My focus lies with interior product design, but besides that I love doing fashion projects.
In a group of five, I did my first design research project with a qualitative user test by means of two semi-structured observations. This project was for the client Pleyade, a caring home. I designed Pettow, a pet-like pillow to reduce anxiety for people with dementia. During this project I learned to manage a project… Read More
Designing Information Decoration for Morning Routines – Exploring the Context of Use, that is the titel of my research project. My research is about how to incorporate information in home interiors, ‘Information Decoration’, to reduce phone usage. ‘What information’ is derived from interviews and literature research, namely weather. And the ‘how’, ‘when’ and ‘where’ is… Read More
During my Masters I did one last group semester project. With two other students, I designed and 3D printed a light bulb in order to improve the clarity of speech during conversations at the dinner table. This way hard of hearing can be more engaged in social communicative situations. As our client, Eriksholm Research Center… Read More
PIP is the result for the master course Interactive Materiality, which I did with a fellow student. Interaction is becoming more and more flat and lateral because of the massive use of touchscreens. The shape-change of the design, facilitated by the pins, can be used as a haptic interface with ‘3D pixels’ to enrich these… Read More
An emotionally durable shell speaker that was presented at the Dutch Design Week 2019. Read More
During the course Digital Craftsmanship I made a laser cutted acrylic handbag with two others. The handbag is based on power and vengeance. The outside is dangerous and the inside contains knowledge, information about your ‘enemies’. The sublimation printed pattern, programmed in Processing, and the lasercutted and handstitched tetrahedrons are both based on the Golden… Read More
Worn at the catwalk of the Bangladesh Fashionology Summit 2019. Read More
I did my internship at Material Sense LAB in Eindhoven. I focussed on the combination of materials and sustainability, since that was a still undiscovered part of my vision. I especially achieved my goals to broaden my database of materials, put interaction into practice, and gain understanding of all the aspects of circularity. Besides, I… Read More
I did a multidisciplinary design project concerning light in a group of five. I was introduced to information decoration or peripheral interaction, which is a way to display information in a decorative and unobtrusive way in the environment, in the periphery of our attention. This was an eye-opening addition to my vision. The AquAware make… Read More
