Extracurricular Design Work

Design Sketching

Since I started Industrial Design Engineering in 2016, I was super exited about the Design sketching courses in the Bachelors. This page shows a collection of the work I did in these courses and a selection of the work I did after having these courses. A distinction is made between physical and digital sketches.

Digital Design Sketches

Physical Design Sketches

Digital Painting

Since I have digital sketching hardware, I have been experimenting with different brushes and I like to keep discovering new styles. Digital painting is different from Design Sketching as you use volumes of color in stead of lines.

Digital Paintings

3D Printing

Since the summer of 2020 I own a FDM 3D printer. I have been busy upgrading it and experimenting with different filaments. I print models that I download online but I also like 3D modelling. I use my 3D modelling skills to design custom prints for people around me. I even did some freelance projects with 3D printing. Below, a selection is shown of models that I 3D printed.

Design Project: 3D Printed Japanese style lamp

Since a long time, I have been inspired by Japanese culture and design. I wanted to combine the classic style of Japanese carpentry design with the idea of a modern lamp/lantern. After a bit of sketching I quickly started modelling in Solidworks. I modelled in such a way that it is printable on my Ender 3 V2 3D printer in separate big prints. I had a general idea of how I wanted to construct the lamp but while working in Solidworks, a lot of tweaking was done with sketching sessions in between. The final result consists of 12 hard (PLA) parts and 4 small flexible (TPU) parts that are supposed to click on the bottom to avoid slipping. So 16 parts in total.

Things I ordered for the build:
–   Rice paper
–   Dimmable LED light bulb Warm White (7 Watt)
–    Dimmer
–    Light bulb fitting

Topology Optimized Book Holder

In most cases, a book holder does not have to be complex. However this small project was aimed to make a visually interesting book holder. Using topology optimization algorithms in Siemens NX, multiple iterations of this book holder were established. The final design was 3D printed and painted as can be seen on the pictures below.