Bert Simons

2022-10

the modular eurorack cases can now be mounted vertically with the extension kit

more on this project here

2022-10

sliding assembly system for 4 heavy parts of a table design by Germans Ermics

more on this project here

2022-09

spotted at dutch modular fest: BEAR modules with two of my boats!

2022-06

after the campervan conversion it was time to build a caravan

more on this project here

2022-04

conversion of a ford transit to a campervan

more on this project here

2021-12

some more bubbles for the Quooker app

2021-04

A eurorack case with some nice fingerjoints for my modular synth

2020-06

students work of this years second interactive projection mapping workshop at the WDKA

2020-01

students work of  a projection mapping workshop at the WDKA

2020-08 

and this is what I needed the dust collector for; a d.i.y cnc machine

2020-08

I made a cyclone dust collector from a cheap ash vaacuum cleaner and a plastic bin and it works great!

2020 - 05

made some aninmations of waterbubbles and hot fumes for a quooker mobile app to monitor co2 levels and temperature

2017-10-02

Just finished this steady hand, wire game for Draka Cables. Controlled by an arduino with current lap-time read out and daily record time display.

more here: wiregame

2017 -08

I moved into my new studio space. It's smaller then my previous one but a lot more comfortable e.g not super cold in wintertime and on the groundfloor with a nice view.

2017-08

and it has an adjecent workshop which still has to be finished

2017-07

I moved to a new space and yet again building up a workspace from scratch

2017-07-11

started working on 2 new arduino projects. One will be a ledwall for a store and the other a remoet controllable architectural model.

2018-12-22

Sold a few icoleds and made and made a little timelaps of the assembly

2017-06-02

I'm moving out of my studio. Despite all the effort it took building it and good times there I decided to go for a new place I stumbled upon.

2017-03-26

fun project in between jobs. I used grasshopper to draw 3dimensional spirograph figures and 3d printed them.

2017-01-26

working on a new portrait.

2016-11-23

playing around with grasshopper. made a script to produce a irregular truncated icosaeder for a next iteration of my icoled light

2016-04-22

working on a big render project for Quooker watertaps. Making renders for their complete product assortiment.

2016-08

my new workspace is up and running

2016-06

finished the roof and the ceiling

2016-05  

bulding the roof

2016-05

video: a big sliding door

2016-05

the construction of my new studio is going well, today I placed  a glass wall I purchased second hand

2016-02-16

making renders and some physical prototypes for a new Transavia wings design by studio Dunbar

2016-0309

well.. for now a lot of junk but soon this is the place were i'll be building my new studio

I left my little workshop at the marconistreet in rotterdam because it became too small, and I moved to 'atelier de loods' in schiedam.

2016-01-5

final presentation of the cardboard capsule project by first term / first year students at the WDKA. movie by Ivo Vrouwe

SAMSUNG CSC

2015-07-24

I went to the premiere of the Trisan & Isolde Opera at the Wagner Festspiele in Bayreuth, Germany for which I made the Isolde portraits/masks used in the 3th act. I had to rent a black tie..

2015-07-24

One of the appearances of Isolde's body-double, a litte hard to see from where I was seated and hope to get some better images.

Grasshopper workshop at the WDKA

2105-05-21

Started working on a remake of the paper  paper isoled light. see more of the plastic version here.

2015-05-18

3d scan of artist Alex Verhaest used for her project a la folie / to insanity

2015-04-02

production time!  magic mirrors for Yvonne Beelen

2014-12-13

Bought a second 3d printer, an original ultimaker to do some more experimental things.

2014-11-15

Bought a 3d printer, a zortrax M200

2014-10-18

Made a paper led light with arduino and neopixels. see more here

2014-10-16

Just started my second year teaching at the WDKA, doing a lot of nice things with students there like building brain scanners.

2014-08-02

animation for Bos auspuff GMBH

2014-08-02

working on the paper portrait of Eva Maria Westbroek for the bayreuther Festspiele.

2013-11-06

projection mapping workshop for fisrt year students at WDKA

2012-11-21

Some of my works are featured in a new publication by Gestralten ''High Touch'.  more info here

2012-08-13

I did the tracking, modelling, cg lightning, texturing, compositing for a little animation for Carvan Cevitam. This was part of a visualization of a new bottle design. Credits for the footage and post go to Wilkin's

2011-09-24

saturday 24/9/2011 RKT1 was launched succesfully from the launchsite at kalkar Germany and is now in low orbit. Reentry and landing are scheduled for 9/10/2011. Follow the updates here

2011-07-28

Today I launched the RKT1 rocket at the 'loonse en drunense heide' launch site. RKT1 first's test launch was an unexpected succes! You can see pics and video here. A second launch, is planned for september.

2010-03-09

Athari Jebran and her crew from Gold Coast Australia ordered 5 clones, Luckily genetic data sheets are not on Australia's forbidden imports list yet so I could just sent the 5  gene-material packages with UPS.

2009-03-31

3cpo in the house!

I did a short keynote presentation at the Rotterdam Pecha Kucha night the first of April. Other speakers were: In-Soo Radstake, Charlotte Kan, Bas van der Schot & TRIK, Jack Aleister, Edith Kuyvenhoven, Gil & Moti, Sil van der Woerd, Katharina D. Martin, Stijn Peeters, Peter Leeuwerink, Daan Markus, Otto Snoek see: Pecha Kucha Rotterdam for more info

2007-1-1-

paper sculptures are featured in the book Tactile High Touch Visuals by die-gestalten

Tactile High Touch Visuals shows how graphic design is moving into three-dimensional objects and products. The innovative examples documented in the book demonstrate how designers are developing and implementing their ideas spatially from the very outset of a project. Tactile proves that spatial innovation in graphic design is not limited to personal work or artistic endeavours, but is being sought out more and more often by commercial clients, for example, in store design.

Price: € 44,00 / $ 65,00 / £ 33,00
Binding: 208 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-200-3

2007-06-20

from 16/6/2007 untill 29/7/2007 my work will be on exposition at the DCR in the hague. I will be showing my lates three paper portraits