Check out the interview excerpt with Harm Hogenbirk and Marc Nagel.

Honeywell Sensing Sensation Interactive Demonstrators

Pilotfish is a progressive design and innovation consultancy based in Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin and Taipei founded by Harm Hogenbirk and Marc Nagel.

Harm Hogenbirk is the founding Partner Pilotfish and the CEO Pilotfish Netherlands BV. Born in 1965 in Aalten, the Netherlands, Harm Hogenbirk studied industrial design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Arts in Amsterdam. He concluded his bachelor studies with honors (cum laude) in 1994 with the Spinto Wheelchair and a concept study for a personal digital assistant. Prior to founding Pilotfish together with his partner Marc Nagel in 2000, he worked for six years as senior designer at Well Design in the Netherlands and Taiwan. He is a requested speaker at international design conferences and jury member of various international design competitions.

In 2008, Harm built up the Pilotfish Amsterdam office to increase availability for clients in Northern and Western Europe. An experienced and passionate senior designer with a strong predilection for electronic products, Harm has been vital in shaping the company into a sought-after development partner for international brands worldwide.

Marc Nagel is the Founding Partner Pilotfish and CEO Pilotfish GmbH

Born in 1967 in Hamburg, Germany, Marc studied Industrial Design at the University Of Fine Arts Of Hamburg.  He completed his post-graduate studies at École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI) – Les Ateliers, Paris.

From 1996 to 2000 he worked as a Product Designer, Project Manager & Creative Coach at WeLL Design / Van Dijk Eger Associates, Münster, Germany where he met Harm Hogenbirk with whom he later joined forces to found Pilotfish. In 2013, Marc started the Pilotfish Berlin office.

By opening a fifth office in the capital of Germany, Pilotfish increased its availability for current and potential clients located in the Northern and Eastern parts of Germany and further strengthened its range of UX services. Marc holds numerous awarded projects for renowned design agencies. He is also a member of international design juries.

You can follow the team @pilotfishdesign .

The Honeywell Sensing Sensation spheres are a series of interactive demonstrators, developed to create excitement for Honeywell’s new product introductions and generate traffic to the company booth. Visitors can test the sensory controls by touching, blowing and manipulating the spheres and complete on-screen challenges.

Each sphere highlights the unique characteristics, accuracy and sensitivity of a particular sensor, while creating a strong link throughout the whole portfolio.

The Sensing Sensation spheres were launched at Electronica 2012 trade show in Munich.

IPTEQ Prayer Time Clocks

The clocks were to represent the new modernising trends in Muslim societies and have a sophisticated appeal while preserving a timeless character reminiscent of Islamic tradition and culture.

The resulting devices are the fruits of an ample research into Islamic, culture, tradition and art, skilfully combining traditional religious aspects with a puristic form language and the complex technological possibilities of today.

Steeped in history yet progressively modern, the home model alludes to a compact and slender minaret tower while the larger wall-mounted mosque model reminds of a brass astrolabe, historically used to calculate the times for prayer. Both clocks have an integrated GPS system that automatically identifies its location worldwide to convey the precise time, time zone and location relative to Mecca.

ISayUcount Device

ISayUcount Device

ISayUcount Device

ISayUcount is a device designed for people with type 1 diabetes. It consists of a weighing scale integrated in a smartphone case, as well as a connected App.

ISayUcount Device

The system simplifies the daily routine of diabetics by significantly reducing the number of tools and time necessary to keep track of blood sugar levels and insulin intake.

ISayUcount device prototyping stage