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80's T's

For my Youtube channel 2kB of Fun, I made several T-shirts based on logo graphics from 80's video games and electronic gadgets.

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"

Creative Factory

Interior photographs of creative companies in a former Philips factory
2010

Future Space

26 arcade cabinets for Dutch Game Garden
2010

Lost in Navigation

A new and usable subway map for the biggest city on earth: Tokyo
2009

XXL

A new factory for Kingspan insulation panels at Medel near Tiel
2009

Trophy for Men

A man is a real man, if welding is what he can!
2009

Burgstede

A new catholic community centre for Heteren
2009

Pac Man LACK Hack

Hacking Ikea table with Sega Megadrive or Pac Man inside
2009

Want some Beers?

Photos of 2 projects by Johan van den Berkmortel
2008

Monk Bond

When I started working at "bouwkundig ontwerp- en adviesburo Van Zeist" the preliminary design for these 8 apartments had been made already. I drew up the technical detailing.

One of the challenges was to draw the brickwork in monk bond, just like the classic houses in the same street.

To show the appartments are built in 2008, many details are modernized. The balconies for example look like old wooden porches, but in fact they are made of brown concrete and steel.