Merlijn de Vries
Made of sustainable CoRncrete, the E.D.N. delivers crisp and rich sounds. The unapogoletic concrete design, sets the choice for sustainable materials center stage. Especially challenging was the casting process: CoRncrete had not been used for such large single mold designs before. Crackforming and releasing of the mold proved difficult. Overcoming these problems, yielded a result to behold.
| Year | 2025 |
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| Course | Materials & Manufacturing |
Design for Our Future is on the front of the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, yet one must ask: How inclusive is TU Delft really? As it turns out, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is something the TU Delft values, yet does not manage to properly execute within its organisation. Designing for Inclusivity requires systemic change in institutions. This project explores a design to cause that change.
| Year | 2025 |
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| Course | Design Project 4: Designing for Society |
Exploring how users explore, experience and interact with digital interfaces, is not only a fun excercise, but is also incredibly useful in understanding the ins and outs of interaction design. I challenged myself to create a living object that feels as lively as possible, whilst being visually as minimal as possible.
| Year | 2024 |
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| Course | Digital Interfaces |
The design brief was simple: design a vehicle that can move up and down a stretch of road with only the potential energy of a spring. The shortest distance of either going forwards or backwards was the final score. On paper this sounds simple, but for flawless execution, this turns out to be a real challenge. Overcoming resistance, optimizing the gear ratio and manufacturing the design are some of the difficulties one faces. The effort was worth it; our design (startnumber: WB033) achieved the maximum score.
| Year | 2023 |
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| Course | WOP 2 / Mechanical Design Project 2 |
| Reference | Delta TU Delft |
Imagine a game in which points can be won by throwing as much frisbees as possible into different targets in a limited amount of time. Now imagine playing this game, not by practicing your throws, but by building a machine to throw it for you. Sounds daunting right? As it turned out, it indeed wasn't easy. I'll have to admit, the fact that the design managed to throw a disc was already a win! In the end we managed to throw it over the proper distance. The biggest lesson though, is that when one deals with vibrations, lock-tight bolts are the way to go!
| Year | 2023 |
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| Course | WOP 3 / Mechanical Design Project 3 |
| Reference | Delta TU Delft |
Introducing students to the concept of computer modelling of physics problems can be a daunting task. This application is designed to run on Mac, iPhone and iPad as an accessible and easy tool to create, run and visualise simple physics / math simulations.
| Year | 2020 |
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It matters not who goes the fastest, stays on it the longest or endures the
most.
The adventure does. It starts with setting goals and training hard, but it does
not
simply end with achieving a goal, a good story never ends, because you can tell
it
over and over again.
GeoTrack is built from the ground up, to help you do exactly that, by not only
being
an excellent tracker, but to be so much more. Take photos, listen to music and
even
create advanced training schedules. All in an elegant, easy-to-use and
functionality
packed app.
| Year | 2022 |
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| Reference | Matter4478 |
The city that never sleeps
| Year | 2025 |
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In this series I explored cable cars from different eras in combination with a vintage style. People in the know, won't be surprised by the choice for the Klein Matterhorn Cablecar and Gornergrat Railways :)
| Year | 2021 |
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Inspired by my experiments with cablecars, I took on different landmarks. The eager eyed will recognize the Matterhorn as a frequently recurring theme.
| Year | 2021 |
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I’m a highly motivated student, with great interest in technology. My skillset includes being comfortable with a range of technological tools as programming languages and manufacturing processes. Next to that I’m fascinated by languages and culture, hence I speak three languages. Below you will find a short rundown of relevant personal details, education and skills.
| Surname: | De Vries |
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| Name: | Merlijn |
| Date of Birth: | 06/11/2003 |
| Place of Birth: | Rotterdam |
| 2016 - 2022 | Gymnasium Haganum, Den Haag
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| 2022 - ongoing | BSc Mechanical Engineering
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| 2023 - ongoing | BSc Industrial Design
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| 2022 - today | Artist Handling North Sea Jazz Festival |
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| 2026 - today | SA Teaching Support TU Delft |
| Languages | English | Cambridge C2 |
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| German | Goethe C1 | |
| Dutch | Native | |
| Programming | General | Python |
| Mobile | Swift | |
| Web | HTML/CSS/JavaScript | |
| CAD Software | SolidWorks | Associate Mechanical Design (2023) |
| Creative Software | Photo | Adobe Photoshop |
| Adobe Lightroom Classic | ||
| Vector Graphics | Adobe Illustrator | |
| Motion Graphics | Adobe After Effects | |
| Video | Adobe Premiere Pro | |
| DaVinci Resolve | ||
| Workshop Skills | Substractive | Milling |
| Turning | ||
| Welding | ||
| Additive | 3D-Filament Printing | |
| Activities / Hobbies | Photography | Fotografie Cursus Basis |
| Sailing | CWO 1 & NASTA 1: 1- / 2-person Swordboat | |
| Diving | SSI Open Water Diver | |
| Climbing | NKBV Outdoor Single Pitch | |
| Skiing | Black League (Swiss Skischool) |
| Contact | |
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| merlijndevries@outlook.com | |
| phone | +31 6 47 89 16 00 |