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Bart-Jan Verhoef is a 26 year old designer living in The Hague, the Netherlands. He works for Viruly Interclick.

Passionate about design and the web for a long time, 6 years ago Bart-Jan decided to shoot for a career in webdesign. Since then, he has studied Communication & Multimedia Design, worked as a freelance designer and as a business partner in two start-ups. Currently, he is employed as interaction designer by a small webfirm in the Netherlands.

Since he can now call designing and building websites 'working', Bart-Jan is basically living the dream! I mean, really, what could possibly be better than spending your days pushing pixels around in photoshop, crunching out XHTML and CSS, cursing at Internet Explorer, while trying not to get hit by frisbees frequenting the airspace of an office equipped for web geeks? I rest my case.

Unlike popular belief, Bart-Jan isn't about all work and no play. Quite frankly, he has a variety of interests wide enough not be bored even if he wouldn't have a job at all. He'd be travelling the globe, biking, windsurfing, taking long walks through the forest, reading dozens of books a month, have romantic dinners with his lovely girlfriend, shooting photos everywhere he was going. But he does have a job, and therefore only gets to do just a little of all that. Which is ok, designing websites really is one of his main passions.

So this website?

Subdued.net is an online playground and scrapbook where Bart-Jan writes and publishes on the topic of design, web, and whatever else comes to mind. This site, being a personal outlet, is a place of experiment and exploration. It has been around since early 2002 in various forms and shapes. It's best known as the site with the blue sky and the little birdie. However, those are gone. It's all about handmade sexiness these days.

Subdued.net has been showcased and mentioned on a wide variety of showcase sites, blogs , online magazines and was recently featured in Web Designer magazine (issue 143), that published a 2 page diagnose on the 'tricks' behind it's design.

This website is hand coded in XHTML and CSS and running on Textpattern.