3. P o r t f o l i o
Chris
ten Dam
Industrial Design Engineering
2D
3D
Sketch
About
Project name: Bachelor assignment
To finish my Bachelor education Industrieel Ontwerpen
(Industrial Design) I did a 10 week design/research
assignment at Tauw Deventer, a civil engineering bureau.
The assignment was to design a piezo-electric tile for
public use. The tile would generate electrical energy when
pedestrians walk over it. The inner (3D) construction is
secret, but some possible applications for the tile are
presented here. Not exactly 2D design, but rather concept
visualisations, made with photo editing software.
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Isometric view of the
piezo-tile. Its inner
workings are concealed
4. P o r t f o l i o
Chris
ten Dam
Industrial Design Engineering
2D
3D
Sketch
About
Project name: Master thesis
The final challenge before becoming Master of Science
was to develop a plan and concept for a GUI of a user-
centred custom-made Life Cycle Assessment software
tool. Key users, software/GUI experts and R&D were
consulted to develop a static visualisation for a GUI
concept that informs the viewer on energy or other
resource usage within an Antarctic research base. The
tool’s goal is to make Australian Antarctic research
personnel aware of their environmental impacts
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5. P o r t f o l i o
Chris
ten Dam
Industrial Design Engineering
2D
3D
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About
Course name: Project IO 2
The first major project course in the Industrial Design
bachelor was ‘project IO 2’ (in the 1st year), for which we
had to design some children’s toy or game with a certain
connection to construction and other fields of interest that
connect to the Industrial Design study programme.
We designed a board game in which the players have to
collect building pieces to construct some ‘products’. For
this project I did all the graphical work, designing the
board game, cards, booklets, case, poster, etc.
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The game board, made with vector
and pixel editing graphical software
Two playing cards
Details of graphical icons which were
later used on the game board (left)
Poster and logo design
Final result: a realistic model/prototype with all graphic designs printed and
used on the board, cards, booklets and box cover. The project won the jury
prize with the notion that the model seemed finished and ready for sale.
6. P o r t f o l i o
Chris
ten Dam
Industrial Design Engineering
2D
3D
Sketch
About
Course name: Projects K & O
These pictures are from two seperate projects from the
2nd year of the study programme. The first, project K, was
about designing an addition to a simple home beer draft
system called ‘Grolsch Cheersch’. That became an ice
cube-like styled alternative foot hold for the bottle.
In the second, project O, we had to design a product
supporting a professional service, for elderly people. The
result was a device aiding the user in taking medication
and communicating effectively with the pharmacist.
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For project K, the result was an ice cube-like stylized lighting system for the
‘Cheersch’ draft system. We named it Luminice, the logo was my design.
A page of the personal
graphic report
(’beeldverslag’) I handed
in for project K. It shows
the (graphical) effort I put
into the project. The page
design relates to the
graphical identity/logo I
designed.
For project O, a device for elderly people was designed. I designed
the 3D model, shown on this ‘advertisement’ poster I made.
Next to the virtual 3D model, I made an actual physical model as well.
(This can be found in the 3D section of this portfolio)
7. Course names: Packaging Design
& Past Futures
This page depicts some graphical work for two Master-
courses of the Industrial Design Engineering programme.
The first course is called ‘Packaging Design & Manage-
ment’ and its contents are self-explanatory.
The second course is called ‘Past Futures’ and is essen-
tially about the history of design in a technological-
historical context.
P o r t f o l i o
Chris
ten Dam
Industrial Design Engineering
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In the course Packaging Design, some assignments are about graphically
(re)designing a packaging. The picture below shows a designed bag for
‘healthy salty chips made of bread’.
Not to be taken too seriously, the series
of three pictures on the right shows the
result of an assignment about step by
step morphing a packaging of orange
juice into something attractive for youths.
Since they tend to drink a lot of energy
drinks, I thought it fitting to show
increasingly attractive packagings for this
target group:
from ‘fruit with added energy’ toward
‘zero fruit, maximum energy’, with
corresponding pictorial designs.
For the course Past Futures, mainly essays
had to be written. The final assignment
however was the design of a poster showing
the history of design, in a tree form
(chronologically from bottom to top).
For this, I designed a minimalistic
(’functionalistic’) black-and-white poster with
typefaces and designed objects correspond-
ing to each design movement.
9. Poster design
Throughout my year as board member of the Industrial
Design study association ‘S.G. Daedalus’, I’ve designed
some posters communicating activities.
For a committee devoted to organising study-related
seminars, I was involved in an edition centred around the
theme ‘light’. For this seminar I designed the ‘brand
identity’ (for usage on letters and posters) based on the
study association’s logo, inspired by and acknowledging a
famous album cover art.
P o r t f o l i o
Chris
ten Dam
Industrial Design Engineering
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3D
Sketch
About
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