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		<title>Next up: 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 was quite an intense year in my life. It involved quite some important changes for me, countless great experiences and the loss of a loved one. This is my retrospect on the year that changed just about everything. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And just like that: 2011 is over. I have been through a lot of stuff in my life already, but I think it&#8217;s safe to say that 2011 was the <em>most intense</em> year in my life.</p>
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<p>Just about a year ago I was sitting in this very spot, behind my computer, working about 20 hours per day to make the most important deadline of my life. I was working my ass off to create <a href="http://nocreativity.com/reel" target="_blank">my demoreel</a>. I worked 10 days straight. No breaks. Little sleep. No compromises. I set out to create something cool and I promised myself I wouldn&#8217;t settle for anything less. Towards the end of the project I was exhausted; close to the edge of throwing in the towel and giving up. I was lucky to have my girlfriend around that day because she was able to talk sense into me. She gave me that last little push so I&#8217;d finish what I&#8217;ve wanted to create for so long. And boy, it was worth it. She proved that I can do anything as long as I give everything. For that, I am grateful.</p>
<p>A few weeks later my dad called me to say he&#8217;s moving back to Luxemburg. Those of you who know me a bit better, know that I haven&#8217;t had a good relationship with my dad. So him moving away for good was actually good news. At the same time, it meant that he&#8217;d be selling the house I grew up in. That was quite hard for me, even though I haven&#8217;t been there much during the past 5 years.<br />
A lot of strange things happened around that time. In the end I decided to take a step back from everything in order to get my life back in order.</p>
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<p>A few weeks later we ( = Devine &amp; NMCT students from the Howest University) went to <a href="http://nocreativity.com/blog/san-francisco-baby" target="_blank">San Francisco</a>. Unlike many people, I turned out to experience San Francisco exactly as I always imagined it. I was always dreaming about moving to the States one day&#8230; You know: The kind of childhood dream that never let&#8217;s go. When I got back from San Francisco, I knew for sure:<em> One day, I&#8217;ll move there</em>. Visiting the USA was one of those things I was afraid I wouldn&#8217;t be able to do for a very long time. One dream checked off the list.</p>
<p>While we were in San Francisco, we had the privilege of visiting many companies and even present our own work at some of them. When we were visiting <a href="http://momentumdesignlab.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Momentum Design Lab</a>, I took a shot and presented my &#8211; at that point unfinished &#8211; <a href="http://preso.nocreativity.com" target="_blank">Preso-project</a>. I showed the strengths of the project while carefully covering up the buggy and sometimes missing parts. After my improvised presentation, a man came up to me and give my his business card while he said &#8220;<em>When you&#8217;re back home, get in touch with me. We&#8217;ll talk&#8221;. </em>The card said<em> David Thomson. </em>I looked up to him and asked him, who exactly he is<em>. &#8220;I&#8217;m the CEO&#8221;. </em>A week later, back in Belgium, I sent him an email. And while nothing big came out of that email-conversation, that one moment &#8211; when he gave me his card &#8211; gave me some kind of new energy: &#8220;<em>I can do way better than that&#8230; And this guy is sold&#8230; Just wait until you see what I can do when I really stretch my legs</em>&#8220;. Sure, it wasn&#8217;t a big international company we all have heard a lot about. But it left a major impression.</p>
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<p>Then, on June 1st, I got a phone call saying that one of my best friends, <a href="http://vimeo.com/19380235"title="Always incomplete"  target="_blank" target="_blank">Sarah</a>, had died in a car accident. I still remember that day vividly. I remember being confused. It felt like one big nightmare. To this day I still don&#8217;t really grasp how she can be <em>gone</em>. I remember going to a movie with her just a few days earlier. She had this beautiful smile that would make every day seem a little better than the last. Everybody loved her.<br />
That very day, I realized how fragile life really is. I miss you, Sarah. Every single day.</p>
<p>A few weeks later, while my girlfriend was doing her internship at <a href="http://www.saatchi.be/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Saatchi &amp; Saatchi Brussels</a>, she was telling me about the problems they were having to get a few banners produced. Apparently they were moving big budgets, just to get a few banners out. I was blown away. I told her to suggest me to create future banners. I would deliver within a few days (instead of weeks) for half the budget. And I would get it right straight away. Only days later I got a call from Saatchi. And yes: The very next morning at 7AM I delivered my first set of banners. I hoped to get a lot more work from them soon. But I didn&#8217;t.</p>
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<p>Summer started and I went to Westende, to the empty house where I once grew up. I stayed there for a month while doing a summer job. I started wondering if I&#8217;d really wanted to stay in the digital industry. By the end of the summer -back in Kortrijk &#8211; I was about to apply for a job at an Apple Store in Ghent. I really thought about working in a store, instead of studying and creating cool stuff. So my girlfriend stepped in: &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m tired of you just waiting and being unhappy. I&#8217;m tired of you not doing your thing! Prove yourself, god damned. It&#8217;s what your good at. Do what makes you happy. I miss the old you</em>&#8220;. So, I recovered. For the 2nd time. I took a good look at my life. I had to figure out what I wanted to do&#8230;</p>
<p>A few days later, one of my lecturers &#8211; the one I liked and hated most at the same time &#8211; pointed it out to me: &#8220;<em>Being a student has made you lazy. You&#8217;re getting too comfortable around here</em>&#8220;. He was right. I had received numerous job offers from pretty big companies during the past 5 years. The first time I turned a job down was because I might need a bachelor degree if I ever wanted to become a lecturer myself. However, I can&#8217;t remember why I turned all the others down. Yes, he was right. I had gotten too comfortable. And it didn&#8217;t make me happy. Not even a bit. A few weeks later I decided to quit Devine, the university and my life as a student altogether.</p>
<p>I decided to start off as a freelancer and just see where things would go from there. It was a scary time in my life as I didn&#8217;t know the road ahead. There was no turning back from here. A week later I found myself doing some work for Saatchi &amp; Saatchi again. This time at a pretty steady rate. At some point I had to jump in for a &#8216;<em>tiny project</em>&#8216;. I still remember the words &#8220;<em>Do you know something about expandable banners and video?</em>&#8221;<br />
I turned out to be building an MSN homepage take-over using Google&#8217;s DoubleClick Studio for 14 countries.<br />
I had only half a day to figure out how DoubleClick Studio works and learn to use the custom-made components by Google. And everything had to be done by monday. I was briefed the Friday before. A lot of responsibility was resting on my shoulders. By Friday night I was pretty sure I could do it&#8230; But I was pretty much freaking out. <em>What kind of budget is going up in smoke if I miss this deadline!? 14 countries? Are you crazy!?</em> I went out with friends to have a drink and get my mind off work for an hour. But what I actually did was realizing that this was what I actually loved doing: I make things move. I create stuff. And I <em>will</em> meet the deadline.<br />
By saturday morning 10AM I was done with the master files and I could finally get some sleep. They would be translated by the next day. By monday everything would be ready.</p>
<img src="http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/saachi_images.jpg" alt="Saatchi &amp; Saatchi" class="shadow_600" width="600"  />
<p>Not too long after that, I went to the Saatchi offices in Brussels where I met with one of the creative directors. I was trying to promote myself in order to make sure they would hire me more often for even bigger projects. Instead I walked out there with a job offer as a full-time project manager. We all know <a href="http://nocreativity.com/blog/saatchi-ized" target="_blank">how that ended</a>.<br />
Today is the end of my 5th week at Saatchi &amp; Saatchi Brussels (Yes, I have a day off today).</p>
<p>They say that time flies. Yes, it does. And it flies very fast. This year went by so fast, I can&#8217;t believe that within less than 36 hours we&#8217;re in 2012 already&#8230;</p>
<p>What has 2011 thought me?</p>
<ul>
<li>No matter how tough you think you are: sometimes it&#8217;s not enough. Luckily you have friends who will pull you through it, kicking and screaming.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t get comfortable. It makes you lazy. If something scares you, it probably means you&#8217;re on the right track. Just keep going and hope for the best.</li>
<li>Do what you believe will make you happy. Don&#8217;t let nobody talk you out of it. If they do, you&#8217;ll do the safe thing. Something that won&#8217;t make you entirely happy&#8230; And it will slowly kill your inner child.</li>
<li>Never hold back to tell your friends and family how much you love them. You don&#8217;t know what might happen tonight&#8230;. Maybe tomorrow it might be too late. They deserve to know how amazing you think they are.</li>
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<div>To all of you who wished me wonderful 2011: Thank you, it kind of was.<br />
So that&#8217;s it for 2011. Let&#8217;s see&#8230; What&#8217;s next?</div>
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		<title>Devine after one year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year and a half ago, I decided MCT wasn&#8217;t my thing, so I dropped out. I figured Devine &#8211; the new track my university was about to add to their offering &#8211; would be more my cup of tea. About 6 months later I wrote what I was told a few weeks before [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About a year and a half ago, I decided MCT wasn&#8217;t my thing, so I dropped out. I figured Devine &#8211; the new track my university was about to add to their offering &#8211; would be more my cup of tea. About 6 months later I <a href="http://nocreativity.com/blog/devine-digital-media-and-design" target="_blank">wrote</a> what I was told a few weeks before school started again. Most of you suspected a lot of promo-talk, but no real value. A few of you thought the juice might not be worth the squeeze. And some of you (and me) somehow knew that this would be exactly what I needed.</p>
<p>I could start telling about all the stuff I learned and about the projects I had to make, but why use words, if there&#8217;s Vimeo? Here&#8217;s a quick showreel about Devine 2008-2009 one of our lecturers (<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user1673807/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Nicolaas Bijvoet</a>) made.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="580" height="326" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6441220&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ffff00&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="580" height="326" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6441220&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ffff00&amp;fullscreen=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span id="more-596"></span>I&#8217;m very pleased about Devine. They didn&#8217;t lie at all. They told us<em> we would create</em>. And that&#8217;s what we did. We created all kinds of stuff. Robots, product sites, mockups, interactive scrapbooks, hell we created so many things I lost track of what I actually created until I found some stuff back on my server&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And not only did they give us all kinds of assignments, personally a few of them really inspired me. I created and experimented so much in the past few months, and it felt so great!<br />
I am really looking forward to starting again in the second year of Devine, later this month.</p>
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		<title>Boulevart en ik: de beslissing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ik heb 2 weken geleden geschreven over de jobaanbieding die ik van Boulevart kreeg. Hierop kwam veel reactie, waarvoor dank. Ik had echt niet zoveel reacties verwacht. Ik heb er lang over gedacht, en op een bepaald moment was ik redelijk zeker van mijn besluit om naar Antwerpen te trekken, om er het Boulevart team [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ik heb 2 weken geleden <a href="http://nocreativity.com/blog/hoe-belangrijk-is-een-diploma-in-onze-branche">geschreven</a> over de jobaanbieding die ik van <a href="http://www.boulevart.be/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Boulevart</a> kreeg. Hierop kwam veel reactie, waarvoor dank. Ik had echt niet zoveel reacties verwacht.</p>
<p>Ik heb er lang over gedacht, en op een bepaald moment was ik redelijk zeker van mijn besluit om naar Antwerpen te trekken, om er het Boulevart team te gaan versterken, maar ik zat nog met een laatste vraag.</p>
<p>Ik ging naar een docent (<a href="http://newmovieclip.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Koen de Weggheleire</a>) waar ik toch wel naar op kijk, en vroeg hem hoe het zit als ik later in het onderwijs wil stappen zonder een diploma. Hij zei kortaf &#8216;nee&#8217;.</p>
<p>Blijkbaar is er absoluut geen manier om later in het onderwijs te staan zonder diploma.</p>
<p>De reden dat ik dat vraag is simpel: Ooit zal ik de multimedia-wereld beu zijn, of zal ik een complete burn-out zijn. Het enige dat ik dan nog zou willen doen is les geven, en anderen dat aanleren wat ik tijdens mijn &#8216;carrière&#8217; heb ontdekt.</p>
<p>Aan de hand van dat feit heb ik besloten om niet naar Boulevart te gaan. Ook de kans op vakantiewerk heb ik toen afgewezen. Ik ken mezelf: eens ik daar zal zitten, en men zal mij vragen of ik echt niet wil blijven, zal ik het moeilijk hebben om te kunnen weerstaan, en met mijn beide voeten op de grond te blijven staan.</p>
<p>Ergens vind ik het jammer dat ik zo&#8217;n kans heb moeten afwijzen. Maar op zich zal ik er later baat bij hebben als ik voor een lokaal vol leerlingen sta en hun de blijde boodschap over de multimedia kan vertellen <img src='http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Ik wil iedereen nogmaals bedanken voor jullie comments.<br />
Ik wil <a href="http://www.boulevart.be/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Boulevart</a> bedanken om mij die kans te bieden.<br />
En als laatste wil ik <a href="http://newmovieclip.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Koen</a> nog eens bedanken voor zijn mening en antwoorden hierover.</p>
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		<title>Multi-Mania 2008 will rock!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multi-Mania 2008 komt er langzaam maar zeker aan. Op 23 mei gaan de deuren van het grootste gratis multimedia event van België Europa open. Ook dit jaar zakken weer talloze nationale en internationale sprekers af naar Kortrijk om er de blijde boodschap over multimedia anno 2008 te vertellen. Door het succes van de voorbije jaren [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2m08.jpg" alt="Multi-Mania 2008" align="left" /><a href="http://multi-mania.be" target="_blank" target="_blank">Multi-Mania 2008</a> komt er langzaam maar zeker aan.<br />
Op 23 mei gaan de deuren van het grootste gratis multimedia event van <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">België</span> Europa open. Ook dit jaar zakken weer talloze nationale en internationale sprekers af naar Kortrijk om er de blijde boodschap over multimedia anno 2008 te vertellen.</p>
<p>Door het succes van de voorbije jaren zal Multi-Mania dit jaar uit 4 tracks bestaan! De line-up is redelijk mind-blowing als je het mij vraagt, maar ik ben dan ook snel enthousiast.</p>
<p>Multi-Mania is gratis, maar registreren is verplicht. Dat zal dan ook kunnen vanaf 28 april.<br />
Heb jij een kickass project gemaakt dat rijp is voor een stoere Multi-Mania award?  Er zijn 4 open categorieën waar je je werk in kan zenden, en de greep naar de gewilde award  kan wagen.</p>
<p>Er is ook een badge te downloaden op de Multi-Mania site. Ikzelf heb deze even in een simpele WordPress plugin gestoken zodat het implementeren in je sidebar wat sneller gaat. (Getest op WordPress 2.3.3 en 2.5)</p>
<ol>
<li>Download de widget <a href="http://nocreativity.com/downloads/2M08-Attendee.zip" target="_blank">hier</a>.</li>
<li>Unzip het bestand, en upload de &#8216;<em>2M08-Attendee</em>&#8216; map volledig naar je &#8216;<em>wp-content/plugins/</em>&#8216; map</li>
<li>Ga naar je <em>WP-Admin</em>, en activeer de plugin</li>
<li>Ga naar <em>presentation</em> &gt; <em>widgets</em> waar je de 2M08 widget in je sidebar kan slepen.</li>
<li>Opslaan</li>
<li>Je bent klaar <img src='http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
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<p>Ikzelf zal aanwezig zijn. Zul jij er zijn? <img src='http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Devine: Digital Media And Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[De Hogeschool van West-Vlaanderen presenteert met gepaste trots hun nieuwe afstudeerrichting Devine. Devine is een bachelor opleiding binnen het studietraject van Multimedia en Communicatietechnologie (MCT). Devine? Deviner {m/v} Samentrekking van &#8216;developer&#8217; en &#8216;designer&#8217; Ok, devine&#8230; Maar waarom? Ik ben zelf al anderhalf jaar student aan de PIH te Kortrijk (Een campus die onderdeel uitmaakt van [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/devine.jpg" alt="Devine Logo" align="left" /> De <a href="http://www.howest.be/" target="_blank" target="_blank">Hogeschool van West-Vlaanderen</a> presenteert met gepaste trots hun nieuwe afstudeerrichting <a href="http://www.digitaldesignandmedia.be" target="_blank" target="_blank">Devine</a>. Devine is een bachelor opleiding binnen het studietraject van  <a href="http://www.pih.be/Opleidingen.aspx?id=1&amp;data=det&amp;lan=nl" target="_blank" target="_blank">Multimedia en Communicatietechnologie </a>(MCT).</p>
<p><strong>Devine?</strong></p>
<blockquote><p><font color="#800000"> Deviner {m/v}<br />
Samentrekking van &#8216;developer&#8217; en &#8216;designer&#8217;</font></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Ok, devine&#8230; Maar waarom?</strong><br />
Ik ben zelf al anderhalf jaar student aan de <a href="http://www.pih.be/" target="_blank" target="_blank">PIH</a> te Kortrijk (Een campus die onderdeel uitmaakt van de Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen). Ik volg er Multimedia en Communicatietechnologie. MCT is uniek in België, en de opleiding is zodanig goed dat de meeste studenten op het einde van hun opleiding rechtstreeks van de klaslokalen doorlopen naar hun toekomstige job.</p>
<p>MCT is een opleiding waarin je tot IT allrounder wordt gevormd. MCT richt zich op business oplossingen. MCT maakt van jou niet zomaar een webdesigner of een netwerkbeheerder. Je bent op het einde van je studies een persoon die voor de meeste IT doeleinden kan ingezet worden.</p>
<p>De opleiding MCT is bijgevolg erg technisch, en dat nekt mijn motivatie om ermee door te gaan. En net op het juiste moment is het dan zover: Campus PIH zal uitbreiden, en men zal er vanaf september &#8217;08 Devine kunnen volgen.  Vandaag was de eerste infodag (waar ik naartoe kon), en waar echt info te krijgen was over de nieuwe opleiding.</p>
<p><strong>Wat is Devine?</strong><br />
Devine is een opleidingstraject dat zich richt op online reclame, promo en multimedia. Als je Devine studeert, leer je denken in Flash, reageren in Actionscript, handelen in Photoshop, en leef je op het web. Je handschrift zijn motion graphics, en je ademt concepten die geen ander zou bedenken. Gebruiksvriendelijke interfaces eet je als ontbijt, en de integratie van al dat zoet zal in je zitten als een verslaving.</p>
<p>Devine richt zich niet op business solutions maar op rich media op het web.<br />
Devine richt zich op de creatieve ervaring op het web die de bezoekers niet mogen los laten, laat staan door hen vergeten worden.</p>
<p><strong>Iets concreter graag&#8230;</strong><br />
Je wordt aangeleerd dat design niet kan zonder de daarbij horende logica, en vice versa.<br />
Je krijgt de heilige basics van HTML, CSS, JavaScript en ActionScript 3. Daarnaast leer je ook wat kleur en compositie is, en hoe je deze kennis creatief inzet. De linkerhelft en rechterhelft van het menselijke brein worden bijgevolg  beiden ingezet, maar dat wilt nog niets zeggen. Het hart van beide helften is de integratie van beiden zodat het een mooi geheel vormt en de boodschap duidelijk bij de gebruiker aankomt.</p>
<p>Dit is in een notendop wat het eerste jaar inhoudt. Over het tweede of derde jaar kan ik nog niets exact zeggen, anders zou ik meer weten dan de docenten <img src='http://nocreativity.com/blog-engine/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Ja, leuk, en wat over de markt?</strong><br />
Deze nieuwe tak binnen het MCT traject is niet zomaar ontstaan. Al jaren staan bedrijven te roepen om dit soort mensen. In samenwerking met de grootste multimedia bedrijven van België wil Howest nu een opleiding aanbieden die onklopbare designers/developers afleverd in porties van 1 persoon. Dit is waar de Belgische top naar vraagt. Deze bedrijven werken nauw samen met Howest om zelfs al tijdens de opleiding de studenten in contact te laten komen met real-life cases.<br />
Diezelfde bedrijven staan nu al te popelen om binnen 3 jaar de eerste afgestudeerde Deviners in dienst te nemen.</p>
<p><strong>Zoveel tekst&#8230; Wat is Devine in een notendop?</strong><br />
<em>Software</em>: Flex, Flash, AIR, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, 3D studio Max&#8230;<em><br />
Talenkennis</em>: PHP, Actionscript, XML, HTML, CSS, Javascript,&#8230;<br />
<em>Skills</em>: Storyboarding, concept design, creative maths, fotomanipulatie, videobewerking, object georiënteerd programmeren, interface design, integratie &#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Ok&#8230; Ik ben overtuigd.</strong><br />
Ik ook. Ik sluit mijn MCT studies niet meer af. Ik slaag voor al mijn modules met gemak, maar de technische en theoretische vakken doen mij de das om: Technologie, Netwerken, Problem Solving&#8230; Zware materie die niet in mijn hoofd past. Ik kijk al uit naar september om aan de slag te gaan met mijn nieuwe opleiding.</p>
<p>Wil je meer info over Devine? Check <a href="http://www.digitaldesignandmedia.be" target="_blank" target="_blank">de officiële website</a> met alle informatie!</p>
<p>AMEN!</p>
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