Vindel's track record starts with the research of advanced materials in an European context for Materfad, Center of Materials from Barcelona. Then she extrapolate this information to product design when defining new interaction forms for the international renowned restaurant El Celler de Can Roca. Nicole focused in user experience in high cuisine to develop a smart tableware kit based on advanced materials.
Lately, Nicole has bring the industrial design to other fields such as renewable energies with Alstom and GE, and artificial intelligence and new technologies with Ideaded.
Currently Nicole is based in Barcelona, where she is experimenting with sensorial experience and new products. She is co-founder of Random Happiness, and an active member of the Lunar Society of Barcelona.
Projects
- CALID, living surfaces"Càlid: is an intelligent dish for the future of high cuisine" It is part of an intelligent tableware kit made for the world renowned restaurant El Celler de Can Roca. It is made by thermoactive materials that react to temperature while pouring hot soups inside. It opens like a blooming flower addapting to a spring consomé recipe in front of the dinner guests in their restaurant. This project began as a research of new interaction patterns while eating, and the synergy with advanced materials s
- Believe in your feed"The increased use of technology in our daily lives has made us more efficient and productive. Along the way, however, it has rendered our personal and collective memory weak and narrow. We have become accustomed to receiving easy, real- time responses to everything. An escape from effort. Our memory and concentration have grown highly dependent. We are becoming shallow: emotionally involved with an attack in Paris, the death of a legendary musician or debate about the refugee crisis when they are trending topics. The increased use of technology in our daily lives has made us more efficient and productive. Along the way, however, it has rendered our personal and collective memory weak and narrow. We have become accustomed to receiving easy, real- time responses to everything. An escape from effort. Our memory and concentration have grown highly dependent. We are becoming shallow: emotionally involved with an attack in Paris, the death of a legendary musician or debate about the refugee crisis when they are trending topics. Our loyalties are fleeting. We would like to think that the ability to get excited (or emotional) and the collective memory are still related to the collective judgment. We would like to think that we are still able to focus as a single entity (or thinker) with a collective judgment. We are free to give life to issues that are really important. We are free to feed the themes we wish to be fed."
- LikepadYou like pictures of cats, holiday views and feed over several types of ground but... what does it really means that you like them? To do "like" inside the digital world in the most common interaction. Your likes are a huge part of your digital identity and it draws collectively the digital culture of our time. But once more, where is the limits between your digital and your real person, if it exists? What would happen if you could do "like" in the physical world instead of the digital one? LIKEPAD allows you to do "like" to your environment using your fingerprint as a clear symbol of your physical identity. And now, will you continue doing "like" to the same things? Do you like it? - Te gustan los gatos, las fotos de vacaciones de conocidos no tan amigos y los pies en todo tipo de suelos pero ¿qué quiere decir que te gusten? Hacer "like" en el mundo digital es la interacción más habitual. Tus likes forman buena parte de tu identidad digital y dibujan colectivamente la cultura digital de nuestro tiempo. Pero, una vez más, ¿dónde está la frontera entre tu yo digital y tu yo real si es que la hay? ¿Qué pasaría si pudieras hacer like en el mundo físico no digital? LIKEPAD Te permite hacer likes a tu alrededor utilizando tu huella dactilar como símbolo claro de tu identidad física. Y ahora ¿vas a seguir haciendo likes a las mismas cosas? Do you like it?
Skills
- Concept Design
- 3D Modeling
- 3D Rendering
- Product Design
- Digital Illustration
- Furniture Design
- Design Engineering
- Solid Works
- Adobe Indesign/illustrator/photoshop
- Keyshot
Education
Industrial Design Engineering
- Barcelona, Spain