Hello I'm Gilles Bazelaire, I'm the founder,
one of the founders and the CEO of Dogstudio
it's a company, a digital company
company based in Namur in the south of
Belgium. We started the company with my
brother and with a friend ten years ago,
and now it's 30 employees working in
Namur and in the USA.
Originally I'm a graphic designer,
and my brother is a developer and we just
decided to, well to make something
together, so one day I was looking for a
name and we had the idea to open a
studio with a developer artist and
designer and we opened a
dictionary and the first name was Dog
and so we called the company Dogstudio.
We started with really local
accounts, small accounts in Namur
and after five years it became to
grow into as it as it is now.
Well Belgium is a small country
there is not a lot of great digital
companies, but there is a there is some and
there is really cool company especially
in the North of Belgium, but the
problem Belgium's small that the
account scene is really small, we don't
have a lot of big companies which are in
in Belgium so we really have to do
more to exist.
A Dogstudio we are especially working
in the entertainment culture, we are
making a lot of cross media projects for
the cinema, for the movie industry and we
are, we have a lot of projects using our
UX and UI we are famous
for that in Belgium, so that's more of less the kind of project we have.
Well this is a difficult question, we are
not really investing a lot of money in
VR or new stuff like that, we are
more trying to - as the company's growing a
lot for the moment, we are more trying to
work with our customer but more
wisdom with the technology they have, and
not to propose our technology, or only the
stuff that we are working on so it's
really a new way of work for
Dogstudio, it's truly to to work with the
with the clients, and with the clients' technology.
It was a lot, it's always difficult I think,
it's never smooth but yeah the most
the most difficult one is the KIKK Festival website,
because we are also the
KIKK festival, it's a side project of
Dogstudio and it's like being the
client and the agency at the same time.
so it's always really difficult because
as I in, for example and director of the
festival and director of Dogstudio, I
have to be on the both side and it's
always difficult to speak with the with
the KIKK team because they want always
new stuff for the websites and the
guys from the Dogstudio which are always
exploring stuff for the website and
I'm and I'm always saying them that it's
an event website and it it has to be
cool, but it has to be functional also
but it's it's also a really cool project to work on.
This is one of the reason why we create
the KIKK festival, it's because we we wanted to
have an event like Awwwards
like the OFF in Barcelona at a
home in Belgium, and so the inspiration
of course it's coming from a lot of
stuff like website,
we really try to go to a lot of events and
to meet people to make artists to met
scientists, to meet people outside of
our industry, to open our eyes and
the eyes of the Dogstudio employees.
Uh
it's also a difficult question, I think we are
leaving the desktop and we are leaving
the screen and we all would like to
weather like you know digital everywhere
so of course it's it's coming real for
the moment, and we would like at Dog
studio to work on projects which
are outside of the screen, so I think the
next step of the web and of the
digital being everywhere and but being
sometimes seamless.
It's huge, it's really huge it's
important for us, because as I told you we
are a small company, in a small town, in a
small country, and winning an Awwward it
really gives us a lot of international
focus on the company, and it
attracts a lot of new customers for
Dogstudio, and also it's important
for people who are working inside the
company, because it's really a way to
congratulate them, and to the work they
are doing during the year so it's really
important to us.