3. Curriculum Vitae
First name
Surname
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Nationality
E-mail
Telephone
Address
LinkedIn
Frank
Hooijer
July 4th, 1989
Groningen, the Nether-
lands
Dutch
Frankhooijer@gmail.com
+31618274531
Janninkmarke 4
8016NB, Zwolle
the Netherlands
nl.linkedin.com/in/
frankhooijer
I like: Biking, urban bikeracing, customizing bikes, travelling, hiking,
camping, sketching, drawing, knifemaking, creativity techniques,
Dutch (Native), English (Advanced), Polish (Beginner), German
(Intermediate)
I speak:
2011-present
2010-2011
2009-2010
2009-2010
2005-2009
Studying Industrial Product Design at the Windesheim University of ap-
plied sciences. Zwolle, the Netherlands. www.windesheim.nl
Various blacksmith-related projects. Zwolle, the Netherlands.
Studying traditional blacksmithing at eveningschool, Ghent, Belgium.
www.cvo-leerdorp.be
Work at the blacksmith Smederij de Bruyn. Erembodegem, Belgium.
www.smederijdebruyn.be
Senior secondary vocational education and training in restaurative and
decorative painting. Zwolle, the Netherlands. www.cibap.nl
Internships at various dutch smithies and decorative painters.
I have: Diploma Senior secondary Vocational Education CIBAP.
Certificate “Jong Ondernemen” (young entrepeneurship program)
Certificate “Young Enterprise International Examination” (Cambridge Uni-
versity)
Blacksmith Sven de Lang, smederij@svendelang.nl. www.svendelang.nl
Teacher Windesheim Anne van der Graaf, ajh.van.der.graaf@windesheim.nl
References:
I can use: Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint), Adobe Cs4 (In-
Design/Illustrator/Photoshop/Acrobat Pro), SolidWorks,
SolidThinking, Keyshot, SketchBook Pro.
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6 7
Trompe l’oeil of postcard and
paper letter taped to imitation
marble painted surface. Com-
bination of Linseed oil and syn-
thetic paint.
Trompe l’oeil
2009 / Frank Hooijer / Zwolle, the Netherlands
Decorative painting
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8 9Popeye panel
This painting served as part of
my graduation for my study at
CIBAP. It resembles a still life
scene from a composistion of
two comic book pages and a
newspaper page.
The front page is the april 18
1912 edition of the Daily Mir-
ror, and states the sinking of
the Titanic. Mixed techniques,
linseed oil and alkyd based
paints. Wooden panel 2400 x
1200 mm.
2009 / CIBAP / Zwolle, the Netherlands
Blacksmith wallpainting
For the second part of my
graduation on CIBAP, I had
decorated a wall in the smithy
where I had interned six
months earlier. The painting
visualizes the creative proc-
ess of the tradition of forging.
The golden banister resem-
bles the array of materials
the modern blacksmith is re-
quired to master.
Enclosed in this portfolio is
a memory stick with a short
stop-motion movie of this
project. You can also search
YouTube for “sven wall paint-
ing”.
2009 / Collaboration Sven de Lang and Frank Hooijer /
Kampen, the Netherlands
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10 11Forging Organical forging
The table’s design is organi-
cally shaped to suit the client’s
wishes, yet blend in the exist-
ing garden design. The legs
are made of forged square
steel tubes, which fold like wet
cardboard. 1000 x 1000 x
800 mm, natural slate and
powdercoated steel.
2011 / Frank Hooijer / Zwolle, the Netherlands
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12 13Palette knife
In 2010 I experimented with
an old japanese jewelery mak-
ing technique; Mokume Gane.
Instead of using precious met-
als such as gold and silver, I
combined stainless steel and
pure copper.
Copperoxide can show all the
colours of the rainbow on the
surface when heating the bar
in random spots. The handle
material is rare Black Palm
wood, riveted in place.
PROJECT / BABY SWORD
A sword sees the light of day
through its makers hands.
This sword doesn’t need to be
taken by the hand, it will find
its own way. Measures 1000
x 700 x 250 mm. Forged steel
and oakwood
2010 / Frank Hooijer / Kampen, the Netherlands2010 / Frank Hooijer / Kampen, the Netherlands
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14 15Industrial Product Design
2012 / Windesheim / Zwolle, the Netherlands
Plano LED lamp
This Plano lamp is made for
students living on their own.
The principle of folding also
provides the on and off switch-
ing of the LED strips mounted
in the back.
The lamp is designed to re-
duce production and assem-
bly costs as much as possible.
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16 17Trojan horse
2012 / Windesheim / Hasselt, the Netherlands
The Trojan Horse was part of
a local festival in the village of
Hasselt which is called “Has-
selts Strongest”. The contest-
ants strength and stamina
was tested through various
game elements.
Windesheim was asked to
think of a part of the event
and realise it. I have played a
big part in the constructional
conceptualisation and realisa-
tion. Also I had organised a
very fruitful creaitivity session.
The contestants were to move
the giant horse back and forth
as fast as possible over a 30
meter cobbled road.
Injection moulded table
For the class Constructing for
Production I designed a poly-
propylene table suitable for
rotational and injection mould-
ing production. All the table’s
features are chosen following
designrules, to use the least
amount of material and to
hold up against vertical forces
The bottom picture shows an
artistic render showing the
table in a 24k gold and an un-
worldly soapbubble-like mate-
rial, rendered in KeyShot.
2012 / Windesheim / Zwolle, the Netherlands
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Man-powered karts have al-
ways been popular in Holland.
They are a part of most dutch
people’s youth and built to
hold up against even the most
destructive children.
This luxurious looking trike is
designed using SolidWorks.
It’s built up from rectangular
steel tubes, PC seats, topped
off with light colored high
gloss varnished wood & air-
less wheels.
Trike concept
2012 / Windesheim / Zwolle, the Netherlands
This copy of Philips’ Senseo
is made using SolidThink-
ing, an intuitive 3D modelling
program to rapidly create
volumes. Volumes are built
from splines and can be sin-
gle curved or double curved.
Objects made in SolidThinking
have no realistic dimensions.
Senseo coffeemaker
2011 / Windesheim / Zwolle, the Netherlands
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20 21
Princess Household Applianc-
es is a dutch company that
asked our school to redesign
their “Classic Fat Free Fryer”.
The issue was that it didn’t do
it’s job well enough, the upper
two pictures show the existing
model.
We looked into all aspects of
the frying process; preparing
food, heatsources, movement
and airflow.
Our team of 4 had researched
consumer demands, tested
similar products, and tested
our solutions with simple mod-
els. We’ve made foam and
steel models to check dimen-
sions and functioning.
The new design can safely be
used in the kitchen as well as
on the dinnertable.
The fryer is childfriendly since
there is no oil and the controls
are on top of the fryer. You
won’t burn your fingers to the
exterior because of the con-
stant cooling airflow between
the interior and exterior wall.
The placing and size of the
handle provides optimal er-
gonomic handling. Our biggest
selling point is that we’ve man-
aged to increase frying capac-
ity without enlarging the fryer.
Fat free fryer
2012 / Windesheim / Zwolle, the Netherlands
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22 23Diverging / Converging
2013 / Windesheim / Zwolle, the Netherlands
This assignment is all about di-
verging and converging. I had
to choose a random product
for €3, so I bought this silicon
oven mitt. I sketched varia-
tions of shapes and functions,
after which I combined these
in three individual concepts.
I chose a concept and made a
model out of it. The miniature
model is made of four milime-
ter thick aluminium sheet and
can be used in different posi-
tions.
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24 25Flying object
2013 / Windesheim / Zwolle, the Netherlands
The aim of this assignment
was to create an object that
makes the impression it can
fly. The collage captures the
essence of the theme refer-
ring to shapes and materials,
with the purpose of commu-
nicating my mindset to a pro-
jectgroup.
Through sketching i found
a combination of shapes
with strong sharp masculine
curves. It could resemble a
swallow with an open beak.
The use of stained brass is an
element borrowed from the
steampunk style.
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The letters of the warehouse
chain HEMA translate to
Dutch Unity Price Coopera-
tion. HEMA celebrated its
80th birthday in 2006 with
500 shops. It has gradually
transformed from a poor peo-
ple’s shop a recognised brand
with it’s own distinctive de-
sign, yet HEMA stayed accesi-
ble to everyone.
Since 1985 HEMA organises
a design competition for stu-
dents. This year the theme
was “organise your life”.
For my entry I started by defin-
ing HEMA’s corporate identity
to adapt my designprocess to.
My concept is called the
DOORganiser. It lets you uti-
lize the space lost by your
dooropening and serves as a
last reminder before you leave
a room.
The left page shows details of
the document accompanying
my entry, whereas the right
page shows a few details of
the sketching process.
HEMA design competition 2013
2013 / Windesheim / Zwolle, the Netherlands
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