Bullet 80's T's

T-shirts för YouTube-kanal 2kB of Fun
2018


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Bullet Pixel Art

Pixel art illustration för boken 2kB of Fun
2017


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Bullet 2kB of Fun

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Never has a consumer electronic product seen such an extravagant variety in case design as early handheld games from 1976-1985. Never have computer games been so beautifully reduced to their essence as these handhelds offered. Never did 2Kb of memory offer so much fun.

1983 was the best year with top titles like Amidar, Astro Thunder 7, Burger Time, Dig Dug, Ms. Pac-Man, Q*bert, Super-Cobra and Zaxxon.

Martijn Koch, architect from the Netherlands bought 180 of the best handheld games, photographed them, took them apart, analysed their tech, and put all the material together in this stunning book, a catalog like you never saw before.

Bullet DIY Arkadkabinett

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By the end of January 2013, Dutch Dame Garden asked me for a new series of arcade cabinets. They had to be finished within 1.5 month, to have it shipped to the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco from March 25th-29th. They wanted a new design with their beloved silhouette. The new version should be easier to carry, transportable as flat pack and when possible a lot cheaper.

The new cabinet can be assembled DIY with a standard 4mm hex wrench, just like IKEA furniture. De parts are made from white laminated poplar plywood for light weight and nice finish. At the top the cabinet holds 2 smoked plexi sheets to protect both screens at the front and the back. The Dutch Game Garden wants games to be visible on two sides for their Indigo shows. It allows a more passive group of visitors to just look at the games being played. The bottom part is filled with 2 matte white sheets of plexi. If you put multi-colour LED lights inside the bottom part, you can illuminate these sheets with any colour you like. The version that is showed here does not have any controls on the control panel. This is because companies that show games at Indigo bring their own controls. They make games for all platforms like Playstation, Xbox, iPad, PC etc, so there is no standard set of controls.

At the moment we are finding out the best way to sell this version to those who are interested in a DIY arcade cabinet.



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Bullet DAF 46 Super Luxe


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Bullet STRP Festival 2011

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Mick Visser made a photo report of the STRP Festival 2011 in Eindhoven. I participate in the photography process as image editor. Our colaboration results in the best posible quality for the images.

From left to right:
Bert Schutter - Mill X Molen - 1982
Edwin van der Heide - DSLE2 - 2011
Telcosystems - 12_series - 2010
Kutmah - 26 November 2011
Edwin van der Heide - Evolving Spark Network - 2010/2011
Macular - Phase=Order - 2010
Bram Snijders, Carolien Teunisse - RE: - 2010
Marnix de Nijs, Edwin van der Heide - Spatial Sounds - 2000/2001
Nicky Assmann - Solace - 2011
Geert Mul - Transfer Points - 2002
Erik Hobijn - The Delusion of Self Immolation - 1990


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Bullet STRP Festival 2010

Foto rapport från STRP Festival 2010 av Mick Visser
2010


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Bullet Brittisk Hyresvärd

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Colaboration with bureau ZZEF

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Bullet M+ M- ???

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Redesignme.com is a website where designers are challenged to create new designs for certain products.

Garton Jones used redesignme.com to search for a redesign of the Ativa 10 Digit Desk Calculator.

I'm always puzzled by the fact most calculators still function like the early 1970 designs. A time when chip logic was very expensive, and the amount of components was kept to a minimum. Today's standard micro controller is way more powerful. So my primary goal was to create a new set of basic functionality.

Which means I had to redesign the layout of the buttons first. The design itself continues proved ingredients like injection mould plastic, the perfect shape of PTT's Zurich telephone and modern white OLED matrix displays.

My own challenge was to make the design in one hour on a Friday afternoon.

The result: a top 3 note among 109 redesigns. "Your redesign was part of my top 3. Very well done! Yours sincerely, Charlie Garton-Jones"

Bullet Kreativfabrik

Interiör fotografier av kreativa företagen i historiska Philips fabrik
2010


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Bullet Future Space

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Dutch Game Garden is a non profit organisation for promoting and supporting the Dutch games industry.

On april 23th DGG opened the Indigo Showcase event. This event shows a selection of the best contemporary projects of the Dutch games industry to the press, professionals and the general public.

Dutch Game Garden asked me to build 26 Retro Space cabinets to showcase these games. The cabinets have a second screen in the rear access door. This display allows the creators to discuss their projects while someone is playing the game at the front.

The cabinets were set up in a rigid grid. This grid neutralised the amorphous dated office floor and gave structure to the showcase event.



Photo 4,8 and 10 courtesy of Mick Visser

Bullet Lost in Navigation

En ny och praktisk tunnelbanekarta för den största staden på jorden: Tokyo
2009


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Bullet XXL

En ny fabrik för Kingspan isoleringspaneler vid Medel nära Tiel
2009


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Bullet Pokal för Män

En man är en man om han kan svetsa!
2009


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Bullet Burgstede

En ny katolsk allaktivitetshus för Heteren
2009


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Bullet Pac Man LACK Hack

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One of the most popular IKEA products is the LACK coffee table. It is so cheap, it must be hollow.

I opened the tables, I built in a retro TV computer game by Jakks and added real arcade controls to this game. This way the TV game has a longer life and the Ikea LACK is no longer the boring classic every household owns.

Thanks to Lara Verlaat for Playin Pac-Man.

Bullet Öl?

Bilder av två projekten från Johan van den Berkmortel
2008


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Bullet Munkförband

8 Lägenheter för pensionärer i Heteren
2008


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Bullet Svart låda

En ny affärsbyggnad för 2 företagare i Kesteren
2008


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Bullet Låg bandbredd

Webbplats för Retro Space
2008


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Bullet Retro Space

Modern arkadkabinett för hemmabruk
2008


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Bullet Välkommen till Andenne

Europan 9 inresa Martijn Koch och Wendy van Rosmalen
2007


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Bullet I never promised you a rosegarden

11 Lägenheter för pensionärer på Rozenpad i Heteren
2007


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Bullet Lilla sjöjungfru

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When we visited Copenhagen, I was surprised by the complex metro map for the very small network. It should be possible to draw a map easier to understand and graphically more appealing to visitors.

I designed a new metro map that shows the relation with the city. It combines all trains with different schedules on similar routes to bring back overview.

Autonomous work

Bullet BBQ XL

Husförlängning i Beek en Donk
2006


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Bullet Askungen

Koncept för en modern bildberättelse baserad på Askungen
2005


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Bullet Wanda Wanders

En digital tidning om hållbarhet, fotografi, cityscape och omdömen
2005


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Bullet Okänd modernismen

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For most tourists the city of Faro in southern Portugal is nothing more than an entrance by plane to the Algarve. Which is a pity. The biggest city of southern Portugal is probably the only one giving room to creativity. You will not see kitsch appartment blocks for Dutch and Germans, but subtile shaped private houses for the Portugese themselves. You will see images that remind of modernists like Gerrit Rietveld, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier. You will wonder wheter MVRDV got inspiration here, or if Portugese architects checked out work of the Durch architecture firm.

Bullet Spökevärld

Fotografier av Detroit
2005


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Bullet Falska Wanders

Korsning av Big Shadow och Fake Lamp
2004


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Bullet Myrstack

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Hong Kong has little room to built. There is a small piece of land to build on between the water and the mountains. The only option to house the millions of citizens is to use efficient towering blocks. Some area's have a FAR (floor to ground area aspect ratio) of 5 to 10.

Bullet Leksakerstad

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Brandevoort is one of the big suburban extensions according to the governmental document Vinex. Under supervision of Rob Krier, the city of Helmond tried to mimic the classic Dutch canal city for its big extension. Modern legislation on parking and the fact that a family in a suburban plan like this needs 2 cars to reach all daily facilities, resulted in weird interiors for the urban blocks. The gardens are petite, and most space is used for the cars.

Bullet Blå kuvert

Kontorshus för nederländska skatteförvaltningen
2003


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