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The Icarus Idea

Better aim too high and fail than aim too low and… also fail. Five years of studying ‘really hard’ and then what? We are finding out what graduated Industrial Design Engineers are doing with...

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From designing to cheesemaking with Will van Twuijver - The Icarus Idea Podcast

From designing to cheesemaking: Where Sustainability Meets Craft with Will van Twuijver Our guest today is Will van Twuijver, a designer, re...

01:13:23Dec 21, 2024

Chasing Orchestrated Luck with Ruben Pot! - The Icarus Idea Podcast

Chasing orchestrated luck: Defining yourself as a designer and a human being on a journey around the world! In this episode we talk with Rub...

00:50:16Jun 14, 2024

Founding a company: When you take your school assignment a bit too serious... - Rob Lenferink

Nowadays, a lot of students seem to want to move away from the East after the graduate, as the West supposedly would have more to offer. Tho...

00:33:37Sep 22, 2023

Sketching the future with Tom Feij: A journey from student to teacher

We all know Tom, right? Either as a peer or as a TA in our studies at the UT. But did you know that Tom recently transitioned to being an ac...

00:30:08Jun 2, 2023

"If it's not fun, I'm not doing my job right" - Goliath designer Kasper Schriek

Who doesn't love boardgames and toys? Exactly noone, but games and toys are also products which should be designed so that's why we are talk...

00:30:25May 6, 2022

"The designer is dead, long live the design team": Fabrique director Jeroen van Erp

What do you do if you got asked to design a thing you have never heard of? Will you back out or will you grab it with both hands and start g...

00:31:22Apr 1, 2022

From real to digital to real again: Painter and philips-designer Saskia Dingelstad

We're back with another episode and this time with someone that isn't technically a designer at the moment but we thought she was so cool so...

00:34:45Feb 25, 2022

Selling products and ideas - Rudo Enserink, yacht/guitar/kite/more design

Welcome back! As industrial designers it is our goal to come up with new innovating ideas in a wide range of fields and this is something th...

00:30:31Jan 9, 2022

The Icarus Idea field trip: The Dutch Design Week

When you say Eindhoven, you say Dutch Design Week (and PSV and philips, but let's not focus on that right now). Luckily we were already in E...

00:19:56Nov 30, 2021

"Don't let a cow type your letter" - Coen van Ham; Identity coach, Designer and more

New year, new season! The icarus idea is back to bring you the best advise from actual working designers. We started with two new hosts Maed...

00:30:21Nov 3, 2021

IDE’ers, curry and big feet?? get to know the Icarus Idea

This is the end! Multiple endings to be exact, first of all the end of season 2 but it's also the end for Joris and Bram as hosts. So the pe...

00:45:31Aug 19, 2021

Three universities, one vision? Talking to all three study directors! Ena Voûte, Jan Willem Polderman & Miguel Bruns

What do the people that educate us intend us to become? Study directors Miguel Bruns (TU/e), Jan Willem Polderman (University of Twente) and...

00:39:59Jun 19, 2021

How to strategically design your career: Hyundai's Jelle Tjebbes

Study IDE, but also, study yourself by doing an internship. Hyundai's senior strategic designer Jelle Tjebbes shares the value of an interns...

00:29:33May 27, 2021

Why an IDE'er should do a student team: Lightyear's Koen van Ham

Previous episode we talked about wanting to make a valuable impact. Well… this guy... pfooo. Koen van Ham helps create the first long-range...

00:28:19May 14, 2021

Why the invisible table is not invisible: Jil Hötte

Last episode, Bram and Joris talked to IDE’ers building the outside of a building, this episode Jil Hötte is designing the inside! IDE’ers c...

00:32:25Apr 30, 2021

Bob the Builder was a designer!: Team CASA Joline Frens & Camiel Mourisse

We are on a quest... a quest to find out what "we the IDE'ers" can add to a student team. It is quite a lot! So if you are curious what you...

00:32:33Apr 30, 2021

Why an IDE'er should consider a PhD: Henrike Holwerda

Fun fact: A PhD isn't just research. It can also be design! Henrike Holwerda tells us about how she uses a PhD to position herself as an IDE...

00:33:51Mar 13, 2021

How to design high-end pleasure: LELO Lucija Mlačak & Sandra Mrkšić

The reigning kings/queens of intimacy products have honored us with an audience. We learn how this multinational designs, tests and battles...

00:30:28Feb 26, 2021

Moonshake up your life: Lisa Kleisen

We could not have wished for a better Valentine’s episode than this. IDE student Lisa Kleisen tells us how she is ready to conquer the world...

00:32:33Feb 12, 2021

Koert van Mensvoort: A spacebus, cake and the future of the world!

What does cake have to do with your future? In thirty minutes philosopher and industrial designer Koert van Mensvoort tells us how Next Natu...

00:36:19Jan 28, 2021