Christiaan de Rooij is an accomplished lead designer and art director with extensive experience in graphic, motion graphic, and interaction design, currently leading design efforts at Submarine since December 2003. Previously, Christiaan held roles as a web designer, assistant photographer, and photo retoucher at Hagemeier de Heij Photography from 2000 to November 2003, and co-founded Orkaan Communicatie where Christiaan served as art director from 2000 to 2002. Christiaan's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Multimedia from Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, earned from September 1999 to July 2003, and training at SintLucas from 1995 to 1999.