I dont know if it looked disgusting, weird, ugly, or what… but I found an icon that I assumed was representing a pregnant woman on the floor of the preferential parking space at a local supermarket in Athens, and I couldnt resist the impulse to take a picture of it and save it for posterity.
Enjoy!
Mexico 2 was a proposed new business citadel to be constructed in the heart of Mexico which would become a new focus of economic importance for the whole of the Americas.
At 3D capacity, we were approached to work on the visualization of the project and as part of it I designed this logo. It is based on the idea of the new citadel being a focus point of the Americas and as can be seen the X is an abstraction of a map of the entire continent. The number 2 is placed as superscript to show that Mexico 2 is not merely seen as a second version of something but as an exponential enhancement of the current status. The colours used are the national colours of Mexico (namely red, white and green). The X2 can also be used as a separate image that still conveys the proposed message without including the text Mexico on it as can be seen to the left.
Evi Malisianou is a very talented greek interaction designer and together with her we designed and set up her online portfolio at EVOthing.com
The website’s design is quite simple and clean, giving a nice and playful overview of the projects she has worked on. It is made entirely in flash but easy to update by editing a simple text file to add new projects.
This is a project management system that I put in place for 3D capacity‘s website. It is made in flash supported by xml files containing the project data. With it, it was possible to keep all the relevant information (delivery dates, contacts, file folders and communication) in a single place for both 3D capacity staff, as well as for the clients.
By clicking on the screen-shots below you can see a demo of how it works (except for the possibility to save data which is not supported).
The Club Alpine Mulhouse asked me to design a T-shirt for the club which can be used by club members during the different outdoor activities that are regularly organized.
I designed this T-shirt which can be made in two different colours:
Over the years, I’ve designed a series of icons for different applications, such as being used within websites or graphical user interfaces. This is a collection of some of them.
Relevant Keywords:
Product development, household, manufacturing, technical research, technical development, prototyping
Design Goal:
As part of a design exercise at the TU Delft, we were given the task to use a 1928 patent of a cream whipper as a starting point for our design case. We were to use the patent as much as we could and translate the design of the cream whipper into our days in terms of production, assembly, materials, styling and features.
Project duration and team:
250 hours, 6 industrial design engineers (David Güiza Caicedo, Wouter Drost, Roos van Rhijn, Erik Jansen, Marie-Louise Brantjes)
Methods Used:
- Product analysis
- Technical research
- Brain writing
- lo-fi prototyping
- 3D modeling and Rapid prototyping
- User testing
A while back, and as part of my bachelor for Industrial Design Engineering at the TU Delft, we performed a research project in which we took a deeper look into the world of measuring emotional responses, and reported our proceedings and findings in a scientific paper. We also performed a field test with two of the most promising tools that we identified in order to have a better understanding of how they work and how they could be improved. These tools are PrEmo (developed at the TU Delft) and the Geneva Emotions Wheel (developed by the Geneva Emotion Research Group)
If you are interested in this field I highly recommend you take a look at it.
Here’s the abstract:
“This paper introduces the subject of emotions in consumer products research; what are they, how to define them and most importantly, how to quantify and qualify them. A brief background research is made to clarify the concepts involved and to identify existing tools to measure emotions. Furthermore, a small field research was performed to test the validity that two of the most promising tools have on the field of consumer products research.”
To download a PDF version of the study’s report or the poster, click in the links bellow.
LINK 1: Assessment of existing tools for the measurement of emotions (PDF)
LINK 2: Poster (PDF)
3D capacity is a company specialized in the field of 3D visualizations. I was given the task of developing their website, which should include a log-in system and a project management system.
During a course at the TU Delft as part of my Industrial Design Engineering BSc., we were asked to work in a design assignment in a group as if we were an actual design studio working for a given client.
As part of the exercise, we had to develop a corporate identity for our studio and use it at all times during the course’s process.
I designed a logo, website, powerpoint starting screen, business cards and even a promotional gift (a mug).
The Virtual Maquette (virtuele maquette in Dutch) is 3D capacity‘s main product, and they wanted to make a simple separate website with a logo of it’s own, in which they could show the benefits of the virtual models through a presentation video.
The Colombiactiva Foundation is a non-profit organization, established in March 2007 in Delft, The Netherlands. The Foundation was established by a group of young professionals that work as volunteers, and are aware of the social realities of Colombia. The group feels the responsibility and the compromise to take action to reduce poverty, lack of opportunities and the indifference of people towards these problems. (more…)
This was a very graphical proposed design for Evi Malisianou’s Interaction Design online portfolio (www.EVOthing.com). It was meant as an experimentation with an unusual graphical layout and with playful yet simple interactive tricks, such as the faces following the mouse cursor with their eyes.
Follow the link and click on one of the faces to see it’s reaction.
Relevant Keywords:
Product analysis, power tools, product development
Design Goal:
To make a design proposal for a battery powered caulk gun that can be added to the product portfolio of power tools producer Skil.
Project duration:
125 hours
Methods Used:
- Product analysis
- Morphological charts
- 3D modeling
3D capacity is a company specialized in the field of 3D outsourcing. Their logo reflects how they create 3D solutions that perfectly fit their client’s needs.
A little explanation on what the logo stands for:
Explanation:
TweenSense, a company specialized in 3D visualization of architectural projects, needed a standard and practical, yet attractive way of delivering the final products to their clients. It had to be attractive and time-effective. For this, I developed a CD which could be easily customized through a very simple application, so that it would have the unique content that each project demands. The application even generated automatically customized CD stickers and covers for the given project.
By following this link you can download a demo version of the CD as well as a copy of the customizing application.
