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Me
I studied Fine Arts at what's now called ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Kampen (now Zwolle), The Netherlands. They say an art study makes you an artist. Maybe they're right. I do paint and I design stuff. Does that make me an artist? Much of my inspiration comes from old punkrock flyers, worn paper and fabrics, broken stuff. I like my work to look unfinished, undesigned. Design by accident.
(...)I didn’t study graphic design. I left the design department after six months because the teachers (and students) there were too bound to rules in my opinion. Especially typography rules. As you may know a lot of Dutch designers and therefore design teachers are heavily influenced by the ‘less is more’ principle. Well, that’s not my cup of tea.
From an interview (click here to read the whole thing)
Websites
I create and code websites using web standards. What else should I say? They do what they have to do. I hope...
Inspiration
David Salle, Jasper Johns, Steve Albini, Mark Hollis, Thurston Moore/Sonic Youth, Simeon ten Holt, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon, Stanley Donwood, LUL, It Dockumer Lokaeltsje, Charles Peterson, Dr. Tchock!, Wayne Coyne/Flaming Lips, Knut Orvik, The Ex, Robert Smith, The guy who invented beer, Carol van Dijk/Bettie Serveert, Nick Cave, David Yow/The Jesus Lizard, Pete Townshend, Randy Pausch, Kurt Cobain, Eli Content, Glenn Branca, This Heat, Umberto di Bosso é Compadres, Robert Zandvliet, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Burgess/The Chameleons, The guy who invented the photo copier, George Henze
Contact
You can e-mail me: peterboorsma AT gmail DOT com
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60 Minutes Websites
Every year I visit Noorderslag/Eurosonic. A Dutch music seminar/festival with interesting speakers and lots of European bands. This year my friends from New Music Labs organized a nice extra seminar called Unconvention. During the convention we did a thing called '60 Minutes Websites'. That's right. We made websites for bands in one hour.
How did we do that?
We created a PivotX theme and a matching Fireworks design so we could change the design of each site quickly. We asked the selected artists to provide us with a calendar, some pictures, mp3's etcetera. We worked together and our score was three out of four. Not bad!
It was a great experience and met some really nice people. There will be a follow up with the artists to do some extra stuff on their sites like implement a shop and import stuff from their old site.
Open source!
The basic website will be available for everyone for free soon.
Have a look at the websites:
The Black Atlantic
Corijn
The Cosmic Carnival
Rue Royale