The Portfolio of Zihan Xiao
“Innovate or Die”
Chris Freeman 1997
BASIC INFORMATION Name：Xiao Zihan Age：23 Birthday：1990.06.28
EDUCATION
2008.9-2012.6 China Academy Of Art Major：Industrial Design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009 Loving Heart Society -Doing handmade productions for charity bazaar. 2010 Shanghai Ciji Charitable Organization -Designing the exhibition boards,doing environmental protection experience. 2011 UI Excellent Design Awards -Lenove Group(Shanghai) 2012 Bamboo Studio&Ruijiake Communication Group -Learning characters of bamboo wood and the art of processing method and finishing my gradution design. -Doing UI design of model NO.q100,which focus on young consumers aged from 18-25 in South America.
Project Re-design Innovative Design
Cultural Design
Contents Other works Award Design Sketches Space Design Photographes
Innovative Design Innovation is essential of design, as well as the need of our times. To explore new function, new application is what we pursue.
Bamboo Toy can we play more fun in eco-friendly way?
PRE-RESEARCH Users from kindergadern (30 children and 6 teachers) How many kids will participate together?
How long do the kids can play with the toys continuously?
What the ratio between the boys and girls is in this research?
Senior class Junior class Primary class
Senior class Junior class Primary class
40% 60%
What is the most attractive features of this toy?
99%
Interest
73%
What is the trend in the future?
new material
60min
multi-function
45min
visual effect
15min
43%
shape
52%
Problem Analysis
Others color
1, Bamboo toys are single and rigid for playing in the existing kindergarten.
freshness
2, Children’s duration for playing is not
sound
long. What kind of toys kids like to play? Senior class Junior class Primary class
Number of children 30 20 10 blocks
bamboo game
plastic plot
metal structure
rod game
puzzle
playing with sand, snow, water
The type of toys
While playing with the toys, what is the most problem kids probably encounter?
3, Color, interest and sound can attract children’s attention easily. 5, The persistent time for playing is
Poor quality
22%
Children can not focus on it
74%
different for the children in different
It is too complicated for playing Unable to meet the needs of children in different ages It is not convenient for collecting
57%
ages.
59% 18%
Material Analysis Meterial behavior
1, Bamboo tube is also the basic shape for the children to learn and cognize in the early age. 2, When the children are stacking the bamboo tubes, they can learn about combination, accumulation and permutation.
Campanula
Bamboo instruments
Hollow
Cylindrical
Surfaces
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DESIGN INSPRATION
IDEA Knock Musical Musical toys can increase the interest and sensory stimulation of the toys,
Building Blocks The traditional block games can exercise children's imagination with the changes on the modeling
Toy Track Being as the connection of each block
Pinball Bamboo features
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DESIGN SKETCH
Sketches This kind of design follows the way of Marble Run, using bamboo tube as a single original shape, because the kid’s patient is insufficient, which can cause the child difficultly to get the sense of achievement during the playing process, thus it is added music elements.
It is increased two playing ways compared to the original product: 1. Children can assemble their own music buttons and edit different music sequence. 2. Children can place the music button to its original position during stacking the bamboo, thereby achieving different rhythm and melody.
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Bamboo Toy
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DIMENTIONAL DRAWING
Φ3.5
Size Units : cm
Φ6.5 Φ7.5
Φ6.5 Φ7.5
6.5
Φ6.5 Φ7.5
6.5 Φ4.0
8.0
3.5 20
Φ2
6.5 Φ4.0
8.0 3.5
Φ3.5
8.0 3.5
3.5 8.0
40
8.0 3.5
Φ2
3.5
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MODELING & STRUCTURE
soft magnetic cushion marbles
Small structures it is suitable for the children of primary and junior classes.
musical button
single hole
sponge pad
toy track
no hole
double holes
Big structures: the game content is richer and more complex for the children of senior class, they often play with it together.
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PROCESS RECORD
Pure handmade I have completed this product in An’ji County where is the Bamboo Forest of China, the entire production spends a total of 3 weeks. There are much processing technologies for bamboo, in which the tools needed to master is also the part for me to study.
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PRUDUCT EXHIBTION
Gallery The above pictures were taken on my graduation design exhibition, at that time I had also introduced the playing ways to my classmates, and many teachers came to play with us as well, they all had great interests for stacking together.
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Cultural Design Cultural prototype is the fountain of imagination.
CI RING
DESIGN INSPIRATION
“慈石吸铁，母子相恋也。”——《慈石赞》 “‘Ci Shi’ or loving stone attracts iron, so does a mother loves her son.” —— Eulogy of Loving Stone
mother
child
慈石 Before, the ancient Chinese used to compare magnet attracting iron to a loving mother attracting her own child, and so they call magnet "Ci Shi", which means loving stone.
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DESIGN PROCESS
Meterial Selection The reason the ancient people naming magnet a loving stone is that: mother is like a magnet, just as children are like iron ores. The ring table of the mother ring is made of iron to be inlaid with natural magnet, while the son ring is inlaid with a small iron ore.
Sketches & Conception
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PRODUCT EXHIBITION Size of the Mother Ring
The magnet and the iron ore attract each other, fully quoting the meaning from The Eulogy of Loving Stone.
13mm
6mm
11mm
Φ=13mm
Φ=22mm
R=1mm
Φ=20mm 15mm
Size of the Son Ring
Φ=8mm
2.5mm R=2.5mm
R=1mm
Φ=22mm Φ=20mm
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DESIGN DETAILS
LODESTONE & IRON I engraved the oracle - the ancient Chinese written character of “mu” (mother) and “Zi” (son) respectively on magnet and iron ore,aiming to pursue the most simple and sophisticated and the most primitive sentiment in the heart of the people.
Details
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Redesign Revisited and improved design, delicate and simple.
potato up! Can we eat more healthy?
PROBLEMS
The large size
The middle size
The small size
Fast food restaurants need three types of packaging for placement of French fries of different component.
84% The package is useless when people eating. People like to lay chips on the packing paper.
Problem sumerize the printing ink on packing paper is unhealthy.
1. People like to spread out the French fries on the meal placemat attached with advertisement, and yet the ink on the placemat contains benzene and lead and other carcinogenic substances. 2. The existing French fries packaging has only accommodation function, and it will become useless once the French fries is eaten up.
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DESIGN INSPIRATION
IDEA I drew my inspiration from the traditional mode of Chinese way of packaging. It turned from a tiled cloth into a solid package appearance, which is easy for folding and convenient for accommodation.
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HOW DOES IT WORK ?
Potato Up! This Potato Up creativity bag makes you easy to pack and eat the french
M S
fries.
2
1
Step 1
Step 2
Tile wrapping paper
Roll up the yellow part
Step 4
Step 3
Insert the male tab into the socket to complete packaging.
Roll out the wanted size
3
L
4
1
Male tab
2
3
4
Socket
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PROTOTYPE
Using cardboard, I made a model with 14cm radius. When packaging, change the size based on the French Fries component for easy opening for eating, and there is no need of pad facial tissue or other container.
L size ZiHan,Xiao
M size
S size
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SERVICE CONDITION
Bring my design model, I had personal experience in KFC...
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TISSUE 1/2 Can we save the enviroment by tissue?
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS work places schools
Evironment
using habbits Currently New tissue
different usages
People’s
tissue
resturants near subway station
New Users
tissue
how they waste
behavior
Problem
Find the best
classification
way to save
packaging
Product
ways of folding
Problem discovery
Pre-researches
Problem
Field-survey
Analysis
96.6% tissue The usage
≈
of disposable
Question summerizes
+
1074.2 hektare
255.600 t
goods
CO 2
3.4% others
Questionnares&Analysis Gender and Age
Using Habbits
56%
40%
35%
12%
How many papers will people use in a day? 32%
30% 20%
65%
How many papers will people waste in a day?
People
People
60%
25
45%
20
30%
15
15%
10%
full size 3 layers tear out <18
18-25
26-35
36-45
46-60
10 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Piece
0%
10% 20% 30% 40%
50% 60%
70% 80% 90% 100% Waste percent
1. Each user will consume almost 4-5 handkerchief papers everyday. 2. Many users have wasting handkerchief paper experience, and they believe that 44.1% of the handkerchief papers are wasted. 3. It is discovered that, in order to save or share with others,32% of users need to divide the handkerchief paper in half. 4. The existing handkerchief paper is not easy to be torn open,and yet easy to be torn.
>60
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SOLUTION Current tissue
not used space
X 10 piece
saved space
1
1/2
not used space
used space The length of the current tissue = 21cm The width of the current tissue = 21cm
used space
We used the whole piece of waste paper even though we just need a small sapce.
In this way,we can save the waste part of the used waste paper.
How to fold ?
Before The length of the current tissue = 21cm The quantity of a pack of tissue = 10 piece 21x21x10 = 4410
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Three equal parts folding
doubling up
doubling up again
done
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
four equal parts folding along the midline
four equal parts folding along the midline
doubling up
done
Now The length of the Tissue 1/2 = 10.5 cm The quantity of a pack of tissue = 10 piece 10.5x21x10 = 2205
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SERVICE ENVIRONMENT
Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share Sometimes people like to share one piece of tissue when they finish their meals.
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SHIKUMEN KINDERGARTEN Reformation scheme of Shikumen Architecture
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
Status Quo of Shikumen - Zhang Gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Playground that used to be alive with people, now it is surrounded with highrise. The voices that surrounded are vehement, those buzzing about are white collars, those sitting are elders.
Internal Space internal space is narrow (especially corridor between)ďź&#x152;dark wet and stuffy. Many families live in a huddle, they devide the space in a mess. When living for long here, people feel constrained.
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INSPIRATION ďź&#x2020; SULOTION
I used the laughter of children to restore the life in alley that children love ramping about. Daylighting: 1. Glass curtain wall 2. Head Light through glass 4. knock between floors to let the light pass through Stairway: 1. Reduce the angle of slope 2. Enhance the sense of interesting 3. Improve the connectivity Space Divisionďź&#x161; 1. Define play area and teaching area 2. Expand the outdoor activity area 3. Leave the best part to children
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DESIGN PLAN
Design Scheme -Elevation
Design Scheme -Plan
1f
Activity Area Indoor Activity Room Drawing Room Classroom
S
Nap Room Kitchen Workspace Washroom 2f
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DETAILS
We spend three weeks to complete this model.
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Award Design These conceptual designs are used to apply for IF.
UFO
UFO is a design focusing on the emotional world of dogs. It consists of three words: unlonely, family, odor. Dog is a member in the family. When the owner is out of home, its loneliness and panic can be relieved by UFO which gives off the ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s odor.
RD
SE
RECO
RELEA
Record odor
Release odor
Before initial use, record the odors of the family members through the phone program.
Before going out, start the function of giving off the odor with the phone. Then it will generate and give off the odors of the family members.
Background:
Dogs like living in groups. They will be alone and panic if staying at home alone. They like tearing up the things with the ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smell and spreading the fragments all around to get a sense of security.
238-89744
UFO
Qiu Simin Lin Caisu
Shanghai Institute of Design of China Academy of Art ZiHan,Xiao 2013 Master Applicationqiusimin1989@hotmail.com Portfolio UFO Shanghai / China
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Anthem Rope
Anthem Rope is a design of halyard to solve the asynchronism between national flag and national anthem when the national flag is raised manually. The halyard is printed in lyric of national anthem according to time of broadcasting. National flag raiser will locate the lyric in the halyard according to the broadcasting location of national anthem to guarantee that the speed of flag rising is consistent with the speed of anthem broadcasting. The national flag will reach the top location in the end of national anthem.
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WOWO
WOWO is a toy collecting box designed for children. It can accompany children to grow up. The smooth-spread WOWO allows children to crawl and toddle on it. After the simple folding, it can become a toy collecting box which can classify the toys. Compared with the traditional collocting box, its shape and color are preferred by the children.
With the soft material, WOWO can change from the flat to the solid by the easy folding, which is very interesting.
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Sketches the ability to show your idea rapidly.
SKETCH SKILL
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Photography
Photo is a ideal way to record dairy things and emotions.
PHOTOGRAPH
The tree in a hexagonal window,taken in SuZhou Museum.
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PHOTOGRAPH
This two are both about shadows and cucoloris.
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Thanks to be continued in your school...
Contact Imformation: China Academy Of Art,Shanghai Institute Of Design, 201203, China
+86 13020261136 joana.one@hotmail.com