Bram vanhaeren biography
Honoured to be part of creating multi-award-winning applications as a lead designer & art director at KBC () & Belfius ().!
Bram is 24 years old and studies cross media design, he's an amazing illustrator artist and currently Art Director at KBC (Bank & Insurances).
Bram Vanhaeren on Photoshop 25 under 25: How Adobe changed my life
Do what you love. Follow your dreams. Before you know it, you might be writing a similar story yourself.
– Bram Vanhaeren
I am a young creative from Antwerp in Belgium.
I am 24 and I have been working with Adobe Photoshop for over 10 years.
Bram Vanhaeren is an artist and designer from Antwerp, Belgium who is on a mission to create positivity through his colourful and energetic portraits.I didn’t understand a single word in English when I started working with Photoshop, so I basically just started playing and experimenting with the program. A couple of years later I decided to go to a creative school to study commercial design.
That is, until they kicked me out after six months.
The reason?
I wasn’t allowed to work with any Adobe program! I had to draw my designs by hand and well, I’m a terrible drawer. My teachers told me I was by far the worst illustrator of my year – my portraits got rated 3/20.
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So I failed my class and was asked to leave the school. That left me with two options. A) Find a new passion. Or B) prove them wrong. I decided to prove them wro