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Graphic Design β€’ Marketing β€’ Web Design | Being a professional creative is awesome! (Until you see Comic Sans in public) πŸ«₯ Creative Director at Makker: www.makker.marketing

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Vanaf juni stuur ik elke maand een nieuwsbrief uit met marketingtips, tricks, kansen Γ©n inspiratie voor content die je die maand op je socials kunt gebruiken.

Mijn doel? Jou gratis helpen om je marketing naar een hoger niveau te tillen βœ…

Schrijf je snel in: makker.marketing/newsletter/

#marketing

27.05.2025 14:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Recently finished this website for a client in the towing business! πŸͺ

#webdesign #branding #marketing #makker #marketing

22.01.2025 16:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A while ago I designed a logo and branding for a real estate client and today I had the pleasure of seeing my designs come to live on Belgian TV as the client is part of a tv show.

There’s something special about seeing your designs being used in the real world.

#branding #marketing #belgium

09.01.2025 20:35 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Read my previous post? This is exactly what I meant when I said "Keep it fun & don't overthink it" πŸ˜†

No need to perfect it, after today you're probably never having a look at it again!

#illustrating #creativity #draft

04.01.2025 14:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New Year's resolution idea for graphic designers: Make 3 random logos or illustrations per week to boost your creativity.
Keep it fun and don't overthink the design!

#graphicdesign #branding #illustrating #newyearsresolutions

04.01.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes for sure, there are plugins that do that fortunately. For me it just wasn’t worth buying the plugin so I had to manually restructure the Excel - It worked out well!

31.12.2024 16:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Holidays everyone! β˜ƒοΈβ­

Only Dutch speaking people will understand this video, oops!

#marketing #branding #makker #video

23.12.2024 13:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why can't Shopify and Woocommerce just have the same CSV output πŸ™ƒ

I know there's a tool for this, but seems like a waste of budget for this one time.

Mylooooooooooooord

20.12.2024 16:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s funny how many β€œgraphic designers” on #TikTok create logos/branding without any vision/mission/briefing behind it. At that point you’re proving you don’t know what you’re doing

16.12.2024 07:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The most surprising thing was the amount of businesses in my city that are doing very bad and are planning on closing this or next year. It's rather sad seeing 50/60+ year olds that built a career and a beautiful store but don't have customers anymore.

06.12.2024 18:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For the first time in 1.5 years of running Makker, my creative agency, I went out visiting stores in my hometown to sell our services πŸ˜…

Was a little nervous at first, but it was totally awesome! Did sales before, but it's completely different if it's for yourself.

#marketing #graphicdesign #sales

06.12.2024 10:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For events (w/ low budget) I’d say you can create cool results when you’re generating a separate character, a background, other elements and blending them all together and removing all AI quirks.

But for marketing agencies, it’s a big no-no, especially when its easy to spot the AI.

03.12.2024 07:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t get me wrong here, you CAN perfectly use AI image generation, as long as it looks like a professional, real image with no quirks and conveys your brand identity. Post editing will obviously help you out loads here!

02.12.2024 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seen a fair share of creative agencies using AI images for their #Meta advertisements 😡

As an expert in #marketing, you should set an example and show how to translate your #brandidentity into stunning visuals. These funky looking #AI images do quite the contrary!

#graphicdesign

02.12.2024 17:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Not even on BlueSky since 20 days and already at 1.000 followers! Insane 🀩 Goes to show that #BSKY is absolutely booming.

24.11.2024 16:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep! I also thought this was a joke haha

20.11.2024 20:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep, the modern, soulless rebranding trend has been a plague

Instead of changing the logo completely, better to adjust

20.11.2024 20:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

From what I've read they changed the brand and their focus on selling fewer cars for higher prices to more premium customers. There's an article out there that confirms this.

I see what you mean though!

20.11.2024 20:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly, looks like woke up on a Tuesday morning and thought, well ya know what? Let's change the logo today!

20.11.2024 20:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This official Jaguar rebranding focuses on selling fewer cars at higher prices πŸ€”

Their old logo was outdated, but this new one doesn’t represent a luxury car brand at all. Also, why drop the iconic jumping Jaguar? πŸ†

This simplistic #rebranding #trend has caused more bad than good πŸ˜…

#graphicdesign

20.11.2024 11:12 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

At some point #AI image generation will get to the level where you can’t distinguish it from real images. (Wow, shocker!) But I’m curious for what impact it will have on stock photo websites and creators. Especially if you will be able to use the image generators for free? πŸ˜…

18.11.2024 11:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I personally don’t think a business as huge as Coca-Cola would take the (unneeded) risk of trying to win attention by controversy πŸ˜…

16.11.2024 22:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coca-Cola is slammed for replacing Santa with AI in Christmas advert Coca-Cola has solely used artificial intelligence to make the advert - a decision branded 'lazy' by viewers on X.

Since decades, everyone loves these #Coca-Cola ads because they bring out nostalgic emotions and they're focused on a warm, human connection. AI is quite the opposite of that..

What were they thinking? πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

#cocacola #marketing #branding #toneofvoice

15.11.2024 21:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's a quick showcase of a website I made for a premium car detailer in Belgium! πŸš—

The video is also made by myself, experimenting more and more with #adobeaftereffects and having a blast.

#webdesign #branding #marketing #website #belgium

15.11.2024 19:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Europe's DMA forces Meta toward 'less personalized ads' | TechCrunch Meta, under legal pressure in the European Union over a binary "pay us or consent to ad tracking" choice it currently offers regional users of its social

This will get interesting! Here's (in a nutshell) what it means for us #marketeers:

The precision of your ads will be reduced significantly. There will be major restrictions on combining user data across platforms, meaning there will be very restricted #targeting.

13.11.2024 14:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sweet! Thx for all the info!

09.11.2024 19:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very cool! Would love to be added to the starter pack.

08.11.2024 16:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to be added to the starter pack!

08.11.2024 16:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to be added to the starter pack! :)

08.11.2024 16:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to be added to the starter pack! :)

08.11.2024 16:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0