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During the IDentity Week, February 1-5 2010, the ID TU/e vIDeo Competition was organized by David Morgan. The goal was to explore an addition to an environment. Choose a location or an object and add something.
A master team, of Master students, send in a video about mail. Mail is dying…
By Gordon Tiemstra, Jop Japenga, Marcel [...]

Aesthetic Reflection module 2009: Multi Product Light Interface
This module was given by Richard Appelby. A light interface was created to control different products (Toothbrush, Razor, Saw, Mixer, Vacuum cleaner and Camera) from a distance using tangible objects and light. The tangible objects were created out of wood after a form study of the existing [...]

Sounds Like Home by Sebastiaan Pijnappel
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Sound Schedule was a project about exploring how sound can be used in combination with tangible interaction to “unobtrusively communicate information to users in a home environment, in order to increase their awareness” of each other. The final design goal was to provide instant but subtle aesthetic information about [...]

Totti by Manon Spermon
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During my internship at the Syneasthetic Media Lab at Georgia Tech, Atlanta I made this game to help High Functioning Autistic children to engage in social interaction. Different levels are incorporated in the game which ask for more interaction. The further the players come in the game, the more social interaction [...]

Robotic toy for Autistics by Gilles van Wanrooij, Ruben van Limpt, Stijn Coppieters, Jelke Schippers, Marnick Menting

A robotic toy had to be designed for autistic children to help them develop social skills. The client was Sint Marie from Eindhoven, an institute for people with communication difficulties. After an extensive investigation about the interests, requirements and [...]

Warehouse of the Future by Matthijs Kwak, Bart Neefs, Bart Naaijkens, Menno Meijer, Marnick Menting

For a distribution center of Schuitema Zuid a system had to be improved in order to reduce errors made by order pickers. After an extensive analysis of the current situation, we developed a system which can drop the amount of errors [...]

Esher tesselations by Marnick Menting
In this module I worked on the theory behind tesselations and more specifically Esher’s drawings. A tesselations is a figure that can seamlessly and infinitely repeated. This can be useful when designing products that need to be shipped, to reduce packaging and transportation costs. Also, this is useful when designing products [...]

Windspire by Kim Böhre, Jeanine Kierkels, Jeroen Witjes
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wINdSPIRE is a tangible interface used for musical expression. With this group of elements one can physically manipulate digital soundscapes in an intuitive and entertaining way.
When exhibited in large public spaces subtle background sounds will attract you to come, experiment and experience. These elements that spire people and objects [...]

Project Walk! by Stefan Zwegers

Walk! is a shirt that was developed for women between 20 – 30 years old who want an active lifestyle. In the morning a pedometer module is attached to the shirt, which registers the amount of steps that are taken during the day. The pattern on the shirt consists [...]

Portfolio teaser by Stefan Zwegers
I made this Showreel for my portfolio during the module After Effects. It functions as a teaser for my portfolio, giving you a quick impression of my work to make you curious.
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Manifesto: The future designer by Stefan Zwegers
During the module Leaving the Cocoon the main goal is to write and present your own design manifest. I made this animation to present my manifest. It is about the kind of designers that are created at our faculty and how they should be seen in the world: as [...]

DoorM was created during the ID Class for the Philips Creative Challenge by Guust Hilte, Jan van der Asdonk, Loes Smits, Willem Knijnenburg and Stefan Zwegers

The DoorM concept lowers the threshold for CitizenM hotel guests to visit the shared living rooms available,by triggering their curiosity through interactive spy holes. It offers an abstract overview of [...]

Gesture Operating Lights by Marnick Menting

The client of this project was Ondal, who provides supporting systems like pendant systems for lightning, monitoring, intensive care, and so on. The aim of this project was to inspire Ondal about the future operation space and explore new directions to innovate on. After an extensive analysis of the status [...]

Project Apgar Score by Manon Spermon
In 1952 the Apgar score was devised by Dr. Virginia Apgar. It was devised as a simple and repeatable method to quickly and summarily assess the health of newborn children immediately after childbirth. This project focuses on developing a simulator of the breathing of a newborn to train medical staff [...]

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