About

Marloes:
...is over 1/4th century old; aspiring product designer; female; Dutch; always busy creating; used to blog (in Dutch) on http://katscea.wordpress.com .


...Studies Integrated Product Design (Industrial Design Master's) in Delft (5 hours travel time daily, aargh), and has a Bachelor in Industrial Design from Eindhoven
...Designs 3D printed jewelry and other fun things under the name "Mezmera Design"
...Dreams of having her own industrial design studio, but still has so much to learn
...Is working on her dreams though, slowly but surely

...Designs websites as a freelancer
...Used to work in a cooking supplies shop
...Likes baking, cooking and throwing edible things together (she calls it 'inventing' but her boyfriend calls it something different)
...Lives together with J., 'zee Boyfriend'
...Is a rather messy and chaotic person
...Always late
...Keeps a roof terrace called 'the garden' filled with plants, some more alive than others
...Tends to diverge instead of focus, and has a lot of different skills as a result

...Sorta plays the ukukele and bandurria, and the violin a teenie tiny bit
...Has graphic design aspirations
...Is in an all-female Tuna group, a group that makes traditional Spanish student music
...Is a bit of a geek (likes programming, who dóes that?)
...Likes to paint her toenails in bright colours

My tools of the trade? I couldn't live without my trusty Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet, and as a great enthusiast of open source software my computer runs on Ubuntu. I use Blender for my 3D modelling needs (for those who also dabble in 3D modelling, I really really recommend learning Blender: the software is fantastic and not to mention free). For graphical applications I often use GIMP (like Photoshop) and Inkscape (like Illustrator), but nowadays also Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign. My product and jewelry designs are 3D printed by Shapeways and for about everything else I rely on my mechanical pencil bics and Copic markers!