Bullet Detta Är Ingen Skola

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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.

Bullet 80's T's

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


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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

Plattpaket hemmafixare version av Retro Space
2013


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Bullet DAF 46 Super Luxe


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Bullet STRP Festival 2011

Foto rapport från STRP Festival 2011 av Mick Visser
2011


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Bullet Katakana Converter

Verktyg för att konvertera Rōmaji, Katakana och ASCII/UTF-8
2011


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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

Lyxvillor vid Berlaer platsen i Helmond
2010


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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

26 arkadkabinetter för Dutch Game Garden
2010


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Bullet Lost in Navigation

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Tokyo is a breathtaking city. Most metropolises have 1 urban railway network. Easy. Tokyo, the biggest metropolis on Earth, is a lot more complex.
The city has 2 official subway companies, the national railway operates several lines that can be considered metro lines as well, and there are tens of private operated railways that serve may areas just outside the central part of the city. Another problem is that many transfer stations use different station names on each line connected.

Creating a understandable subway map for this city is extremely complex. Should it be schematic, or geographic realistic? When is it easier to have a short walk than to switch lines?

This metro map for Tokyo only shows the most important lines for visitors of the city. That is already 25 lines! All distances are realistic, and the connections to Airports and Shinkansen trains are clearly visible. The parks that give a good orientation in the grey urban mass of Tokyo are visible. Icons show the most important landmarks. Matching the million neon lights the map is drawn in a night situation with the lines as glowing neon tubes.

The map is printed on 100x75 cm photo paper in a limited run, an can be ordered. Send an e-mail or call if you are interested to order.

Bullet XXL

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Kingspan Netherlands wanted to expand their factory for insulation panels in Kesteren, and to combine it with their distribution facility and offices in Dodewaard.

At the new industrial zone Medel near Tiel the needed 700.000m2 plot was available. The area also allowed high risk production plants.

At the moment phase 1 is completed. The plot has room for expansion with 2 more production lines and 3 times the amount of distribution storage that is part of phase 1.

Kinspan asked construction and design firm Van Zeist to draw the design. As architect I was responsible for the design up to approval of the design by the urban supervisor and the local "beauty commission".

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

Hacking Ikea bord med Sega Megadrive av Pac Man insidan
2009


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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

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When the design of Retro Space was finished, we needed a matching website.
Because of the presumption that Retro Space could become a hit on the internet, we tried to make the website as small as possible. We did not want the website to crash on bandwidth problems.

Matching the style of the retro games, the website is designed in pixel art. All elements except some product shots are GIF images in 4 colours. It's just like the early years of internet when bandwidth was scarce.


Bullet Retro Space

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In 1971 the first coin-op video gaming system was built: Computer Space.

Soon the video arcade as hangout was born. Many famous games as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Streetfighter and Donkey Kong were filled with our quarters. Today the last arcades are closing down. The Wii, the Playstation and owner "mr. Counchpotato" have won. As an homage to this era and to keep all the classics playable Retro Space was created.

Retro Space is a modern arcade machine for at home or at work. It plays both all the arcade classics from Space Invaders up and all the console titles for your Nintendo, Sega or Atari. The system is made using modern technology and is flexible for future innovations. The system also is a perfect multimedia jukebox. Next to your favourite games, you can load Retro Space with your favourite music and movies. A full HD screen and a high quality speaker system ensure you to enjoy the best image and sound. And quarters are no longer needed.



Thanks to model Lara Verlaat for the imitation of the original Computer Space poster.

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

Höghusen i Hong Kong
2004


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Bullet Leksakerstad

Porträtt av Brandevoort stadenförlängning av Helmond
2004


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Bullet Blå kuvert

Kontorshus för nederländska skatteförvaltningen
2003


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