Dream here

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

2011, the year in which I Became a father Switched from a 100% research job to 50% research (PhD at Artesis) and 50% industry (Design research at Concrete) Was involved in the development of Sensetale.com Turned 28 years old Found (…)

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Inspired by the writeup by Paul Miller about the bilderburg event “Laptops and Looms” … I had the urge to make this image: (Original image taken from the OSX dictionary)

In a world of open ended DIY systems, people should stop using the term end user. I will elaborate on this at some point ^^

Tomorrow, march 29th, I will be presenting my current thoughts and progress regarding my ongoing research to my PhD commission. The slides are 99.9% done, any feedback (before or after tomorrow) is more than welcome! (most of the slides are (…)

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I was pretty enthusiastic when I found WIRED in the mail yesterdaynight! Very nice cover article by Chris Anderson on DiY and the way it’s changing the marketplace for products. Read it here.

Just dumping some links for greater justice & DiY related inspiration; http://theproductbay.org/ http://www.rekn.it/ http://www.kenjikojima.com/rgbmusic/ http://sugru.com/ http://graffitianalysis.com/ http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/eureqa http://www.tayasui.com/Grape.html Could go on forever, but do check out my delicious account for more things like these ^^

During the last week(s) of 2009 I built a first version of the sensor box. In fact there’s nothing special to it, just a box with an Arduino and a sensor on a protoshield. The only functionality the box has (…)

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“Craftmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake” -R. Sennett, The Craftsman