2024 Portfolio Website — As a 90s kid, pixel games have always held a special place in my heart. Marking my first year as a product designer, I’ve decided to infuse my portfolio website with a pixel theme! Check it out here: bygideon.com
Giel Cobben
Amsterdam
Freelance designer & developer building todays.design & shuttle.zip
- giel.works
- Amsterdam
Huis van het Boek logo — In The Hague, you'll find a hidden gem for book enthusiasts: 'Huis van het Boek,' which translates to 'House of the Book.' The brand has been distilled to its core resulting in a self-explanatory logo that has given it a fitting, contemporary appearance.
Bauhaus in motion… — I’m on a journey to up my 3D game so I came up with this scene, simulated the keycaps and rendered out this animation in Blender. A lot of art direction was involved to manipulate the simulation to ensure the G key would be consistently visible throughout the animation.
Brutal finance tracker — Check out our latest brainchild, the "Finance Tracker" app. This isn't your average budgeting tool—it's a design concept crafted in Figma and animated with Jitter, built to do more than just monitor your stash. It’s here to push your financial goals from dreams to reality with an interface so slick, it'll make your bank account look good. #web #fintech #appdesign
SmashX logo — SmashX is a startup founded by an experienced team of market experts, software developers and designers. They develop white label mobile apps for various industries that help build brand engagement and facilitate the brand user in their daily work.
Working on kitting for a new keycap set — With Gestalt production finish I am working on my next keycap set, inspired by vintage photography and vintage photography lens hence the name Aperture Priority. This set was designed in Figma and I created a custom legends based on a monotype technical typeface. I also included familiar photography UI elements as novelty keycaps. #3d #mechanicalkeyboard
Dropping tags — I've been toying with the idea of creating an intro animation for an iOS project management app. The animation was rendered live using Spline3d.
Drag-and-drop interaction for document archival — Quick mockup I made in Figma to get the idea out of my head. No project in mind. Just for fun. :)
Akuko Labs Deskmat Packaging — Plain cardboard boxes are cheaper to produce, costing nearly half as much as fully printed boxes. I also find them more elegant, especially with white ink accents. Win-win. Designed in Figma, rendered in Blender.
macOS Dock - Apple Music Micro Interaction — I hope that someday we'll see widgets in the Mac dock 👀 What are your thoughts? HOT OR NOT? #motion #interaction #macos
Newspaper cover — For a piece in De Volkskrant on Temu and all the tricks it uses to get people to buy more. #illustration #editorial
Recipe Widget — This is a concept for a recipe widget that I designed today. I'm exploring various widget ideas that I might incorporate into Waffle, a visual organization app, in the future. #widget #recipe