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At Fabrique, I worked on the branding of Giant bicycles for the BeNeLux market. Fabrique proved Giant BeNeLux that it is worth producing local variants of it's bikes and brand interactions instead of using the global versions. We designed the graphics and colours on several models of bikes and made the decals. The bikes, produced in Taiwan, were then finished of for a more local market in the Netherlands. We also designed some of Giant's concept stores and in-store communication, along with the catalogue. It was a really interesting experience as the whole process had to happen fast and went into production immediately.
Daily is an ‘ad-hoc’ watering-can. Ad-hoc, as it is a design study using existing products. In this case, I wanted to explore how to use the shape and volume of everyday things while in the same time moving away from the actual products. The final shape however still had to refer to a watering can.
edit suiteCluster Lef is a new-media-art-collective. They’re building their home-base in an industrial barrack on the old “NDSM- wharf” in Amsterdam-Nord. The building consists of 10 “sea-containers” and will be a pilot for “Mobile Playgrounds”, a project for mobile living/working spaces in those containers.
Design team KL NK designed two of those spaces for Cluster Lef:
_edit-suite: space for video-editing
_presentation-room for all this multimedia-violence
Both spaces fitting each in one container (2.6x2.6x12m)
technical detailingLimpie is an electric pottery wheel, developed in an assignment with strong emphasis on mechanical and technological aspect. Due an innovative transmission system without space-taking belts, this pottery wheel is much smaller than other pottery wheels on the market.
