read this awesome article on the creative culture living inside the company MailChimp. I adore there way of working, and on how they focus their goals towards the happiness of the employees. These are there 5 rules for a Creative Culture: Avoid rules. Avoid order. Don’t just embrace chaos, but create a little bit of it. Constant change, from the top-down, keeps people nimble and...

The Idea Swap on Oprah's blog →

Apparently, Oprah’s editorial office found out about The Idea Swap and named it the most addictive website of all time. I’m so astonished by this!! Can I be on her show now?

Pretty inspiring stuff. Good light effects add so much to a good party. There’s so much you can do with openFrameworks. I’d love to dig deeper into this.

June 2011

3 posts

May 2011

1 post

April 2011

6 posts

In the autumn of last year, Wes, Isabel and I started to work on the new website for the OFFF event that happens every year. We gathered a team of people within the office and friends from outside to develop a great concept for the site. We’re now a few months away from the actual event, and the website is being developed as we speak. Héctor, the organizer of the event, invited us to visit...

This is the video for last year’s edition. Again nicely done by Noël Schoolderman for NanoMedia.

March 2011

1 post

February 2011

4 posts

Walt Disney and his idea-rooms

Walt Disney used a revolutionary approach to keeping his staff co-ordinated in their thinking on a particular project. He moved the ideas round three rooms, each room had a different function. Room 1 The place were dreams were dreamed, ideas were spun out, no restrictions, no limits - just every sort of outrageous creative hunch or idea was freely developed Room 2 Here the dreams from...

January 2011

5 posts

“Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it....”

– Karl Lagerfeld

December 2010

2 posts

November 2010

7 posts

“Imagine yourself on a winter afternoon with a pot of tea, a reading light, and...”

– In The Timeless Way of Building (1979), Christopher Alexander tries to describe how there is a unique quality shared by spaces and objects that are truly well-designed.