Serene misty landscape

Quiet design.

Bridging a decade of core developer logic with industrial product engineering and local-first AI.

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Portfolio

Selected Works

Symphonic Clay Motion Vessel
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Symphonic Clay Motion Vessel

AI & computational — 2025

Product designer
CeramiForma
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CeramiForma

AI & computational — 2024

Product designer
SlinkSpeaker
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SlinkSpeaker

Industrial / Visualisation — 2024

Product designer
Submarine Bath Toy
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Submarine Bath Toy

Industrial / Visualisation — 2024

Product designer
ONO Cat Furniture
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ONO Cat Furniture

Industrial / Visualisation — 2024

Product Designer
The Designer

Glenn
De Backer

Glenn De Backer — Independent Portfolio

Accolades & Exhibits

International Portfolio Winner — The Rookies (Product Design Category)

Exhibited Artist, 3D Printing Art Gallery — Wonder Festival

Academic Honors

Industrial Product Design (IPO) — Summa Cum Laude at Howest

As an independent product designer, visualization specialist, and computational design consultant, I work at the intersection of mathematical precision, tactile materiality, and silent, edge-hosted AI systems.

I initially spent a decade as a software developer, leading deep-tech and AI initiatives alongside a major Belgian digital agency. Starting long before the ongoing AI hype cycles, this background provides me with a rare, clear-eyed realization of what AI actually is: its real limitations, its physical constraints, and how to effectively engineer around them relative to physical products. Inspired to bring that technical logic into the physical world, I graduated in Industrial Product Design (IPO) at Howest, graduating summa cum laude and winning an international award for my portfolio. I have also spent time in higher education as a researcher and lecturer, teaching parametric CAD, Blender, and high-fidelity rendering pipelines.

This rare fusion of engineering, academic depth, and award-winning design intuition allows me to merge authentic, pre-hype AI expertise with computational design systems. Rather than following speculative marketing trends, I build generative scripts, craft procedural material textures, optimize complex CAD assemblies, and direct exact visual narratives grounded in physical truth and material reality.

Form & Formula

Form & Formula

02 / Professional Integrations

Corporate Collaborations

Through the years in different roles, I had the pleasure to work with companies in different projects.

Niko logo
Nokia logo
Capgemini logo
Proximus logo
Samsonite logo
Die Keure logo
Studio 100 logo
Ketnet logo
Duvel logo
Club Brugge logo
Stad Brugge logo
Kom op tegen Kanker logo
Visual Storytelling & High-End CAD.
Expertise I

Visual Storytelling & High-End CAD.

Drawing on my experience teaching visual design in higher education, I construct cinematic renderings that treat environments, light reflection, and surface dust as active components of the design narrative. I combine parametric CAD blueprints, high-fidelity 3D scanning, immersive 360° photography backgrounds, and Blender storytelling to showcase the soul of raw clay, unpolished concrete, and brushed metal.

Keys: Parametric CAD, Blender, 3D Scanning, 360° Capture

Computational AI & Algorithmic Design.
Expertise II

Computational AI & Algorithmic Design.

True digital-physical harmony requires custom, predictable logic, not speculative marketing hype. Weaving a decade of deep, pre-hype AI engineering with computational design workflows, I design custom mathematical systems, adaptive lighting algorithms, and localized offline models. Fully recognizing the practical limits of AI, I construct robust workarounds that guarantee physical precision directly on bare-metal hardware.

Keys: Grounded Local-First AI, Generative Mathematics, Hardware Limitations Workarounds, Parametric Automation Scripts

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Let's construct something tangible.

Whether you have a fully specified CAD assembly that requires cinematic light profiling, a real-world object needing high-fidelity 3D scanning, or a proposal for local neural software acceleration — reach out directly to start the dialogue.

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Location & Zone

Roeselare, BelgiumEurope/Brussels (CET / CEST)

Availability Status

Available for select industrial, visualization, 3D scanning, or local-first AI system initiatives.

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