A guy called Billy

2012 A new year and a new start!

Billy — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:17:15 +0000

First of all let me wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2012 with lots of successes, love and health.

As you can see A guy called Billy is back online in 2012! I know it has been a while, I have been very busy with a lot of stuff. One of the things is a new location, from now on Billy planning his operations from Netherlands’ capitol Amsterdam, regardless of him being a Rotterdammer in heart and soul.
There are still some minor things I have to take care of within this site, but having a look around is already worth while, I think. From this site I will post different items that interest me and my own work ofcourse. I have been very busy with this site so there are not alot of posts yet. I couldn’t neglect the passing of Steve Jobs.
Anyway, I hope you will enjoy my site and keep visiting. That brings me to a special shout out.., Props to Reanimatie who did a great job of translating my idea to this awesome website! His own site is next up, so keep that in mind!

Steve Jobs, Always Inspiring

Billy — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:03:23 +0000

Last Wednesday October 05, 2011, we lost an icon, one of the biggest geniuses of our times, Steve Jobs. Jobs was not only an icon, he was an idol, an eternal source of inspiration, a master. From Apple fan boys and girls to those who insisted in going against his ideas, Jobs was really admired from most of us. People who would wait anxiously to see his amazing keynotes, people who would have every single Apple product but would go to a huge line to buy the new product he announced because after seeing his speech we felt that we couldn’t survive without the latest release.

We all knew that his presentations were over rehearsed but we didn’t mind and we actually liked all his perfectionism because his charisma and enthusiasm would get our attention in a way we could feel he was speaking directly to us, solving our problems, delivering something only we were thinking about. He knew exactly what to do to get us and we loved that about him.

Every single one of us probably already know his complete trajectory, from the early days in a garage to the glorious days as the man who changed the way people think, someone who dared to think differently and got all of us thinking differently too. So today we decided to honor Steve Jobs in a different way, with a little bit of silence and a few images, images gathered from websites that honored Steve, artworks from fans and some of his famous quotes.

In moments like this there is not much we can say, only thanks, thanks Steve for being so amazing. RIP.

Source: webdesignledger.com (check it out to see some tributes)

Image Steve Jobs RIP

Billy — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:11:18 +0000

Quote Tommy Hillfiger Rock ‘N’ Roll

Billy — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:28:43 +0000

“If it was’t for Rock ‘N’ Roll, I wouldn’t be a designer” — Tommy Hillfiger

A guy called Billy Identity

Billy — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:01:35 +0000

Nothing is more difficult to design than your own identity. Other people can get more easily to the core, than you can yourself. Who are you, what do you do, how do you do that? All questions you should be able to answer very easily. But even if you can, time goes by and every time you go another direction. You are your own worst client. This is based on my own experience as well as those of others, by the way…

For my new A guy called Billy Identity I fortunately had the honor to receive some help of none-other than one of the script-font greats Joe-Bob. Joe-Bob our Rock ‘N’ Roll Creatives partner was pointed out by Larabie himself as one of the better script-font designers, and I totally agree. Joe-Bob laid the foundation for my new ‘A guy called Billy’ logo, it’s based on his writing. With the logo ready it became more easy. Happy with the logo as I was, I decided to keep the rest as clean and simple as I possibly could. Let my work speak for itself and not have that clouded by over-design of my own identity. That’s why the typography is done in Helvetica and all is black on white and white on black, not even shades of grey. The grey’s are optical created by diagonal striping. Like they say; less is more…