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This is the public profile of Dave Coomans and Gaudi Hoedaya, click here to view our interview with Dave Coomans and Gaudi HoedayaAbout Dave Coomans and Gaudi Hoedaya : Gaudi is passionate about design and believes that design can make a difference in creating relevant, effective and authentic solutions. He believes in co-creation and in a cross- and interdisciplinary approach to any given design challenge. Dave Coomans is his partner in xprmnt.nl. Dave is a creative person who is technically gifted and a maker that gets things done. To experiment is his motto.
Our curiosity as designer and as maker has driven us to experiment with old material and new production methods. While the possibilities seems endless and we let the magic of experimenting do the work, we maneuver our findings and our thoughts on what design should be and weight decisions pragmatically. That way we hope to bring in the balance between the unknown, the revealed, the imaginative with the functional, the sustainable and the appealing.
More than ever designers and makers has to take their share in responsibility to make the world a more sustainable place to live in. It is a challenge we designers are trained for and are capable to deal with. We can not afford not to care.
STATEMENT OF ART:Our curiosity as designer and as maker has driven us to experiment with old material and new production methods. While the possibilities seems endless and we let the magic of experimenting do the work, we maneuver our findings and our thoughts on what design should be and weight decisions pragmatically. That way we hope to bring in the balance between the unknown, the revealed, the imaginative with the functional, the sustainable and the appealing.
More than ever designers and makers has to take their share in responsibility to make the world a more sustainable place to live in. It is a challenge we designers are trained for and are capable to deal with. We can not afford not to care.
Design is not just about making things more useful, not just about making things more beautiful but figuring out what is the right thing to make and how to do it right. What can I say about art.. yes we can intellectualize art.. but as Gilbert Chesterton wrote: "There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect". Art leads us to places in our heart and imagination, art takes us on an adventure and the artist is the way finder. In Design we have to get somewhere, a destination. In art, we ought to get lost.
ORGANIZATION:
xprmnt.nl
EDUCATION:
1994, Erasmus Student, School of Architecture & Interior Design, Royal College of Art, LONDON/ UNITED KINGDOM
1990 - 1995, Interior and product design, Man and Living, Design Academy, EINDHOVEN/ THE NETHERLANDS
EXPERIENCE:
2007 - present, hektik.cc, Co-Founder/ Creative Director/ Designer
2001 - present, gaudi.is, Founder/ Creative Director/ Designer
1999 - 2001, New Media Designer, Lost Boys Interactive
1997 - present, Freelance Visual/ Interactive Designer
1995 - 1996, Industrial Designer, Ontwerpwerk
1994 - 1995 Material Specialist and Interior Designer, Office for Metropolitan Architecture
MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
1998 - ISEA, Multimedia Performance, with Sarah van Kerkhoff and Sarah Buist, MANCHESTER/ UNITED KINGDOM
1996 - Haagse Winter, Snow sculptures, THE HAGUE/ THE NETHERLANDS
1995 - Galerie de Zayer, AMSTERDAM/ THE NETHERLANDS
1993 - Young Talents, Ambiënte, Frankurter Messe, FRANKFURT/ GERMANY
AWARDS:
2001 Europrix, Overall Winner, CD-ROM Anne Frank House – a house with a story, Lost Boys Interactive team member, SALZBURG/ AUSTRIA
2001 Bologna New Media Prize, Excellence in children’s software, CD-ROM Anne Frank House – a house with a story, Lost Boys Interactive team member, BOLOGNA/ ITALY
2001 Comenius EduMedia, Medal for educational media, CD-ROM Anne Frank House – a house with a story, Lost Boys Interactive team member, BERLIN/ GERMANY
2000 Milia d’Or multimedia award, Overall winner, CD-ROM Anne Frank House – a house with a story, Lost Boys Interactive team member, CANNES/ FRANCE
1995, Won the young artist Art competition, Artwork realised, PTT Nederland, DEN BOSCH/ THE NETHERLANDS
1999, Rietveldprize for the Educatorium of University of Utrecht, functions as Material Specialist and Interior designer of OMA Educatorium project-team, UTRECHT/ THE NETHERLANDS
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Dutch, English, Indonesian, German
COMPUTER LITERACY:
Adobe Creative Suite, expert level
HOBBIES:
Hiking, Mountain climbing
WEB SITE:
www.xprmnt.nl
PORTFOLIO URL:
www.gaudi.is
REGISTRATION DATE:
2016-04-07 13:40:49
COUNTRY/REGION:
Netherlands
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Startup
Awards received by Dave Coomans and Gaudi Hoedaya
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Flower Shaper Vase Silver A' Design Award Winner for 3D Printed Forms and Products Design Category in 2015 Dave Coomans & Gaudi Hoedaya for Xprmnt |
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