| TUUR VAN BALEN |
TU Delft
This is my MSc graduation project at the Delft University of Technology for Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, the national museum of art and history in the Netherlands. The outcome of this 8 months research and concept design project was the creation of a new relationship between the museum and it's visitors and a concept invoking new interaction. It is presented in a book, models and a movie showing the concept in the museum.
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.
Yuri, as described elsewhere in this portfolio, has been further developed in this project. Feasibility was tested, technical detailing was done and the whole user-interaction is developed and tested, using a flash-prototype.
Yuri allows you to create short photo-sequences with sound/voice. Afterwards you leave these “souvenirs” behind, for your friend to find. While dropping it in the air you can set the radius of the “souvenir-area”. For instance leaving it in your favourite bar by the table where you and your friend always drink your Friday night beer. Knowing you left some kind of gift behind for your friend, evokes a feeling of excitement and joy.
grab the productPrivate Dancer is designed for Proctor & Gamble as a conceptual packaging for wash-detergent. The concept allows people to increase their sexiness during shopping through interaction with the product. The rich interaction, with the supermarket as an arena, challenges people to seduce and be sexy, from subtle and neglectful to very expressive. This project was also the first exercise in V.I.P., Vision In Product design.
homepageFor the TU-Delft, a group of Industrial Design students analysed the university’s new web-portal, looking for ergonomical weaknesses. After research in literature and a user-test, we stated criteria for redesigning the portal. The redesign then again was tested on a group of users.
Strength of the design was a stringent restriction of the means of improvement. Like this, a complex product could be improved a lot with only a few changes.
Team members: Gijs, Hein, Marjolijn and Tuur
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.
