TAKE A SEAT | Collaboration-S

TAKE A SEAT | Collaboration-S

This contest challenged us with the question: How can you combine the soft sector of care with the hard material steel in a meaningful way.? We chose a very specific target group: people in a wheelchair, and decided not to focus on their limitation – but rather on the advantage their limitation, and how to share that advantage. We created a foldable chair which can be employed by the wheelchair users themselves to invite people to sit with them when the occasion calls for it. The movement performed to fold out the chair is inviting in itself, and the variable angle in which it can be applied combined with its close proximity to the permanent seat create a personal and informal interaction platform. Inviting someone to the same level can completely change the dynamics of a conversation, making our wheelchair-chair a welcome addition to the care sector of...
AVANS BREDA | tangible change

AVANS BREDA | tangible change

This ongoing project turns the abstract notions of long-term change management into tangible artefacts, introducing the metaphor of space to provoke an exploratory attitude, an atmosphere of excellence, and a sense of independence within and between the various teams involved.  ...
AVANS BREDA | zen drum

AVANS BREDA | zen drum

This symbolic gift for the president and vice-president of the Academy of Marketing and Business Management (AMBM) represents their complementary way of leadership. It acknowledges their power to bring peace to a turbulent environment, while inviting them to communicate more ‘musically’ – through abstract rhythms instead of a paper tsunami....
IMA FRAME | Imagineering Academy

IMA FRAME | Imagineering Academy

Universal clip for cell phone or laptop, adding a ripple effect frame to visual communication – representing the Imagineering Academy’s logo. Besides its functional value it assists imagineers in explaining their philosophy: it’s a human solution, a small intervention with a big impact, and it’s about getting organisations in an upward...
FINAL EMBRACE | personalized urn

FINAL EMBRACE | personalized urn

FINAL EMBRACE A personal project that applies 3D printing technology to bring about a transformation of a standard urn into a unique and personal object. For this design the hands were scanned in from each member of the family left behind; her husband, sons, daughters in law and grand child. Together they shape a ‘final...
R’HONEST | Balos Beach

R’HONEST | Balos Beach

I repaired my girlfriend’s (inherited) sugar cup with a story The lid of the cup was missing, and I decided to replace it with a function substitute in the shape of a memory: our first vacation together, a journey to Crete – the Greek island. When I thought back of that holiday the first thing that came to mind was a trip we made on our second day there, when our hotel owners suggested we’d visit Balos Beach, a peninsula in the very west of the island. The road would get bad after a certain point they said, but it would be worth it – so we went for it. And surely, after a while the road got bad. I mean I didn’t get worse, it simply ended. This meant driving off road next to a cliff – in our tiny little rental car – for miles on end. And when we finally arrived at the edge of the mountain it turned out we still had a pretty intense hike in front of us to get down to the water. But when we finally ended up at the beach we had to admit the locals were right, it had all been worth it; Balos Beach was a beautiful lagune, with golden sands, clear water, an amazing view and almost no one else around. Our own private paradise. I looked up the mountain we drove up on Google, traced the side view and extruded it. Then I looked up a picture of the tiny car we were in and did the same, just on a different scale. Next I simply...