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Pulse visualizes the emotional states of immigrants when they enter a new realm. It appears to be still, yet sometimes beats harshly and sometimes expresses slowly. Migrating to a new environment has all kinds of feelings, including hope, excitement, nervousness, fear, and joy. There are many to expect during the process, difficulties to deal with, and challenges to face. These emotional waves are critical elements of a new journey, yet unable to share with new neighbors.
Continue readingGlaciers are sentinels of climate change. They are the most visible evidence of global warming today. There are four color cards in Pantone for glacier blue. However, in real glaciers, this blue color is variable and dynamic. As glaciers are disappearing, this unique blue is also disappearing. Designers sampled and blended the blue color from glaciers in Alaska and hung them in recycled glass vials. When one glacier calving happened, one color vial fell down. At the end of the exhibition, all 60 vials fell down, forming a painting on the canvas beneath.
Continue readingSmell the Flower is a series of poetic pour over coffee measuring equipment. This collection contains two items: scale and thermometer. The scale is inspired by flower arrangements. By using the weights designed in the shape of leaves and fruits, the user measures beans like decorating vase. The thermometer is designed in the shape of a flower, and the rotation angle of the blooming petals show the temperature. Smell the flower build a sense of ritual, enhances the experience of pour over coffee.
Continue readingNature materializes strongly in the Leaf Tall vase created by French designer Pierre Foulonneau. The vase associate crystal and metal in a poetic design where a golden leaf sits in a transparent pedestal. The results is a vase bearing an unalterable natural presence, even when empty. And, during flower season, the metal part acts as a receptacle for greeting and showcasing fresh flowers.
Continue readingBoat is an innovative interactive toy that provides users with novel and interesting interactive experiences through interactive feedback on the perception of things around it. It offers more possibilities for products to interact with people and the environment. The Boat morphology fused the fish bones with the outline of the boat. The crawling law of arthropods is used, so that the movement mode of the product has more vitality and rhythm sense. Using 3D printing technology, the complex structures can be directly formed.
Continue readingThis design uses a group of household products such as stereos, lamps, clocks and fans as carriers. The leather and labels symbolise the symbolic value of the goods, while the functional components inside the products symbolise the use value, using a destructive interaction to "cut" the symbolic veneer and liberate the honest function, highlighting the contradictory relationship between symbol and function in the consumption of goods.
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