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The Pleats Chair is an aluminium chair that is lightweight and strong with a pleated structure. Corrugated structure is widely used in an architecture and a fashion in terms of the strong structure and the beautiful aesthetics.The Pleats Chair highlights both aspects with a carefully designed pleats pattern.

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My first approach to this project was to develop a strong yet lightweight chair. Aluminium is not only a good material for it’s rigidity and lightness but also recycling. The energy to recycle the aluminum only requires 5% energy of producing the new aluminum. The recycled aluminium generally can save significant amount of the cost over the production of new aluminium, even after the cost of collection, separation and recycling are taken into account.

In order to achieve an elegant aesthetic, a custom-made two-part mold was designed with a pattern of the pleats. These pleats are pressed on to the aluminum sheets with a strong pressure to make the body of the Pleats Chair.

The profile of the cross section continuous from the backrest to the seat smoothly with legs by sharing same radius. As a result, the thin shell of the body can stay rigid to seat on while maintaining a delicate aesthetic and a lightweight. The embossed pattern and the profile of the chair brings a unique character to the Pleated Chair.

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old friend lighting

I designed ‘Old friend lighting’ for my friend. I have an old friend from elementary school. I gave him gifts when he has a big event such as joining the army. In this time, my friend was getting married. So I made this light for him.

This lighting is story about two people who have different personality but similar. So this lighting also was constructed two geometry that is similar but different. One is edged, other thing is round. And they blend in with each other and make shiny light. Our lives and friendship were like this, and I hope my friend also would be harmonized with his wife in their married life.

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NAVER OFFICE FURNITURE COLLECTION

Naver asked us to new design the furnitures at their training institure where the existing furnitures did not function well in the educational environment. We started looking at the desk and made a series of furnitures to make the education easy and smooth. Campus One is the outcome, office furniture collection for the Naver traning institute in Chuncheon.

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The institute opened in 2014, it was designed in the light of architectural styles and interiors and the study on usability was continued based on an educational program. It was intended to refine previous inconveniences and make furniture that has the distinctive features of NAVER. As a project manager, I was in charge of whole process from concept development to design and production.

Ilseop Yoon

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"Queen" Pendant & floor lamp W/D/H 695 x 286 x 450 mm

Finnish birch plywood 40W-60W E27

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"Queen" Pendant & floor lamp W/D/H 695 x 286 x 450 mm

Finnish birch plywood 40W-60W E27

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"Colony" Floor / Pendant lamp W/D/H 480 x 330 x 320 mm

Finnish birch plywood 40W-60W E27

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"Cell Ø88" brass candle holder W/D/H Ø88 x 0.5mm

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Studio inbetween" involves variety design fields which represent all aspect of our lives. We concern how to affect environments with given contexts, narratives, and own sense of beauty.

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Giwa Chair

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AXIS , Stainless steel, W 400 x D 1000 x H 1750

Axis is a stand hanger which its frame itself has a function of a hanger. Some people will have an experience not hanging up clothes since a stand hanger doesn’t have an aid hanger (a small hanger). In such an experience, I found a design point of Axis. A simple change of its structure makes Axis have two hidden hangers with a formative feature.

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1

‘1’ is a mobile phone adding only one function which is ‘call’ to LCD DISPLAY. To mobile phone, a lot of functions besides the original function of ‘call’ have been added. As a result, the price of mobile phone also moved upwards as much as more functions. Will all the people need the many functions? A lot of people beyond expectation use only a function of ‘call’ or only some functions of mobile phone. Especially, a lot of functions with sensitive touch sensor of slim touch screen phone are meaningless for the blind

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SOOP SERIES

The Soop series naturally utilizes wood grains and knots of the walnut tree to provide a sense in the deep forest. In order to maximize the beauty of the wood grains and knots, it was designed in a simple form using a straight line.

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GORGE , W 1000(1500) x D 600(1000) x H 350(400)

'Gorge' is a coffee table with a shape of a gorge. Designing it, I strived to put it in a form so that elements composing of a table such as a top board and legs may become one element, not individual elements. The shape of a gorge folded in a V shape itself plays a structural role of supporting the top board of the table, and plays a role of holding/ keeping magazines or books as well as completing an aesthetic form of the table.

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GLIDER , W 1800 x D 450 x H 1800

This is a bookstand composed of boards in a form similar to wings of a glider. A lot of books have differences in height and width. Therefore, a lot of people have ever seen books inserted unevenly into a bookstand. The convex form similar to wings of a glider settles such a problem to some extent. It also gives rhythmical beauty to a simple space.

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PISA , W 2080(880) x D 770 x H 710

This is a sofa designed by getting inspiration from ‘The Leaning Tower of Pisa’. Stability through balance is one out of elements considered when furniture is designed. However, it can be an element limiting design. I wanted to design a stable and convenient sofa in reality although it looked unstable. This form leaned forward as ‘The Leaning Tower of Pisa’ is a characteristics in this sofa’s form and helps this sofa play a role as a point furniture giving tension to simple space.

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GENTLEMAN, W 250 x D 250 x H 550

Gentleman is a table lamp in the form of a tuxedo shirt and a bow tie. The bow tie can be applied to other bow ties, have different colors and shapes, for changing an atmosphere of the lamp.

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YO BED , W 1554 x D 2240 x H 272 ( For Queen size Mattress )

Yo Bed is a bed designed symmetrically without head. To maximize the feel of the material it was thick and widely used to minimize decorative elements and designed to low height to give a massive feel. Designed to disassemble/assemble without screws with only minimal hardware attached to the four corners of the bed frame,

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THE UNIVERSE

* The Universe = Time * Move around the sun ( Revolve ) The inner-workings of The Universe are based in the solar system (Planets moving around the sun). The center of the watch(the sun) remains still, while jewels rotate around it to display hours and minutes.

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Thinness , W 400 x D 400 x H 500

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V SERIES

V Series is the module storage that a result of manufacture, module operation, use efficiency, functional form. The purpose of this project is to create a functional form with a simple production process. The V series utilizes Chamfer Milling to provides functionality and decorative features.

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Gap , W 1200 x D 600 x H 350

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48 , W 570 x D 570 x H 380

In these days, people usually send their clothes to the cleaner's. When people get the clothes back from the cleaners, the 'Hangers' are coming with them. Because people don’t want to keep more hangers than they need, they dump them out after all. We think that the hangers are too good to use. So we suggest how to reuse the hangers in '48'. '48' is the lighting which is made of 48 hangers and a unit that combines them together.

Ramei Keum is an industrial designer based in Seoul, Korea. He is interested in designing a varied range of objects, And he participated in numerous projects ranging from electronic devices to furniture and lighting.

Ramei Keum







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