Ruud van Eijk.

http://www.ruudvaneijk.com/

Ruud van Eijk is a Dutch media designer who has done a lot of work in the dutch dance music field as well as other projects for companies such as Red Bull and the music channel TMF.

From his work I particularly like his design for D-Block & S-Te-Fan’s website (http://www.dblock-stefan.com/), I have chosen this as I like the way it is cleanly set out and this makes user functionality easy when you are navigating around the site.





When you navigate through the pages the layout stays the same which enables you to find information quickly and also keeps the sites appeal to the user.




The interactivity is not done by Ruud, but by kik-it (http://www.kik-it.nl/), the interactive parts of the site all work well and a personal favourite of mine is the way the links light up when hovered over, this helps the user to know what page they are moving to as it brings the link to life and its more noticeable.

Other elements of his work include these Q-Bookings Artist Designs, http://www.ruudvaneijk.nl/pages/portfolio/overig_print/qbookings/ and this motion graphic video for Welcome To The Future Festival, http://www.ruudvaneijk.nl/pages/portfolio/motiongraphics/rve_wttf.mov

Ruud is an inspiration to me as his design style stands out as his own within the music industry and the way he incorporates music into his work by using things you’d use in the music industry, another reason I have chose him is because he works in the music industry which is what I would like to work in someday as music is a big part of my life, music can be an inspiration as you can pull ideas out of a style of music and incorporate it into your design, for example if your listening to a subtle piece you can use the delicate sounds in forms of colours that are warm and easy on the eye such as yellows and oranges, or if you were listening to grungier music where you would be hearing darker and more distorted sounds, it would suggest colours such as dark blues and greys.