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introduction Thank you for taking time to have a look at my personal portfolio. So I’m Paul Voncken, born the 2nd of may 1986 in the Netherlands. I was introduced to the field of industrial design at the Technical University of Eindhoven, where I graduated for my BSc. in 2009. After this I moved to London to start studying the joint Master course, Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College. This portfolio is giving a glance of my previous work. The work various from technology driven to innovative system thinking projects. Me in a nut shell: I like things to work, I believe in the richness of trying and the consideration of the environmental impact. To conclude, I am a creative person with an interest in sciences wrapped in a design which makes sense. www.paulvoncken.nl
SUPERFORM 2009 - Royal College of Art duration: 5 weeks solo project
The aim of the Superform module was to take me through different ways of handling and conceiving form while designing a chair which is also….. The brief was deliberately open and gave me a known: chair and an unknown. My task was to interpret the brief in a fresh innovative way. This module developed my form handling skills through analogue methods, so there are no computer modelling or CAD used at any stage. The end model is a panel in which you can sit and for example use in doors of changing rooms in stores. By using this panel you can reduce the size of the changing room and change advertisements quick because of the printed lycra and the velcrow connection.
conception through quick sketching..
.. and prototyping
2 old printers..
..a caravan waterpump
#define PwmPinMotorA 10 #define PwmPinMotorB 11 #define DirectionPinMotorA 12 #define DirectionPinMotorB 13 int potpiny = 0; int potpinx = 1; int valy = 512; int valx = 512; float speedy; float speedx; float positiony = 180/2; // goes here @ restart float positionx = 180/2; // goes here @ restart int potymiddle = 512; int potxmiddle = 512; void setup(){ pinMode(PwmPinMotorA, OUTPUT); pinMode(PwmPinMotorB, OUTPUT); pinMode(DirectionPinMotorA, OUTPUT); pinMode(DirectionPinMotorB, OUTPUT); Serial.begin(9600); } void loop(){ potymiddle = analogRead(potpiny); potxmiddle = analogRead(potpinx); Serial.println(potpiny); if (potymiddle >= 400 && potymiddle <= 600){ analogWrite(PwmPinMotorA, 0); digitalWrite(DirectionPinMotorA, LOW); } else if (potymiddle < 400){ MotorA, 220); digitalWrite(DirectionPinMotorA, HIGH); } else if (potymiddle > 600){ analogWrite(PwmPinMotorA, 220); digitalWrite(DirectionPinMotorA, LOW); } if (potxmiddle >= 400 && potxmiddle <= 600){ analogWrite(PwmPinMotorB, 0); digitalWrite(DirectionPinMotorB, LOW); } else if (potxmiddle < 400){ analogWrite(PwmPinMotorB, 220); digitalWrite(DirectionPinMotorB, LOW); } else if (potxmiddle > 600){ analogWrite(PwmPinMotorB, 220); digitalWrite(DirectionPinMotorB, HIGH);
..some standard components..
..combined with scrap material
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..and a bit of coding
Many products rely on the effective design and implementation of mechanisms for their function. This project aimed to introduce a range of machine elements commonly found in engineering mechanisms including bearings, shafts, gears, belts, chains, fasteners, clutches, brakes, seals, actuators and motors. Except learning how to construct the inner parts of appliances like a drill (gears, small dimensions, power, strength and durability. I had the task to design and produce a functioning prototype, demonstrating principle, for a product or mechanism that effectively uses at least six different types of machine elements. To improve my fast prototyping skills we made a water canon game out of old printers and components. The result was really pleasing and you can see it in action here: http://paulvoncken.nl/portfolio/gizmo
GIZMO 2010 - Royal College of Art duration: 4 weeks group project
I’ll TAKE NINE 2010 - Royal College of Art duration: 4 weeks group project
Being a designer is not just about prototypes, it’s about production. It’s crazy to think that we spend all our time in education making one–off prototypes or models when the real world is about units, volume and quantity. This project was testing us to the limit by asking us to design and make a hand sized product in a production run of 9 units in 4 weeks! First week was idea generation; pitch the idea to another group and receive an idea to develop in the following week. Pitch the concept to another group in the end of week 2 and receive a concept to manufacture in the following 2 weeks (in our case the concept was not working so we had to do phase 1,2 and 3 in 2 weeks). Summarizing, stressful but so amazing.
Selling opportunities: On stage and wrap around when purchase
Selling opportunities: Rolled up in the sello tape
Carbon footprint (from sourcing raw material till delivery to user) Process
How does is work:
Spring steel: 2.51 CO2/kg x 0.004 = 0.01 kgCO2 Stainless steel blade: 6.52CO2/kg x 0.008 = 0.049 kgCO2 Coating: 1.60 CO2/kg x 0.008 kg = 0.0029 kgCO2 That is a carbon footprint of 61 gr CO2 per sold unit
In the field which is known and summarized as 'Smart Materials' influences our behaviors and shifts the borders of 'what is possible'. We’re talking about the highly innovative field of smart textiles and fabrics. Combined with appropriate sensors and actuators it is possible to reduce items in size, weight, complexity by enhancing the opportunities for use. This project is executed in cooperation with Bekaert, a belgium company. Bekaert has developed a metal thread that provides new potential to develop smart products and uses. Our task was to present a visually attractive working prototype with this technology implemented, that really shows (one of) the potentials of this material and is not easily replaced by a competing technology. We discovered the unique qualities from this material by making a lot of material experiments, both on a technical and a visual level. And finally came up with the basic idea of using the fibre for a low voltage power line within a tent (patent pending). The idea has been worked out in detail and is exhibited on the Futex Convention 2009 and picked up by decathlon.
INTELLIGENT TEXTILE 2008 - TU/eindhoven duration: 5 months
explore material properties conception
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Futex - Intelligent textile conference (Lille France)
GOGLOBAL 2010 - Royal College of Art duration: 3 weeks group project location - Tsinghua University, Beijing (China)
Through its booming economy and rapid development, China is undergoing the fastest and largest migration in human history from the rural countryside to the urban city, estimated at over 40 million people migrating every year. The aim of our project is to take the country and city migration, communication and society as a meta‐theme project. I experienced life and working in a complete different culture through collaborating with Tsingua University students and having field trips including a night at a farmer’s family. Our concept focusses on helping those who don’t have any relatives or connections and providing them guidance and directions to migrate to Chinese cities.
Short term job 9.04% 短工
Other 22.6% 其他
Food 19.18% 餐饮业
House care 5.56% 家政服务
EXPERIENCE URBAN
EXPERIENCE RURAL
Building sites 17,98% 建筑业
china Manufacturing 25,66% 制造业
40.000.000 immigrants are moving towards Chinese cities every year. 17% of these 40.000.000 people go there without any certainty of home, job or where to go. That are 6.8 million stranded people! 在中国每年有4000万人口向城市移民。在这些人中将近17%的人在到达的时候并没有一个确定工作或者居所, 有的甚至不知道要往哪里去
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“into the blue”
RELATIVES
no network 没有关系网
AGENT 私人中介
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immigrants arriving in city 农民工到达城市
network with relatives 亲戚关系网 AGENCY
200
COMPANY 公司
F RIE N D S
GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY 政府中介
network with friends 朋友关系网
Immigrants arrive in the city. Some can’t rely on existing networks and are struggling in their first weeks
ACCESS TO NETWORK
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Current situation 现在的公司一般会通过一些中介机构寻找 他们所需要的工人， 劳工和公司都需要向中介机构付费
农民工到达城市的时候有些不能依靠现有的关系网，在开始的几天度日如年。
ARRIVAL SITUATION
Situation when using the WOM system 在我们的 WOM—WOM系统里，公司直接通过他们的员工来寻找 新的的员工， 这样就节省了向中介机构支付的费用。
GUERILLA ENT ADVERTISEM
WOM relies on the natural human network. The system will provide access to the network for those without 这个WOM系统是建立在劳工们的自有的关系网上 ，这个系统会帮助无法进入这个 关系网的人进入。
NETWORKING
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GUZZINI 2010 - Royal College of Art duration: 4 days solo project
During the participation of the Guzzini workshop Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve pitched 2 concepts showing them a variety of ideas possible within the proposed fields of innovation. Concept 1 is an efficient LED lamp which is playing with the laws of physics and material properties. The lamp has 2 positions; reading and general. The user can swap position by giving a little push against the lamp. It exists out of 2 main components making it easy to manufacture and recycle. Concept 2 is combining the simplicity of using one main element for creating intelligent space dividers. The objective was to keep the elements simple and encompass the trend of having more green within living spaces but take into account the limited space available. The main part is made out of pulp. Pulp combines up-cycled cardboard panels and old newspapers with epoxy and polyurethane. An environment friendly outer epoxy coating is making sure the whole divider is water proof.
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B&O Headquarter IdeaFactory Struer Denmark
During my 6 months internship at Bang & Olufsens’ Ideafactory in Denmark I experienced how it feels to work with a real marketing department and how to design for different strategies. Keeping in mind the possibilities within a specific brand portfolio which means blending company, technology, market and user factors. Unfortunately I’m not able to show any work due to confidentiality agreements. But you have to take my word for it, that working together with inspiring people like Oliver Wallington (acting as my internship coach) from the ideaFactory and the designers from the design firm David Lewis Designers, brought me a lot of new knowledge and insights in the world of industrial design.
INTERNSHIP 2008 - Denmark duration: 6 Months
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Name: Paul Voncken Born: 02-05-1986, Heerlen (the Netherlands)
Adobe Suite CS5 - Photoshop - Illustrator - InDesign - Flash - Soundbooth - Premiere - Director - After Effects
Adress: Kensington Gore London, London SW7 2EU Verenigd Koninkrijk Phone: +447508242811 (UK) +31-6-121 40 662 (NL) E-mail: paulvoncken@gmail.com Education 2009 - 2011 | Royal College of Art, IDE, MA (London, UK) 2009 - 2011 | Imperial College, IDE, MSc (London, UK) 2005 - 2008 | Eindhoven University of Technology, Industrial Design, BSc 1998 - 2005 | Secondary School, Sintermeerten College Heerlen, VWO (preparatory scientific education) Specialization: Nature and Health package + extra Math B2 + computer science 1990 - 1998 | Primary School Work experience 2008 - Internship at Bang & Olufsen in the IdeaFactory 2006 - Today Quadakkers Catering (sideline) 2006 - Today Freelance work (primarely graphic design) 2004 - 2006 Mise & Place (catering industry) 2003 - 2004 Commercial Agency (sideline) Shows/exhibitions WIP interim show 2010 (London)
3D Modeling - Rhinoceros 4 - Solidworks 2010 - Maxwell Studio (render) Programming Skills Actionscript 2.0/3.0 (Flash) Java Processing (Arduino) Autodesk Sketchbook Pro Languages Dutch and English fluent, German and French fair. Hobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports - 2nd National division volleybal - Suoer8 volleyball england - Snowboarding Music - Piano (14 years). - DJ work.