Hello, I'm Erik. I'm
a Digital Designer
pleased to meet you
French
living in Perth, Western Australia
a frontend Developer
a JavaScript lover
a CSS poet
a markup artist
passionate about Design
a Creative Suite expert
quite good at Cooking
Works
About Me
I am a Expert Digital Designer with twelve years of experience in the Industry. I love designing and building cutting-edge websites and I am skilled in Frontend development, User eXperience, Graphic Design, Print, Video Editing, Animation, Illustration, and Branding.
I strive to ensure the client's satisfaction, as well as a good and user-friendly experience for the endusers of the websites I create.
Toolbox
Design
Website design, video editing, branding, print design, illustration... I came to this industry as a former creative person. Later I learned how to build things pushed by the will of understanding what is under the hood. Nevertheless, even if I spend most of my working days writing lines of code, I still love doing graphic design, animation, illustration, and branding. Obviously the Adobe Creative Suite has very few secrets left for me. In addition to this, one of the advantages of being proficient with such tools is I design things while keeping the technical build in mind. I know which boundaries to push, and the ones I should not cross.
Frontend
Frontend development is definitely my main strength. Any complex frontend job is the promise of lots of problems to solve. And I love solving problems. It involves being clever, which is incredibily fun.This field is always moving forward, at a nice pace. There are always new things to learn, new tools to discover, new techniques to improve. So I never get bored. I also like using and developing tools to automate the build process, to avoid repetitive tasks that cost time, money and mental health. I always try to find the best way to build things, using the right JavaScript framework for a given task, or building a bespoke one. I am able to work in a team or alone.
Backend
I won't pretend I'm a fully fledged backend developer, for I'm not. Backend aesthetic is somewhat too abstract for me. However, as any decent person, I know the basics. And sometimes, you have no other choices. You have to get your hands dirty and do the things. So I can send SQL queries, read and understand most programming languages and apply minor changes on foreign code I didn't write, build a Node application, set up an Apache server, customise Wordpress functionalities, send an email with PHP, build a simple XML socket server... The basics.
