Circular design and sustainability are merely greenwashing projects in reality. Such projects seem sustainable but miss impact and are thus mostly a great marketing story. So, what does circularity mean and how can designers contribute to circularity?
Hosts: Yvonne Bruin & Jori van der Kolk Guests: Mathias Funk & Regina Bernhaupt After weeks of rain, the sun is finally out. But with this nice weather come new design problems to fix, namely problems that arise during a picnic. How do you …
Where will you Intern?
We asked Daniel Fischer about internships at BMW Group
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign; we as industrial designers have used at least one of these Adobe programs throughout our studies. Some have stayed at the basics, some have developed great skills. Regardless the level of expertise you have, one thing we do have in common: …
Dealing with your identity crisis At least once in your life you might experience it: an identity crisis. From personal experience, during my bachelor of Industrial Design I doubted a lot about what I was doing and where I was going. The questions I …
When people think about sustainability in design projects the first thing that often comes to mind is materials. The sustainable use or re-use of materials is often seen as the way to go. There are however multiple ways to explore sustainability in a design …
From the day you set your first steps on campus as an Industrial Design student, to the day you leave you’ll be surrounded by the intriguing phenomenon that is the Internet of Things.
Yvonne and Jori discuss coffee rituals and not being able to go out and have a coffee somewhere. They discuss the problem with two professors, Kristina Andersen and Lu Yen. Tune in to find out what they had to say about this month’s design challenge.
The first semester is a wrap and the second one is already going. It was a semester being on and off on campus and a Christmas lockdown that came early. UNID spoke with Filip, Commissioner of internal affairs about how he has experienced this …
In this second episode of Takeaway, Yvonne presents her struggle with plastic packaging. Do you also always tear off the little lip before the foil comes off? Then you know exactly what her struggle is. We turn to Maarten and Daniel for advice to overcome this terrible problem in our lives.
