So my name is Bart Raeves, I live in Belgium and I am studying industrial design at PIH in Kortrijk. My passion is design, but not only design, I play football and I am also very into science. So for me design will always be something that looks nice combined with some technology. For me design doesn't stop just by looking for a nice form. Design is more than that for me, it is the complete package.
Well enough about me, let's see what kind of things I did during my second year of industrial design.
The year started with an assignment for SCA Packaging, we needed to design a new package for a kind of chocolate. This assignment was for a design competition organized by SCA.
My product for SCA was called Twist –It it was a package for M&M's and was based on the newest Axe Deodorant, but the innovative part was that as a hinge I used hotmelt glue, so everything rotated around that little hotmelt hinge.
The second assignment was one for PDC brush they are specialist in producing brooms, mops, etc. The assignment was: find a way to clean surfaces; I had a lot of ideas for this assignment. Cuz here I was able to mix the technology with regular design. The design I finally picked was one that was more practical to make a prototype out of it and the one I thought would change people's lives. It was the You – Tube – It who finally made it, it is a product to clean radiators, tubes, holes, etc.
The advantage of this product is that it will always take the maximal space it can get and this way a good clean is assured.
The third assignment of the year was to design an add-on for a Sita garbage container, not an easy job if you look at the amounts of gadgets that already exist for this kind of container.
My design was an idea to make sure that people aren't bothered by the smell of what's in the container, the add-on got the name Smell less.
The final assignment was one for Unilin the provider of products such as Quickstep. We needed to find a new way to integrate their pallets in a new innovative concept. I struggled at first cuz it is hard to get away from the cabinets or tables, but finally I found it.
The Flexi desk is a desk that your kid can use from 1st until 6th year of elementary school or even more. This was our final project so we needed to have everything, every single detail you needed to be able to defend.
But this year of course was more than just pure designing we needed to get familiar with CAD software too, for whom who don't know what CAD is it means computer aided design. So actually it is digitalizing your work, your design. More and more CAD is used over the whole design cycle; this is different from a few years ago. It can calculate which forces you can use, what the weight will be,
Here are some renders and little projects made in Alias Studio and Inventor.
My school blog you find on this adres
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