The cheating hangman
This is my variation of the famous word-guessing game Hangman. The aim is not to guess the correct word but it is to exhaust the cheating Hangman out of cheating […]
WristWatch Corner
I have way to many watches, here are a view for sale. Bulova MarineStar Quartz watch with new battery.
A 60 year old Pfaff 260 and A.I.
The interaction below between OpenAI and me took place on https://chat.openai.com (opens in new window) Me: Can you write a short article about the Pfaff 260 sewing machine? OpenAI : […]
Simple solution to a big problem
Albert Heijn is the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands. In 2018 they switched from regular printed price tags to e-ink price tags. Also called Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs). ESL’s […]
Multimedia Book publishing
I created this book on Amazon. The text was written by Esther Mulders and with her input I made the layout, text conversion and the cover. Also, each chapter has […]
CleanCrew – Air shower
In the superyacht business only the best is good enough. One aspect is of course the finishing quality of the ships hull. A little-known secret is that the sanding work […]
“A.I.” address location
The problem was how to find the correct address in the contents of thousands of letters from all different senders to all different countries. For example, here are two letters. […]
One handed 24 hour Wrist watch
I came across a one handed 24 hour watch and wondered what a one handed watch would look like that also includes minutes. The design below is the result of […]
TicketToday
Emerce 19 jun 2003 TicketToday is een van de eerste volledig geautomatiseerde kaartverkoopkanalen. Waar heeft de concurrentie het (niet) laten liggen? Ticketingleverancier TicketToday lijkt vanuit het niets te zijn gekomen […]
Advertis3d
Advertis3D sold 3D floor stickers to all major supermakets and gasstations like Shell and BP.
BlueMailCentral
After working in companies like Microsoft, Getronics, eBay and having started and sold an advertising agency I started in the postal and telecommunications industry with a new Hybrid Mail company […]
Handvertising
Introducing Handvertising: Branding the brand-aware (2007) This is one of those ideas that I wish I thought of. I go to a lot of club nights, rock shows, and court […]
The rise and shine of hybrid mail
The rise and shine of hybrid mail As appeared in the magazine Post & Parcel on Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 http://postandparcel.info/35057/in-depth/the-rise-and-shine-of-hybrid-mail/ Colin de Vries, owner and founder of BlueMailCentral.com, writes […]
Outdoor media location sourcing
For Blow-up media I located and contracted advertisement locations. Since Blow-Up media places advertisements on scaffolding I setup a procedure to go to the local authorities daily to collect the […]
Getronics Telepas
Getronics was the dutch market leader in credit card reader machines. In this project I reduced the overhead from 12 FTE to 2 FTE by standardising the credit card processing […]
Expo booth development
How to win best show booth with a 700 euro budget.
mactop sleeve
Designed a latop sleeve in the shape of a Mac-OS file folder.
Holiday Faker
A website that would let you send a real card from any country to anybody. You could fake your holiday in Hawaii while you were actually in Cornwall. The holidayfaker […]
Victorinix case design
A case I designed for Victorinox. The main problem with these premium custom cases is that the phone market changes so rapidly that it’s very hard to make a quality […]
HemiLid ~ Product design
Introducing the HemiLid. The HemiLid is a half sphere large size cover that captures the heat and moist from your large fish or meat dishes in a oven like manner. […]
OilOffer.com
The purpose of the website was to create an automatic Oil bunker broker: Oil Broker: One who acts as a go-between in the domestic or international crude oil market. A […]
Wireless Fencing Equipment
Development of a businessplan for a wireless fencing device.
improving the sound of cheap violins
If you ever played a violin you know that every violin sounds different. Some have warm tones others sound more high and nervous. Make no mistake about it. A decent violin […]
HTC Biomatterwaste to Fuel
Hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) of biomass is a thermo-chemical process for the conversion of solid biomass matter at elevated temperature and pressure in the presence of water. The resulting product is […]