My real name is Tim Van Damme but most people know me as maxvoltar. Started as a joke, but you know how it goes. By day I'm a software designer at Figma, and I live in a tiny country called Belgium. Father, husband, all-around friendly creature of habit.
After almost 2 decades of designing pixels on a screen, I wanted to try my hand at designing physical products. Just like many others, Covid lockdowns is when I ordered my first mechanical keyboard.
Soon after I ordered my first custom-designed set of keycaps from WASD Keyboards (RIP?), and I was hooked. Fast-forward a couple of months and a handful of abandoned projects ideas later, and ePBT Camo (first round) launched as my official first custom keycaps group buy (basically a Kickstarter).
There's also a small Discord server I run for the community where I try my very best keeping everyone updated about projects and releases.
If you really have to, you can send me an email. Please don't, I'm really bad with email.
As a designer, any reason is a good one to come up with a brand, give it a logo, and make a website for it. Back at the start of MVKB in 2021, this website launched without a lot of whistles or bells. A simple static website focussing mostly on the renders of my projects. You can't buy anything here, there's nothing social about it, heck there isn't even Javasacript involved (except for webfonts). Over the years I slowly added more details and small tweaks, but it mostly remained similar to the day it launched.
Fast forward to late 2025. With winter settling in and a couple of new projects on the horizon, I sat down and looked at what I liked about the state of this website and what I wanted to add or change. The brand had evolved (slightly), more patterns had emerged, and I like to think I've gotten to know its visitors a bit better.
Today, there's a homepage which serves as an introduction to who or what MVKB is. It features the latest project, has a bit of information about myself, and some jumping off points to projects, artisans, and commissions. The new projects page is basically what the homepage was before, I liked the way it was and kept it mostly the same. The artisan page got a bit fancier, and the new commissions page shows off a whole range of projects I've never shared on this website before.
Most of the work was spent on the new project pages. Structurally they're similar, but I wanted more control over the layout without adding additional complexity on my end.
But most importantly, this website is a living thing. I'll keep tweaking things as I come across them, because in the end this is still a hobby for me.
Alright here's a bit of the technical stuff if you're into that.
Fonts are served by Adobe Fonts which I chose simply because they offer all the fonts I needed.
Most of the typefaces you see here are part of the Proxima Soft family. I fell in love with the regular width as I was researching typefaces to use for Neue, and it has since worked its way into the MVKB brand. Large titles use the Extra Condensed variant, smaller titles and labels Condensed.
To add at least a hint of variety (can't have polaroids without a handwritten note on them), I arrived at Felt Tip Roman after doing some research. It's a modern take on a handwritten font and I really like the clear rhythm of the letters, and it's also designed by Mark Simonson, who I've been a fan of for a long time.