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Beyond the intuition
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Profile
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Wax vase
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Innate vase
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Block mold
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Fundamental information
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Eat clean
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Restore health
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Trace
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Clip-on gadgets
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Hold good
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Relief light
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Clip for the elderly
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Angled ruler
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Raining
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BEYOND THE INTUITION Chung-Ping Lai & Ming-Hong Yeh Initial thinking
Designers around the world are creating new aesthetics,
behaviours, messages, material applications, sustainability, debates, strategies and services. How to find the innovative inspiration? In our experiences, appropriate solutions might come from clear sequences of definition and observation with the relatively small proportion of black box operation.
In the other project "Innate Vase," we found a bottle with a flower inside. The difference between a bottle and a vase is the main factor which can lead us to get the new insight of this usage. Major factors
Interesting information
Understanding and arranging
We usually arrange the major factors to create a brief and
logical thinking as a possible scenario. If we clarify the details of scenario, we will do real observation to confirm and compare with the hypothetical situation. By the process of understanding the real situation, design background and our design motivation will be obivious.
Design motivation
Major group factors Doing real observation
In the project named "Fundamental Information," we intended
to design a product or an idea about "Application of Light." As a result, we discussed several elements such as the form and function of light, various places and potential users. Without design restriction, we identified a group of certain elements. Those elements might have apparent cause-and-effect relationship.
Education 2009~2011 Graduate Institute of Design. National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 2011~2012 Exchange Program in Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
Chung-Ping Lai 1987 / 02 / 11
Ming-Hong Yeh 1986 / 11 / 07
Award 2013 Great-design award, Taiwan, Gigabyte Technology (Talking Tom) brown prize reddot design concept award, Germany, Singapore (Talking Tom) winner National Treasure Derivative Design Competition, Taiwan (Bell Speaker) glod prize 2012 reddot design concept award, Germany, Singapore (Wax Vase) winner Long-Term Smile Contest (Tangible + Multitouch: a Playful User Interface Platform) brown prize 2011 iF concept award, Germany (Block Mold) 100 winner selection iF concept award, Germany (Fundamental Information) 100 winner selection iF concept award, Germany (2 Storage) 300 winner selection iF concept award, Germany (Retained Lantern) 300 winner selection iF concept award, Germany (Innate Vase) 300 winner selection Output Award, Netherlands (Wax Vase) winner top 83 2010 reddot design concept award, Germany, Singapore (Innate Vase) best of the best reddot design concept award, Germany, Singapore (Block Mold) winner reddot design concept award, Germany, Singapore (Relief Light) winner lebens(t)r채ume, Germany (Clip for the Elderly) winner International student Design Competition, Taiwan (Fundamental Information) silver prize Great-design award, Taiwan, Gigabyte Technology (Block Mold) silver prize A.S.O Design competition, Taiwan (Chase after the Wind) gold prize iF concept award, Germany (Bathe Eye Clean) 300 selection 2009 iF concept award, Germany (Eat Clean) winner reddot design concept award, Germany, Singapore (Hold Good) winner Taiwan International Design Competition, Taiwan (Restore Health) gold prize Exhibitions, Activities & Marketing 2012 Glow Festival, Netherlands (Brainpulse) 2011 Cutlery Set "Freezin" (Eat clean) produced by Toast Living Taiwan Designer's Week 05, Theme Zone Curator (Retouch) Taiwan Designer's Week 05, Taiwan (Lady Yang) Open HCI workshop 02, Taiwan (Program Chair) 2010 Taiwan Designers' Week 04, Taiwan (Wax Series) Taichung My Style Festival, Taiwan (Chair Communication) 2009 ICSID world design congress, Singapore (Aging 2050 Exhibition)
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Dialogue between states Material experiment is always a way to discover new form naturally and suprisedly.
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WAX VASE
Wax Vase “Wax Vase” is a container made by wax. We design an experimental processing to create a new type of formation which reveals the waxy properties in detail. This conveys a dialogue between various material states and a new experience for viewers. :output Award 2011
In the process of producing “wax vase”, we use ice to be an internal mold and then we put the ice into the hot liquid wax. Therefore, the liquid wax can be solidified on the surface of the ice; and in the mean time, the hot liquid wax will also melt the ice. As a result, we can create an interesting pattern randomly and we also can control the pattern with the speed of putting the ice into liquid wax. The judges of the :output Award 2011 have selected the work of: ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ming Hong Yeh, Chung-Ping Lai, Po-Ho Chen, Ping-Chen Huang from Taiwan, Province of China –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
who are students at ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– National Taiwan University of Science and Technology –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
title of project: ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– WAX VASE –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
The project will be presented in the :output publication 2011. Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 1st, 2011
Florian Pfeffer :output foundation director
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While the ice is going to the hot liquid wax, the part of ice which in the liquid wax will become multi-layer. In the same time, the liquid wax will be solidified on the surface of the ice so that this can create a multi-layer appearance. Additionally, we put the “Wax Vase� into ice water, and then the formation is finished.
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Thin-wall pattern makes it elegant and with the transparent material, this can produce the effort of transmitted light.
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Dependency relationship The fundamental function in products can actually influence our intention to build up an new concept from the old.
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INNATE VASE
Innate Vase The fundamental function of PET bottles is to hold water. Taking off the bottle top, we can turn it into a vase. The shape of the bottleneck makes it easier to refill water. Innate Vase combines the originalities of the two. Without changing the look of the original PET bottle, we give it a brand new life— A “classical” new vase.
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Initial idea For the PET bottle, the bottle top is as essential as the vase neck for a typical vase. the dependency relationship between the upper part and the lower part can exactly make the top be reaplaced by the vase neck due to the lower part, which is the body of the bottle, is for containing the liquid.
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Tightening up the bottlenecks with the help of their threads, we can combine the PET bottle and the Innate Vase. And the funnel shape of Innate Vase makes it easier for people to add water into the vase. 22
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Value up The reuse of resources, and the redefine of values. Finding the basic element in design to maximize the value.
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BLOCK MOLD
Block Mold
“Block Mold� is a simple mold for making building block. Using the cost-free recycling paper pulp, children can make paper building blocks with parents by their imagination. Using paper pulp as the material, you can make as many blocks you want with “Block Mold�. The children can happily make their own building blocks which are free and valuable, it can also train their creativities. Aside from the compositional and functional images of blocks, “Block Mold� is even more flexible and imaginative. Moreover, it also solves the problem of excessive plastic toy wastes and being eco-unfriendly.
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Initial idea Parents might spend less time to interact with their children. Instead, they give their children toys. But the most important thing for children is to learn and to play toys with their parents. How to have a better interaction with your children? No matter the learning between each other or the discovery of new things will in this way become more meaningful. Educational toys such as legos and building blocks are the most commonly purchased toys in many families. Indeed, it is necessary to purchase a considerable amount of building blocks in order to assembly different shapes. It means parents have to spend more money on purchase to satisfy the need of their children. In this project, we propose an innovative way of paper pulp recycling to build their dream legos with less expense.
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Prototyping Fron the initial idea, we move to the testing process to evaluate the flexibility of paper pulps by using the common ice mold and to estimate the feasibility of our original concept.
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A game for children to play together At school,“BLOCK MOLD” creates more interesting ways for teaching and playing for the teachers and the students. What’s more, through the process of making paper block, children can cooperate with one another and encourage more ideas to make their own dream block.
Better interaction of family With “BLOCK MOLD”, parents can have more interaction with their children. Moreover, the children can use their imagination to build their own block with their parents.
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BLOCK MOLD
Hint behind the scene The fundamental problems in people's life are usually hidden in daily life. The way to discover these information is to partially manage the intuition in our brain.
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Fundamental information Rushing into the movie theater, you forgot to take a look at the seat number beforehand, under the faint light, the words on the ticket seems to hide from you. This is when Fundamental Information comes in handy. Punching seat numbers onto the tickets, the light beam goes through the paper and shows us the seat number. Even if we are sitting somewhere dark, with the help of the screen, we can still see the information we need on the ticket.
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FUNDAMENTAL INFORMATION
Fundamental element The initial idea is to find the best way that can obtain the light in the dark. by figure out different aspects of the light, we finally found that the basic element that people can see is light.
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When facing the light, the shadow fills the dotted lines and presents the words.
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When standing against the light, the light goes through the dotted lines and reveals the words.
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Fun shape Besides functionality, pleasure and interest should be also considered as the important aspect in design.
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EAT CLEAN
Prototyping In order to find out the shape that can be innovative in both function and emotion value, the prototyping is an indispensable step before final model.
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EAT CLEAN
It is suitable to use in this particular form, and can even be used more easily while cutting.
Eat Clean People often feel uncomfortable about using cutlery which has been in contact with the table top. 'Eat Clean' presents an elegant solution to this problem by combining the specific shape and weight principle of a seesaw. The parts in contact with the mouth will be kept away from the table top whichever way round the cutlery is placed. And can add more pleasure at eating time.
For being balance, the material of the end part is replaced by other heavier material.
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Human central Thinking from human, caring about human, design is for human rather than being determined by designers' mind.
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RESTORE HEALTH
Restore health “Restore Health”, by means of estabilishing exercise habit and eliminating longtimeworking tenseness. By combining the activity of stretching body and the function of electric power generation by human pulling, “Restore Health” acts as a reminder for people at work. People can be reminded to use “Restore Health” and do some stretching exercise for a rest every 45 minutes. In the meantime, the battery inside the “Restore Health” is recharged by the action of human pulling for the next 45 minutes illumination. It allows people to maintain a better reading or working habit, and our environment and personal health are also benefited from this novel device.
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Initial idea Lack of exercise is a common issue in current society. It is usual that people spent many hours on reading, writing, or working in front of the desk. Due to sitting for a long period of time, the tension of muscles cause the fatigue of our body. Proper exercise such as taking a walk or stretching the body can effectively release our muscles.
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Functional and mechanical model Both the functional and mechanical model can make the representation more real, and help us check and know what are the exactly obstacle that has already exist or unexpected in this concept.
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Folding the lamp to the position as shown below can turn off the light.
Wh i l e b e i n g s t re tc h e d, the generator charges the battery inside the base.
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Finding relation with impression The product is coupled with the cognition and culture of human being; it effects the interactions between people.
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TRACE
Trace In Taiwan’s tradition, we can usually hear that someone says” do not sit on the chair which was warm by someone else a couple of minutes ago”. Chinese believe that is not hygienic and comfortable when you sit on it. Except telling the concept of hygiene, it also makes a connection with the people who had been sitting on the chair. “Traces” is a bench with the capacity of visualizing the invisible, such as temperature and the ex-users. The intention is to remind the latter one the temperature and imprint on the seat by the recovery status of inert foam. When the inert foam returns to its original shape, it implies that the temperature of the seat is normal and ready to serve its function again, and vice versa.
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Initial idea In Taiwan’s tradition, we can usually hear that someone says” do not sit on the chair which was warm by someone else a couple of minutes ago”. Chinese believe that is not hygienic and comfortable when you sit on it. Except telling the concept of hygiene, it also makes a connection with the people who had been sitting on the chair. “Traces” is a bench with the capacity of visualizing the invisible, such as temperature and the ex-users. The intention is to remind the latter one the temperature and imprint on the seat by the recovery status of inert foam. When the inert foam returns to its original shape, it implies that the temperature of the seat is normal and ready to serve its function again, and vice versa.
Material seat by the recovery status of inert foam. When the inert foam returns to its original shape, it implies that the temperature of the seat is normal and ready to serve its function again, and vice versa.
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Rethinking Improvement are not always equal to a better life. Rethinking is necessary for any product, service, and concept to find the real improvement for people.
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CLIP-ON GADGETS
Clip-on Gadgets Touch is an important sense for interaction, but current multi-touch devices commonly use virtual keys that lack tactile feedback. For example, many games use virtual D-pad and virtual buttons as controllers, overlaid on top of (and obscuring) the screen. Clip-on Gadgets enable physical controllers to be used with these devices, without requiring wiring, battery, or wireless connections. User simply clip a physical controller to an edge of the device and start interacting with it.
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Initial idea Real feedback is particular essential when people need to interact with the technology. Although there is visual feedback, it is not enough for people to use directly in certain time such as playing games and typing.
The idea is to enable physical controllers to be used with the device without physical cotroller.
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The physical keys can be used with minimal visual attention, which help users enter numbers more efficiently.
Technology Clip-on Gadgets have no electrical circuits, and simply use "conductive rubber" to transfer tactile input to the multi-touch screens. The input simulates finger touches on the edge of multi-touch screens, and the touch patterns are decoded in software to control the applications.
The mechanical knob improves tuning accuracy when adjusting volume, tone, and balance. The tactile feedback enhances mixing experience for DJs.
Easy to Carry
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Efficiency The combination of different perspectives on design can create more efficient result that helps more on problem solving.
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RELIEF LIGHT
Relief Light RELIEF LIGHT is a combination of an emergency light and a household lamp. Normally, emergency lights are only used when needed, that is to say, they often remain idle. RELIEF LIGHT changes this situation by designing it into a household lamp. When the plug is connected, the micro electric is saved for the use of the batteries. This utilizes the energy that would have been wasted in an effective way.
When experiencing an electric power cut, RELIEF LIGHT automatically turns on. User can immediately separate it into four parts and put them at different places. The cone shaped parts can reflect the light onto the ceiling and equally spread the lights in the house.
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Found To find minor details in daily lives, “considerate”.
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ANGLED RULER
Angled Ruler While measuring with a ruler, we usually need to aim the start point of the ruler at the thing you want to measure, so we improve the ruler by combining the “L shape� hook from the tape measure. Therefore, the angled ruler is created. It can easy to aim the start point of the ruler at the thing, and help you measuring.
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