THOMAS GALVAN PORTFOLIO 2020

2020

P O R T F O L I O

THOMAS

GALVAN c r e a t i v e i n t e r i o r r e s e a r c h

d e s i g n

CREATIVE INTERIOR RESEARCH DESIGNER. My experience goes beyond my academic profile as interior designer; this is so because, as an ambitious designlover, I have actively looked to work beyond the realm of interior design. I’m a team player but also not afraid to work on my own, fast learner and open minded.

I have a passion for popping colors, patterns, new materials, geometric shapes, and AI.

_WORK

_ RHEA, QUEEN & OMBRA _ POLETTE POP UP STORE _ THE IRON LADY _ FALAFVAL _ MAVIS _ LA BUVETTE _ SSC-ICT-TBI _ LOGO DESIGN _ MUSIC PRODUCTION ACADEMY _ GOLD SILVER & BRONZE _ NIKE REACT _ THE NEXT EVOLUTION _ ROBOT AND HUMAN CITY _ GEEST OP DE FLES _ MOONLIGHT _ L’ESPACE TROUVÉE _ CU THROUGH _ VILLA BOURRAGE _ PIENIVUOTI _ GYÖRGY KEPES BALANCE

_Exhibited at Object Rotterdam 2020, Rotterdam, the Netherlands _Featured in Domus Web _Featured in ELLE Decor NL _Featured in Dezeen Virtual Design Festival with Ventura Projects _Exhibition at Ventura Future - Milan Design Week 2020, Milan, Italy (CANCELLED) _Exhibition at EDIT Napoli 2020, Naples, Italy (POSTPONED)

RHEA, QUEEN & OMBRA 2020 product

design

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art

direction

Hola Studio is a young design studio led by an emotional design approach that focuses on 3D printed light products.

We design playful lamps that evoke sympathetic emotions, recall personal stories, and create positive experiences. By creating an emotional affection between the user and the used object, the object itself acquires an additional value.

The material used is PLA (polylactic acid), a biodegradable plastic derived from natural resources. Moreover, through an exclusive production on-demand only, we avoid overproduction and waste.

Our goal is to influence consumers to have a more emotional connection towards everyday objects, to rethink about the detached habit of using ordinary items and to reconsider the idea of mere consumerism.

RHEA + SATURNO

design by T. Galvan

Rhea can adapt to different scenarios: the light’s direction can vary according to Saturno’s inclination.

Saturno is the light, Rhea is the satellite turning around it.

Rhea is composed of three elements that you can easily disassemble, bring with you, and personalize every space you inhabit during your journey.

QUEEN

designed with L. Stacchini Queen is a tribute to an ancient form of lighting: the oil lamp.

Queen is designed to be nicely held in your hand.

Queen wants to be next to you in the most intimate moment of your day.

Queen’s light is not too bright, so you can still see the stars.

LAMPET

designed with R. Isac Ombra is inspired by the cuteness of a pet.

Ombra’s tail is her power button, and her head the light.

As you enjoy the evening, she has fun as well.

Give her affection and she will show appreciation with her color-changing effect.

OBJECT ROTTERDAM 2020

Exhibition design for Hola lamps with Livia Stacchini.

POLETTE POP UP STORE 2019 retail

design

My inspiration for the proposal comes from the current campaign of Polette “Come Together”, featuring people with different believes posing in a church together and wearing the new collection.

I designed the space as if I was designing a place of worship including an altar in the middle of the room, columns and religious images.

The central strike element, the altar, is on a step and it’s constituted by 25 concrete pedestals that hold part of the new collection. The front of it’s characterized by a bas-relief based on a modern pattern that could be enriched with mirrors.

The aluminum structure is constituted by modular elements in order to adapt it in different situations and/or depending from the available space.

My idea is that the customer, once in the space, is going to have the feeling to be in a temple, where Polette products are the offer to the Gods or the Gods themselves.

THE IRON LADY 2020 brand

identity

“THE IRON LADY� is a flat iron steak restaurant in Rotterdam.

The image of The Iron Lady wants to be in contrast with the typical masculine vision of the flatiron steak, or meat in general. Instead, it wants to be identified by powerful and strong working women through a pop British visual style recalling the early 1920s and 1930s, but revisited in a fresh and informal way.

WOAU! developed brand identity, interior graphics, signing, menu and social media contents.

Logo design.

Social media contents.

Facade design

Window graphic design.

Menu design.

FALAFVAL 2020 brand

identity

“FALAFVAL" started as a mission.

In the Netherlands, about 41 kilos of food per person is thrown in the trash every year.

About a quarter of this consists of fruit and vegetables. Falafval thought that all this waste was a real shame and that was time for a change.

A shift in the way we view food. A new appreciation for all its peels, pulp, beans and forgotten nutritional values .

WOAU! developed the brand identity, webpage, social media posts, packaging and merchandise.

NEVER BEAN THIS GOOD Logo design.

Highligh Instagram stories.

Color palette and pattern.

Foodtruck Falafval for Festivals.

Packaging.

Merchandise.

MAVIS 2019 brand

identity

"MAVIS" is a new cocktail bar in the heart of Rotterdam.

WOAU! designed the brand identity, menus, social media contents, webpage, window design and color palette of the interior.

Soda Minute Maid apple juice Finley bitter lemon Finley tonic Finley ginger ale Chaudfontaine blue Chaudfontaine red Coca-Cola Coca-Cola Zero Fanta Sprite Fuze Tea Sparkling Fuze Tea Green Tea Fuze Tea Mango Chamomile Ginger beer Royal Bliss Creative Tonic Royal Bliss Yuzu Tonic Royal Bliss Berry Sensation Rose lemonade Fresh orange juice Fresh tomato juice

White St. Felix, Cuvée Pierre Martin Blanc

2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 3,5 3,5 3,5 3,5 3,5 3,5 3,5

sauvignon blanc- fresh - dry - aromatic - juicy Per glass 5 • Per bottle 25

Avelino Vegas Esperanza Rueda verdejo - fragrant - peach - rich taste - balance Per glass 7 • Per bottle 35

Riff A. Lageder Pinot Grigio straw yellow - elegant - almond bitters - seductive - refined Per glass 7,5 • Per bottle 35

Loimer Gruner Veltliner sparkling - fruity - pure - minerality - exciting Per glass 10 • Per bottle 45

Red

Grand Valensac Chardonnay golden yellow - full - rich taste - burgundian - length Per glass 9 • Per bottle 40

Domaine St. Felix, Cuvée Pierre Martin Rouge merlot - generous - blackcurrant - round - velvety Per glass 5 • Per bottle 25

Rosé

ILauri Montepulciano D`Abruzzo deep cherry red color - velvety - mouth-filling - herbal Per glass 6,5 • Per bottle 30

St. Felix, Cuvée Pierre Martin Rosé

Bellow’s Rock Shiraz Zuid Afrika

merlot - generous - blackcurrant - round - velvety Per glass 5 • Per bottle 22,5

Warm drinks

aromatic - powerful - cherry - pepper - ripe tannins Per glass 6,5 • Per bottle 30

7 Castillos Rioja Crianza Coffee Cappuccino Café au lait Double espresso Espresso Latte macchiato Tea Fresh mint tea Fresh ginger tea

2,7 3,1 3,5 3,7 2,7 3,9 2,7 3,2 3,2

tempranillo - vanilla - spicy - southern fruits wood maturation Per glass 9 • Per bottle 40

Schäfer Spätburgunder

Beers Stella BUD Leffe Bruin Leffe Blond Leffe Triple Goose Island IPA Tripel Karmeliet Corona Desperados Pauwel Kwak Peroni Jupiler 0,0 Belle-Vue Kriek Hertog Jan Weizener Hertog Jan Bastaard Hertog Jan Tripel Franziskaner Weissbier Hertog Jan Herfstbock

black cherries - medium bodied - mature - complex light wood Per bottle 50

3,1 2,9 3,7 3,7 4,8 4,2 4,8 4,9 4,9 4,8 3,5 2,9 3,5 4,8 2,9 4,8 4,9 4,9

Bubbly Cava Per bottle 37,50

Prosecco Per glass 5,5 • Per bottle 25

* * * SIGNATURE COCKTAILS * * * I’ll Take You There - 9,5 ImaGIN - 11,5 Monkey 47 Gin | Elderflower | Rose Lemonade | Rose petals fresh - fruity - sweet

Sweet Swing - 12 Havana Club 3 Años | Havana Club 7 Años | Lime | Cointreau | Amaretto | Agave syrup sweet - tropical - bitter

MAVIS Twister - 9,5 Raspberry | Orange Juice | Absolut Vodka | Prosecco | Black pepper fresh - fruity - sweet

Malibu | Coca-Cola Signature Mixers Woody Notes | Lime Juice sweet - tropical - warm

Lucky Luciano - 9,5 Havana Club 7 Años | Coca-Cola Signature Mixers Smoky Notes herbal - warm - sweet

The Count - 9,5 Chivas Regal | Coca-Cola Signature Mixers Herbal Notes sweet - refreshing - warm

Customize your own MAVIS Twister!

Ask us for our fruits and choose your favorite ones!

Lady in Red - 9 Absolut Strawberry Vodka | Cointreau | Cranberry Juice elegant - fruity

The Jitterbug - 9,5 Malibu Passion Fruit | Lime Juice | Soda Water | Fresh Mint tropical - sour - fresh

Summer Breeze - 11 Malibu | Fresh Orange Juice | Grenadine Syrup | Frozen Mango tropical - fruity - sweet

Daydreamer - 9,5 Altos Tequila | Passoã | Passion Fruit | Powdered sugar sour - bitter - sweet

Don’t know what to choose?

Your bartender is happy to surprise you!

This is ‘Sour’ Night - 9 Amaretto | Egg White | Lime Juice | Sugar sour - herbal

El Jefe - 11 Altos Tequila | Coffee Liqueur | Espresso | Agave Syrup bitter - creamy - warm

New Fashioned - 9 Altos Tequila | Agave Syrup | Angostura Bitters bitter - classic - full

Mr. Pop’s - 10 Beefeater Gin | Sweet vermouth | Campari | Crème de Cacao | Chocolate Bitters herbal - bitter - sweet

Charlie Parker - 9 Jameson Whiskey | Cointreau | Honey | Angostura Bitters | Agave Syrup classic - warm - bitter

Spice’n Stormy - 9,5 The Sir Duke - 9 Fresh Mint | Jameson Whiskey | Lemon | Syrup of your choice sour - fresh

Havana Club Especial | Lime Juice | Thai Basil | Mint | Red Pepper | Ginger Beer sour - sweet - spicy

The Goodman - 9,5 Lady BIRD - 9,5 Altos Tequila | Cointreau | Lime Juice bitter - sweet - tropical - frozen

Altos Tequila | Coca-Cola Signature Mixers Spicy Notes bitter - spicy - herbal

LA BUVETTE 2019 print

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branding

"LA BUVETTE" is a brasserie in Rotterdam, placed between the shopping centre, Beurs and Erasmusbrug.

WOAU! designed the drink menu, lunch and dinner menu, and the wine menu as well as the merchandise.

SSC-ICT-TBI 2019 brand

identity

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branding

SSC-ICT-TBI is a group of companies that renew, design and maintain our physical living environment.

WOAU! designed the brand identity, company information booklet, emails headers and footers, and newsletter design.

CREATIVE DESIGN 2019/2020 brand

identity

Here a collection of some of the logos and brand identities I developed and proposed to different companies or events including business cards, posters, packagings, etc.

Brand identity proposal for Moonshiners a new cafè in Rotterdam, inspired by roaring 20s and Memphis design.

Brand identity proposal for the music award Grote Prijs van Rotterdam.

Brand identity proposal for Zeef, a business platform.

Brand identity and merchandise proposal for Social cafè & bakery.

Label and packaging for Bier Fabriek's new hero brand.

MUSIC PRODUCTION ACADEMY 2019 interior

design

MPA is the Music Production Academy of Rotterdam and "consists of a young team of ambitious producers, professional musicians, and innovative entrepreneurs� that needed an environment that better suit the mood and energy generated everyday in this space.

The first striking element is the anamorphic illusion revealing the MPA logo. Inspired by the art installations of the Swiss artist Felice Varini, the logo is visible just from a point of view. Walking from the entrance towards the other areas of the main room, the logo changes and become a sort of dynamic illustration.

The high ceilings and the poor quantity of light gave us the opportunity to design pendant lamps constituted by two skeleton cubes, one inside the other, that protect a ice cube like light source. The light colors can be changed thanks to the RGB bulb.

Finally, we designed luminous direction lines, a series of LED lights built that go towards the three classes downstairs and tell to the students if the rooms are free or busy depending on the color used.

GOLD SILVER & BRONZE 2019 scenic

design

I've always been fascinated by reflective and textured materials. Stone and metal are the two materials I chose for the development of these scenes.

I experimented with shapes, colors and materials ending up with a result that remind me to a scenography.

NIKE REACT 2019 retail

design

Nike’s React commercial is a series of videos featuring the launch of a new revolutionary foam used in Nike React shoes’ sole. The shoe and its material are tested in an extremely automated laboratory where a robotic arm explores and measures the possibilities of this product.

The automated and fictional landscape showed in the advertisement are the main inspiration for my concept and design proposal.

My proposal is to design a dynamic and automated window inspired by the advertisement released for the new Nike React.

The idea is to show a recognizable element, such as the pile of pillows and foam featured in the commercial, and bring it live.

The interior I propose is an attempt to immerge the customer into a soft and elastic environment, suggested both by touch and sight.

The dynamic window presents four mechanical legs that simulate the movement of running, “jumping� on the pile of soft materials, squeezing it. These elements are immersed in the colours used for the campaign like if in a floating space.

The TRY ME corner consists in a foamy pinky floor shaped on the texture generated by “Nike React� logarithm.

This area invites to experience the feeling that the customer can have wearing the new shoes with this new special foam.

The EVOKING corner, on the right side of the display, presents three screens showing both the digital contents, and images recalling the feeling of softness and bounce that the commercials of this product have.

The proposal captures Nike’s main elements of the REACT campaign by presenting a multisensory experience showcasing images, movements, colours and impressions, with a direct appeal to interaction with the customer.

_MIARD Alumni Research Award 2018 _Exhibited at WdKA Graduation Show 2018, Rotterdam, the Netherlands _Exhibited at Dutch Design Week 2018, Eindhoven, the Netherlands _Exhibited at Switch (Short Film Festival) 2019, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

THE NEXT EVOLUTION 2018 interior

design

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art

direction

The speculative scenario explores the potential future relation between human and machine, using social media as a tool to present it. Transhumanism argues that the human species has not yet reached its final evolution, and that artificial enhancement of the human body and mind will help mankind to reach a new evolutionary stage.

The aim of the project is to explore the current and prospective developments of technology that facilitate such enhancement, embedded in the transhumanism theories, and how they will influence the future of interiors, which served to recreate the framework of the speculative scenario.

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The design project is told and experienced by two characters, both living in 2030.

Dutch Design Week 2018

@Zarathustra is a transhuman social media influencer in the social media platform “Next Evolution�, and its assistant, RazziBot, is a bot, a software that has reached a new status and has a physical appearance.

I focused on the design of their physical and digital space. The introduction of new dimensions, the virtual and the augmented, allows to imagine a new environment where there are no rules, no boundaries, where it is possible to change settings and features every day, which can be experienced by the human and the machine, and which merges physical and digital.

Graduation Show WDKA 2018

CLICK HERE and take a look at the online pubblication

_Sponsored by Creating 010 Rotterdam _Exhibited at Retailution – Retailinnovatie, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

ROBOT AND HUMAN CITY 2017 interior

design

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art

direction

The production and sale of robots and machines is on the rise. According to the World Robotics Report 2016 of the International Federation of robotics, about 333,200 new service robots for professional use will be installed and about 42 million units of service robots for personal and domestic use will be sold. In parallel, nowadays, the research in the robotic field is continuously growing, developing ever more complex form of what we all know as artificial intelligence.

What if the amount of spaces of consumption for robots were equal to the amount of spaces of consumption for humans?

This is a reality where humans and robots are cohabitating in the same city or space.

Where robots don’t exist anymore just to help humans, but they live their ‘life’ and have their experiences. How would the city change? How would the spaces change? And more specifically, how would the spaces of consumption be? Humans&Robots-city is the first city designed for both humans and robots.

Here, robots, through the features of machine learning and artificial intelligence, can experience the spaces - which also humans are using - but consuming a different kind of product: learning and experience.

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Retailution 2018

EXPERIENCE CENTER

MALL & COLOURS LEARNING

RESTAURANT & FOOD LEARNING

ART CENTER

_Project exhibited at TENT, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

GEEST OP DE FLES 2018 research

design

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art

direction

The project “Geest op de Fles” is focused on the invisible side of the community of Circus students through the performance “walking on the bottles” by Ronja Breuk, used as a metaphor to tell their story.

The request to be perfect and always on the top mental and physical conditions, represents a psychological and emotional toll for these artists. The work criticises the pressure that beauty and aesthetics, even in a “free-spirited” environment such as circus, exerts on individuals.

The project was part of a one week workshop with the American visual artist Shimon Attie which ended with an exhibiton at TENT, Rotterdam.

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MOONLIGHT 2017 exhibition

design

Moonlight is an installation and exhibition space inspired by the drawings pubblication “The Killing Moon and Other Projects�

(1988) by the Japanese architect Shin Takamatsu in collaboration with Peter Cook.

The space presents a spherical structure possible to be experienced from the inside and from the outside. The project defines a system for temporary, based on the lunar phases, and traveling exhibitions, that make reference to multiple social and cultural aspects.

L’ESPACE TROUVÉE 2017 research design

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product design

The project “L’Espace Trouvée” reflects on the importance of the object in an interior space. Tangible objects are among the most important components of a powerful story. The object plays the role of limiting the space through its position. Does space exist without objects or is it made by them?

Cu THROUGH 2017 product

design

“Cu through” is an object composed by two grids which represent the electrical polarity through their connection to an energy source.

The illumination connected to the structure is made of wax and a LED system.

The aim of my project is to design a structure that can be used in different ways without losing its main purpose: being a luminous “object”. ‘Cu through’ can be used in private and public interior spaces and adapted to different needs. It is a wall to split a studio apartment in two and still keep it connected. It is a structure to put along the wall of a shop and use it as display unit to expose the merchandise on sale. It can be used in a bar/club/restaurant to produce different light effects.

In each version, it is possible to customize the amount of lights and their position based on the user’s needs.

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sub-project: CONTACT LAMP

“Contact Lamp” is the prototype of a game lamp created during the design of “Cu Through”.

Consisting of 6 pieces, “Contact Lamp” can have different shapes and solutions.

VILLA BOURRAGE 2016 interior

design

The project is the renovation of an holiday house in South of France and presents two residences: the main one, and the annex next to the pool.

Designed in collaboration with Michael Bihain Design Studio, the work required the transformation of the two buildings from a country house to a modern and luminous ambient.

_Exhibited at Palazzo Litta during Milan Design Week 2015, Milan, Italy

PIENIVUOTI 2015 scenic

design

Scenography on poverty. A row of light blue houses on the streets of Tokyo. The initiative of human victory against the power of capital. The homeless are tested every day by extreme life conditions and they elaborated a new concept of living by recycling waste found on the street.

The result is an “object-house” (”casaoggetto” cit. M. De Lucchi), an elegant architectonic model customized for the man, where everything is concentrated in 4 m². The constant state of temporary, humble spaces and the illusion of a real house. The eastern accuracy is the centre of the habitat: the typical habitation of the homeless is a concentration of objects that compose the spaces. Wood, plastic and tape, with elegance and lightness, create a dramatic scenery of misery.

At the sides of the principal construction there are two no-places represented by insubstantial shapes and impalpable light.

The dream of stability, richness and a permanent dwelling are represented by a void recoverable just with illusions. An ambience full of objects of low monetary value conflicts with emptiness: and hence “pienivuoti” (full-empty).

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GYĂ–RGY KEPES: BALANCE 2014 research art

design

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direction

Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. He analized the plastic figure in paintings, photography and other disciplines. He investigated the visual organization and other artistic techniques used during the years, putting at the center of his research the concept of BALANCE. The aim of the project is to explore and explain in other terms the research about balance made by GyĂśrgy Kepes.

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