freelance visual & interaction designer - reefscape.net
The Hague Area, Netherlands
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- Freelance visual & interaction designer at reefscape.net (Sole Proprietorship)
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- Editor / organiser / publisher / designer at 60 Minute Magazine
- Founding member at Nieuwe Garde Rotterdam
- Visual & interaction designer at PLAYcollective
- Researcher at Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology
- Researcher at National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
- Education
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- Universiteit Leiden
- Technische Universiteit Delft
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Bob Corporaal’s Summary
As a freelance visual & interaction designer I work with clients to develop ideas and concepts into fullgrown websites. In this I take an integral approach, balancing the different ingredients and stakeholders. My focus is on creating great user experiences keeping in mind that usability and brand experience are essentially one.
With 6+ years of design experience and a background in aerospace engineering I am comfortable on both the design and the technical level. But most of all I'm curious: I enjoy working in multidisciplinary teams, combining knowledge from different fields, learning new things and exploring new ideas.
Bob Corporaal’s Specialties:
Concept development, User experience, Information, Interaction & User Interface design, Visual design, Marketing & Branding, Usability, Actionscript, Technology trends, Social media, Curiosity & attention to detail
Bob Corporaal’s Experience
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Freelance visual & interaction designer
reefscape.net (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
January 2004 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Visual & interaction designer helping clients create enjoyable, usable web experiences
Responsibilities include:
• Concept development: create the how, what, why, where, who and context of the project
• Interaction design: information architecture, persona's, user flows, wireframes
• Visual design: mockups, interface & final design
• Flash: design, actionscript, server interaction
Projects for KPN / Studio Dumbar, Vodafone / OER, Scholz & Volkmer, new shoes today, KLM, ABN AMRO / Favela Fabric, Miele / 360 Degrees, ShopAround & Eend among others
Notable projects:
• Favela Fabric / KLM
Concept development and design of their co-creation platform and initial release of the platform for KLM
• Scholz & Volkmer Geschenkedenken
Actionscript & animation for the S&V xmas special
Winner of the Montreux gold prize & ADC Bronze, Germany
• KPN InternetPlusBellen
Information Architecture & Interaction Design of the online client interface for the first generation of KPN voip -
Editor / organiser / publisher / designer
60 Minute Magazine
(Publishing industry)
April 2005 — April 2008 (3 years 1 month)
60 Minute Magazine is a series of magazines and events that started as a Nieuwe Garde project. During the events an entire magazine is created within the span of one day by young designers, writers, photographers, etc under the guidance of experienced professional magazine creators. The result is a creative, hectic, chaotic but very inspiring day and magazine.
After the event the resulting magazine is published and distributed in the Netherlands.
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Founding member
Nieuwe Garde Rotterdam
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
May 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 2 months)
Together with several other creatives we founded the Rotterdam division of the Dutch young creatives network: Nieuwe Garde. Starting with a launch party attended by 800 people, the network is still going strong with regular events.
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Visual & interaction designer
PLAYcollective
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 9 months)
PLAYcollective was an interactive marketing agency developing concepts that deeply involved the internet and the clients customers. In some ways ahead of its time and we learned a lot about what worked and didn't work. Great learning experience.
Responsible for the visual & interaction design and Flash/Actionscript for the campaigns and websites such as SchoolTV Weekjournaal and No Excess clothing. -
Researcher
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology
(Research industry)
October 2000 — September 2001 (1 year)
Researcher working on various aerospace projects such as Solar Powered Airship concepts, Wind Energy and Fluid flow research.
Interesting and challenging work but it also convinced me there is more to creating things than pure logic. -
Researcher
National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
February 2000 — August 2000 (7 months)
As part of the Japan Prizewinners Programme I continued my thesis work in Japan. Here I worked on the energy systems of a solar powered high altitude long endurance airship. This work resulted in a paper presented at the AIAA Lighter than Air conference in Akron, Ohio.
Rewarding work in an inspiring country: Japan.
Bob Corporaal’s Education
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Universiteit Leiden
Post graduate course, Japanese Business & Language studies, 1999 — 2000
Japan Prizewinners Programme (JPP) was a one year post graduate course for selected Dutch university graduates. Subjects include Japanese language, culture & business. Part of this course was spent working for a Japanese company in Japan.
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Technische Universiteit Delft
msc, Aerospace engineering, 1992 — 1999
Field: Conceptual aircraft design
Thesis work: Conceptual design of a Solar Powered High Altitude Long Endurance UAV. Awarded with the NVvl prize for the best Aerospace thesis work.
Gave me a solid background in science, engineering and technology that I still use as a designer and developer.- Activities and Societies:
- de Bolk., Student-teacher of various subjects at the university
Additional Information
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Bob Corporaal’s Interests:
Usability, Interaction design, Branding, 'Getting Real', Markets as conversations, Social media, Crowdsourcing, User behaviour, Technology, Trends, Generative design, Interactive visualisation, ALife, Processing, Design, Photography, Japan, Travel
Bob Corporaal’s Groups:
Nieuwe Garde, 60 Minute Magazine, internetcreatieven.nl, starfish collective
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Bob Corporaal’s Honors:
NVvL Prize for the best Dutch Aerospace thesis work, 2000
Bob Corporaal’s Contact Settings
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