BudWrap

We all know this mysterious phenomenon; you put away your earbuds and when you take them out of your pocket, it's one big knot. This bracelet makes sure that your earbuds won't get tangled up. BudWrap is your new friend from now on.

Bag Cap

This would be the perfect thing for my mom. She always saves every leftover but sometimes everything dries out. This will stop that.

Toffee Scorpion

A Bar Of Candy With An Arachnid Inside.

Kids love candy.  Kids love creepy crawlies. And the Toffee Scorpion brings both. And don't worry, these ones are "made" in China and produced to eat!

iPhone bottle opener

If you decide to put a case on your pretty iPhone, put this one on it. It's cool and super handy. Just push out and your bottle is ready to be opened. I can imagine how cool the guys looks with this opener.

Human Movement

In the 5 weeks of Human Movement we had to develop a concept reinforcement to get more young people and especially conformists to go the GGD and to like the concept of moving for 30 minutes every day. We came up with URBAN 30, an urban event to get the young conformists to move 30 minutes a day.

a moodboard of how it should look

The principal of the GGD really liked our concept and thought that it fit the conformists really well.

Quote of me about Human Movement related to Quality of Life
"Beweging is een grote factor in de kwaliteit van leven van mensen. Ik wist al dat beweging
erg belangrijk is voor het fysieke aspect van je QoL. Door genoeg te bewegen wordt je
gezonder en ziet je er beter uit, dit versterkt het fysieke aspect van kwaliteit van leven.
Waarschijnlijk voel je je hierdoor ook automatisch beter omdat je lekkerder in je vel zit en er
gezonder uit ziet, dit versterkt het emotionele aspect. Ook op sociaal gebied zal de kwaliteit
van leven verbeteren, door te sporten in een groep maak je veel sociale contacten. Human
movement is naar mijn mening dus erg belangrijk in ieders leven."

Food

In the 5 weeks of Food we developed a trend report and gave advise via the trends for "Square Lunch & Lounge", which is a lunch, lounge & liquor room that just opened. They used a couple of our advises.

cover of our trend report

our first trend: KnalGoed

our second trend: FasTastisch

Our third trend: StreekjesCode

My quote about Food
"Op elk niveau van de QoL heeft food invloed. Op fysiek gebied heeft food natuurlijk een grote invloed, want het houdt je in leven. Op emotioneel gebied is food ook belangrijk, omdat er veel mensen zijn die naar eten grijpen in een emotionele situatie. Ook ligt eten voor veel mensen op een emotionele snaar omdat veel mensen te dik of te dun zijn en het ideaalbeeld van hoe je er uit moet zien is vaak te behalen met het goed omgaan met food. Ook op sociaal gebied is food van toepassing omdat eten vaak leuker is met meerdere mensen. Eten is een moment om bij je familie of vrienden te zijn en om gezellig te praten. Of eten is juist iets dat je snel doet en waar je geen sociaal aspect in ziet. De inzichten die ik heb opgedaan zijn dat de Food sector erg groot en belangrijk is en dat daar ook veel meer trends gaande zijn dan ik dacht."

Living

In the 5 weeks of living we had to develop a concept to make an exhibition area at our school. It had to be sustainable and it had to show the creations of all our students at the Fontys Academy for Creative Industries.
We won as the best concept from all of our 1st year students! So we got the chance to realise the whole concept and now we can let the whole exhibition area be like this for a whole school year.

Our concept is called KIEM. Which is about growing as a person and about sharing your development with other students, which can be inspired by your work. KIEM is also about literally growing, which you can see in the plants and herbs that are going to be used in our exhibition space.

introduction of KIEM

moodboard

material plan

colour plan

I'm so excited to see the final look!

A quote of me about Living and Quality of Life
"Ik vind dat living een grote invloed heeft op je QoL. De omgeving waarin je leeft kan van grote invloed zijn op hoe je je voelt, dus op het emotionele aspect van QoL. Ik voel me meteen fijner als ik in een mooi ingerichte omgeving kom. Ook kan je leefomgeving je gevoel van veiligheid beïnvloeden, een donkere ruimte of een gangetje kan heel eng aanvoelen. Je woonomgeving kan ook een vorm van expressie zijn, je uit je gevoelens en smaak in een ruimte die je inricht. Mensen krijgen een gevoel van hoe je bent als ze bijv. je woonkamer zien. Dit is dus ook een sociaal aspect. Ook is je living belangrijk voor hoe je met andere mensen doet, hoe je met deze mensen zit; gezellig bij elkaar, om een ronde tafel die uitnodigt tot praten of afstandelijk op een stoel. De inrichting van een ruimte heeft dus grote invloed op de sociale kant. Ook gaan mensen uit een dorp anders om met elkaar dan mensen in een stad, het gevoel van geborgenheid, veiligheid en ontspanning is veel beter aanwezig in een dorp. De keuze tussen het leven in een dorp of een stad is dus van invloed op hoe je je voelt. Op fysiek niveau wordt je QoL ook beïnvloed door living. Voor jonge mensen is dit niet zo’n probleem, maar voor oude mensen kan domotica de QoL erg verbeteren. Een ‘goede’ living is dus iets dat de QoL van mensen erg kan verbeteren. Ik wist al dat living je QoL beïnvloedde, maar nu is het duidelijker voor me en is mijn visie versterkt."

Appearance

"Human physical appearance refers to the outward phenotype or look of human beings."

In the 5 weeks of Appearance we had to develop an event with all of our Lifestyle students that was all about Appearance. There were 20 little events in it and we realised one of them. The concept of our event is called "From Outside In" which is a contradiction of the usual from inside out. It means that you're not only pretty from the outside when you feel good inside, but you'll also feel good inside if you take good care of yourself and your skin. This is what the Body Shop thinks too, so we contacted them to help us. They came over and gave facials, advise etc. on what products to use for your skin and we made nice little gift bags for all the visitors.

This is the flyer I made to hang up in the walls at school.

A picture of the event

Our event went really well and we interviewd a lot of happy people after they visited our event!

Leisure

In the 5 weeks of Leisure we had to develop a concept amplification for the Dutch safari zoo "Beekse Bergen." They asked us for a new and creative concept that would fit their mission and vision better than their original concept. By analysing the whole zoo and their target group we came up with Ifri Afrika. A new concept that would show the visitors "Africa in one day."

The cover of our conceptbook

A moodboard of the targetgroup

the app we created for the Beekse Bergen

I'm proud of our first concept reinforcement!

Leisure quote:
What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

- Willam Henry Davies

Health

“Health is a state of complete physical,
mental and social well being and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity”. 

     Dr. Ted Kaptchuk (1986) 

In the 5 weeks of Health we had to make a trendreport for a physiotherapist. We showed the therapist our insight of sporttrends related to physiotherapy.

We did a lot of research to find the trends that fitted our principal and for the first time of doing trend research, it went quite well! 

Here's a quote of what I think that Health means to your Quality of Life.
"Voor mij is Quality of Life de balans tussen je fysieke, mentale, materiële en emotionele wellbeing. In dit leerarrangement zijn we vooral bezig geweest met je fysieke en mentale wellbeing en hierdoor is het me duidelijk geworden dat je mentale gezondheid erg belangrijk is en misschien wel belangrijker is dan je fysieke gezondheid. Ik denk dat je instelling, de manier waarop je denkt en leeft, voor een groot deel bepaalt hoe je gelukkig je bent. Dit is duidelijker voor me geworden in deze periode. Veel mensen zien QoL grotendeels op het gebied van health, maar ik heb geleerd dat ook de andere sectoren van de opleiding erg belangrijk zijn voor je QoL en dat het niet alleen over je gezondheid (op meerdere vlakken) gaat."

'iLike' necklace

Here's a new way to show your love for social media, especially for Facebook. The iLike necklace is a collectors item with just 30 copies of it.

This is cool because it's a wink to the social network and to how the new generation thinks and easily decides on if they like something or not. I think that this might become the icon of our generation. 

Whopper Lust

Businesses get more and more creative on how they get their products to their customers in a smart and exciting way. For example: Whopper Lust.  It's almost advertising as a punishment.

The campaign is centered around DirecTV channel 111, which is airing endless footage of a spinning Whopper. If you watch for five minutes, you get a free Whopper. Watch for 10 minutes, and you get two free Whoppers. And so on. You have to pay attention, not just leave the channel on, you must respond to occasional prompts or you lose. It's cool because it's a new and creative way of advertising. You usually have to cut out a coupon to get a discount, bust this is much more fun. You will defenitely remember this advertisement, because it will be flame-broilled into your brain.

Runners graffiti the town

Much respect to a shoe company who created a video that starts with "Running is boring. "

It all starts with a cool app from Nike Amsterdam that let's fans map out running routes via satellite to create virtual graffiti art. The fans can challenge their friends to run the routes by coloring them on the map with the NikePlus app. Fans were also invited to running clubs and real life meet-up events to share runs, then celebrate with food, drinks and performances.


It's cool because it adds experience to the boring running work-out. It becomes even more fun when you can challenge other people and make a whole day out of it with your friends. It's also fast because the running routes can be planned out for you. This is exactly what the young and fast generation wants.

My inspiration

We all see lots of things in our lives. Good things, bad thing, boring things, but also inspirational things. But what inspires us and why are we inspired by someone or something? At my trip to Berlin, I found out that I'm not just inspired by a certain man or a certain thing, I am inspired by people.

For me, people are the most inspiring creatures on the world. They are born innocent, but can become anything. What kind of person you are depends on where you live, with who you live and so on. This is why I love traveling. I see different surroundings, see different cultures, speak different languages and meet different people. I also love to just look around and find out what someone is doing.

Me in Berlin with friends from the Netherlands, Australia and Canada.

In Berlin I was searching for inspiring things in shops or inspiring architectural design. I liked it all, but in the end all I found was just a building, a drawing or a doll, with or without a story. People go deeper than this, they all have a story, they have an opinion and nobody's the same. And do you know where all the inspiring things in the world are made by? People!

How will I stay inspired in the future? I will try to travel as much as I can, go anywhere I can, just talk with people about their lives and what inspires them, eventhough that might be a big step to do. But most important; keep your eyes open!

Mobile Office

This is by far the easiest bag I've ever seen. This bag is as compact as any other laptopbag, but it's more like a mobile office; fold it open to a chair and a desk!

This is cool because it's all that an urban nomad needs. They want to work anywhere, at any time, with the least material to carry as possible. It's portable, multi-functional and transforming furniture, how cool?

LED Pen

This might look like a normal wooden pen, but it's not. It's a pen with LED light, which measures the cm, inch, mm, feet etc you just wrote.

This is a nice toy for everyone, but it's especially made for architects, artists and engineers that need to measure everything very precisely in all different values.

It's cool because it's very easy to use, just switch the back of the pen to another value. This is instant gratification in its smallest form.

source: http://dornob.com/

Portable flat-pack light that fits in your wallet!

As with so many creative product designs, what makes this so appealing is its combined simplicity and functionality. This portable lamp fits easily in your wallet or pocket, unlike most flashlights. Apparently, this light provides illumination all around it. This is ideal for reading and other activities where you don't have a lamp near.

It's cool because it fits the needs of instant gratification. It's super easy to use and it's very easy to take with you. You don't need electrition either, so you can use it anywhere you want. It also has a very original design which will probably be liked by a lot of people.

Easy mug

This mug comes with a pocket to put your biscuit in, this makes it easy to carry everything when your hands are full with your laptop and it keeps your table clean too. I think this is a funny way to keep everything in reach.

Jewelry mp3 player

Most of us are permanently attached to our mp3 players or iPods these days. Most of them don't really have a feminin look, so this mp3-jewelry is a better option for us girls.

The earphone part of this design fits just inside the ear, while an attached chain leads down to a small earring worn in the wearer’s pierced earlobe. Besides adding a nice touch, the chain would probably help to ensure that the earphone doesn’t fall out and rolls away. The MP3 player section of the design is a bracelet that matches the earrings. This makes a set of nice accessories that even play your favourite music and are always close to you in a nice way!

It's cool because it looks very nice and feminin and you even have your music in it! how cool is that?

Built-In Toothpaste

The Twist&Brush  from Studio KG is not just a toothbrush, this one has toothpaste intergrated in it. With a simple twist, you can push a precise amount of toothpaste on your brush. It's cool because it's refillable and easy to clean and it's the perfect item for an urban nomad that wants to go everywhere anytime with as least products as possible. 

It's cool because it's easy to use, to re-use, and it's sustainable! It also saves space because you only need to take one product with you instead of two. Sometimes, simple just wins! 

A water-powered shower radio

When you're the kind of person that always listens to music or sings while showering. This is perfect for you. It's a radio that can easily be attached to your shower hose. The water coming true is turned into electricity, so you won't need batteries or a power cord in the bathroom. The Water-Powered Shower Radio is currently available for pre-order. The price is £34.95.

It's cool because you can still do what you usually do, but without the use of extra electricity and everyone can use it for a small price. It gives you a good feeling because of the music and because you're being environment friendly. Just remember not to shower too long!

Solar Iphone Charger!

Usually, Solar chargers look super boring, but this one is geared toward iPhones and of course it's a white apple with solar-powered leaves. I can easily see it standing in front of the sunny window of every iPhone fan apartment. 

This charger doens't need electricity and it's small, so it's easy to take with you and you can charge your iPhone anywhere you are.  

It's cool because it's easy to take with you, which is what everyone wants in this time of instant gratification. Plus it's green! So you don't get a bad feeling when you charge your phone again.. and again and again. 

Seed bombs

Guerrilla gardening is the practice of dropping "seed bombs" - packets of seeds, fertilizer and clay into empty  spaces in cities. Design firm Common Studio came up with a super cool way to make this easy and fun. 

They've produced seed bomb vending machines, available for sale to retailers in the city, so that citizens can purchase the packets of seeds and begin planting. Prepare for Los Angeles to get a whole lot of pretty this spring.

It's cool because you can see the boring streets changing into something pretty and you can even help the change! The easy and well known way of buying something out of a machine, is now turned into something eco. Now you can help the world turn green in an easy and cheap way.

Sofa or Bunk Bed?

Made by Resource Furniture, this clever living room rig looks like an ordinary sofa at first glance. But when you lift up the parts, you end up with an impressive double-decker, complete with separate mattresses, safety rails and a built-in ladder.  How cool?

It's cool because it saves a lot of space and according to the product page, the sofa opens up into the two-level beds with a single lifting motion, so you even save your own energy! When you want a bed in two seconds, this does the job.

Eco Sneakers at AIFW

The debut of the Virgin Collection by OAT Shoes at this year’s Amsterdam International Fashion Week was spectacular. The line shows footwear that is biodegradable. The idea is that after you’ve worn them for a long time, you can throw them in the garbage or plant them and watch them bloom! The Virgin Collection won the second prize at the Green Fashion competition. 

It's cool because it's fully biodegradable and it's an experience to see it change after you've worn it.

It's cool because you usually throw away your old stuff and it's only bad for the environmence, but with these shoes, you'll look cool and you'll look even cooler when everybody knows that you're being environmental friendly. How cool is it to have a shoe-plant in your garden?

The One Slider Watch

Can't choose between the classic watch look or the new electronical look that makes watches so much cooler? Now you can choose both

01TheOne Slider is a dual-faced watch that lets you switch between the two with a simple swipe of the steel panel cover.

It looks really cool and manly and it adds that little extra experience to wearing a watch. This is the perfect item for almost every kind of guy and it makes you look cool and classy.

The Ergomotion

With RSI and other things caused by using your computer too much, this is  the most comfortable solution for not only geek gods, but everyone computer related.

The "Ergomotion" splits the mouse into two parts. A top that looks like any regular mouse and a base which contains the laser-based movement controls.  This mouse allows your wrist to bend forwards, backwards, sideways and whichever position is most comfortable. The mouse that gives your hand and wrist a relaxed feeling by placing it in it's natural angle, costs $49,95.  


I would actually like to try this one!