I built a doll house for a work event concerning climate change. It’s based on the typical small house as abundant in the city of Ghent. I used it during the event to promote green roofs. It actually proved invaluable to explain several concepts, like how it feels to have a green roof in your view instead of black EPDM.
I used leftover materials, wood glue, hot glue and brats (nails). No Playmobil® kitties were harmed.
I made a book safe for my Secret Santa via Make in Belgium (Facebook group, also known from Koterij with Henk Rijckaert). It’s based on arduino. I did everything myself: programming, creating and printing case. I truly didn’t enjoy cutting in the book. It was a lot more work than anticipated.
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In 2021 I developed a card game to play with colleagues. After almost 2 years into the pandemic, we barely knew each other. There were also a lot of new faces in the crowd. This game was a nice way to mingle during the first staff party in ages.
It’s a combination of the classic Quartets and Technical Quartets* with some new “Rules of Engagement” and a third engagement option called “climate bombs”. Fun guaranteed!
* The internet has yet to learn what a Technical Quartets is. On the cards there are properties about the subject. Example: “My -person- has the most kids, how much has yours?” Player with the most kids wins both cards.
Luckily I have a superb colleague who’s a designer and she spent a LOT of evenings making these cards. I had another team who pressured colleagues for intimate information that we could put on their cards. I illustrated the “bomb” cards myself.
One of the things they had to do, was to choose a favourite food. I put it on the card in guesstimated (kilo)calories. By the time we played the game, everybody had forgotten what they had chosen. That wasn’t a good design choice, but… the game was a smashing hit! 🙂
I promised a project partner to furnish a drawing to explain the concept we were trying out. They actually used it on their website.
Does this make me a real artist? 🙂
The ending of 2020 was a weird one, for a myriad of reasons. I made some digital cards and in the end my printer died while gorging on heavy paper, so I just posted them on Meta.
Somewhere in November 2014 I decided to make a whole lot of Christmas cards for friends/family. They were actually based on the person(s) they were meant for.
It was also the first time I used “PEEN” as my signature. I will elaborate on the many, many meanings of Peen in another post.
All cards were drawn on 12*12cm cheap blank cards. After a while I came to understand what worked, and what not. One day I will redo the best of them.
