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Embrace is nominated for the Rene Smeets award and the Keep an eye grant
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Skin-to-skin to soothe
Caring for premature babies can be stressful. The babies are tiny and vulnerable, new parents are often overwhelmed, and neonatal units offer little privacy with several incubators in a room. Placing babies to rest calmly on the parent’s chest, skin-to-skin, is best. But how to remain calm amidst the commotion? Ricky’s EMBRACE offers relief for many of the problems on the wards. The sofa’s tall back and sides offer seclusion and a sense of security. The hygienic immitation leather cushions provide stability and warmth, and tubes can be tucked away for a cosy snuggle and a healthy dose of oxytocin.
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Good taste, is no waste! That’s the slogan of the concept REJECTED, a mobile shop. REJECTED is the brand around a mobile salad bar. The Salads will be made of rejected fruit and vegetables. The food is rejected from the supermarkets only because the fruit and vegetables are not beautiful or regular enough. The taste is still good and fresh, and by cutting the food for salads, it can be sold perfectly. The vegetables in the shop are ordered on color. The packaging will be made of eatable paper. Ricky Kloosterman designed the concept around REJECTED the shop, but also the photo campaign and the marketing story around REJECTED.
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Winner of the special honour
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Ricky Kloosterman created for the Move competion (www.moveaward.com) her vision of the year 2050. Her research was about the future of Funerals. In her concept she believes that funerals will become more intimate and personal in the future of 2050. Ricky has done a research on behaviors of funerals in different cultures and the habits that belong this. Out of the research she took the essentials, and with that information she designed a coffin. The coffin will work with the innovative process of resomation. Resomation is a process that is more environmentally friendly than bury or cremation. The concept is about having your funeral with your most intimate friends and family, on a self-chosen location as a ‘Last journey’, the name of the project.
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With a team of 8 other designers Ricky created a game about cultures, habits and all kind of things kids can to learn about the world. With Nala World you will fly around the world. It is a game designed for children, printed on fabric to discover the world. You can hang the worldmap design on the wall in the childrenroom when they are not playing the game. The team of designers together created the product, the brand corperate identity and worked together for a businessplan. Nala World is for sale. We have on on some fairs to explain more about the game and show it. To order, or for more information, get in contact with me! Mail
Together with the team we won the first prize with Nala World at the Company Launch in Tilburg of the organisation Jong Ondernemen.
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This year the theme of the Hema design competion was about food. “Design that one particular product that cooking and dining makes easier and more beautiful.” Ricky’s design was based on a dutch tradition with Mothersday. Childern bring there mams a breakfast at bed. Ricky designed a do it self package for kids to make a creative breakfast in the shape of a heart. Every mam will love this self made breakfast!
Hema design competition website
http://hemaontwerpwedstrijd.nl/nieuws/
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This leather bag can be used in two situations. You don’t have to buy a bigger plastic bag when you went for shopping. By folding the bag you can make this ‘Folding bag’ smaller or bigger when you need more or less space to carry something.
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