Are there any medium you love to work with? Why?

At the moment most of my work is produced in a digital way. Lately I've been working a lot in Illustrator. Before that there was a time I experimented with Photoshop. Sometimes a design starts of with a sketch in my little black book. But there are also times that I already have caught an idea or image in my thoughts that will be transferred to the screen immediately and continue to develop in front of me.

Lately I feel like I have to start drawing more to get reconnected with the 'wondering child' in me. At the moment, my home (which I'm sharing with my girlfriend) doesn't give me the space to experiment with a lot of materials, but that's certainly something I would like to do more. It would make my work more authentic.

Do you have a signature style? How did you develop it?

I don't think a have a specific signature style, although people around me say I do :-)

I believe in order to say anything about that part, you should understand how it develops. Inspiration plays a big role in the birth of a signature style. Inspiration is something that intrigues you and finds her way into the depth of your brain. Because of the enormous amount of inspirational things around you, your style will firstly be an eclectic one, of combined inspirations backed up in your mind and recalled at a certain moment in your own way. From that on it develops in a style that's more your own.

So I think, because inspiration is always in the 'developing mode', my signature style will develop in a parallel way. Each year, I grow as a person and I learn to appreciate things I couldn't when I was younger and lacked life experience. But of course, there will always be a certain way you interpret the things around you, and so my designs will breathe a certain atmosphere that is often 'engaged to' typography. But a signature develops in the way you develop.

Can you tell us about your entries for the IFEX poster competition? What was your experience in creating posters for this event?

I came across this competition when I visited a site on which graphic design competitions are displayed. I love to design in my spare time, because then I can create whatever I like. The feeling of that freedom can be really nice, since there's not always space for that in my daytime job.