Bram Timmer is an award-winning art director, designer, photographer, and entrepreneur specializing in innovative new media design. Bram applies his creativity and expertise across a variety of media, including: web design and development; e-learning and interactive media; print materials; packaging; information architecture; illustration; video and photography. Bram's past and present clients include commercial, entertainment, lifestyle, legal, financial and government institutions of all sizes, including MasterCard, Nivea, Kraft, Hershey's, SC Johnson, CTV, CFL, Hewlett Packard, AMD, Adobe, Bombardier, Applebee's, Hilton Garden Inn, TELUS, Home Hardware, For Dummies, EnCana, Survivorman, Lilly, Meridian Credit Union, University of Calgary, Mount Allison University, Calgary Stampede, National Film Board of Canada and others.
In addition to his freelance design career under the alias Beside, directing and photography under the alias Aside, Bram has founded and operated Dutch Blue Media, co-founded two/signed, provided in-house design and development services for: White Iron, an award-winning digital media agency in Calgary, AB; Webtek, where he worked as Interactive Director in Michigan; Blatant Media, where he provided animation, print, interactive and other services to support their e-learning platform; FITC, where he was on-site to provide creative and art direction to assist in the production of all print and web assets of a large number of events including ones in Amsterdam, Toronto, Seoul, Hollywood, Chicago, and New York City; and the Banff World Media Festival, a celebrity-packed and who’s who of the media industry event, where Bram was Photography Manager, documenting the four-day event and managing his assistant photographers.
A wide variety of interests and passions inform Bram's creative work, including architecture, art history, digital culture, and visual arts in various mediums. Bram is a member of the Lethbridge College Multimedia Production Program advisory committee, and contributes as a Chief Editor to Digital Softbox/Animate Magazine. Bram also participates in a number of design and art-focused events, groups, blogs, exhibits, not-for-profit causes, and occasionally guest speaks at conferences, colleges and universities.
In an additional chapter of Bram's life, we take a deeper look at the entrepreneurial spirit that runs through his veins. As founder and principal director of ModeMatch, he fuels his interests in fashion, social interactivity, and aims to change the way in which we perceive and experience our styles and sense of self. Realized both online and offline, ModeMatch helps its audiences by addressing the most basic of questions: "What to wear?"
Bram's engagement with a variety of endeavors and his progressive creativity brought him acclaim in the industry worldwide. He has a long list of accomplishments that include a variety of awards, interviews, magazine and book publications as well as sitting in on judging panels.
To top off Bram's list of achievements, he recently came full circle into his roots, when the college he attended awarded him with the Rising Star Award. While Bram Timmer's permanent residence is in Canada, he keeps close to his Dutch roots, and is always humbled by the achievements in his multi-faceted career.