About
After eight years leading my own animation studio, the desire for a more user-centric and research-driven type of design drew me to product design: understanding people instead of algorithms to build experiences that last.
My motion design background taught me to distill complex ideas into clear stories and maintain a high bar for craft.
I’m attracted to the fast pace AI amplifies the design process and keep a pulse on the changing tools to aid in brainstorming, synthesizing research and prototyping faster and more beautifully.
In my spare time you can find me long-distance running, exploring modernist architecture and watching confusing movies ↗ .
Experience
2016-2025
Lead Design, Co-founder
Co-founder of Manpaard, a motion design studio. I led projects from explainer videos to motion identities, learning to translate complex ideas into clear narratives for clients and stakeholders. I managed everything from pitch decks and strategy to briefing teams and execution, always balancing creative vision with practical constraints and business goals.
Accolades
The Flipdeck (Visit.Brussels):
Creative Belgium Award ↗
Bad Bad Belgium:
Repeatedly invited by LUCA School of Arts to be a jury member for final evaluations for the Visual Design course
2025-current
Organiser, lecturer
Motion Meetup ↗
Projects
Utopia - Architecture exploration app
Modernist architectural heritage in Flanders is often overlooked. Utopia is an application that makes modernist heritage genuinely discoverable through a visual-first, map-based experience.
End-to-end application
Lovable
Funding request
Wikipedia - Trails feature
A feature that turns a linear reading session into a visual experience that looks - and feels - more like exploration. Enables splitting rabbit hole sessions up in multiple short sessions, aligning Wikipedia with modern browse behaviours fitting the short-form era.
Feature
Lovable
AI Prototyping
Puzzle - Where orgs click together
Shortened workflow for non-profit event organisers to connect with like-minded venues and organisations with skills that compliment rather than compete through a platform that showcases like-mindedness and complementary skill-sets in a casual way, fitting to the world of volunteer-interaction.
Web-based platform
NotebookLM
AI Prototyping
d-(^_^)z
Designed in Figma, built in Framer.
3D models made with Polycam and integrated using Model-viewer.
