Bob Corporaal

Current

• Freelance visual & interaction designer at reefscape.net

Past

• 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

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Education

• Universiteit Leiden
• Technische Universiteit Delft

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Industry

Internet

Bob Corporaal’s Summary

As a freelance senior visual & interaction designer I work with clients to develop ideas and concepts into fullgrown interactive experiences. In my work I take an integral approach, balancing the different ingredients and stakeholders. Asking the difficult questions and challenging existing ideas when needed. My focus is always on creating great user experiences keeping in mind that usability and brand experience are essentially one.

What sets me apart is that I combine 7+ years of (interaction) design experience with a technical background (aerospace engineering). This allows me to work directly with both the marketing/client and development end of a project, forming the bridge between both ends.

Above all I'm professional and curious: I enjoy working in multidisciplinary teams, combining knowledge from different fields, learning new things and exploring new ideas.

Feel free to contact me for more information, my portfolio or concerning projects.

Bob Corporaal’s Specialties:

Concept development, Marketing & Branding, User experience, Information design, Interaction & User Interface design, Visual design, Usability, Actionscript, Technology trends, Social media, Curiosity & Attention to detail

Bob Corporaal’s Experience

• Freelance visual & interaction designer

  reefscape.net

  (Internet industry)

  January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

  Developing concepts & creating 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, 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, Favela Fabric, UPC, Miele, ShopAround, Heineken, Loyalis, Nokia, Rijkswaterstaat and others
  
  Notable projects:
  • Weg-dromen.nl / Rijkswaterstaat
  Concept development, interaction and visual design and Flash Actionscript for a site presenting the results of an innovation project
  
  • Favela Fabric / KLM
  Concept development, interaction and visual design of their co-creation platform and initial release of the platform for KLM
  
  • KPN InternetPlusBellen
  Information Architecture & Interaction Design of the online client interface

• 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.
  
  More info can be found at 60mm.nl

• 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.

• Visual & interaction designer

  PLAYcollective

  (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 Social Media.
  
  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

  (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 2001 AIAA Lighter than Air conference in Akron, Ohio.
  
  Rewarding work in an inspiring country.

Bob Corporaal’s Education

• 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.
  
  Hard work but very rewarding and great fun.

• 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 including philosophy, ethics and mechanics.

Additional Information

Bob Corporaal’s Interests:

Concept development, Usability, Information design, Interaction design, (Natural) Interfaces, Branding, 'Getting Real', Markets as conversations, Social media, Crowdsourcing, User behaviour, Technology, Trends, Generative design, Interactive visualisation, Design, Photography, Japan, Travel

Bob Corporaal’s Groups:

Nieuwe Garde, 60 Minute Magazine, internetcreatieven.nl, starfish collective

•    JPP
•    Internetcreatieven.nl
•    Starfish Collective
•    Nieuwe Garde Rotterdam

Bob Corporaal’s Honors:

NVvL Prize for the best Dutch Aerospace thesis work, 2000

Bob Corporaal’s Contact Settings

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