Hey, nice to meet you!

I'm Mats Tijmes, an alternative reality designer living and working in Rotterdam.
I make multi-disciplinary work by applying a variety of skills including: concept-thinking,
graphic design, illustration, storytelling and game-design principles.

Education

Bachelor Advertising, WDKA Rotterdam, Social domain - Gamification.
MBO Graphic Design, Deltion Zwolle.

Honing these skills:
Concept development
Gamification
Art direction
Graphic Design
UI/UX
Interactive fiction
Design Fiction
Typography
HTML/CSS
Prototyping

Using these tools:
Adobe
Twine
Figma
OmmWriter
Visual Studio Code

Exploring these topics:
(Serious) Games
(Serious) Play
Playbour (play+labour)
Commonism
Capitalist Realism
Accelerationism
Self Design
Role Playing
Habits
Wicked Problems