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Rhys Duindam

Eindhoven, Netherlands

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I am Rhys Duindam, a 24 year old Industrial Designer from New Zealand/Holland. In my spare time I enjoy golfing, skateboarding, filming and playing guitar. I am a proactive and enthusiastic interaction/industrial designer and I am always looking to learn and innovate.

My vision on design is to improve self-esteem through fun activity. By giving people the power to ‘magically/playfully’ control their environment, my “tools of leisure” are able to turn ordinary designs into extra-ordinary experiences that boost a person’s self-esteem.

At my startup, Nupky, we use design to empower great technologies, in ways that appreciate the playful human experience. We specialize in obvious ideas, that don't exist yet.
Education
- MSc Industrial Design
  
  Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  
  2011 - 2013
- BSc Industrial Design
  
  Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  
  2008 - 2011
- BSc Aerospace Engineering
  
  Technische Universiteit Delft
  
  2006 - 2008
- High School A-Levels
  
  Jerudong International School, Brunei Darussalam
  
  1998 - 2007
Experience
- Project / Competency Coach - All BSc Industrial Design
  
  Eindhoven University of Technology
  
  Aug 2013 - Present (8 years 11 months)
  
  Coaching and guiding BSc Industrial Design students through a full design process and their personal development as future designers.
- Founder
  
  Nupky
  
  Apr 2013 - Present (9 years 3 months)
  
  Industrial and Experience Design - http://www.nupky.com/
- MSc Industrial Design
  
  Eindhoven University of Technology
  
  Sep 2011 - Jul 2013 (1 year 10 months)
  
  Student
- Educational Committee - Masters Representative
  
  Eindhoven University of Technology
  
  Sep 2011 - Jul 2013 (1 year 10 months)
  
  I acted as a representative for all the students studying a Masters of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. My task was to voice a collective opinion on the educational restructuring of the university.
- Project Management / Editor / Web - Design Cares Exhibition - Helsinki & Dutch Design Week
  
  Eindhoven University of Technology
  
  Jun 2012 - Dec 2012 (6 months)
  
  Designer / Project Manager of the Design Cares exhibition for Helsinki & Dutch Design Week 2012. Responsible for the project and co-ordinator of exhibition vision/design. Co-ordinator over multi-disciplinary and nationality teams in Helsinki and Eindhoven. Also designer and creator of websites, and videos.
- Student Project
  
  GGzE
  
  Sep 2011 - Jun 2012 (9 months)
  
  Little Devil. Providing non-smokers with a reason for a 10 minute break by using negative reinforcement. Done in co-operation with GGZE.
  
  Selected for World Capital Design Helsinki Design Week and Dutch Design Week
- Student Project
  
  STEIM
  
  Sep 2011 - Dec 2011 (3 months)
  
  tingle - rethinking musical instruments for learning
- Student Project
  
  United Nude
  
  Feb 2011 - Jul 2011 (5 months)
  
  Performance Heel - Embedded Light Textile for Shoe Display
- Industrial Design Intern
  
  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  
  Oct 2010 - Dec 2010 (2 months)
  
  User-centered product development for situated bookmarking within the UOC office.
Awards

Selected:

HOT100 Talent 2013 by ‘Het Nieuwe Instituut’

Best idea of Dutch Design Week 2014 (Tingle) by the Creators Project (Vice x Intel)

Dutch Design Weeks

• “DOKPUNT” - Tingle - (2013)

• “ID’13” - [ ] - (2013)

• Design United - Little Devil - (2013)

• “ID’12” - Tingle & Little Devil - (2012)

• “Design Cares - Stadhuis Meets Design” - Little Devil

Other Notable Exhibitions:

• Helsinki Design Week (2012) - “Design Cares” - Little Devil

• TodaysArt - HOT100 Showcase - Tingle - Den Haag

• Discovery Festival 2012 - Tingle - Eindhoven

• Disegnare Oggetti Sonori - Tingle - Rome

• Arnhem Fashion Bienalle 2013 - Dance Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
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Tingle - 2014

Tingle - 2014 from Rhys Duindam

Tingle - 2014

Tingle brings the acoustic touch and feel to the digital music controller.

Tingle is a new music controller which brings back the tactile and gestural ways of playing music which we knew from acoustic instruments, to electronic music instruments. It looks like the pin-board toy from your youth, except that the 3D landscape that you create with whatever you put underneath it, now translates into musical sound. With your hands you mould, and form the sound to generate a "musical landscape”. You can feel the pressures and shapes change with your actions and sense every small sound transformation back in your fingertips, as well as your ears.

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Tingle - 2014

Tingle brings the acoustic touch and feel to the digital music controller.

Tingle is a new music controller which brings back the tactile and gestural ways of playing music which we knew from acoustic instruments, to electronic music instruments. It looks like the pin-board toy from your youth, except that the 3D landscape that you create with whatever you put underneath it, now translates into musical sound. With your hands you mould, and form the sound to generate a "musical landscape”. You can feel the pressures and shapes change with your actions and sense every small sound transformation back in your fingertips, as well as your ears.

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