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Student Showcase Archive

Alexandra Theunissen

MA work

MA work

  • DYSsonance blocks

    DYSsonance blocks, Alexandra Theunissen 2014
    Photographer: Alexandra Theunissen

  • Für Elise, exctract, DYSsonance notation

    Für Elise, exctract, DYSsonance notation, Alexandra Theunissen 2014

  • DYSsonance notes blocks

    DYSsonance notes blocks, Alexandra Theunissen 2014
    Photographer: Alexandra Theunissen

  • DYSsonance rest blocks

    DYSsonance rest blocks, Alexandra Theunissen 2014
    Photographer: Alexandra Theunissen

  • Musical scale

    Musical scale , Alexandra Theunissen 2014
    Photographer: Alexandra Theunissen

  • Experimentation1

    Experimentation1, Alexandra Theunissen 2014
    Photographer: Alexandra Theunissen

  • Experimentation2

    Experimentation2, Alexandra Theunissen 2014
    Photographer: Alexandra Theunissen

  • Experimentation3

    Experimentation3, Alexandra Theunissen 2014
    Photographer: Alexandra Theunissen

DYSsonance

DYSsonance is a project aiming to help dyslexic people understand, read, play and compose music. Transposing sounds into notes is an intangible notion, hard to assimilate for a dyslexic person, who is a visual thinker. That’s why the DYSsonance notation is a graphical language based on colourful and simple shapes. DYSsonance translates the rhythm into geometric figures and notes into colours. The reference is the cube (crotchet), which is either divided or multiplied to express the variations of the rhythm. A rectangle represents the minim and the right-angle triangle the quaver, and so on.

Info

Info

  • Alexandra Theunissen
  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Design

    Programme

    MA Design Products, 2014

  • As a designer, my goal is to make everyday’s life easier. I am particularly committed to solve all scale problems. I like to play on the interaction with the user: give a soul to my objects through simplicity, poetry, humour and playability. 

    I aim to create efficient solutions and emotions through my projects.

  • Degrees

  • DNAP Design Products, École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims, France, 2012; BTS Design Products, ENSAAMA, Paris, 2010
  • Experience

  • Internship, Postler&Fergusson, London, 2013; Internship, Taïs Cabral studio, Shanghai, 2011; Internship, Edition Compagnie, Paris, 2009; Internship, ID_OS (Industrial Design Olaf Schroeder), Frankfurt, 2008
  • Exhibitions

  • Eau+Art+Design, Pavillon de l’eau, Paris 2011; Design Nature, International Biennial of Liege, Belgium, 2010; Lumière sur l'Art, BHV, Paris, 2009
  • Awards

  • First Prize, Eau de Paris, 2010; First Prize, Animal Expo, 2009; Third Prize, Animal Expo, 2009; First Prize, Le Mans Créapolis, 2009.