A design engineer's portfolio focusing on interfaces and experiences, based in Ghent, Belgium.
The surface is a near-white field at lab 98.26 — almost no chroma at all — so colour has to be earned. It arrives through a single cool family: a muted periwinkle (#9D9ABC) set against a deeper slate blue (#446099), applied to links and selected states rather than to atmosphere. Colorfulness registers at 0.08, which is the point; every hue behaves like punctuation. The imagery sits in the same low-saturation register, so the frame holds one temperature from edge to edge. Typography does the naming work. Suisse is a neutral grotesque with no display mannerisms, and the page leans on it entirely: no decorative faces, no weight theatrics, just a patient hierarchy built from size and spacing. The recurring device — "Rafael Derolez / About" with its slash — reads as catalogue label and signature at once, a Swiss-studio habit of letting a caption stand in for a headline. "For hire. ↗" is the one line addressed to a person; the arrow is the only flourish permitted. Compositionally the page is compact by conviction: full height is 1100px, so there is no fold to cross and no scroll to perform. Four project names — Rodeo, Aura, Timeline, Career — and thirteen images sit as a single screen of work, a shelf rather than a narrative. Rhythm comes from tight vertical cadence and repeated margins; interaction feels pitched as quietly as the surface, hover states that adjust rather than announce. The restraint reads as confidence, not absence.








