Learning is working best when kids are into subjects of study that match their interests. It also works well when projects are realistic.
Also there has to be place for the making. It should be possible to make prototypes, do experiments, program shows and produce goods to express yourself.
This Is No School is the world on a stamp. A meeting square, workshops, labs, a theater, a fram, sporting facilities, restaurants, shops and a hotel.
T-shirts for YouTube channel 2kB of Fun
2018
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Fourth incarnation of the Retro Space arcade cabinet in aluminium
2017
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Pixel art illustration for the book 2kB of Fun
2017
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The incredible world of handheld video games from ‘76-’85
2013
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Een plat pakket doe-het-zelf versie van Retro Space
2013
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Photo report of the STRP Festival 2011 by Mick Visser
2011
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Tool to convert Rōmaji, Katakana and ASCII/UTF-8
2011
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Photo report of the STRP Festival 2010 by Mick Visser
2010
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Colaboration with bureau ZZEF
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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"
Interior photographs of creative companies in a former Philips factory
2010
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26 arcade cabinets for Dutch Game Garden
2010
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A new and usable subway map for the biggest city on earth: Tokyo
2009
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A new factory for Kingspan insulation panels at Medel near Tiel
2009
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A man is a real man, if welding is what he can!
2009
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A new catholic community centre for Heteren
2009
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Hacking Ikea table with Sega Megadrive or Pac Man inside
2009
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Photos of 2 projects by Johan van den Berkmortel
2008
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8 Apartments for senior citizens in Heteren
2008
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A new business building for 2 entrepreneurs in Kesteren
2008
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Website for Retro Space
2008
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Modern arcade cabinet for home use
2008
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Entry Europan 9 Martijn Koch and Wendy van Rosmalen
2007
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An abandoned commercial plot in the centre of Heteren had to be filled with 19 apartments. Contractor Kuijpers had moved to the city limits and the housing corporation "Woningstichting Heteren" had 4 outdated senior-citizen houses on the adjacent plot at the Rozenpad street. The combined plot connects a traditional village street with a seventies extension to Heteren. The housing coorporation asked me to design the modernist block fitting the seventies area.
I designed this appartment block as employer of Bouwkundig ontwerp- en adviesburo van Zeist BV
A design for a new metro map for Copenhagen
2006
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Veranda extension to house in Beek en Donk
2006
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Concept for a modern picture story based on Cinderella
2005
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A digital magazine on sustainability, photography, cityscape and opinion
2005
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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.
Photographs of Detroit
2005
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Mixture of the Big Shadow and the Fake Lamp
2004
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Tower blocks in Hong Kong
2004
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Portrait of the Brandevoort city extension of Helmond
2004
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Office building for the Dutch Tax Administration
2003
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