Flower Chair Bichwood 450 x 570 x 880
Key Chair Bichwood 980 x 790 x 700
Garden Chair Steel, Electric wire 1400 x 1100 x 1550
Daeyoung Kim
470 x 600 x 1500 T/C, Sponge, Nickel zipper 2008
Gyoung Jin Nam
The Flo™ toilet is an ergonomic, sustainable design concept for baby boomers that functions like a squat toilet. Designers maintain that using the Flo™ toilet is akin to yoga – by building and strengthening abdominal and back muscles. Only one-half to one gallon of water is used for flushing and The Flo™ reuses water from hand washing. To flush water from the tanks to the toilet, the Flo™ employs an electromagnetic ball valve that uses electromagnets. Go With the Flo™ also is free of mechanical parts. The toilet is fully self-sustaining and independent of electric power.
Design blogs are buzzing about Arizona State University’s “the Flo” toilet, which won silver in the “Breaking the Rules” category at the 2009 Northwest Design Invitational.
“We hope our design will alter the toilet archetype by the year 2030,” says John Takamura, design team leader and assistant professor of industrial design in the ASU College of Design. - ASUNews
John Takamura and Dosun Shin
COMPASS PHONE
Although mobile phones have made people feel more connected to each other, they do not represent any special human relationships in an aesthetic way. Starting from this sceptical view and observation of people’s habits, such as saying “where are you?” when they first speak on the mobile phone, I have become interested in the very problematic issue of whether the mobile device is a surveillance tool or a digital leash. Could it be turned into a source for creating an alternative means of communication which delivers a more poetic and aesthetic experience between people who are very close?
This mobile device does not have any verbal communication side, but has only GPS function. This measures the distance between two people in real-time, and then converts it to the time it takes for them to meet each other by either transport or time unit. A relative compass is hidden under the digit display. The centre of the compass always indicates the user’s position and its needle indicates the other side’s direction.
REPUTATION-CHECK INSTRUMENT
The Internet Comment section, one aspect of the popular democratic communication system, contains plenty of casual gossip, some truthful. In celebrity culture, it also acts as a barometer of reputation. Many celebrities are obsessed with how much press they receive or with the nature of such content. Depending on the situation and personality, the comment delivers pleasure or extreme fear. Meanwhile, many Social Networks and Blogs have made ordinary people themselves reputation-obsessed, too.
How do we deal with this obsession and interact with such informal and fluctuating data? Can the sub-data be collected to form a kind of personal-data souvenir?
A two-layered object reads aloud each comment taken from the Internet in real-time. The object allows the user to recognise current ‘comment traffic’ first. When the user’s curiosity is alerted by an abstract sound, they can slide out the upper layer object to discover the details.
Design Interactions, RCA
Hayeon Yoo
Floating Clock
Floating Clock is a symbolic physical installation, which will be used to show time through a new interface system. The floating glasses will indicate the different time in the time zones and the background surface will represent the world map through dots. For example, when a glass is floating above Korea at 9 PM, it will show the local time and represent evening. The clocks floating in the water represent the fluid nature of time. Multiple clocks display different time zones of global locations, but actually they all are within the same time only perceived differently due to their positions .
Experiments in Optics 01,02
This experiment served as an interface between the new technologies of digital media, and the old technologies of optics. New digital technologies will be given alternative possibilities with the addition of specific projection apparatus (in terms of both projection optics and projection surfaces), plays with reflection (such as the construction of anamorphic cylinders, zoetropes, and other optical devices), and in the fabrication of project specific lenses.
Geon Dong Kim
A few years ago a Korean singer wrote a song about the sunburn mark that he found on his finger after he broke up with his girlfriend and removed a ring he had been wearing for a long time. This is the story that inspired Jungyun Yoon to make ‘Inner message’, a ring with hidden letters on the inside. Inner message is a ring that leaves an impression on the finger.
Imagine that your lover giving you a ring that on the surface seems plain, but later when you take the ring off; it says, “Marry me.” Or imagine that even though you take off the ring to clean your hands you are still wearing an impression of the words, ’always’.
Yoon Jung Yun
Min Hoo Park's Unified Dining table is already set for a candlelit meal. A detachable tray has all the necessary tableware built in: plates, glasses, side dishes, a candelabra and a vase. When the meal is over, flip the tray for a flat surface. The table is made from white lacquered ABS.
Integrated Table
ceramics chess 2005
2008 Designboom mart, Sydney
2009.CASA living Design walk.Seoul Arts Center
Ji Hyun Chung
Gregory Polletta and Sung Jang have created Topiade, a lay-over facade structure designed to renew an existing Louis Vuitton store building without a major reconstruction. The concept of topiary and the French garden were taken to extend and exhibit the luxurious quality of Louis Vuitton.
