Michiel Vandamme
ABOUT ME
Hello My name is Michiel Vandamme. I’m an Industrial Design student at Howest Kortrijk. I have an admiration for styles that are typical in the 80’s. I’m trying to process this nostalgic theme in my modern designs.
Education 2010 - 2016 Sint -Jozefscollege, Wervik, Belgium Economics-mathematics 2017 - 2020 Howest, Kortrijk, Belgium Bachelor Indusrial Designer
Passion Artwork Poster designs Acting Theatre actor Fashion
Shirt designs
STYLE
My go-to style mostly contains straight lines with contrasting colors. The subtle combination of class with a little playfulness is intriguing to me.
Bottle opener Take it back to the basics. The client wanted a design for a new corkscrew and bottle opener. They want to see a product in a new, beautiful and functional form. These two objects will be sold as a set. The style of the set, needed to be based on a famous Designer. Designer: Jonathan Ive Techniques: - styleboarding - sketching - prototyping - siemens NX (CAD) - material research Time: one month
Styleboard To make a style board about Jonathan Ive, I had to do some research. Jonathan is an amazing designer with some amazing designs. I think it is important to know how he finishes his products. He uses rounded corners and curved lines.
�True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It’s about bringing order to complexity.�
Sketching
Experimenting with a new style. Because I could not use my own style, I had to take a look at the style of Jonathan Ive during the sketching. After a lot of failed sketches and ideas, I eventually drew some models of which I’ve made a prototype. In the sketches you will see that I especially used straight lines and tight roundings, these are some features that you can see at the Apple designs.
Prototyping In the prototyping process I focused on various aspects. The thickness, the length and the radius were a priority. The form and the placement of the incision was the last things I decided. It was a long process with a lot of failed prototypes but at the end I was very pleased with the result.
Made of high pressure laminate
Milled incision
Metal corkscrew
Tight rounded finish
Handgrip hack It’s all in the positioning.
Luc needs his crutches for a long time so a more personalised grip could increase the ergonomic feeling. This hack is a grip made of a protoplast that equally distributes the pressure on his hands, thus reducing stress on one point. Techniques: - ideasearching - personal research - prototyping Time: one month
The installation should happen without problems. The product has to be small and subtle. The price needs to be as low as possible. The pieces should be replaceable.
For this challenge I focussed on a long-term use of the crutches. Weight is an important factor, I needed a light and strong material, like Rubber or PP with a foam coating. The grip is also a factor which is of great importance to my addition.
Side projects
Outdoor sidetable
Take your picknick to the next level. When young families have a picnic, they often choose the nature. But in most cases the surface is not very flat. Picnic tables are of course not presented everywhere and are very clumsy to carry around. To solve this problem I came up with the idea to make a take-away coffee table. This table will be light and foldable.
Polet handtool
Let’s make gardening sexy. POLET is looking for new hobby tools that they can use in their product group. It needs to be a new 2-piece set of hand tools for in the garden. The set consists of a transplanting trowel, combined with 1 extra hand tool, a hand cultivator or a hand rake. For both segments, they want to focus on ergonomics, functionality, essence and modern look and feel to the user. Prototype 1 piece from the set.
Table light
Creating an unexpected connection. Starting from a selection of two prototyping techniques, you need to search for possibilities to design a table lamp. The lamp has to be rotation-symmetrical or mirror symmetric. The maximum height of the light can be 25 cm, the maximum width of the light is 15 cm. Led lights aren’t allowed to be used. The techniques I chose were: - concrete casting - wood bending