Concepts from OOOMS are ideas, services and products commissioned by various company’s, university’s,
foundations and museums. If you are interested in hiring OOOMS for your upcoming project, event or workshop,
feel free to contact us for more information. We’d love to hear from you!
concepts
What are OOOMS concepts
Workshop at Singapore Polytechnic June 2011
Studio OOOMS has been invited to conduct a 5 day workshop at the Singapore Polytechnic.
The title of the workshop is “Lost & Found”. This title is based on the free materials that have lost their original function and for which a new function will be found.
The group assignment demands a real hands on approach, as well as the ability to make quick decisions and
to be creative with limited materials. The programme places an emphasis on practice-oriented, creative work, complemented by short presentations and discussions.
If you like to see the PDF brochure about our workshops, click here.
More photo’s of the workshop can be found on our facebook page.
Workshop at CEDIM
On the 12th of June OOOMS stepped on a plane to Mexico. We were invited by CEDIM to give a 5 day
workshop about interior & product design. Before we left we put lots of effort in the preparation so
nothing could surprise us.
CEDIM is situated in Monterrey, a modern city which is surrounded by stunningly beautiful mountains,
where it easily gets up to 40 degrees Celsius.
Our group consisted of 23 students from different departments and some participants were already
graduated. One of the main goals of the workshop was to make the participants realise that limitations
of a material mainly exist in their brain, not in the material itself.
The participants really worked hard. Not only we, but even the staff was surprised how the students
took over the whole school to work on their projects. Students were working in the classroom and
in the workshop, but also any other empty room, in the basement and in the hallway.
It was amazing to see them work with such enthusiasm! Even when Mexico was playing the soccer
match against France, the students kept on working while watching the game! The night before the
presentation some students even didn’t go to bed and worked the whole night, just to have their
project finished; That’s the spirit!
At the end presentation we really felt proud of our students; So many great projects made in just
1 week! According to all the lovely reactions from the students and the staff, and even the director
of the school, we must have done a pretty good job!
We would like to thank all the participants for their great effort and our friends of the staff for
taking such good care of us!
If you like to see the PDF brochure about our workshops, click here.
Free Wooden Memory Game
The Wooden Memory Game is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and two cards are flipped face up over each turn. The object of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards. The game can be played with any number of players.
Our Wooden USB Sticks are all unique, but sometimes can look very similar. Because of this we thought their images would make a real challenging memory game. We would like to offer this game for free! All you have to do is some printing and cutting.
Click here to view the PDF of the front side of the game. Print it on the thickest paper your printer can handle. Reinsert the printed sheet to print the backside. Click here to view the backside.
Anti Gravity Machine
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So what if your chances of ever becoming an astronaut are less than zero? You can still defy gravity using OOOMS’s Anti Gravity Machine and you know it’s probably more fun. All you have to do is strap yourself to the moving see-saw contraption and voila! You can moonwalk like Neil Armstrong all over the basketball court.
Description: Anti Gravity Machine made of scrap steel
Dimensions: 105 x 150 x 300 cm / 41,3 x 59,1 / 118,1 inch
Design: OOOMS
TWF?
Although we love to keep up with new media like Facebook, Youtube and Twitter,
we didn’t really feel like maintaining a Twitter account ourselves.
Instead we thought of tweets generated by real birds.
Have a look at oooms.nl/tweeterfeed to see the first results.
Neck-Lace
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Commissioned by De Hub, and in cooperation with TNO, Studio OOOMS is working on a product manufactured by Rapid Manufacturing.
The design is based on the idea that using RM is still a relatively expensive technique. Inspired by a ordinary paper party banner, OOOMS designed a structure which is made in one small piece. When you stretch the structure it will increase in size. The result became a beautiful, stretchable necklace, looking like lace. This product was shown during the Dutch Design Week 2008, together with the results of other participating designers.
Description: Necklace made with RM
Dimensions: D 2 x 25 cm / D 0,8 x 9,8 inch
Commissioned by: De Hub & TNO
Design: OOOMS
Sugar Screen
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Fooddesigner Annelies Hermsen asked a selected group of designers to be creative with 100 kilograms of sugar.
While receiving lots of comments on the sweet smell in and around our workshop, OOOMS created a room divider with caramel & Meranti.
The creations were presented during the Dutch Design Week 2009, the perfect meeting place for designers, companies and public. A diner was served, mainly containing sugar based ingredients. Meanwhile visitors could enjoy the remarkable designs at Lebesque, a well-respected company in both the Netherlands and abroad.
Description: Room divider from caramel and Meranti.
Dimensions: 150 x 180 x 5 cm / 59,1 2 x 70,9 inch
Commissioned by: Annelies Hermsen & Lebesque
Design: OOOMS
Rollator
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With this nifty vehicle you can move fast forward when walking slow. Looking like a treadmill on wheels, the Rollator uses a special gear drive system to multiply your walking efforts and increase your pace. While you won’t look quite as cool as those hipsters tooling around on their Segways, you might end up getting there just as quickly.
Description: Rolling treadmill, 3 gears
Dimensions: 130 x 60 x 100 cm / 51,2 x 23,6 x 39,4
Design: OOOMS
City Hideout
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Behold the world unseen.
When the stress of city living gets too much, just deploy this contraption, jump inside and close the lid. It looks exactly like a traffic box that is found commonly along streets and side walks. It comes complete with vents so you can look out and watch the world go by while you hide and wait for your therapist.
Description: Hideout made from cardboard
Dimensions: 55 x 55 x 110 cm / 21,7 x 21,7 x 43,3 inch
Design: OOOMS
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Philips Icon
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Oooms was invited to take part in a project ‘Iconen in Beeld’, commissioned by De Negende and EDHV. Together with 22 other designers they created a collection of souvenirs, each based on an iconic building in Eindhoven. This led to a great variety in designs, presented in a visually very clear way; each souvenir has been placed on a timeline, at the point in time the according building was built. Oooms was selected to design a souvenir for the ‘Evoluon’.
The Evoluon is the symbol of Eindhoven as ‘company town’ during 1920-1970. During the heyday days of Philips the inhabitants of Eindhoven were mostly real ‘Philips people’; they worked at Philips, in their spare time they went to Philips relaxation Centre and the children went to a school where Philips had mostly a large share at the establishment. Also in the church Philips was represented.
Oooms designed a souvenir which translates the atmoshere at that time; A small furnace bridge with a tea-candle. The shade of the old logo brings back memories to the period in which Philips was represented in all facets of life.
Description: Candleholder made with SLS
Dimensions: 11,6 x 7,7 x 7,4 cm / 4,6 x 3 x 2,9 inch
Commissioned by: De Negende & EDHV
Design: OOOMS
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Partyshade
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Well chosen lighting is an important ingredient for every successful party. An interesting and atmospheric by-product of light are its shadows. Our design uses those shadows to create the right ambiance; A 360 degrees skyline of lively people emerges by shadows on the walls.
Description: Interior lighting, lasercut metal sheet with lighting fixture.
Dimensions: 28 x ∅ 80 cm / 11 x ∅ 7,49 inch
Commissioned by: Designboom
Design: OOOMS in cooperation with Georges Beaujean
Museum Chair
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Design and execution of 8 museum trolleys, for guided children tours at the museum. The chair can be used as mobile storage, a seat for tired visitors or a stage for children to address the group.
Description: Mobile storage chair, Plywood / Fiberglass
Dimensions: 50 x 50 x 70 cm / 19.7 x 19.7 x 27.6 inch
Commissioned by: PMMK, Museum of Modern Art Oostende
Design: OOOMS in cooperation with Davy Grosemans
European Year of Equal Rights / Relay Stick
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Design and execution of a symbolic relay stick, commissioned by the ‘Commissie Gelijke Behandeling’. During the ‘European Year of Equal Rights’ this relay stick is handed over every 2 months to another organisation. The stick exists of 6 separate parts, symbolic to the six organisations, hold together by a brass thread.
Description: Relay stick, birch / brass
Dimensions: 28 x ∅ 3,8 cm / 11 x ∅ 1.5 inch
Commissioned by: Commissie Gelijke Behandeling
Design: OOOMS
Brabantse Spelen / Table-tennis bats
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Design and execution of two heavyweight table-tennis bats. Ask a friend to play a game of table-tennis and you’ll find out how important flexibility and speed can be!
Description: Heavyweight table-tennis bats
Commissioned by: NBKS
Design: OOOMS
Hollow land N 51 24.928 O 05 19.640
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About one third of Holland (meaning “hollow land”) is below sea level. Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is built in the middle of a former lake. Flevoland, which is also reclaimed from sea, is on average 8 metres below sea level. The concept of “Hollow Land” highlights the fact that Holland is not only flat, but below sea level as well. These topographical depressions are as iconographic as wooden shoes and tulips. A mould is made of a hole in the ground, somewhere in the Netherlands. From the mould, a perfect replica of the hole is produced in ceramics.
Description: Ceramic dish
Dimensions: 32 x Ø 6 cm / 12,6 x Ø 2,4 inch
Commissioned by: the Dutch souvenir project, initiated by the European Ceramic Work Centre
Design: OOOMS in cooperation with Davy Grosemans
Brrr
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Totaljoy is a company that has developed a very safe material for the use within the medical
market. Their material is non toxic, phthalate free, FDA approved and heavily tested by TNO.
One day the idea was born to produce these special products in this safe material.
The order for a new line of 7 different models was given to Studio OOOMS who took on
this unusual challenge.
Dimensions: various
Commissioned by: Totaljoy
Design: OOOMS
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Bloom!
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How come artificial plants don’t bloom?
OOOMS designed a series of artificial plants which don’t look real, but they really bloom!
Just spray water on the surface of the Green Lettuce and within minutes the little leaves will gently unfold.
When you treat the Red Coral with some water it will release its arms and grow three times its size.
The Gum Tree needs special care every day. Pour water in the pot and within 7 days the leaves will unfold,
showing us the bright colours within.
Description: Artificial plants, Polyurethane foam
Dimensions Green Lettuce: 22 x 12 x 13 cm / 8,7 x 4,7 x 5,1 inch
Dimensions Red Coral: 16 x 16 x 45 cm / 6,3 x 6,3 x 17,7 cm
Dimensions Gum Tree: 35 x 35 x 30 cm / 13,8 x 13,8 x 11,8 inch
Design: OOOMS