Projects from OOOMS are ideas, services and products commissioned by various companies, universities,
foundations and museums. If you are interested in hiring OOOMS for your upcoming project, event or design workshop, feel free to contact us for more information. We’d love to hear from you!
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OOOMS has been invited to co-operate in a project to help former street children in Jakarta, Indonesia.
This eco-project is called Ffrash and is initiated by Gina Provo Kluit, a Dutch woman who is currently living in Jakarta.
The main assignment for OOOMS was to design a collection of interior products, by re-using waste material. Besides that we had to train the former street children and teach them how to make these products. One of the goals was to improve their workshop skills and teach the youngsters the principles of design and entrepeneurship. By doing this they have a better chance to find a job when they leave the shelter.
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At our first visit to Jakarta in August 2012, we noticed there is a tremendous amount of trash filling the streets and clogging the city’s sewer system. During these two weeks we’ve visited many interesting and sometimes smelly sites of the city. We also conducted a one day creative workshop at KDM, to get an idea of what to expect in January. To make a long story short; we learned a lot that day! Most of our other time we spend collecting as much information as possible about the different waste materials.
Back at our studio we used all our spare time to work on the project. We executed many experiments involving plastics, glass, metal, microwave ovens, blenders and blowtorches. When we had to leave for Jakarta in January we had a number of concepts and ideas, and a flexible mindset for the unexpected.
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Its been a great experience with many challenges and surprises, but already a success on its own. We’ve bought machines, set up the workshop, made prototypes and trained the youngsters. The selected youngsters make a great team and rarely have we seen such enthusiasm and motivation!
Information about when and where the products will be available can be found on www.ffrash.com.
You can also support the project by ‘liking’ its facebook page, www.facebook.com/ffrash.
The profit generated by the sales of the products will be used to support KDM, the shelter that provides the street children a home, education, attention and much more. This is also the place where the workshop has been set up.
A more extensive selection of photo’s of this project can be found on the OOOMS facebook page, www.facebook.com/dutchdesigners
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.
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.
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.
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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