Hello everyone! When you arrived at this page your probably wondering what RZDESIGN is.. Or actually, WHO RZDESIGN is. Well, RZDESIGN is the name/brand used when freelancing by me, Ricardo de Zoete. I’m currently 22 years old and I live in The Netherlands in a place called Zoetermeer. Anyways, as you’ve might found out already I’m someone who loves drawing funny, colorful and happy illustrations as a hobby. And that is where it all started… Why not try making a living out of what I love to do?

In my personal life I love playing video games and this caused me to start a study called Animation & Games at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, since it seemed really interesting to create games and 3d animations as a living. Anyways, while following this study I found out about the term “internship”. (I really didn’t heard about this fenomenon before…). So I thought about: “Which company fits a study like animation & games?”. And then it striked me…Let’s try to do an internship in America, let’s try it at Disney Interactive Studios! Sadly, I didn’t got thought the final round of internship spots….

So, I had to find an alternative and by pure coincidence a company called Paladin Studios called me and was interested in offering me an internship spot. This was the best thing I could have ever done.. I met some amazing people over there and worked on some cool projects. This is also the place where I learned creating user interfaces for application and create better concepts and much much more!

After I was done with my study I continued freelancing a bit more, but I mainly got asked to do cartoons/illustrations, since this was the only thing I was ‘known’ for on various Dutch websites. But I also had to think about: “What’s next?”. So I looked into a new study at WDKA in Rotterdam. I was following the Illustration course, but sadly the study didn’t felt right for some reasons… So I quitted after almost a year. It was still an amazing experience, mainly because meeting awesome illustrators over there. But, I had to make a decision for myself.. Do I continue looking for a more fitting study, shall I work with RZDESIGn as a full-timer or do I look for another job?

So, I’ve made my decision, I tried freelancing for almost a year with RZDESIGN. This was an awesome experience, and I’ve developed myself big time! Anyhow, I missed the people around me… And I really needed some challenges! So, I’ve applied for quite soem design jobs. And after some time they wanted to hire me at Mirabeau, and I could start working there on February 1st 2011. I was really excited, since I would start there as a Visual Designer, designing mainly web designs, interfaces and such. And this was something I wasn’t really used to yet, since my main focus always was and have been Illustrations.

At Mirabeau I’ve learned a LOT of awesome things and I’m developing myself really fast on web design/ui design and such. Also I’ve learned quite some things about interaction designing and much much much more! I’m really hoping I can work at Mirabeay for quite some years to come, and also with RZDESIGN as a game/illustration/web/ui/3d designer!
-Ricardo de Zoete

 

Resume can be downloaded in both Dutch and English. Download links are below.

Dutch                          English