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DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

: Everyone knows tulips. They are the jewels amongst our flowers, a great joy to many of us. A typical Dutch icon. Tulips are a great inspiration to many artists and designers, including me.

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

: With its slim, cheerful and eye-catching appearance Tulpi-Arabesque creates an atmosphere that will encourage people to actually have fun throwing away their garbage.

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

: We will produce the Tulpi-Arabesque by ourself and we will focus our sales and marketing on the countries in the Middle East.

DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?

: It took 3 months to design this concept and it took 2 weeks to engineer it.

DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?

: Tulpi-Arabesque is a new addition to the Tulpi product line inspired by the Tulip. It is based on the Tulpi-Bin. But after visiting a couple of times the United Arabic Emirates, I decided to customize the Tulpi-Bin to a more specific arabic design.

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

: I plan to produce the Tulpi-Arabesque myself?

DI: What made you design this particular type of work?

: I am very interested in our environment, especially in our cities. The public space, how it is arranged and its effect on people.

DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?

: No other designers

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

: Goverment Property developers

DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?

: It has an organic shape with a touch of ‘Thousand and one nights’. Eye-catching round and slender form.

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

: The designs looks like a Tulip, and back then it was a trend to introduce names with an i (iTunes, iPhone) but instead of naming my design iTulip, I decided to name it “Tulpi”. Arabesques are a fundamental element of Islamic art. I combinated these two words.

DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?

: Pencil and paper Illustrator Photoshop Solidworks

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

: The shape and the ‘transparency’ to see if the inner tray is full or to check what is inside (security)

DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?

: I worked together with Wilber Hak (engineer)

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

: To empty the bin, unlock one of the two petals for easy access to the removable inner tray. Also an optional full electronic opening and closure system is available.

DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?

: While designing Tulpi-Arabesque, of course the shape of a tulip had to stay. But also the engineering and the perfect closing of the petals were a real challenge to accomplish.

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

: I want to try to become a respected designer for street furniture. By participating in design competitions, I would ‘measure up’ to other designers.

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

: My understanding of engineering grew enormously while designing Tulpi-Arabesque. As did my knowledge of materials like steel and plastics and skills like engineering and manufacturing processes like Sheet Moulding Compound (SMC).