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LANDSCAPE__ceramic bowl design

2012-08-29T07:11:00.000-07:00

Traditional Chinese paintings called shan shui painting(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_shui) and ink and wash painting(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ink_and_wash_painting) gave me lots of inspirations. I'd like to integrate different kinds of landscapes of China into the tableware to crate a dreamlike microworld on the table just like the world in those shan shui paintings.

This project did not finished yet. As you can see from the picture below, I am going to continue it to make the cup, the chopstick holder and so on...

My P.O.Box__product development project

2012-08-28T08:43:00.000-07:00

My P.O.Box is a product development project started from 09/2008 to 05/2009. Itella (http://www.itella.fi) sponsored this project with a problem and budget to work on the next generation P.O. Box system. Our team is interdisciplinary (engineering, business and design) and intercultural (Finland, Sweden, China, Germany). It was based in two locations, Helsinki and Stockholm. Team members come from the following Royale Institute of Technology (KTH), Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Helsinki School of Economics (HSE) and University of Art and Design Helsinki (TAIK). Due to confidentiality agreements details of this project can not be shown in this portfolio.

Constrain__handcraft design

2012-08-28T07:28:00.000-07:00

Constrain is a handcraft. In China, especially in the rural area there is a very traditional handcraft which has been used to make different kinds of wooden barrels, wooden bowls, wooden tubs, wooden bathtubs and even wooden closestools. The handcraft man cuts the fir into small pieces, connect those small pieces by using bamboo sticks and in the end a circular band of metal put around those pieces together. I’d like to use this handcraft to make something new.

Making process:

Final product:

Silver Power__user inspired design

2012-08-28T07:25:00.000-07:00

Silver Power is a part of the user inspired design course. In User Inspired Design (UID) course the traditional designerly problem solving and novel approaches to involve users into design decision making are applied to find out and describe emerging practices and design opportunities. The objectives are to understand the versatile business aims of concept design, learn user centered concept design process, learn to gather and use user and context information with approaches such as observations and self-documentation, learn to interpret qualitative user data for design purposes and to link user information with designerly problem solving, learn to generate, present and evaluate concept designs and practice with cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural co-operation.

The theme of this project is celebration. Our team chose the elderly people who live in the sheltered house as our target group. And our study question is what makes elderly people feel celebration. Fortunately, we got two different kinds of houses. One is a kind of ordinary sheltered house: Lauttasaaren vanhustentalo. Anther is a kind of alternative way of living: Loppukiri in Arabianranta.

Before we started the project, we did prestudy to understand the context first. We visited that two places informally, observed the environments, talked with people who live in there and interviewed the stuffs who work there to collect the date and get the initial impression.

After analyzing the date we gathered from the prestudy, we made the design probe and list the questions which we are going to ask in the formal interview. We gave the design probe to the ordinary sheltered house and also did the formal interview there.

We organized a workshop in Loppukiri which is a kind of alternative way of living and asked people to play the game we crated after we analyzed the date we got from the design probe and the interview.

The final concept included a new sheltered house and a digital garden. The key benefits of the new sheltered house are giving responsibility, raising activity level, making moving in mentally easier, encouraging moving and socializing inside the house, supplying with services and possibilities of the city and getting close of the nature. And the digital garden can take care of individual emotions, give people feelings of being important, alive and part of the community. It will also crate a communal atmosphere which will help to build good team spirit and have a community.

Bend__fruit bowl design

2012-08-28T07:20:00.000-07:00

BEND is a fruit bowl design. Once I tried to bend a piece of a4 paper with lots of different ways to create some structure. During the whole process, I found if I bend it like the way showed in the later picture I could not only create a nice surface but also a very strong and stiff surface. Then I used a piece of thin metal to do the same thing as I did to the paper. In the end, that piece of thin and soft metal turned to be really strong and beautiful.

Fuel Cell Project__IDBM project

2012-08-28T07:17:00.000-07:00

Fuel Cell Project was a part of the IDBM programme, started from 07/2008 to 05/2009. This project was done for Yrityssalo Oy (http://www.yrityssalo.fi) (formerly Salon seudun kehittämiskeskus Oy), whose goal is to enhance the business environment in the Salon region. The objective of the project was to find a universal solution related to the fuel supply of portable fuel cells. I was one member of a team consisted 4 students from Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Helsinki School of Economics (HSE) and University of Art and Design Helsinki (TAIK) for the project. Due to confidentiality agreements details of this project can not be shown in this portfolio.

Bamboo__tumbler design

2012-08-28T06:17:00.000-07:00

Bamboo is a tumbler design. In traditional Chinese culture, bamboo is a symbol of Oriental beauty. It represents the character of moral integrity, resistance, modest, loyalty and etc. I am inspired by its purity, elegance and the inner power which make It tolerates the heat of summer and the cold of winter, grows on unfertile land and regenerates after being cut.

Sketch:

Final concept:

Twist__handcraft design

2012-08-28T06:15:00.000-07:00

Twist are two handcrafts. They were created by some mistakes. I accidentally twist the walls of the pot and the bowl when I was making them. When I was planning to rebuild them again, I suddenly found that they had some special random aesthetics now and at the same time still kept the functional parts. Then I decided to continue to finish them.

Forest__burglay-resisting window design

2012-08-28T05:57:00.000-07:00

Forest is a burglary-resisting window design. Burglary-resisting window is widely used in china no matter in the big cities or the rural areas. However, most of them just look like cages. People who live in the room with that kind of burglary-resisting window just like prisoner. I want to break this kind of feeling to make people feel like living in the forest by redesigning it.

Final concept:

Perfect waist____belt design

2012-07-26T15:01:00.000-07:00

Gifts for those people who really want to build the perfect waists.

Concept 1

The more you want to release, the harder it will be to connect the belt.

Concept 2

You have no chance to release.

CURVE____fruit bowl design

2012-07-24T15:24:00.000-07:00

The whole idea based on a book called Tao Te Ching, which is a chinese classic text and also fundamental to the Taoist school of chinese philosophy. I used one of its themes called emptiness(chapter 11, Tao Te Ching, by Lao-Tzu).

story board:

poster:

package:

leaflet:

Boundary__trash bin design

2012-07-23T20:30:00.000-07:00

Boundary is a trash bin design. We always think that those dark corners belong to the trash. Thus, I’d like to use a line to set a boundary between the dirty world and the clean world.

CURVE 2.0____vase for dry flower design

2012-07-23T14:48:00.000-07:00

The Presence of Digital Money____interactive design

2012-02-15T13:50:00.000-08:00

Nowadays money has been used by showing some digital numbers. It almost lost its physic appearance. Different kinds of cards start to become the media to store the digital money. However, how can we feel the existence of digital money? Is it just a number? Here are some of my answers by redesigning the credit card.

concept 1

We can easily be aware of the amount of money by the thickness of the wallet.

Concept 2

The sound of coins can also let us know the presence of money.

Concept 3

We are able to feel the money by the weight.

Demo

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN____Nokia Mentor Programme

2012-01-20T11:36:00.000-08:00

Lauri Peltosaari and I developed several future concepts and scenarios for Nokia. We focused on the user experience design. Sound is the main subject. Unfortunately the content is company confidential.

Temporary Errors____interactive design

2012-01-07T07:54:00.000-08:00

As designers, we always chasing the best solution for solving problems so that we can help people to have a better life. However, is it true? Are those problems and inconvenience aspects our enemies? I start to doubt it. Actually from my point of view sometimes if we can see those problems from another angle they may be our friends to help us. Here are some problems I designed to make us healthy.

Concept 1

When the temporary error happens, you have to do big movements to your mouse in order to making the arrow move on the desktop.

Demo

Concept 2

When the temporary error happens, you have to press the key board hardly in order to entering the letters.

Demo

Concept 3

When the temporary error happens, you have to rub the trackpad fast in order to brighting the screen.

Demo

Concept 4

When the temporary error happens, you have to pull the screen hardly in order to opening it.

Demo

A DREAM____light design

2011-09-13T05:03:00.000-07:00

One day I had a dream. My chair suddenly had a pair of wings. It flew to the ceiling and shone to me.

This is a light design, it combines the function of chair.

BRANCH____chopstick and holder design

2011-09-11T10:19:00.000-07:00

It's one of the tasks of wood studio course, which require us to find some inspiration from the nature and use those basic tools to finish the final products.

STRING____mp3 player design

2011-09-10T04:15:00.000-07:00

The inspiration of the whole project comes from the guzheng. String is the mp3 player changed the way of pressing the button into playing the string, since both of this two modes have the same function. As a result, it brings the user a totally new kind of experience of controlling the music.

BLOOM____coat rack design

2011-09-09T15:04:00.000-07:00

Get inspiration from the nature!

MATERIAL RESEARCH

2011-09-08T10:44:00.000-07:00

This is the first task of the wood studio course. In the beginning, we collect different kinds of wood board samples as many as we can. Then every one of us chose one of them and go deep with it, do any experiments we want. In the end we creat another new board with the material we chose. I selected a piece of normal chipboard.

I cut the board vertically into very thin piece. Those thin pieces were almost transparent. Under the sunshine the shades were so colorful and dreamlike.

I tried to glue those thin pieces together to create a surface. Different thin pieces created different surfaces which had different features of transparency.

I drilled the board by using different sizes of aiguilles and break the board by bending.

I collected those fragments of the broken part and cut the board into very small blocks. They showed totally different visual and physical features.

The contrast between the broken part and the unbroken part created a special visual effect.

I cut the board horizontally. Different layers had their own special patterns.

I used different ways to bend those pieces. The cracks showed some really interesting aesthetics.

I split the board by using different ways. The results are quite different and interesting.

In the end, I decided to cut the board into pieces and split all of those pieces to reveal the hidden beauty inside the board.

BRIGHTNESS IN THE CORNER____light design

2011-09-07T14:59:00.000-07:00

The inspiration of this design comes from the spider and its net. It is not only a light but also a container to carry some small things. There are two ways to use it: snaping to the wall in the corner or hanging on the stand.

RULE____stationery design

2011-08-23T12:04:00.000-07:00

Get the inspiration from the memory of childhood.

concept 1

concept 2

FOR LADIES____batheroom scales design

2011-08-20T15:57:00.000-07:00

The majority of ladies, especially the youngers, always pay attention to their weight. It seems that they want to know the change of their weight anytime anywhere. This project combines the function of the chair with the batheroom scales to satisfy the women’s requirements. At the same time, it uses another way to display the date of the weight, which many women are not willing to let others know.

ROLL____disposable canteen design

2011-08-19T15:36:00.000-07:00

My intention of this design is to try to find something or some way to be used as disposable chopsticks instead of wood,so that the speed of the decline of the forest can be slowed down.

UMBRAGE____curtain design

2011-08-17T10:12:00.000-07:00

I am so attracted by the umbrage in the nature,since it is so beauteous and it shapes the sunshine,which is invisible.What I want to do in this project is to bring it into the room,so that we can enjoy it not only in the nature,but also at home.

concept 1

concept 2

MAGIC CUBE ____furniture design

2011-08-17T09:49:00.000-07:00

Magic cube leads teenages to a free and opening world.In that world,they can creat their owen furnitures by useing magic cube.If they like,every day everything will be new. Magic cube is not only a furniture,but also a light,a container or even a screen. I think magic cube will bring much interesting to teenages.(The Shortlist of Cow by NSR design award 2005 - TEENAGE FURNITURE international design competition, Italy)

ROTATION____induction cooker design

2011-08-17T09:42:00.000-07:00

This induction cooker design helps to solve the problem that how to make different kinds of delicious foods at the same time. Moreover,it uses the space reasonably and cleverly,which is important to the kiction room.

FOOTFRINT

2011-08-15T04:11:00.000-07:00

(The Excellent Work of International Design Competition Osaka 2005, Japan)

GLANCER____glasses design

2011-08-11T15:14:00.000-07:00

Glancer is a kind of accessory fixed to the glasses that you can see everything around you or even behind by it. You don’t have to turn your head, just rotate Glancer on your glasses. Everything will in your view!(The Winning Work of OPUS DESIGN AWARD 2005, Japan)

TODAY____calendar design

2011-08-09T04:20:00.000-07:00

We can hardly hold yesterday and tomorrow,since thay are so small and blurry.In fact yesterday is the past of today and tomorrow is the extension of today.What we have to do is just to hold today tightly and enlarge it.

YUN____mp3 player design

2011-08-07T03:56:00.000-07:00

Yun is a kind of mp3 player which has the similar style of ALESSI.Its apperance is so clean that you can hardly to find anything excrescent.You can totally control it even with one hand.

CHOICE____fruit container design

2011-08-05T04:04:00.000-07:00

Every day we have to make so many choices,even when we want to eat an apple. Why don’t we just have a fun and let the god determine it?The inspiration of the fruit container design comes from a game called bingo.

HALF____wastepaper basket design

2011-08-03T03:51:00.000-07:00

Although HALF seems like half of a barrel,it is much more useful than it.When you clean the floor, it can be used as a cleaning tool to carry the waste.It can be used as a wastepaper basket as well when it stands close to the wall.

STAND UP____protable vcd player design

2011-08-01T03:45:00.000-07:00

The majority of people hold the opinion that all the protable vcd player must lay on the table. My intention of this design is to change people’s image and make the protable vcd player stand up.(The Silver Prize Award of Bubugao Design competition, China)