September 25, 2010

Magic Box appears on Dutch news site nu.nl!

Category News, fablab — studioludens @ 10:18 pm

Last Friday, for the second time in a row, studio:ludens won the Unlimited Design Contest, a contest focused on open and collaborative design. We did not make a single design, but a design tool (what else would you expect from us?).

Last year Alex build a great little app for making box templates with any dimension you want. This year, Alex and Wouter elaborated on this idea and turned it into a parametric design tool. With the help of our dear interns (see previous post) we set up a website to promote the concept and a snappy video to explain it.

We already noticed that the Waag FabLab featured our tool and designs at PICNIC. Today, I was delighted to see a quick shot of our tool and some more of our parametric sunglasses design on Dutch news website nu.nl. Check the video below! You’ll see it quite early in the video, but for the impatient ones among you, skip to 0:20 :-)

September 15, 2010

Extending the workforce!

Category News — studioludens @ 5:36 pm

We are seriously lucky to have found these two gems: Lotte & Harry. They will be joining studio:ludens for a 5-month internship.

Lotte van der Zanden

Lotte will be focusing on the promotion of Repper & visual communication. She will also make sure we don’t neglect the “female side” of studio:ludens and compensate our nerdiness a bit!

Henri Louis Schöter

Harry (Henri Louis for strangers) will be joining our efforts to keep improving the features and interface of Repper. He also has a broad range of interests and is very talkative, so he’ll make sure we get sufficiently distracted during the day!

They might be joining us during our upcoming events (NerdLab, TextielWeekend and Dutch Design Week), so if you want to meet them in person, just pop around during one of these activities.