Fons Mans
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Fons Mans

Designer & Founder in Rotterdam, NL

Now offering 1:1 sessions!
cal.com/fonsmans

A month ago

About

I help ambitious founders and teams with creating brand and product experiences that stand out. Besides that I empower designers to level up their work and career through my educational community "10X Designers". I also love to partner up to create exciting side projects.

My work has been featured by Adobe, Figma, Framer, Sketch, Webflow and many others.

Contact

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Work Experience

2022 — Now

An educational community that empowers designers to level up their work and career.

2019 — Now
Rotterdam

Helping ambitious founders and teams with creating brand and product experiences that stand out.

2022 — Now
Founding Designer at Hyve

More info to be added soon.

2023 — Now
Founding Designer at Mashup

More info to be added soon.

2018 — 2022
Amsterdam

Guiding all creative projects made by (product)design, marketing and 3rd party collaboration. Responsible for brand development, product positioning and design strategy

2017 — 2018
Amsterdam

Creation of various visual deliverables for top events from ID&T & Q-Dance like; Defqon.1, Mysteryland, Sensation, and more.

Side Projects

Ongoing
Fridays with Fons at Figma

A new content format in partnership with Figma.

Ongoing

A 4-week cohort based course that will learn you how to elevate your work by creating stellar visual languages for brand, marketing, product, web and other design projects.

2022

24 Days of gifts and heavy discounts on products and resources for the Design community. This was a collab with the Framer team.

Projects

Ongoing

Product design consultancy for Jack Dorsey's social decentralization project called Bluesky

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2023
Branding at Superfans

Setting up a brand identity for Superfans. More info to be added.

2022

Designed welcome emails for Loops, a SaaS email startup.

2022

Setting up a brand manifest, name, and identity for Dive, a new design education platform.

2022

Creating visual identities for 3 new Mode keycap sets, including visual, web and packaging design

2022

I created a visual campaign for Magician, a magical design tool for Figma powered by AI.

2022
San Fransisco

Giving a talk about 'Thinking outside of the Frame' at the yearly Figma design conference. Over 13k people watched the talk live.

Writing

2023

Join thousands of other designers in their journey to become the best designer they can be. Irregular newsletters, including resources, tips and exclusive offers.

Awards

2016

Conceptualised, pitched and executed a winning event concept for club AiR in Amsterdam

Features

2022

I was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about the community impact of the Adobe x Figma acquisition.