hendriks

I'm born in Stuttgart/Germany in 1975. After finishing highschool I studied 3 years in Economy and Retail-Business, specialized in shoes. Then in 1998 I carried out 1 year of Civil service. Afterwards I moved to Palma de Mallorca/Spain and started studies in Visual Communications, which is Graphic-Design, Drawing, Photography, Art-History, Marketing, Advertisement, ... 2004 I spent in Hamburg/Germany, working for a successful Corporate-Design-Agency called "Peter-Schmid-Group", a significant member of the BBDO global network. I also worked for two other renowned agencies during my studies. Also in 2004 I started teaching myself webdesign from the very scratch of HTML. In 2005 I returned to my roots in Stuttgart where I decided helping my father out in his one-branch shoes-and-sports-store, doing all the advertisement and marketing ... and taking all this seriously and keeping it up to date is nearly a full-time-job yet. Furthermore I'm trying to raise my own business as a self-employed corporate- and webdesigner. In webdesign I became really convinced of topics like webstandards, accessibility, usability, searchengines, online-marketing and everything concerned with proper XHTML and CSS coding ...