Born in the year of the rat, with an owl as the family crest: a mature, childish, female, recently finished my BSc. in digital media. Bookbinder, potter, traveller, designer, calligrapher. A love for books and letters, a need for nonsense. I currently live in Australia and work on my master at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. They have a lab called the Spacial Information Architecture Lab, and I will do research into exciting spacial information.
A walker of walks, drinker of wine and whisky; political without party. Slightly geekish, always carry pen and paper. Climber of bits of rock. A fascination for conflicts; a need for trees. I have been called an all-round nerd. A big compliment and a wonderful oxymoron.
Life is like that.
what I do
I structure, build, design, code and implement websites, and define what I can do and what kind of specialist is needed for certain tasks. I am a potter and bookbinder by trade(s), a digital media-ist by BSc, I know strange things and solve puzzles. Ask me about all sorts of things.
Things that makes me forget time, that are exciting, and that contains some of these things…: information architecture, interaction design, graphic design, illustration, web, web, web, animation & 3D, handling complex data- og information relations, HTML, CSS, typography, photography, infographics, colours, whiteboards, ideas, some nice and challenging people, and a pot of coffee. This is only some of the things that interests me; I am open to suggestions :-) I like coffee, will happily have a chat over a cup, or write to me at bente at barebente dot com.
Information architecture, user interface and interaction, graphic design… these things should work together; I am at my happiest when I can play with both large scale, conceptual thinking, and keeping in mind the tiny little details that will, in the end, make it sound. This means that I love the whiteboard, pen & pencil and digging into the core of the information, and at the same time, I am an illustrator, graphic designer.
Practically: I am reasonably good in Illustrator (prefer vector to bitmaps) and Flash, do ok in Photoshop, I miss working with 3D texturing in Maya, I code XHTML and CSS (HTML5 & CSS3 excites me… is that awfully geeky?). I have a background in print media, and InDesign is my friend.
This site
I can hardly say that there are any frequently asked questions about this site. But here you go anyway.
– If you’re trying to get a job in information architecture, interaction design etc. why is your site so basic & barebone?
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. My content is not complex data or information as such. Make things as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
Besides, it changes often. Maybe not visually, but I squirrel away at the back-end.
– What is the point of this site?
It is mainly my own archives. I am not selling myself here (even though I need work, and if you have an interesting project, please contact me. What sort of project, I hear you ask. Well. Digital media, print, interaction, animation. I am an all-round nerd, as previously stated :-).
– Why do you not use capital letter or full stop in odd places?
Because sometimes, capitals get in the way. For longer pieces of text they are good, but for smaller bits it simply does not look good. I am a bit of a typography geek.
– Did you take all the photos, did you draw all the drawings yourself?
I did indeed.
– What’s with the bizarre name of this place?
In my language, “bare” means “only” and “bare”, as in barefoot. I do walk barefoot a lot, and I am the only one here. It works – sort of – in english too, and the double meaning amuses me a tad.
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