Project about fashion and making a fashion collection. During alsmost 3 months I worked on the Pal Maas project. I guided 25 young people, aged between 14 and 17 years old with the making of a fashion collection. At the end we had a runway show. For the whole project go to www.palmaas.nl.

“Cinderella’s Chair” is a follow up of my project “Buitenbeentje”. Prostheses of glass, like a prosthetic leg, custom made for each chair. Glass is a malleable material when heated, so the glass was blown onto the chair, which provides every chair with its own unique prosthesis.

Glass however, is also a very fragile material. It is not often used for purposes of construction. The legs of glass are strong enough to
carry weight though. One can easily sit on the chairs, something you do not expect when you see them.

“Pour me” is a cooperation with Kristian de Leeuw, a Dutch photographer. Photography is about capturing a moment. “Pour me” is also about capturing a moment of movement, the movement of the paint dripping from the faces, whether human or animal.

The layers of paint cause a deformed effect on the faces and bodies. Two people become one and faces become masks.

Live performance of the movie “a matter of appearance” customized for Rikit people for the Sebastian fair April 19th.

During the Dutch Design week Cris Bartels and I showed our latest project, Diamonds Chair.

The chair, made of vel-tape is build up layer on layer and because of the many layers strong enough to sit on.

presentation at MU

Interior design for bar/dancing “De Camping”, Rotterdam. Together with Bauke Knottnerus

Photograph by Bianca de Jong www.toeps.nl, together with Lieke van Duist

model: Iris

Shoes I made for the fashion show of Klavers and van Engelen www.klaversvanengelen.com spring/summer 2009.

Stools made for a exhibition in the hotspot Zona Tortona, Wednesday April 16 throug Monday April 21

During the international design fair Salone del Mobile, which takes place in Milan from April 16 until April 21, twenty-five designers from the Eindhoven region present cutting-edge Dutch design under the title Design Factory Brainport Eindhoven.

Via Forcella 8, Milaan.

Sunglasses I made for the fashionshow for Klavers van Engelen fall / winter 2008-2009, showed on the Milan fashion week. For all the silhouets go to www.klaversvanengelen.com

Graduation project

Buitenbeentje (Dutch for odd man out) is a research on the qualities of poly-urethane resin.

This research is the result of my fascination for everything that differs the normal: the odd man out, the freaks.

Certain appearances that are so ugly and disgusting that they become interesting.

The research is about capturing a moment of movement.

graduation project
video

A short movie ( 2.32 minutes ) that illustrates the influence of a group on the identity of an individual.. and the other way around. It shows the stratification caused by the influence that people have on each others appearance.

This graduation project is a cooperation with Cris Bartels.

Besides stills taken from the movie the following book features the proces of making the movie and detailed pictures of the photoshoot. The book is separated into two pages because of the large number of images.

stills of the movie

Video and photography
One who suffers from Body Dysmorphic Disorder becomes pre-occupied with a non-existent or minimal cosmetic defect and persistently seeks medical attention to fix it surgically. ‘Verlopen’ ( Dutch for both ‘making a transition’ and ‘expired’ ) is a cooperation with Cris Bartels. The project illustrates the increasing urge of seemingly being able to create real beauty, caused by the influence of Body Dysmorphic Disorder on our perception of beauty.

In preperation of the photoshoot, a fullscale painting was made by creating a number of transitions in beauty on one canvas (layer on layer).
Snapshots of this proces were edited and then beamed on a model, which has been filmed and photographed.
At the end of this proces ‘Verlopen’ resulted in a short movie and a serie of seventeen pictures ( appart from the pictures in detail ).