Gahee Kang's Portfolio for RCA

Milan Industry Class

We developed a brand line from concept to production to distribution: Research, Ideation, Prototype, Manufacture, Package, Media Marketing, Branding, Exhibition, Retail.

Milan Industry Class

Whatnot team created playful objects that encourage a child’s interaction with the people, places, and environments around them.

Eight products and three furniture systems were exhibited at Spazio Rossana Orlandi and sold in their adjoining design shop.

Spring

Spring is a ring that encourages the wearer to pick wild flowers and weave them into the ring’s structure. The beauty of Spring comes out of the flower that is added to it, not the ring itself. The ring comes in two different styles in polished gold steel and sterling silver. There are three adjustable sizes available for children, women, and men.

Design Concept

A ring for a spring or summer walk Spring is a ring that inspires children to go outside and find beauty in nature. The ring’s structure is completed by wildflowers collected by the wearer. This project creates an opportunity for friends or family to search for flowers and create arrangements together.

Process

3D Print Prototypes

Exhibition

at the Milan Furniture Fair

Press Dezeen

Inhabitat

Design Magazines and Blogs

Pencil Vase

Would You Rather Have

a Flower Vase or a Pencil Holder ?

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Vase or Pencil Holder ?

rk environment more pleasing. Placing a flower vase can make people feel relaxed and reduce negative feeling encil vase is shaped like a flower vase on one side, and the ffice tools. Just by turning the vase it becomes a pencil vase ase. Would you rather have a pencil holder or pencil vase

Process

Design Concept A Flower Vase or a Pencil Holder?

Drawer Tea Set

8 1/5”

12”

Space Saving Solution

Design Concept

Dotted Sake Set Family Design

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Dimension and Proportion

Sister Console Table

Internship at Fferrone Design

I worked on the design process from prototyping to manufacturing for a number of home accessories and furniture such as bookshelves, tables, lighting, and trays.

Fferrone Design Products Development Process

Fferrone Design - Doppio

Suspended Candle Holder

MINIMALISM & PRODUCTION Designed for Fferrone with the Inspiration from Fferrone Dimension and Proportion

Examine Manufacturing Assembled with two parts 1 1, Hand Shaped Glass

2

2, Metal Sprin Machine

Internship at Kim HyunJoo Studio - Cloud Cat Shelves

I worked on the design process of ideation, researching, prototyping, and manufacturing for home accessories and products for pets.

C O N TA C T

PORTFOLIO

donnakang123@gmail.com

www.gaheekang.com/Portfolio

1-408-691-9851 200N Dearborn Apt 3001 Chicago IL 60601

WEBSITE www.gaheekang.com

BIOGRAPHY

GAHEE KANG P R O D U C T

Playful • Clean • Conceptual • Delicate • Organized • Uplifting Whimsical • Problem Solving • Thoughtful • Creative • Light Kang creates furniture and product design that satisfies user functionality as well as invokes emotion. She blends her knowledge of design with creativity to make well-balanced works that are logical and lovely.

D E S I G N E R

E D U C AT I O N School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

Chicago, IL

Aug 2010 - May 2014

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Emphasis in Designed Objects & Interior Architecture

Domaine de Boisbuche - Patricia Urquiola

Boisbuchet, France

May 2013

Workshop by Vitra Landscape Project with Patricia Urquiola “Collage with Water”

Seoul National University

Seoul, Korea

Jul 2012

Summer Program “Korean Architecture and Urbanism”

WORK EXPERIENCE ONYX

• Assisted in residential interior design projects • Designed, researched, created plans and 3D rendering • Counseled clients

Whatnot

• One year group project sponsored by SAIC • Designed, manufactured , branded, and vended a product line • Created a jewelry collection “Spring Ring”

Fferrone Design

• Assisted in project development • Assisted in design of home accessories, furniture and lighting • Prototyped, created plans and 3D rendering

Kim HyunJoo Studio

• Assisted in project development • Assisted in design of home accessories and products for pets • Researched, designed, prototyped, created plans and 3D rendering

Interior Designer Chicago, IL

Designer Chicago, IL

Design Assistant Chicago, IL

Design Assistant Seoul, South Korea

Oct 2014 - Dec 2014

Oct 2013 - May 2014

Oct 2013 - May 2014

Jun - Jul 2013

AWA R D Creativity Merit Scholarship Chicago, IL School of the Art Institute of Chicago

EXHIBITIONS Chairs for Charity Chicago, IL

Sep 2014

Euro Furniture, Sponsored by Krrb to Design

Rubber Chair

ATTACHMENTS

Jun 2014

Chicago, IL

Sullivan Gallery, SAIC AIADO and Fashion Graduate Exhibition 2014 Whatnot Collection

NeoCon

Jun 2014

Chicago, IL

Fulton Market West Loop Gallery 2014 Whatnot Collection

Milan International Furniture Fair Milan, Italy

Apr 2014

Spazio Rossana Orlandi Gallery 2014 Whatnot Collection

BFA Show

Mar - Apr 2013

Chicago, IL

Sullivan Gallery, SAIC

Breath

Guerrilla Truck Show

Jun 2012

Chicago, IL

Morlen Sinoway Atelier

Dice

Art Bash

Apr 2011

Chicago, IL

GALLERY X

Puke

SKILLS Software :

Auto CAD, Rhino, Key-shot, 3D Max, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

Machine :

CNC, Vacuum Former, 3D Printer, Laser Cutter

Technique :

Woodworking, Ceramics, Perspective Drawing, Prototyping