Stani Michiels


Stani Michiels is a visual artist, architect, and coin designer who was born in 1973 in Geel. He lives and works in the Netherlands. Michiels has a master's degree in architecture from the Université catholique [de Louvain|Catholic University of Leuven]. Afterwards he studied art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
In his work architecture is often present. Most of his work is created digitally with self-made software. The final result is a drawing, photo or video, in which the digital origin is not obvious.
Michiels has held exhibitions in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Indonesia and China.
Michiels is also a Python programmer, and develops Phatch a photo batch editor based on the Python Imaging Library. He designed an integrated development environment for Python aptly named "Stani's Python Editor".

Coin design

In 2008, Michiels won a competition by the Dutch Finance Ministry to design a special Euro gold and silver [commemorative coins (Netherlands)#2008|commemorative 5 euro coin] with the theme "Netherlands and Architecture". The coin was designed entirely using free software.