Yepp

After 1 year and 3 months or so, the main project that I worked on while at vdVeer is finally seeing the light of day, and will be hitting the shelves over here around mid April. It's really quite something to see all that work pay off. Of course I can't take all the credit, it was a design team of, 5 myself included, and I acted as Jr Designer on the project.



-Fiets Innovatie Award 2009 - The Yepp child bike seat being shown off at the Bike show, won the Bike Innovation award from the show. We thought it was gonna be on TV (because of the filming and stuff), but apparently after about 2 hours of footage, what was shown was an edited down 2 minutes or less from the whole show, of which, it wasn't part.



-4 Colours to choose from - Rear bike seats hanging on a clothes rack (rack designed by the Sr Designer of the bike seat)



-The full set on display - The front seat here was only a prototype, while the rear seats are all production units. I also worked on the front seat, but to a far lesser degree, mostly adding Solidworks capacity to the project.



-Black seat on a white Giant City Storm - Not a bad combo. I myself was pushing that they do a white seat variant, but for now it's these 4. The plus side is it's easy enough for them to do different colours often enough. Easy to adjust the line that way.



-Yepp seat detail - So yes, you may be asking yourself, "that seat looks squishy, what's it made of?" Well, think Croc's, yes those horribly unstylish shoes that so many people damn for their looks but are apparently heaven to wear. It's that material. Good for all weather, anti bacterial, and cushy for the kids. All the current competition uses a PP seat, with a form of cloth/hybrid material seat cushion that is close to paper thin.



-Yepp in action - One of my colleagues testing out a pre production version (essentially the same as the production version, except the greys are lighter here) of the seat with his daughter.