Mike Chen product / furniture design new york www.mikeychen.com
hello, 2012 .
education
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 2008 - 2012 BID in Industrial Design (focus on product design) Stony Brook High School, Stony Brook NY 2004-2008
experience Studio Jan Habraken, NY, U.S. 2011 Product design Computer modeling
by AMT Inc - Design Studio, NY, U.S. 2011 Product Design Intern Assisted computer modeling
Matthew Bradshaw Studio, Brooklyn NY. 2011 Assisted on production progress
Simon Pearce. Glassware Company, Windsor VT, U.S. 2011 Glassware/Ceramic Design Assisted research of glass/ceramic system Assisted to design modern form ( bring in the younger market)
Jimmy S.P.A Studio C.o, Taipei, Taiwan. 2010 Tabletop Design Intern
Assisted tabletop design on restaurant projects; logo design Provides market research, and modern kitchenware design
Yun-Dun Chan Sculpture Studio. Taichung, Taiwan. 2009 Metal, Ceramic Design Intern Provides sculpture design sketch Assisted ceramic model making, and public art display project
EaseCane Furniture, Taichung, Taiwan. 2009 Furniture Design Intern
Provides furniture design sketches and ideation concept Assisted production system, and materials use
Avision Labs International, California, U.S. 2008 Engineering Intern Assisted programing system check; testing and computer system Provides product packaging design ideation
recognitions Featured on magazine Marie Claire. May 2011 Featured on magazine Vision (China) February. 2011 Featured on magazineHarper’s Bazaar Korea February. 2011 Featured on design blog Mocoloco.com, Yatzer.com. 2011 Charles Pratt Scholarship. Nominee 2011 Chosen 3D Design For Display, Pratt Institute. 2010/2011
skills Adobe InDesign Adobe photoshop I Adobe llustrator Adobe Lightroom Solid Works Maya Digital Sketching Microsoft Office Proficient in both Windows and Mac OS X Team player (leadership, responsibility) Model Making ( Wood, Plastic, Foam, Metal) Vacuum-form Laser making Paint and finish Papercraft Pen/pencil sketching Illustrating digital photography graphic layout
languages English Mandarin Taiwanese
info (1) 631 - 375 - 8515 design@mikeychen.com www.mikeychen.com
Mike Chen I believe that good design is “good design” when it can fit effortlessly into our life. It is a response to real human behaviors. Design is beautiful when it is simple, yet meaningful. Less is more.
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adapt project 2012
( Product Design )
Trapeze
2012 Product Design Organizing Hook System
I wanted to create a simple but useful design in the everyday living environment. Young, urban apartment dwellers usually throw away a lot of furniture and possessions every time they move. The main reason for that is the size of the object is not worth to move around and with city life, free space is definitely valued. So I want to design organizing system that is simple, space-efficient and useful: a hook system that can replace a closet full of coat hangers. My goal was to create a design that considers its users.
adapt project 2012
( Product Design )
INSPIRATION ........................ .city -college students or young worker - apartments - moving - small space -organize system - trashed furniture - convenience/ useful
adapt project 2012
( Product Design )
Sketch Models .............. webbing colors metal hook sketch models color relations between webbings and hook detail study cnc (hook templet)
adapt project 2012
( Product Design )
Lift up around 45 degree to move up and down the hook
Graphic Layout .......................... different ways of lay out on the wall
adapt project 2012
( Product Design )
Demonstration Video ........................ This is a simple clean organizing hook system to have in the environment. It is design with the ideal of easy and useful for people to have in their living space. A organizing system that doesn’t take space and easily to attache or remove on the wall surface.
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product design
t.v 茖 2011 (new american design) t.v 茖 The idea behind this design is to revive the television's place in a room as a piece of furniture instead of an appliance. Instead we buy furniture to put the TV on, instead of seeing it as standing alone as a piece. I wanted to give the television character, and looked at a lot of television sets from the 1950's. I based my idea on that aesthetic, but used a modern and minimalistic approach. The remote control is a simple dial. There is one big button for the power, and the dial turns left or right for adjust the channel or volume. This is to support the minimalistic approach of "less is more". When not in use, the remote fits into the space on the top right of the TV. tv = furniture = clean modern
2010 ( american design )
product design
2010 ( american design )
front
the quality and the meaning of traditional T.V + clean design
side
back
product design
2010 ( american design )
The remote control fits into a slot on the television when it is not being used, imitating the dial on vintage 50’s television sets. The design emphasizes simplicity, with only one big button that you can turn to adjust volume and to switch between channels.
Speakers on the front and back of the television are indicated by the holes on the surface.
The television’s legs bring back the idea that it is a piece of furniture, instead of just being an electronic addition to the room.
The two antenna on the top are actually switches that you can push left and right to change different input modes.
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Product Design
2010 (Cultuure Product Design. U.K)
U.K pot This project was an exercise in culture studies, specifically Britain. The design of the teapot is a combination of both the traditional and modern styles of the U.K.
Classic traditional culture is precious in U.K.
TRADITIONAL (OUTLINE) Modern clean line x classic traditional
MODERN (SHAPE)
Product Design
2010 (Cultuure Product Design. U.K)
INSPIRATION . (5 Senses of U.K) Hear: Taste: Feel: Smell: Sight:
Church - Bells Afternoon Tea Rain Salty-Sea Air Crimson
Product Design
2010 (Cultuure Product Design. U.K)
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TRADITIONAL USEFUL FRESH
CLASSIC
CULTURE
CHARACTER
FUNCTION
COMFORTABLE
LOGICAL
SMELL
SIGHT
ORGANIC
Product Design
2010 (Cultuure Product Design. U.K)
U.K pot .
teapot lid Glass materials/simple form
-Traditional teapot but modern look
teapot handle U.K traditional outline
-Comfortable and clean feeling -Shows the freshness of tea
filter tea leaf container
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Product Design
2009 (Lighting Design .Pratt.)
flow. P It is a basic flower shape with clean over all structure. It is a lighting design project based on the natural, organic shape of the flower. The center contains LED lights, which illuminate the flower and defines the edges, giving a peaceful and serene feeling.
In this busy and stressful time, with people always rushing about the city, of course many forget to observe and appreciate the beauty around them. It makes people careless and apathetic towards many things, big and small. Once people get home, however, they will slowly feel more at ease, because home is the safest place. It is only now when people will notice the things around them, such as the smell, or the taste. fLoW.P is meant to be displayed in the home, its design is to bring back the outside natural beauty into the home, and give people a relaxed feeling, bring them back down from the stress out outside.
Product Design
2009 (Lighting Design .Pratt.)
Sketch Models ( lighting design) . Using different types of material to understand the relation between the light and the materials.
Plastic materials creates an interesting relation with the LED light. The edge of the plastic light up . It shows the overall form’s outline by the edge of the light. Lace cover with metal wire sheet. The texture of the materials has an interesting negative space with the light.
Polystyrene. The light can not go through the object cause of the material. However, the negative space of the object could develops more. Non-Slip Mat with plastic bags inside. The overall texture gives an really interesting feeling in a vision way.
mike chen
Product Design
2009 (Lighting Design .Pratt.)
Drafting ( lighting design) . disintegration view of the lighting . 12 x pieaces of finish cut plastic 3 x LED set 1 x base 1 x joint base 1 x plug 35x plastic thin tubes
Product Design
2009 (Lighting Design .Pratt.)
mike chen
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GoGo Project
2012 (branding/packaging design)
G.G cake 果
( branding/packaging design)
Specializing in traditional Taiwanese pineapple cakes, Go Go Cake is an online dessert/food products gift shop. (ilovegogocake.com) “Go Go” (果菓) is a verbal play on the characters for “fruit” in Chinese, and the logo is similarly inspired. The overall feel of the brand is to be bright and fresh, bringing something new to the existing traditional market for pineapple cakes.
. Pineapple cake packaging . . The target audience is mostly females (age of 25+) . . Wih traditional Asian culture but in modern way . . The (golden) pattern of the cover was inspired from the surface of pineapple . . The graphic of the bags are Chinese characters of pineapple cake . . Has right sense of quality as a gift .
GoGo Project
2012 (branding/packaging design)
GoGo Project
2012 (branding/packaging design)
. business cards . Pineapple cake . detail shot of the packaging over
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Kikkerland (Internship Project)
2011 ( Studio Jan Habraken summer internship)
Kikkerland Project ( Studio Jan Habraken Internship ) Product design Internship at Jan Habraken’s studio ( Summer of 2011). I worked with 3D computer modeling and rendering. Designing product and ideation sketch base on Kikkerland’s style.
Kikkerland (Internship Project)
2011 ( Studio Jan Habraken summer internship)
These are the products on the market now that I worked on when I had internship at Studio Jan Habraken. The images on the left are Vibrating Alien Head Massager and Octopus Head Massager. I was assigned to rebuild the 3D computer models in Solid work, and render the models in 3D max. Images on the right are USB Poodle Hub and USB Hub Thunderbolt. I was assigned to design a collection of USB Hub Base on Kikkerland’s style. And these two design were chose to production.
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Jimmy S.P.A ( tabletop project ) jimmyspa.com
Artist Jimmy is a well know artist in Asia who had publish more than 30 series of story brook, movies, art gallery, and etc... Since 2010, I have been working with the company to design a series of table top set base on Jimmy’s art for their new Restaurant. This project is still in progress.
Tabletop Design
2010 (Jimmy S.P.A Project)
草稿圖(一)
草稿圖(三)
Sketch Design I
Sketch Design III
草稿圖(二)
草稿圖(四)
Sketch Design II
Sketch Design IV
With Cover. 碗蓋
ROUND SHAPE BOWL. 整體是以圓弧度所設計出的碗
Illustrator Design Sketches
2010 Summer . (Taiwan) Tabletop Project The company was preparing to open a restaurant based on the illustrations of Jimmy. I was assigned to design a set of tabletop wares for this restaurant.
With Cover. 碗蓋
basic sketches form 不同形狀
mike chen
Tabletop Design
2010 (Jimmy S.P.A Project)
Illustrator Design Sketches
Short round cups 矮. 水杯 有規則型系列
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Tea or coffee mixer
tree. cut. ideation
non slippery
樹. 缺口 . （下圖）為慨念
防滑. 不易滑落
Using Jimmy’s characters 運用幾米繪本裡的角色所設計出的角色
Short. Glass 矮. 水杯
organic form 不規則型系列
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tree stick ideal
rock. ideation
樹型筷子, 外生節枝的形狀 裝飾,美觀為設計理念
石頭 . 為理念
characters form Jimmy’s book, “Don’t blame me, it’s not my fault” cover image.
non slippery 防滑. 不易滑落
Material that can easily wash away the oil .不沾油材質,容易清洗. 陶瓷.鐵,朔膠
“我的錯,都是大人的錯” 書本 封面人物
Tall 高
Short 矮
人物與筷子融合一體的理念
Top
防滑材質, 用餐時, 方便夾菜
CUP . SKETCH DESIGN
mike chen
Tabletop Design
2010 (Jimmy S.P.A Project)
Rice Bowl Sketching Models Inspection: (Jimmy) Pear’s collections
Tabletop Design
2010 (Jimmy S.P.A Project)
Rice Bowl Sketching Models Inspection: (Jimmy) Penguin’s collections
Tabletop Design
2010 (Jimmy S.P.A Project)
Jimmy’s Painting
(Mr. Lonely) 2001
Tea cups Sketching Models Inspection: (Jimmy) Rock’s collections
Tabletop Design
2010 (Jimmy S.P.A Project)
Chopsticks Sketching Models Inspection: (Jimmy) Tree’s collections
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Computer Rendering
(Solid Work/3D computer rendering)
thank you. Mike Chen 631.375.8515 design@mikeychen.com