industrial design
Tuan-Yuan (團圓): A Candy / Riceball Tray
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Dongzhi Festival, or Chinese Winter Stolstice Festival, is celebrated around December 22nd, the first day of Dongzhi solar term.
In Chinese culture, Dongzhi festival is a time for family and friends to get together. One of the most significant activities is the making and eating of Tangyuan (glutinuous riceball), which symbolize reunion.
Tuan-Yuan is a candy and riceball tray that symbolically represents reunion. “Yuan” in Chinese means sphere, circle, or ring; it also connotes being together. Tuan-Yuan is made of 8 wood circles weaving with each other, meaning big reunion. The five pedals on the top resembles to the flower of plum, the national flower of Taiwan.
Tuan-Yuan was featured in Wood Co-op’s 2008 winter holliday collection.
PING (枰): A Coffee Tray
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It can be difficult to enjoy a healthy light meal in between busy schedules in today’s fast-paced urban environment. Balance is the solution for the on-the-go lifestyle. PING provides a perfect vessel for a quick and healthy meal. The flowing form at once allows easy wielding with a single hand while providing a perfect space for food and beverage. An elegant, ergonomic form converges with sheer practicality, PING is an evocative object that encourages diners to slow down for a proper healthy meal.
Cordova: Research Project on Coffee Cup
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It is a little known fact that the first extra-american expansion that Starbucks made was into Vancouver where the company set up a small shop inside Waterfront Station which happens to stand on the base of Granville and Cordova Streets. Vancouver boasts a voraciousness for coffee matched only by its neighbors in Seattle. Reverence for this humble bean is definitely a west coast thing.
Pip: A Pastry Pen
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The piping bag has existed in kitchens for ages and is generally known to be an implement used mainly by skilled pastry chefs. They always require two hands which inhibits the ability for fine detail or gestural drawing technique.
STÂGE: Kitchen Knife + Sharpener
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The knife is the undisputed essential kitchen gadget. However a blade is only as good as its edge. Sharpening is usually neglected when the sharpener is not immediately accessible, or misplaced. Stage is an innovative kitchen knife that seamlessly integrates the fundamental practice of sharpening into the food preparation experience within a single compact tool. Stowing the sharpener within the knife handle provides quick access to a proper sharpening tool and negates the need for separate storage. The smooth transition between sharpening and cutting with a user-friendly design provides for a better overall cutting experience.
Hexi
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Hexi is multifunctional furniture that allows for young children, 3 to 5 years of age, that are developing their problem solving and strategy skills
to play, imagine, build and rearrange. Hexi promotes creativity, strategic skills, and comfort.
PECK: Interactive Birdhouse
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PECK was a group project developed with the children of Emily Carr Elementary through a series of workshops and codesign sessions. Through these sessions, we learned that the kids’ favourite creative activities almost always involved building things and animals. We also wanted our object to let them interact with nature and be outdoors.
The project parameters called for us making an interactive object using primarily plywood and repeating shapes.
a pair of paper shoes
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the objective of this project was to make a pair of functioning shoes. The challenge was to use only paper and glue to construct them.
Inspired by ancient Egyptian sandals, and using principles of modularity and origami, I made a pair of sandals that were able to hold my weight. Issues like ergonomics and gait were researched in order to successfully complete this project.
plica - a collapsible crutch
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Plica is a collapsible crutch designed to reduce underarm stress associated with axillary crutch use, facilitate portability through collapsibility and personalize the aesthetic of a standard crutch.
Exhibited at GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Spring 2009
Impulse Furniture Line for Far Coast Coffee (Coca-Cola)
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A line of furniture made strictly of recovered Blue Beetle Kill Pine as part of a competition to be displayed in 2010 Winter Olympic venues around BC.
The forms are inspired by the stances of athletes before they embark upon competiton and the natural scenery of Vancouver's many peaks.
