Yvette Dijkhuizen has completed her MDes in Interdisciplinary Design from Napier University. Her portfolio showcases her work including rapid prototyping projects, ethnographic research, and award-winning designs for outdoor furniture and a campus watch program. She has a variety of skills and experience in product design, graphic design, and design research methods.

2. Hi there!
Introduction
I'm Yvette Dijkhuizen and this what you are
currently seeing on your screen is a PDF
version of my portfolio.
I recently passed all my exams for my MDes
Interdisciplinary Design and will be awarded
my MDes in November.
With this portfolio I would like to show what
kind of designer I am illustrated with samples
of my work from the past year.
Have fun reading/looking at my portfolio!
Feel free to get in touch with me for any
comments, questions, references or a job.
1. Yvette Dijkhuizen.
Yvette Dijkhuizen, MDes. 2
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3. Extra curricular
Profile
Volunteer at RDA Thornton Rose,
2007 - 2008
Rosewell, Edinburgh
My main interest in design is product design and graphic
design. I would describe myself as an all-rounder
Programme representative MDes
2007 - 2008
qua skills and as a team player but I don't mind working
Interdisciplinary Design course
individual. I'm down to earth and don't mind to put
my shoulder to the wheel. I have an enthusiastic and
2003 - 2006 Member student information team
open-minded approach to the work.
Industrial Design, TUE
Education
Awards
2007 - 2008 Napier University Edinburgh, UK
2007 Runner up Design for Dwell
MDes Interdisciplinary Design
Design of outdoor furniture
2003 - 2007 University of Technology Eindhoven
Skills
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Design
OOP
Curriculum Vitae
1997 - 2003 Sondervick College Veldhoven Languages:
Personal VWO (subjects: math, science, phy Dutch (native)
sics, Dutch, English, extra subjects German
information
chosen: geography and economy) English
French (basic)
Name:
Working experience
Yvette Dijkhuizen
Software languages:
Date of birth:
HTML/CSS (basic)
2007 Designer at ARTelier Reiss, Volxheim,
24-12-1984
Germany.
Address:
Software programs:
Elaboration of internship project.
Wal 18
Photoshop , Illustrator , Indesign
5501 HK Veldhoven
(basic), Quark , Flash (basic), Office,
2006 Internship at ARTelier Reiss, Volxheim,
The Netherlands
Windows XP , MAC OSX
Germany (5 months)
Mobile Phone:
Industrial design of crematorium inci
(+31) (0)6 -
Driving License:
nerators for the German crematorium
44442959
Clean
of the future.
E-mail:
yvette_dijkhuizen@
General interests:
2003 - 2006 Nettorama Verbruikersmarkten
hotmail.com
Sports (race cycling, snowboar
Oosterhout, the Netherlands
Website:
ding and running)
Sales employee; Mondays and
http://yvettedijkhuizen.nl
Music (band Queen and playing flute)
Wednesdays nights working at the
Collecting (vinyl records)
cash deck, or as stock clerk
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4. Internship ARTelier Reiss
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For a client of ARTelier Reiss I was asked to
design a second skin for a crematorium in a
inerator. A skin that would fit the corporate
identity of the client, and would be an ergo-
nomic advantage for the employees of a
crematorium.
During the project four different scenarios
were created: crystal, showcase, smooth
design and trust design.
1. Crystal skin model.
Due to succes this project later has been ela-
2. Showcase model.
3. Sketch page crystal borated to the design of ‘the crematorium of
model.
the future’ and the publication of a book:
Express Emotions . 4
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5. Rapid Prototyping
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During the last 2 years I had the opportunity
a few times to use rapid prototyping methods.
1. Rendered model
Dwell chair/lounger.
I think it is a great way to produce quite per-
2.3D printed version
fect models that can show and give a feel of
of the chair.
what the final product might be like.
3. 3D printed model
smooth design for
internship.
To model the objects in 3D I used the
program Rhinoceros 3.0 . 5
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6. Etnographic Research
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One of the modules teached at the MDes
Interdisciplinary Design is Design Research
Methods, a module specially directed at
doing etnograhpic research.
1. Self designed
magazine with
everyday banalities.
For this module we often spend time outside
2. 1 Picture every half
university observing and recording people,
hour of one day in my
objects, places in different situations.
life.
3. Intervention for bus
stop boredom: Resulting in different outcomes as a maga-
a swing.
zine, a book, posters and a
product intervention. 6
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7. 1 2
For the ‘Design for Dwell’ competition I
Dwell
designed an outdoor chair that also could be
used as a lounger. By adding an ottoman you
1. Presentation board
can have either a footrest or a small table.
for the chair/lounger.
2.Sketch of the chair.
3. Final prototyped The design was selected from over 200
models.
entries and awarded a runner up prize by the
jury. 7
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8. 1 2
For D&AD (D&AD is a prestigious design
competition in the UK) I chose to do the
design for crime brief.
The brief was to design a service, product
that would reduce crime and let people feel
1. Illustration that
D&AD
shows some everyday safer.
high value items.
2. Front of the
My design is the Campus Watch Team, basi-
keychain that is an
cally a neighbourhood watch service but then
alarm.
tailored to the needs of a school.
3. Detail of scenario
of how the system
works.
The aim of the Campus Watch Team is to
reduce the number of stolen high value items. 8
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9. Well Cover Tables
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For my major project I designed a nest of
three concrete tables.
The table tops of this nest of tables have the
imprints of well covers.
1.The picture that
inspired me to make
The project comes from a photo I took of a
the tables.
drain cover for one of the etnographic
2. The smallest table
research assignment.
with the gas cover
imprint.
3. The nest of three I became fascinated by the patterns of these
tables together.
covers and had this vision to turn them into
table tops. 9
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10. 1 2
*† Deathstyle is a collection of products
around the funeral. The collection tries to
show that a funeral can be beautiful and that
Deathstyle
it can be done in the way people want.
The Deathstyle collection consists of printed
balloons, paper handkerchiefs, a memory
box and a kit to make a temporary grave
marker.
1.Deathstyle logo.
2. Packet of
I did this project after I got fascinated at a
customized
funeral trade exhibition by all the possibilities
handkerchiefs.
3. Kit to design a you could get there, but what you could get
temporary memorial.
was all the shape, colour and feeling and I
saw room to improve that. 10
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