Dyson Cordless Hairdryer
During the INNOVATIEWEEK of 2010, two students, Reinhart Paelinck and Sebastian Schulte, designed the conceptual Dyson Cordless hairdryer.
Kitestival 2009
The second edition of the Rein-Art Kitestival was a great succes. With 30 brands promoting their latest gear, a nice breeze and a lot of pro-kitesurfers there was a nice spectacle on the beach of De Haan!
Welcome
Welcome on the portfolio website of Reinhart Paelinck, student in Integral Product Development and spare-time kite designer. On this website you can find all the projects I did in the last couple of years, until now.
You can access all the info by using the top-left menu !
Flysurfer Christmas Riddle Week 4
Flysurfer Christmas Riddle Week 4 from Rein -Art on Vimeo.
This animation was sent in as an entry for the fourth week of Flysurfer’s Christmas Riddle, and it got me the first place! Read more on the Flysurfer website . A picture of the Golden Flysurfer Outlaw Deluxe after the break… more »
Flysurfer Christmas Riddle Week 3

Flysurfer
For the third week of Flysurfer’s Christmas Riddle I made a comic to illustrate the advantages/disadvantages of Flysurfer kites in a funny way. They liked it so much they granted me with the second place, worth of a Flysurfer Softshell jacket and a beanie! Read the full comic here: more »
Candle Balloons

Candle Balloons
When I was 8 years old I got some kind of fascination for hot air balloons, so I made two scale models that were candle-powered.
Muppet

Muppet
When I was 10 years old I made this muppet character as a movable puppet (as seen on television in ‘the muppet show’).
Stamp Dryer

Stamp Dryer
This is one of my first real inventions I did when I was 7 years old. When I still collected stamps as a hobby I used this device to dry the wet stamps when they came off the envelopes.
Puppet

Puppet
A long time ago -don’t recall exactly- I made this puppet together with my grandfather.
Happy New Year 2009

2009
This is the christmas/new years card I designed for my mom to send to the friends/family for 2009.
Large version incuding text (dutch) here: more »
Car Design

Car
During the Smart Mechanics assignment I took the time to design my own supercar. Some more pics here: more »
Smart Mechanics

Retrofill
The assignment of the fitst half of the 1st master in Product Development was to design an automated fuel station. Hit ‘more’ to see some more pictures of my final design, called ‘Retrof!LL’. more »
Cardboard Rocking chair

Cardboard Rocking Chair
In the workshop week of 2008 David Schenk and I designed some conceptual cardboard furniture, this was our final result.
Mini Patin a Vela

Minipatin
For the Belgian Championship Patin a VelaI designed a trophy in the shape of the catamaran. Afterwards I made two colored versions for some competitors. more »
Trainer Kites

Trainerkite
When I was asked to design a trainer kite for the local kite school I didn’t hesitate for a second! The 2008-version is available in 2.5m², 1.5m² and 1m²… More info on the Trainer Kite Website.
Workshop

Workshop Klas2a
Since last year I’m giving some kite-building workshops in ‘Klas2a’ of Stephanie, which are real fun!
25 Years Jojo

25 Years Jojo
For their 25th anniversary wooden toy-shop JoJo asked me to design a tower made from Kapla; they also asked a number of other people like Jo Crepain to do exactly the same thing… Also some of my kites were to be seen at this exposition… Flyer can be seen when clicked on ‘more’.
European Championship

Banner European championship
For the 2008 European Championship patin a vela I was asked to design all publicitary materials; a booklet, posters, banners,…
Cabrinha Design Contest

Cabrinha Design Contest
The dutch ‘Kitesurfmagazine’ and Cabrinha Int. organised a design contest in 2007 with the task to design an innovative kite… I won with this concept: X-tern !
Croissant

Croissant
My first Single skin hybrid kite, used for kite-landboarding purposes. Designed in 2004.
Firebird

Firebird by Pit Schmidts
‘Classic’

Kruisvlieger
Rokkaku

Rokkaku
Dragon Kite

Dragon Genki
This is my first attempt at building a lightwind single line kite. It’s a modified version of a traditional Genki Kite with an added inflated dragon body-shaped windsock. Created in 2004.
Testival

Testival
On July 12th I organised a kite-happening in De Haan aan Zee, my homespot. All kiters were welcome to test different types and brands of kites…
More info and pictures on:
http://www.rein-arc.be/testival (dutch)
Bowl

Bowl
The final bachelor assignment was to design a container to transport cold-hot food to a remote location.
Cold Cover

Cold Cover
The Cold Cover, assignment nr.1 in the third bachelor as ’structural design: collapsibles’, is designed to protect tropical plants outside of their natural habitat against extreme temperatures…
3D Modeling Advanced

Turtle Horn
This bicycle horn was my end assignment for the course called ‘3D modeling advanced’, which involves creating organic shapes with surfaces in the NURBS-CAD software Rhinoceros. Rendered in Vray.
Tension Control System

Tension Control System
This design for the first assignment in the second bachelor year was a system to adapt the tension on the mast support cables on small dinghys in a fast, simple and very accurate way.
Wilkinson Wasp

Wilkinson Wasp
The mission in this assignment was to combine the characteristics of an animal with those of an existing product into a new product that has the looks of both. My combination was a razor (Wilkinson Sword Quattro) and a Wasp.
The 1:1 scale model is made in PolyStyrene foam.
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Reinhart Paelinck
Year of birth: 1989
Current Education: Master Integral Product Design (Antwerp)
Vroegere opleiding:
1993-1999, Lagere school: De Platanen, Hoogboom
1999-2005, Middelbaar onderwijs: Sint-Michielscollege Brasschaat
1993-2005, Muziekacademie J. Pauly Ekeren, Cello H3 (grootste onderscheiding)
2005-2006, 1ste Bachelor Integrale Productontwikkeling (onderscheiding)
2006-2007, 2de Bachelor Integrale Productontwikkeling (onderscheiding)
2007-2008, 3de Bachelor Integrale Productontwikkeling (onderscheiding)
Softwarekennis:
3D: Rhinoceros 3.0 en 4.0; SolidWorks
Rendering: Vray for Rhino; Maxwell
Grafische: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, FireWorks
Webdesign: Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver, Kladblok











