Lu Fan Design Portfolio
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CONTENTS
WORKS AT ATELIER TED NOTEN
PRODUCT DESIGN
INSTALLATION
Lady K Bag
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Rosenkrans
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21 grams
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Insects Out of My Studio
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Gun
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Bird
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Doctor’s Bag
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Fred Pendants and Earrings
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11th Wilhelminaring
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Urn
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Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
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Waste or Treasure
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Red Chair
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Simple Geometry
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A Way of Communication
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Ceramics and Wire
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The Invisible
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A Collective Illusion
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Wave
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Dwelling
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LADY K BAG
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I shaped the bottom acrylic part, from cutting, to sanding (by machine and manually), to hand polishing. Also, I fabricated the top part, resized the Prada bag by redrawing patterns and hand-sewing leathers, to connect these two parts, I attached an aluminum sheet in-between to keep the shape of the bag and made the connection.
ROSENKRANS I fabricated every acrylic component of the necklace. From cutting each block by the electric table saw, to sanding them into oval shapes by a sanding machine and by hand, to polishing every part till they are shiny and flawless. 5
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INSECTS OUT OF MY STUDIO I produced every acrylic component, from cutting each block by the electric table saw, to sanding them into oval shapes by a sanding machine and by hand, to polishing every part till they are shiny and flawless. 6
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21 GRAMS The 21 grams experiment refers to a scientific study by Duncan MacDougall. He hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass change of six patients at the moment of death. One of the six subjects lost 21 grams. I brainstormed together with Ted Noten about the 21 grams project related to the soul. The aim was to create a piece weighting 21 grams and to make a bold assumption that the soul did not leave the body after death, it just flew away like a kite but was still connected the body with a long silver thread.
GUN I made both the acrylic smoke and the acrylic handle. Due to its irregular shape, the smoke part was done very carefully using a tiny sanding machine.
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BIRD Bird from the vanitas series, I made the pearl part near the beak.
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DOCTOR’S BAG The white handle was 3D printed in ABS filament, its digital model was made by me using Rhino. I also participated in the polishing work of the acrylic part.
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FRED PENDANTS and EARRINGS I produced every acrylic pendant in the figures above, from cutting a big block into pieces by the electric table saw, to sanding the pieces into the right shapes by both sanding machine and hand, to polishing every part till they are shiny and flawless. 10
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385mm
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345mm
gerard
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love you
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SOPHIE
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love you
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gerard
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gerard
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238mm
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385mm
love you
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URN This is an urn for a private client, and my part of the work is to give clear technical specifications of each design idea. 11
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Visualizations of the 11TH WILHELMINARING 12
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Design proposals for DESIGNPRIJS BY PRINS BERNHARD CULTUURFONDS 14
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WASTE OR TREASURE Date: 03/2015 Material: trash bags, white tapes, beads, silver thread To give daily waste a romantic value, I used white plastic bags and made couture out of them. In the history of sleeves, different sleeves represented different social classes. For example, Queen Elizabeth was a big fan of the legs of mutton especially with pearls on them. To challenge that, I designed a top constructed of different kinds of sleeves, I could choose my silhouette by putting my arm in different sleeves.
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RED CHAIR 2019 Material: velvet, fillings, used chair When a living organism starts to consume a normal chair which later becomes more comfortable and alive.
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SIMPLE GEOMETRY 2015 Material: plywood My idea was to use as few pieces as possible to create a minimal chair which could also show my fascination with geometry. Only a cube and a cuboid were enough to construct a chair, its back could even be customized.
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The board on the back could be changed to adjust the length or to create a different feeling by changing the pattern or the material.
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A WAY OF COMMUNICATION 2017 Material: lamb skin and cotton fabric Living in a modern society full of technology, when machines are designed based on human behavior, machines become more humane. Let’s think from another perspective, if humans became augmented, would the communication between machines and us be smoother?
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CERAMICS AND WIRE 2015 Material: ceramics, steel wire and balloons Clay, which is easy to shape and fragile after firing, is in sharp contrast with the hard metal. I wanted to challenge these two materials with completely different properties by making a tea set. In the figure below, ceramics and metals are in a cooperative state, and the metal gives the tea set a stable structure as ceramics provide the form. In the figure on the right, the metal is playing hide and seek in the striped glaze. In the left figure on the next page, the metal is trying its best to suppress the expanded ceramics. After the game, the ceramics become plump and restricted. In the right figure on the next page, the metal becomes a repairer and links broken ceramics together.
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These vases represents a bad cooperation status, the wire constrains the growing of the clay and it leads to an overwhelmed, fat state. 32
It happened when I first presented the fragile chopsticks to tutor, and they accidentally got broken, then I thought why not just take the wire as a tool to connect the broken ceramics.
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THE INVISIBLE 2017 Material: tapes, polyester gel coat, metal 34
Have you ever considered a dresser as a living entity? We couldn’t see a drawer’s opening and closing movement without touching it, I would like to make the dresser alive by visualizing this movement. I stuck small strips of scotch tape freely in my hand to create unpredictable shapes, later applied gel coat layer by layer. After all the tapes were removed, their existence was still noticeable because of the traces. 35
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A COLLECTIVE ILLUSION 2017 Material: mattress, bedding sheet, silicon boobs, lace, ham, used chair, stockings, metal My idea was to present a series of relative personalities through three pieces of furniture and people’s reactions towards them. The process was as follows: I asked friends to use a word, a color, an animal, and a character from a film to describe me. I built up a matrix based on the data. Regarding three selected characters, I made a mattress, a stool, and a chair. Besides, I made a movie following this order. The social penetration theory (SPT) proposes that, as relationships develop, interpersonal communication moves from relatively shallow, non-intimate levels to deeper, more intimate ones. I wanted to interpret this theory with three pieces of furniture and people’s reactions to them. The appearance of the furniture went from covered with clothes to skin being exposed, then to inside out. The whole experience towards the three pieces of furniture I made was, at first, feeling the attraction from the mattress. Then, curiosity arose on both sides. Finally, when the deepest darkness of the chair was revealed, the user experienced from disgust to being compelled to know indepth, to acceptance, to slowly intoxicating. Link to the movie: https://vimeo.com/215383239
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WAVE 2016 Material: packaging tapes, plastic cutlery, sate sticks Living in a consumer society and the contemporary convention of easily throwing things away, they are becoming waves coming back from an infinite ocean of waste. This installation was made to provoke such a phenomenon.
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Material: packing tapes, q-tips, bamboo sticks, plastic tableware
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DWELLING 2015 Material: wood, black yarn, black rope, mirror foil By definition, dwelling means a space that makes people feel comfortable, protected, and homie. Somehow, a group of people cannot perceive these feelings due to psychological defects. I decided to focus on the famous, exaggerated mental disease: Schizophrenia. People are always scared of this disease and know barely about it, so I started to investigate the symptoms and effects of this disease in-depth, then I created a installation that reproduces these symptoms. During my investigation, an interesting case came across. An old woman always feels joy because of her hallucinations, among which a very handsome young man is always kissing her tenderly. So why not give a bright side to this ugly disease which could then become a source of beauty.
Conceptual models made of polyester resin
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The structure of this overlapping house reflects the symptoms of double image. These black tangled yarns represent a twisted mind. The tiny mirror surfaces create a continuous illusion. When you walk into this installation, all the horror turns into a strong structure, allowing you to sit and relax in it. 47