Yu An, Chen INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
14’- 17’_PORTFOLIO
ANN CHEN 1994.11.30
+886 987-910226 annimchen1130@gmail.com www.issuu.com/annimchen https://an3465626.wixsite.com/annimchen
CONTENT 0 1 _Lämmin 02_Issue Trolley 03_The Issue Reminder 04_Neat Eat 05_Toast 06_Tea Break 07_PIN; Flattening Project
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE 13’- 17’
Shih Chien University Department Of Industrial Design Taipei, Taiwan
15’
Shih Chien University Year 2 Final Exhibition- Form
Graphic Design Member
Shih Chien University DREAM FUN Summer Camp
Graphic Design Director 16’
Shih Chien University Year 3 Final Exhibition- Set Hut Hut
17’
Shih Chien University
Graphic Design Director
Yearbook Planning Director Admitted to the jury of the iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD
PIN; Flattening Project
Admitted to the jury of the TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN AWARD
PIN; Flattening Project
LANGUAGE Chinese Taiwanese English
SKILL
SOFTWARE Graphic Design Product Design
Office Macintosh Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Autodesk Alias Rhino Keyshot
01_ lämmin
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lämmin
DISCIPLINE Future Design
DESIGNER Yu-An Chen Ruo-Yun Liu
DIMENSIONS (unit:mm)
Lounge Chair: 700*700*900 Floor Lamp: 700*200*1750
MATERIAL Plastic/ Metal 3D Knitting Fabric
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MIGRANT WORKERS in POLAR REGION / Due to the cold weather, high-latitude Arctic is extreme lack of sunlight, the migrant workers stay there up to six months of only day or night, it might easily affects their physical and mental health.
TARGET USER_ ・ 30-40 years old ・ Stable Economic ・ Live in Single suite ・ Stay for 3-5 years
LIVING ENVIRONMENT_ DORM ROOM
WORK PLACE
OUTDOOR
FRAME SOLUTIONS / Breakthrough point is divided into three directions: Warmth, the sense of time and environmental restrictions Warm part, using more coated sense form and materials; prevent losing sense of time part, adjustment of the light make a sense of the flow of time; the part of environmental restrictions is to use flat packaging, convenient transport, and reduce costs.
WARMTH
CLADDING
SENCE OF TIME
BRIGHT CONTROL
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTRICTIONS
FLAT PACKAGING
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IDEATION / Using elasticity of 3D Knitting material. So that the overall operation and effect can be more complete. Based on the conversion of two functions, present different form, design the mechanism to satisfy the Sunlight mode and the Reading mode.
MODE CHANGING / The final design is divided into two modes: Sunlight and Reading mode Using highly elastic knitted material, so the lampshade can be extend overall easily in the sunlight mode, make the light change; converted to reading mode, simply hold the handle on the lampshade, rotated forward, you can convert to the Reading mode.
READING MODE
SUNLIGHT MODE
HOW TO CONVERT BETWEEN READING AND SUN LIGHT? Creating a sense of light passage of time by lighting strength, movement, lighting conversion. Using the mechanism and shape changing of 3D Knitting, converted into reading mode.
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DIFFERENCE_ Testing different shapes, as well as chair of the overall combination.
FLAT PACKAGING / Using 3D knitting, saving the skeleton of which original shade needed, so that it will reduce the overall weight and volume, also the transport costs relatively reduced.
ORIGINAL LAMPSHADE
3D KNITTING
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lämmin Providing the migrant workers in poles their own space in the dormitory, to achieve warmth and avoid the lack of the sense of time.
02_ ISSUE TROLLEY
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Issue Trolley DISCIPLINE
Trolley
DIMENSIONS (unit:mm) 1400*300*400
MATERIAL
Nylon Cloth/ Metal
02_ ISSUE TROLLEY
USER PROFILE / Aunt Lan troubles herself with medical expenses and the rent now. She has diabetes, hands with gout, and sciatica pain. She has to go massaging every month to 4 to 5 times, every time spend 1200 dollars. Recently because of the reduction in income, Aunt Lan is living in trouble.
A mother face her fate
LIVING
WORK
Persistent Brave
Considerate Professional
USER JOURNEY / Aunt Lan’s work days usually begins at noon near the afternoon 11:00 to 14:00: the Starbucks in front of Shih Chien University 15:00: Take the MRT to Nanjing Fuxing Station to sale the magazines beside the door of IKEA.
11am-2pm Starbucks Lunch Medical & Rest
3pm-7pm Ikea
OBSERVATION / Aunt Lan is not wealthy, poor health, has a daughter who works in the accounting firm. She lives on selling magazines to pay expensive medical bills and living expenses, her daughter is busy, but she always send money to her, visitting Aunt Lan whenever she’s free. Aunt Lan has no desire and expectation, but she’s still remain viable in the work, hoping not to become a burden to her daughter.
02_ ISSUE TROLLEY
ANALYZING / The trolley which Aunt Lan used was made of metal, convenient to drag, but can not meet the requirements of Aunt Lan.
IMPROVEMENT_ 1. Height- Presentation, too low for Aunt Lan to sit 2. Volume- MRT volume restrictions 3. Weight- Need to carry a large number of heavy weight is inconvenient to drag 4. Carrying chairs and books is unconvenient
IDEATION / Modeling based on the user’s needs, studing the display methods and the mechanism to make the process more convenient.
COLOR PLAN / About the color plan, red is for The Big Issue company’s image color, blue, gray and gray green in line with the image of low-profile sales staff.
02_ ISSUE TROLLEY
ISSUE TROLLEY Issue Trolley is a convenient trolley for vendors selling The Big Issue. Issue Trolley improved the height of the traditional trailer, and combine with magazines stand, make it easy to read and buy for customers, also add a more eye-catching signs on the trolley.
ADJUSTABLE
WATERPROOF
03_ The Issue Reminder
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The Issue Reminder
DISCIPLINE Smart Watch
DIMENSIONS (unit:mm)
21*20*40
MATERIAL Plastic/ Leather
03_ The Issue Reminder
MAIN PURPOSE / The Issue Reminder is a system that provides professional services for consumers to feel intimate, in order to make consumers to become Aunt Lan’s fixed customers source, designed two commodities: A personal smartwatch, and a package for the magazines. The function is to remind the unstable source when will the magazine published the content. Because the consumers who buy The Big Issue magazine, usually don’t know when will the magazine publish, preview the magazine not only satisfy consumers’ prospect, but also increasing the consumer group of Aunt Lan.
Smart Watch 專業提醒系統
Remind Package
03_ The Issue Reminder
INTERFACE /
Contact
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You can add a contact to the user’s contact list. Pressing the option of adding contacts, Aunt Lan will connect The Issue Reminder with phone of the consumer by NFC. When Aunt Lan found the consumer’s phone, she can select the picture of the consumers, saving their email addresses.
Contact
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Setting
Message
Time Zone
24-HOUR TIME
The only setting we need is time setting in The Issue Reminder.
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Update
Sending message at the end of the month, to remind every consumers who have left their email.
03_ The Issue Reminder
SMART WATCH / Smart Watch is a new technology for the elderly, design the most simple interface, as well as basic selection of features that make it easier to reach purposes of The Issue Reminder for Aunt Lan.
03_ The Issue Reminder
PACKAGING / A considerate package, there’re some thanks words from Aunt Lan in the front, in the back is a preview of the magazine next month and a QR code to the website.
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Thank You!
03_ The Issue Reminder
THE ISSUE REMINDER The Big Issue is an alternative magazines, all the purchase are all unstable sources, in order to make Aunt Lan’s customers source stable, designed The Issue Reminder to remind customers, achieving intimate purposes.
04_ Neat to Eat
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Neat to Eat
DISCIPLINE Tableware Box
DIMENSIONS (unit:mm)
300*300*250
MATERIAL Plastic
04_ Neat to Eat
NEAT /
Neat Eat is a tableware box, which I pick the adjective “neat�, with neat appearance and easy for user to use, refering to the products with a simple outlook.
PROJECT ANALYZING /
In the course of doing research, consulting many tableware boxes which use in the snack bar, observing the way of furnishings, as well as various advantages and disadvantages, as the angle to design.
IDEATION_
04_ Neat to Eat
NEAT EAT Neat Eat is a neat tableware box, reorganizing the messy chopsticks holder, spoon boxes and sauce pots on the table in the snack bar.
Chopsticks Tissue Spoon
Sauce
05_ Toast
05/
Toast
DISCIPLINE Toaster
DIMENSIONS (unit:mm)
250*300*50
MATERIAL Plastic/ Metal
05_ Toast
AFFORDANCE / Using the shape of the turntables, allowing users to clearly know how to use.
TOAST Toast is a interesting toaster, using the shape of turntables and stylus, letting users know obviously that the ways to use Toast is just like using the turntables.
06_ Tea Break
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Tea Break
DISCIPLINE
Tea Machine/ Cast Iron Cup
DIMENSIONS
(unit:mm) Tea Machine: 200*126*380 Cast Iron Cup:80*80*90
MATERIAL
Ceramics/ Metal
Arcylic/ Cast Iron
06_ Tea Break
SENSE INTENT / HOW OFTEN PEOPLE DRINK TEA? According to studies, people go out and buy drink about five times a week, although the data of “Never drink tea” accounted for 16.4%, still there’s the majority of people often go out and buy beverage between a week.
0
11-15
Times 16.4%
1-5
Times 62.6%
6-10
Times 13.4%
Times 4%
21
Times up 2%
16-20
Times
1.5%
THE PROBLEM WITH DRINKING TEA_ Recently, increasing of the tea scandal, it becomes more difficult to drink a good beverage at work, it has to get through the complicated steps to drink a cup of traditional tea. If you use simple tea utensils, it’s can’t make a truly high-quality tea.
USER BEHAVIOR / 30-50
years old
TEENAGE
MIDDLE
OLD
15-30
30-50
50up
Stable Job OfďŹ ce Worker
in City
Quick & Convenient Freshness
Dainty Traditional
Consumers against middle-aged, who not only cares about tea requirements, quick and freshness, but also the traditional way to make a cup of tea.
PREFERENCES_ Drinking habits segmented into three categories: Traditional, canned beverage and tea store chain, these three groups representing different ages and preferences. The intersection of these three groups are the consumers who care for high quality, speed and convenience about tea.
Traditional Tea
57.80%
Tea Shop
62.82% Canned Drinks
65.59%
06_ Tea Break
ANALYZING / Existing product is poor, unable to achieve the best results.
Bad Tea
The leaves can’t spread
Only color
Bad quality
Expensive
Unconvenient
FORMATIVE EVALUATION_
Using dark-red enameled pottery and ceramic material and high quality leaves. Compare to other machines, it can achieve higher performance.
Leaves
Dark-red enameled pottery and Ceramic
Choosing good tea
Tea bag or Leaves
Glass
Choosing good tea
Capsule
Plastic
IDEATION /
The original design can’t present the special of the meterial, modeling need to be modify.
COLOR PLAN_
Pantone 104 U Rubber Black Pantone Cool Gray 1U
06_ Tea Break
TEA BREAK Using dark-red enameled pottery and ceramic, simple operation process, with high-quality tea leaves, business people can have a cup of tea to drink during working hours!
PIN; Flattening Project
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07/
DISCIPLINE
Series Of Eating Utensils
DIMENSIONS (unit:mm)
580*375*120
MATERIAL Ceramics/ Silicone
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NEW DIETARY /
1970 30%
2012 46.8%
After analyzing the modern lifestyle, found that the number of single people and nuclear families has been increasing, and so does the frequency of dining alone. Our living space is getting smaller nowadays and the pace of lifestyle tends to be faster and more functional. Thus, I take the new dietary habits into consideration and design a series of tableware, which is easily stored and friendly for people who dine alone.
SCENARIO /
WHY CHOOSE SILICONE? For single people and nuclear families, they need tableware which can be easily cleaned and stored. And silicone possesses the features of flexibility, plasticity and insulating to meet the demands above.
• Strength
• Foldable
• Flexible
Combining soft and rigid materials into a single object, eases the way of folding.
Through folding and unfolding operation, the tableware could switch between 2D and 3D.
With the combination of flexible and rigid materials, a new and bendable material is born.
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EXPERIMENT /
• Length Bottom
• Height • Width FOLD LINES_ The angles and lengths of lines directly influence the length, height, and width of the tableware. Trying again and again with different creased patterns to make different shapes, and adjust the details after folding.
PAPER MODEL_
• The first folding design could only form simple shapes. • Therefore, the second folding design is developed by adding the pedestals in edge of the tableware. • The height of the tableware was shortened but turned out that the it's not easy to fold after the adjustment. • The final version solves the problems so the tableware can be folded smoothly.
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STRUCTURE EXPERIMENT / The initial mock-ups' mold was made by 3D printing, and the mock-ups were repeatedly adjusted after the verification of the thickness of folding surfaces so the overall structure can be folded properly. Also, the problem of liquid leaking has been solved after the tests and get the final version of thickness and width eventually.
• Corner
• Sided
There are two problems that make the surfaces of tableware hard to fit with each other perfectly. One is that the edges of different surfaces would bump with each other which make it difficult to fit. The other is that the narrow of the creased surface wasn’t wide enough, and resulted in wrinkles on the surface. Therefore, bevels inside were added on both sides of the round edge in case of bumping together after folding.
Since single-sided crease was unable to fold the tableware into shape. The crease was moved to the middle in order to form the double-sided crease. The width of crease has also been adjusted to fit different surfaces with each other more smoothly.
• Leakage problem The problem of liquid leaking was tested after the experiment of filling up the tableware. In consequence, silicone was applied as the material to make fasteners more inseparable due to the flexibility of the material itself.
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FINAL PROCESS / The final production procedures are the following steps - gypsum mold developing, ceramic grouting, glazing, and firing at last. Totem series will be stick to the stained paper on the ceramic part then conduct biscuit firing .
MANIPULATION_
Spreading out and placed
Folding
Folding into shape
Lifting to dry
07_ PIN; Flattening Project
PIN; Flattening Project The design focuses on the new habit of dietary and modern lifestyle. The living spaces are getting smaller in our modern lives, so the objects need to be stored appropriately to save space. The demographic structure also influence the habits of dietary, therefore, dining alone and storage are the initial of the design.