My real name is Tim Van Damme, but most people know me as maxvoltar. It started as a joke, as these things often do, and then it stuck. By day I’m a software designer at Figma, living in the small but stubborn country of Belgium. I’m a father, a husband, and very much a friendly creature of habit.
I represent MVKB on the following platforms:
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.
After nearly two decades of designing pixels on screens, I felt the pull toward something more tangible. Like many people, the COVID lockdowns pushed me down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole, starting with my very first custom board.
Not long after, I ordered my first custom-designed keycap set from WASD Keyboards (RIP?), and that was the point of no return. A few months and several abandoned ideas later, ePBT Camo launched—my first official custom keycap group buy, essentially a Kickstarter for keyboard enthusiasts.
I approach these projects with creative curiosity rather than market math. I don’t start by asking what will please the largest possible audience. The goal is simpler and more honest: reach just enough people to make the project viable. Hit the minimum order quantity, do it properly, and move on to the next idea. That constraint is intentional. It keeps the work personal, keeps decisions sharp, and allows each project to exist on its own terms instead of chasing trends.
That mindset is also why the work tends to look a little different. I deliberately steer clear of more popular themes in the keyboard world, and instead pull from the long, quiet history of print design and art. Type design, industrial graphics, utilitarian layouts, materials that evolve as they age. The result isn’t for everyone, and that’s totally fine.
As a designer, any excuse is a good excuse to create a brand, give it a logo, and build a website around it. When MVKB launched in 2021, this site was intentionally simple: a static website focused almost entirely on project renders. You couldn’t buy anything, there was nothing social about it, and there was no Javascript involved (aside from loading webfonts and some simple analytics). Over time I added small details and refinements, but the core of the site stayed close to what it was on day one.
By late 2025, with winter settling in and a few new projects taking shape, it felt like the right moment to take a step back and reassess. The brand had evolved slightly, clearer patterns had emerged, and I had a better sense of how people actually used and moved through the site. This refresh is about aligning the structure with what MVKB has quietly become.
The homepage now acts as a clear introduction to what MVKB is and how I work. It highlights the latest project, offers some context about me, and provides paths to projects, artisans, and commissions. The projects page largely preserves the original homepage layout. The artisan page has been expanded, and the commissions page brings together a range of work that hadn’t lived on this site before.
Most of the effort went into the project pages themselves. They share a common structure, but give me more flexibility in layout and presentation without adding unnecessary complexity behind the scenes.
More than anything, this website is a living thing. I’ll keep adjusting and refining it as I go. And at the end of the day, it’s still a hobby, just taken way too seriously.
Alright here’s a bit of the behind-the-scenes 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 double-shot legends in collaboration with GMK, and it has since worked its way into the MVKB brand. Large titles use the Extra Condensed variant, smaller titles and labels use Condensed.
To add a hint of variety, 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. Just like Proxima Soft, it’s designed by Mark Simonson, who I’ve been a fan of for a long time.