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 ?
a
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
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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