The colder days are approaching and the days are getting shorter. However, during a sunny week in October, we’ve had the pleasure to visit a project from six motivated IDE students at Dutch Design Week 2024 in Eindhoven! Their project named ‘BRIGHT’ aims to make a great impact in the world of visual impairment and we’re sure that they reached this goal. Read more about it below, where the team will be telling you all about it! 

“Hi everyone! This is the BRIGHTeam speaking! 

We are a team of six Industrial Design Engineering students from University of Twente, and we are extremely excited to present our ongoing project BRIGHT at the Dutch Design Week 2024.

BRIGHT is a game designed with inclusivity at its core, bringing together both visually impaired and sighted players through communication and teamwork. The challenge? Work against the clock, trust your partner, and communicate to overcome obstacles!

Our goal with BRIGHT is simple: to create a space where everyone can participate equally, regardless of their abilities. We want to show that games can be fun, challenging, and accessible for all. By connecting people with different experiences, we hope to inspire a more inclusive and equal society—one game at a time.

Get ready and discover how a game can be made inclusive for all!!”

– Kara, Jonathan, Marcello, Nuria, Leire and Martina ~ BRIGHTeam

Happy start of the new academic year! This new academic year also brings a new Designer of the Month, and we hope you’re excited to read more about it below. Elisa loves to experiment with painting with watercolours, and that can definitely be seen back into her artworks! 

“Hi! I am Elisa (@elisasfunartz) and I love painting with watercolours / aquarel in my free time. I really like that you have to make a plan for the layers, but at the same time you can kind of adjust the plan along the way, which in my case always creates interesting paintings. For this post I’m showing you 2 paintings 🙂

The first painting I made for my sister’s 18th birthday this month. It is ‘De Waalbrug’ in Nijmegen, the city where we come from. Every window of the painting is another time in the day, where my sister is spending time with me or her friends at the bridge. I made it for her because she is moving to Groningen, so she still had something in her room to remind her of Nijmegen. 

The second painting(s) I made in a little while ago during COVID. They represent how you only know little pieces about people, you almost never know the whole picture. The paintings at the same time also shows the lockdowns, where everyone had to be in their own bubble.“

– Elisa Micic

Right before the summer holiday, the last contest for the Designer of the Month took place. In July, Jelle shared his passion for LEGO with us and now I’m happy to share it with even more people through this news feed post. I hope you are excited for the posts that will appear in the upcoming months and that you will enjoy reading more about Jelle’s passion below!

“Just around the Covid pandemic I started combining my biggest hobby with one of my core interests, LEGO and everything about (historic) railways! I focused on the trains that ran around the Netherlands in the golden age of everything steam, starting with the largest and most powerful tank engine in Europe at the time of introduction, the NS 6317. I also built a tram that ran close to my parental home, with a postal wagon and a freight wagon. I also built one of the first Dutch electric train sets, the Materieel ’24 (also called Blokkendoos). I built this in its original colours instead of the more known completely green colouring, both due to part availability and aesthetics. 

To accompany these models, I also built a traditional Dutch farm as often seen around the Veluwe, again based on the region where my parents live. All the models are L-gauge, meaning they fit the regular LEGO tracks and scaled at roughly 1:45. Everything is made with original LEGO parts, except for the stickers, lights and some train specific parts which are not made (anymore) by LEGO, like large train wheels and large radius curves.

Together with fellow members from the @llmtc, we have exhibited at the Nationale  Modelspoordagen in Rijswijk and events in Germany.”

– Jelle Wielink 

The next inspiratIOnal design you can read about is one from Sanne! She has been working on a long-term project with a long-term result: a mood blanket! Although the weather has been (thankfully) becoming less and less nice for using a blanket, she hopes to comfort you with the background story behind her design. Read all about it below!

“Throughout the year of 2022, I have been keeping track of my emotions every day. In a little notebook, I wrote down which emotion I felt the most during that day and I linked each emotion to a colour. Doing this for an entire year gave me the data to create one row for each day, coloured in the emotion that I was mainly feeling that day. Using my crochet hook and (a lot) of balls of yarn, I crocheted my mood blanket of 2022! 

From start to finish, it took me one and a half years to complete. It was quite a journey, where crocheting my emotions was both confronting and relaxing at the same time. Crocheting really brings me to a calm state of mind when the days were sometimes filled with hectic thoughts and deep feelings. Taking a moment at the end of each day to reflect upon my emotions had an impact which I hadn’t thought of when I started, but turned out to be helpful in the end. The biggest advantage now is that I have a nice and big blanket to crawl into at the end of the day”

– Sanne Duwel 

Do you know what you want to do after you finish your studies? Dive straight into work? Ruben Pot, alumni of IDE had a different vision, he dreamed of exploring the world. After completing his bachelor’s degree, board year, and master program, he embarked on a two-year journey around the world.
A month ago, Ruben gave us a lunch lecture about his adventures. As everyone enjoyed their sandwiches, they learned how Ruben leveraged his IDE background to find work, as well as his top tips for making such a journey possible.
For those who couldn’t attend, our Podcast Committee, the Icarus Idea also interviewed Ruben about his experiences. You can catch the episode on Spotify and YouTube

Spotify: https://lnkd.in/db6689B4
YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dQaYwsWB

LinkedIn of Ruben Pot: Ruben Pot

Welcome to the Designer of the Month of the month May! Thijmen has been busy with designing lots of things, so you can expect more from him later on the Instagram account @InspiratIOn_Daedalus! Make sure to follow the Instagram page so that you won’t miss the voting process for Designer of the Month. If you would like to participate in the InspiratIOn board yourself, don’t hesitate to send a message to secretary@daedalus.utwente.nl or by sending a direct message to the Instagram account of @InspiratIOn_Daedalus. For now, you can enjoy reading about his project of creating a wooden katana he designed a little while ago.

“This wooden katana was one of the many corona-lockdown projects I had on my list during that time. I remember seeing a video by ILikeToMakeStuff and thinking “hey, I have all of the tools that he uses. I can make this myself!” and after gathering some materials for it (which I had laying around) I went ahead and built it, using the video as a guideline.

I wanted to give myself a challenge as well so I did a herringbone pattern with two types of wood for the handle, coupled with some special wood (I forgot what type of wood, it was 4 years ago forgive me) for the top and bottom of the handle. The wood has some hints of red and purple to it with a really nice grain pattern.

The herringbone pattern was made with beech wood that was from the crib that I laid in when I was a baby, and walnut wood. Which together makes some really nice contrast, if I do say so myself. There were holes in the walnut wood so I filled that up with epoxy to get an even surface.

The blade itself is made from scrap mahogany hardwood and the guard is made of scrap oakwood.”

– Thijmen Berteler

We are happy to announce our second Designer of the Month! This time, we like to introduce you to Thies who designed a lamp vase. In this short news feed, you will find the design and an explanatory text written by Thies himself. Enjoy and become inspired!

“This lamp is made from wood I took from a bamboo cutlery tray I found next to a container. Add a leftover piece of LED strip and a piece of diffusion sheets from an old monitor and voila: a lamp-vase for dried flowers (or test tubes with real flowers?)!”

– Thies Harms

The Design Case with Kaemingk B.V.

Over the past three weeks, S.G. Daedalus has engaged in a collaborative project with a giant in the seasonal decorations market, Kaemingk B.V.. Our members got the opportunity to design new Christmas decorations for Kaemingk’s international market. The skills of our students matched perfectly with Kaemingk’s innovative vision, resulting in some promising product concepts!

Kaemingk welcomed our members to their 8000 m2 showroom, where they showed their newest Christmas collection. Our members got to know their products and brands, which served as a great start to the creative ideation process.

Throughout the case, the participants were able to apply their creativity and Industrial Design Engineering skills for a tangible, real-world application.

This collaboration is not the first between S.G. Daedalus and Kaemingk, multiple design cases have taken place before. A concept from our last collaboration, the plant light, was successfully brought onto the market and has been in Kaemingk’s collection for the last three years.

On behalf of S.G. Daedalus we extend our gratitude to all participants and Kaemingk B.V. for the partnership that made the collaboration and design case reality!

Reflecting on the memorable trip to the Red Dot Design at S.G. Daedalus!

On March 12th, S.G. Daedalus embarked on an excursion to the renowned Red Dot Design Museum, accompanied by our dedicated members and staff. With a grand total of 145 attendees, the museum visit was nothing short of a resounding success!

The Red Dot Museum showcases exceptional products recognized by an international panel through the prestigious Red Dot Design Award competition.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined and of course to @reddotdesignmuseum. For everyone who was not able to attend, we hope to revisit the Red Dot Design Museum next year again so it would be fun to see you there!