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Pauline De Vooght

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Name: Pauline De Vooght Adress:

Date of birth: Phone: E-mail:

Groenendaalsesteenweg 29a 1560 Hoeilaart, Belgium 3 july 1997, Ukkel +32474/21.45.38 pauline.de.vooght@hotmail.com

Nationality: Belgian Gender: Female Drivers license: B LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/ in/pauline-de-vooght-133105141/

Education 2009 - 2015:

2018-2019:

2015-2018:

High school University of Antwerp Heilig Hart College Tervuren Bachelor of Product Development Economics and modern languages (International EPS project 3rd bachelor)

Professional experience

2018-2020:

Bauhaus University, Weimar University of Antwerp, Master of Product Design Master of Product Development (Erasmus first semester)

Student jobs

2019: ABInbev – GITEC:

(global innovation & technology center),

10 weeks internship packaging innovation.

2019: Labellov: Sales assistant, seling vintage luxury items - 1 month in summer.

2019: Benj&Soto:

Fibercoating Foam technology luxury furniture,

2 weeks summer internship R&D.

2017 - ... : Deltaworx & Maison Rouge: Staffing agencies: training in hospitality.

- promo jobs: MooiMakers, Marco Polo - hostesse & serving jobs: exclusieve wedding, Jumping Knokke Hipique, Brussels Airlines, RockWerchter - throughout the year.

2018: Boudewijn Seapark: Sale of VIP meeting with the dolphins and supervision of the activity - 3 weeks in summer.

2016: La terrasse du Zoute: Serving drinks and dishes, clearing, bar, ...

- 3 weeks in summer.

Skills

Languages

Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint Adobe: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator 3D: Solidworks, 3D Rendering, Keyshot Social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat

Dutch: Native language English: Professional knowledge French: Professional knowledge German: Basic knowledge

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VĂ„REN School project gardening tools (Product and ergonomics) UA: 2nd bachelor 2017

VĂ„REN is a product family of gardening tools concept designed by myself and 4 other students. For this course we were commissioned to make an ergonomic gardening set.

This contained a pruning shear, a water sprinkler, a handsaw and a grass shear. We also made a brand and logo with Illustrator. I designed the pruning shear. We had to analyse existing products in order to determine our target group and the characteristics of the garden set. Ergonomic verification and correct ergonomic dimensions were an important part of these designs.

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Framework School project pictures (User Centered Design) UA: 3rd bachelor 2018

User experience Design stands for the design of user experience, rather than just the design of the physical product. In the design project (creation), innovation is pursued through a focus on the experiential experience - rather than the simple job fulfillment, technical development or design. It can be described as the sum of emotions that the consumer experiences during the entire cycle of purchasing, using and disposing the product. In this design exercise, For this course we wanted to explore the rich interaction possibilities of a product that can take pictures, process them and display them. We created an object which can take and display photos with a rich interaction.

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MYMUS School project birds (Interaction Design) UA: 1st master 2019

The MYMUS is a concept designed by Evelyn Huisman, Liam Bekaert and me for the course Design for interactions. “Your flying friend by day and by night�

The number of house sparrow in Flanders is declining. This decline is partly due to the better insolation of houses. House sparrows like to build nests in warm places, which are more difficult to find. The idea is to provide a number of integrated nesting boxes when designing a house for people. The inhabitants of the house are then not only people, but also sparrows.

In the nesting boxes, a camera and microphone will be installed. The product to be designed is located in the human environment, and displays the different statuses of the birds nest through changes in shape: uninhabited/inhabited, eggs, young, etc... The app allows the user to look inside the nesting boxes, through the cameras and displays the statuses.

Presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L1WMajubX0&feature=youtu.be.

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“Using the MYMUS app” Bij de app viel het ons vooral op dat de kinderen geen probleem ervaren dat de app niet naar hun is gericht.

Ook ouderen zijn optimistisch dat zij de scherm controle hebben alsook de mogelijkheid om vanop afstand de beweging in het object op te volgen.

“Your flying friend by day and by night”

“Sleeping with MYMUS” Ook als nachtlampje kregen we positieve feedback, deze creëerde een erg rustgevende gevoel bij het slapengaan.

Het product zou ook dienen als slaaphulp maar we hebben ondervonden dat dit functioneel is tot een beperkte leeftijd (tot ongeveer 8 jaar).

“Interaction and intuitiveness with MYMUS” In eerste instantie werd er niet meteen een link gelegd met “activiteit van mussen”. (zonder uitleg) Na de uitleg werden de verschillende standen wel duidelijk en werd er een intuïtief gevoel ervaren bij het vliegend blauw licht.

Ook werd er een warm nest gevoel ervaren bij het warm geel licht met geactueerde spiraal

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EPS

(European Project Semester)

University of Antwerp Antwerp: February 2018 - June 2019

In 2018 I did this in­ter­na­tional and in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary project called EPS at my University.

The aim of this project was to organize and promote an exposition on sustainable food and develop/ design a showstopper. The theme of the market was chocolate and its unfair trade chain. This was going to raise awareness about the cocoa trade, fair trade and non-fair trade and its impact on the environment and small farmers in the global south.

It took place on Thursday 17th of May 2018 at the heart of the city campus of University of Antwerp ‘Hof van Liere’ and it was in collaboration with USOS. Visitors could taste and buy organic food, fair trade products and various substitutes. A selection of companies and NGOs which we contacted, equiped the market stands. This year the topic was Cocoa and we called the market Marché Chocé.

I worked on this during one semester in a group of 5 people (1 Spanish girl, 1 Portuguese boy, 1 German boy and another student of my year) we organized everything from scratch. The biggest part of our journey consisted out of preparations and research related to the subject of the market. Delve into the story behind chocolate, Contacting companies, designing a showstopper, searching for sponsors, going to masterclasses, making posters, publicity, marketing, contacting market vendors, arranging tents, arranging the location, making requests to the city, organising activities, drinks & snacks, music, aftermovie, survey,....

We made our own timeline, deadlines and division of work, managed our budget (1.500 euros from USOS) and monitored the expenses.

In the end we made a profit of €387,97 this was donated to Les femmes de Virunga, a cooperative of women who produce chocolate in the unstable national forest of Congo.

The aftermovie: https://www.facebook.com/864090233651339/videos/1836175153109504/ The fb event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/158178884898234/?active_tab=discussion

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ERASMUS Bauhaus University Master of Product Design Weimar: September 2018 - January 2019

My international mindset can be found in my internship at AB-Inbev, my European Project semester (EPS) journey and my German Erasmus experience. I studied at the Bauhaus university for five months in 2018. The nice thing about the Bauhaus system is that you can choose which courses you want to follow. This way you can take courses of different studies.

I choose a graphic design course where I learned the basics about texts, fonts and creating images. I made a booklet, an animation and created many small objects in illustrator. I mainly learned by doing and searching things out for myself since the focus was more on practice and less on theory. I strengthened my InDesign and Illustrator skills. In another course, I learned about feminism and the link with food. My favorite course was EffEff, here i made conceptual glassware with clay and plaster. Getting creative with these materials gave me a new skill to be able to broaden my ways of creating prototypes and products.

Outside of the classes I learned speaking a foreign language, working with people from different backgrounds, living with other cultures, living on my own, becoming self-dependent, negotiating with people with a different mindset,‌ I gained a much broader view on the world and it made me open to new people all over the globe. I am always looking for new adventures, cultures, tastes and more.

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Internship at Ab InBev - GITEC Packaging Innovation (Global Innovation and Technology Center) Leuven: March 2019- May 2019

The description of the internship activities in the contract was: studies on material, color, light, .., site visits, meetings, concept development, pack feature and IP visualization, wikipack, pack education, toolkit creation/ updates, hands on pack lab work, meetings, travel to supplier, ...

This description is fairly representative.

Projects: - Working on internal tools so that the communication of many different (packaging) options can run faster. This made it possible to answer questions/ emails immediately referring to this tool. So that no time was lost by constantly having to explain again what is possible, how this process works, ... This is a kind of website where all the options that are possible for primary and secondary packaging are listed with photos, information, videos, hashtags, relative links, ...

- Working with survey studies for alternative packaging options, desirability of consumer feedback, processing results, comparisons, summaries, quotes, claims, top positive and negative reactions, translating to new possibilities,‌ - Cooperate with new packaging options and materials, cooperation with an external agency for design possibilities, machine limitations, how to make packaging premium, testing materials on all possible scenarios, making slides,...

- Following workshops, trainings (how to be agile), presentations, fierce ladies, testing, it is important to understand how the beers are divided into categories and to learn new strategies this way, annual planning, achieved goals,...

- Tidy up a certain design space for 1 week, this was very educational. The room was full of samples from companies, several unfolding’s of solutions for packaging, very confidential material from different years. I saw the evolution of a certain packaging series, this was almost a view from start to finish on a long project. I also made sure that this space was transformed into a creative workspace and showroom, the big boss was also welcomed here and shown around, he was very enthusiastic.

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Internship at Benj & Soto R&D Beveren-Waas: July 2019 - July 2019

Benj & Soto is a small company that makes foam furniture. Benj & Soto cubes are all made of FiberCoated Foam and are produced by hand.

I worked very closely with Jonas (Founder, developer & designer) and his father Piet Van (Artist, inventor and creative advisor. Creator of the original “Sit on millions� art project) as they are in the studio every day and are the only employees / founders.

Every day we sat together to review and evaluate my research and new ideas on feasibility and potential. They want to continue with the furniture and art brand BENJ & SOTO (probably a new collection will come out for this) but also with their own founded and patented FiberFoam technology, I mainly did research for this foam technology. I mainly researched new applications and technical advantages of Fiber Coated Foam and market analysis of competitive and comparable products / companies. I also participated in packing sold items for shipping to new customers.

At the end of these 2 weeks I made a final file with all the acquired knowledge and usefullinks for them, including: new sectors for FiberFoam, competing companies, information for their renovations and their logo, technical example sites, interesting textile fairs, new text to update their sites, ...

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Cosmos (Sustainable make-up)

Masterthesis Antwerp: September 2019 - June 2020

Cosmos is a uniform refillable packaging for make-up that offers a sustainable alternative for cosmetic users. The product consists of a uniform tube that can be filled with different kinds of make-up fillings. It offers a new reusable packaging solution for the current throwaway society in the cosmetics sector.

Cosmos is a product that I designed as a result of my last year’s master’s thesis. I did a lot of research around cosmetics and sustainable options in the beauty industry. In the end, I came up with this solution to reduce the amount of single use packaging for make-up products.

Problem The big problem in the beauty industry is that it is far from pretty when it comes to its impact on the environment. It is a very polluting business that produces more than 120 billion cosmetic packages annually. This creates around 6 million tonnes of waste each year, much of which ends up directly in landfills or in the ocean. This packaging is not recyclable and it is designed with a disposable mentality.

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Use The uniform tube facilitates the production process for the manufacturer as all the tubes are uniform and the fillings can be produced in a similar way.

The consumer buys one or more universal tubes and the fillings can be refilled or replaced anywhere.

Type 1 is for make-up in a solid form, type 2 is for all the liquid forms of make-up.

After the usage phase, the empty filling parts are returned to the shop. The tube and the application parts can be easily disassembled for cleaning at home. After this, the tube is reused and can be refilled with the same or a different fillings. This solution stimulates circular behavior and offers a sustainable alternative to use and store make-up.

The consumer reduces his ecological footprint and waste.

Type 1 Type 2

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Type 2

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Brandstorm (Sustainable student challenge)

L’Oréal Belgium: November 2019 - April 2020

Each year L’Oréal organizes an innovative students challenge called Brandstorm. More than 45,000 ambitious students from all around the world (from more than 70 countries) were invited to take on the challenge of creating L’Oréal’s next innovation — with less plastic or no plastic at all. Since the topic was “Build a plastic-less future in the beauty industry”, I decided to join with a first concept of my thesis, together with 2 other students. We were challenged to find business solutions for their innovation, and to change consumer behaviours by helping people understand the problem. We made it to the Belgian semi final.

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Other School project UA: all years

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