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, Jan Jacob Slauerhhoff, 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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Coming up: new PivotX themes
We are getting closer and closer to an official PivotX 2.0 release. PivotX is getting better with each new beta release. The next beta will have a lot of cosmetic changes.
First of all PivotX goes with one new default theme. Click on the image for a preview. It's a simple minimally styled theme that gives us the opportunity to clean up the pivot_essentials stylesheet and get rid of as much useless styles as possible. As you know, pivot_essentials.css is always loaded on PivotX sites. The less code it contains, the better it is.
Click on the image to have a look at the new Digital Summer theme. A new theme, ready to use with widgets and a nice tabbed block for tags and archives. Created with jQuery of course. Digital Summer will be released with the next beta release of PivotX because it is based on the rewritten pivot_essentials stylesheet.
This will be the last new theme I will publish before an official PivotX release. Updates of my themes are toppriority now.