Portfolio Caspar van den Brink - Industrial product design 2015

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PORTFOLIO CASPAR VAN DEN BRINK



Bankers lamp family The bankers lamp family revolves around a new interpretation of the famous traditional bankers lamp made out of a green glass shade and a brass foot.

The rest of the family consists of a dinner table lamp, an office lamp and a standing lamp that will face a wall or corner of a room in most cases.

This is one of the projects I worked on during my 5 month internship at the HolmbackNordentoft studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. A Danish lamp manufacturer approached our studio with the request of a new lamp series.


Desk lamp The desk lamp consists of an injection molded plastic shell with a matte finish, a molded foot with a matte finish and a bent wooden arm connecting the two components. The powercord is connected to the bent wooden arm.

The lamp shade is closed on the bottom and has an LED ring that radiates a warm white light.

The lamp is approximately 300 mm tall and 260 mm wide.


Pendant office lamp

The suspended office lamp consists of an injection molded plastic shell with a matte finish and a bent wooden arm connecting it to the two suspended powercords.

The lamp shade is closed on the bottom and has an LED ring that radiates a warm white light.

The lamp is approximately 50 mm tall and 1000 mm wide.


Material & light variations

The wooden pendant arms should be available in different types of wood, both light and dark.

The lamps should be available in two versions with either a bright white LED ring preferable for offices or a warmer white/yellow LED ring for a more cosy and welcoming light preferable in environments like living rooms.


Process The design brief for this assigment was very open and almost limitless. This is why I decided to develop some concept ideas that I gathered the past year and made sure they would fit the company's style as well as possible.

The lamp manufacturer that requested the new lamp series mostly produces mid to low priced lamps. This is one of the factors that I kept in mind while designing, as well when it came to making decisions about use of materials and ways of manufacturing.



Getting around the Dutch way While technological developments are having a profound impact on how existing transportation is changing, the basis of transport seems to be rather perennial and long-lasting. Especially in The Netherlands, the bicycle has been used to navigate through the cities or local villages for the past few decades.

We, a group of students were asked to design a new conceptual way of transport that could be introduced in the current logistics of The Hague and Delft in the Netherlands.

The result I came up with, is a social bike hiring system for both locals and tourists.


The service It appears as though people living in a big city, like The Hague, are becoming less and less Availability bikes

Bike tours Populair

Category

Duration

Average duration: Distance: Flat/inclined terrain: Rating: Completed by users:

21 min 4,8 Km Inclined (13 m) 4,6/5 282 times

Beachtour Northsea tour along Scheveningen Beach The Hague

Info

Average duration: Distance: Flat/inclined terrain: Rating: Completed by users:

16 3,5 Km Flat 4,8/5 1248 times

Haagse Bos tour Short tour through the woods in the city centre of The Hague

Info

Average duration: Distance: Flat/inclined terrain: Rating: Completed by users:

14 min 3,8 Km Flat 4,4/5 573 times

Art museum tour 2 (Mauritshuis, Escher museum, Louwman museum) The Hague

Bike terminal Buitenhof, The Hague

Amount of completely charged bikes: 5 Amount of partly charged bikes: 2

Distance to bike station: 1,7 Km

Reserve bike Directions to station

Info

Average duration: Distance: Flat/inclined terrain: Rating: Completed by users:

41 min 12,3 Km Inclined (25 m) 4,2/5 195

Woods tour 1 (tour through three woods around The Hague), The Hague & Leiden

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involved with the people around them.

The solution to this lack of social interaction might be solved by an old fashinoned Dutch way of transport. It is an interesting way for tourists to meet local people and go on a sightseeing tour together. Adding to that it is a familiar, quick, and healthy way for inhabitants to move through the city in an environmentally friendly way.

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The smartphone application I designed gives the user the opportunity to see availability of rental bikes in the near area, reserve a bike, and pick a biketour of his or her preference.


Rental system

The bike system I developed consists of several stations with up to 10 bikes per station. The bikes include an electric motor to support elderly people and has an indicator to show it's battery life.

In the city centre the density of the bike stations would be quite high (couple of hundreds of meters apart), while in the suburbs and neighbouring municipalities the bike stations would be further apart.


The bike The bikes are designed with a focus on usage for a broad audience as well as durability since they will be used heavily and need to endure possible vandalization Adjustable seat height Charging connectors Battery indicator

Electric motor

Belt drive


Process As a group of students, we created a shared vision that boiled down to creating an efficient transportation system that wouldn’t change much about the existing infrastructure. Because big cities in The Netherlands have a very good infrastructure for bikes this would be the case when implementing the bike rental service.

After we developed this overarching vision, I concluded that variables such as improving someone’s health, while also allowing someone to discover new cultural aspects of a city like The Hague (The Netherlands), would be promising for the customer, as well as being a good selling point for the service.



Monitoring tablet for farmers A lot of farmers these days would like to take advantage of the numerous possibilities that smartphones and tablets offer. Unfortunately they either face problems with complicated systems that exist on the market or feel like they are losing phyisical contact with their cattle by using a digital tool.

By offering this simple and clear digital environment, which involves monitoring instead of automated actions, the farmer can take advantage of digital tools, improving efficiency while never losing overview and connection with his cattle


The interface Because physical contact with their cattle is very important for most farmers, they may not want technology to interfere. This tablet won't intefere in any way because it's completely passive, meaning that it will not automatically take action when something occurs.

This way the farmer is still 100% in charge and will only be notified if one of his machines is not working well or if one of his animals is not behaving in a normal way.

The interface also gives feedback about things like appointments, temperature and humidity of the shed. It can be fully customized to show variables of interest, like what the level of the milk tank is or how much dung there is left to feed the soil.


Rubber enclosure

Hole for clip

The red bar glows to indicate a notification

Power button



Process I started off by interviewing a farmer who showed me around his farm. I got into a dialogue with him about the pros and cons of digital tools in his field of work. This allowed me to get an understanding of how the functions he would prefer could be incorporated.

Another thing that I sensed is that most farmers are not willing to learn a very complex system, so simplicity is key, which was a challenge while designing the interface.

Because of these realisations I kept both the exterior and the inface simple and easy to use by eliminating any aspects that did not contribute to the overall function. I wanted to ensure that this tablet is a tool to make the farmer’s job easier but not to replace him.



ICON series lounge chairs

A Swedish furniture design manufacturer approached our studio with the request of a new ICON series of lounge chairs.

The ICON series consists of one chair in every of the following three price ranges, low, mid and high.

This is one of the projects I worked on during my 5 month internship at the HolmbackNordentoft studio in Copenhagen, Denmark.


Low price range chair

This is the low price range lounge chair, consisting of a matte finished metal tube frame with welded joints. The cushioning consists of a wooden multiply board with upholstered cold molded foam around it, giving the user an ergonomical posture.

Both the upholstered foam and the metal tube frame could be provided in different color combinations according to the customer’s need.


High price range chair

This is the high price range lounge chair, consisting of a plastic shell and wooden feet attached to a wooden base.

The chair carries two simple cushions to provide comfort.

The plastic shell can be molded and the wooden base could be milled out of wood or bent. The four feet could be spun on a lathe.


Measurements ICON lounge chairs

720 mm

710 mm

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640 mm

540 mm

675 mm

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Process While doing the analyses and during the ideation phase I kept the three price ranges in mind while avoiding limiting myself to much, which encouraged me to use different approaches. I tried to match the form language of my chairs with the recognizable aesthetic style of the company and ways of manufacturing they use.

The result was one chair for each price range, with increased comfort depending on the price of the chair.

The three chairs have stackable seats and knock down assembly which saves a lot of manual labour in the factories and is more efficent when it comes to transport.



Philips Visapure When PHILIPS designed their VISAPURE facial brush a few year ago their target group were women between the ages of 20 and 40. After the product resulted in a succes for this target group of young women they asked us to redesign the VISAPURE for a different target group of choice.

In the past decade the number of men that pay attention to their facial and body care has strongly increased. My goal was to redesign a product that was initially made for women, into one that looks slick and masculine and appeals to men between the ages of 30 and 50.



PU enclosure with brushed steel texture White PU grips PU brush head

The components used in the new design are the same as in the original product, which makes it easier to switch or add a new product to the exsisting product family.

Cogwheels Motor Battery Component holder Silicon membrame


Process I started this project off by having a look at the original VISAPURE and analysing which aspects I thought would fit the new target group but had to be modified slightly and which aspects I had to get rid off.

Because the original target group of the VISAPURE were women between 20 and 40 it had a lot of smooth and round shapes in the design, high gloss and feminine colors.

The aspects I decided to stick with for the redesign were mostly subtle details, while the base had to change into a more masculine product. I tried to achieve this using a combination of both smooth shapes and sharpe edges.



Qualifications Solidworks 2015

Work experience well/very well

Aloha juicetruck & Reizende sterren - Scheveningen

Rhinoceros 5.0 well

Part time job

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & Indesign

Assisting the owner, managing and developing the concept like

well

Keyshot rendering basic

interior design, routing and logistics.

Both windows and Mac very well

I also worked in the kitchen and behind the counter.

8/2015 - present

Ideation sketching well Pitching concepts well

Product design intern HolmbackNordentoft -

Microsoft office

Copenhagen, Denmark - Full time intern

very well

2/2015 - 8/2015

- Ideation & moodboards - 3D CAD moddeling Solidworks & Rhino + Rendering

Education

- Making 3D prints - Pitching concepts

University of applied sciences, The Hague (NL)

10/2012 - present Mapper lithography - Delft - part time job

Industrial product design (undergraduate)

2/2014 - 2/2015

Assisting the engineering team Leonardo da Vinci college - High school

10/2006 - 6/2011

- Bèta profile with math, chemnistry and physics

Surfschool Hartbeach - Scheveningen - part time job

- Music as a graduation subject

Working in the kitchen as a cook and behind the bar

4/2013 - 10/2013


Hobby's Krav Maga and surfing

Details Present

Born in Nijmegen in 1994 Currently living in The Hague, the Netherlands

Producing and playing electronic dance music

Present

Groenewegje 143B 2515 NC The Hague, the Netherlands

Playing violin in a symphony orchestra

9/2002 - 9/2012

Tel. +316 23299656 Skype: casparvandenbrink

Playing classic violin - Courses in classic violin - Courses in jazz improvisation

9/1999 - present


casparvdbrink@gmail.com +31 6 23 29 96 56


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