Portfolio of Ting-Yang Chou

Ting-Yang Chou Portfolio 2010-2017

Working Experience

Awards and Honors

Workshop

Now - May 2015

August 2014 Ark of Seed

April 2014

Oceanrich Enterprise Co., Ltd., Shenzhen China

Taiwan Designers’ Week Exhibitor

5% Design Action of “From Farm to Fork: Co-creating the Innovative Value of Agriculture” Workshop

October 2013 Folding Power

November 2013

Cross-Strait (Xiamen) Cultural Industries Fair Exhibitor

“Community Building in Taiwan” Workshop

October 2014 - October 2013 National Taiwan Museum, Taipei Taiwan

September 2012 - July 2012 Shui Li Snake Kiln Ceramics Cultural Park, Nantou Taiwan (Internship)

ADDRESS: Bao’an, Shenzhen, China MOBILE: +86 151 1262 8269 EMAIL: 15112628269@qq.com

Education June 2013 - September 2009 Shih Chien University, Taipei Taiwan Bachelor of Industrial Design

June 2009 - September 2007 Zhong Zheng Senior High School, Taipei Taiwan

July 2013 Piece of Scenery Taiwan International Student Design Competition, Honorable Mention

December 2011 City Yeast: Taipei Street Cleaner’s Equipment Renovation Workshop

April 2013 Piece of Scenery YODEX Award, Honorable Mention

Volunteer July 2013 - August 2013 Siluo International Workcamp, Yunlin Taiwan

July 2011 International Workcamp VJF 17, Gatschow Germany

Projects 1-8 01

Piece of Scenery - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 5 - 0 6

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Commercial Coffee Maker - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 7 - 0 8

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Ark of Seed - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 9 - 1 6

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Single Serving Full-Automatic Coffee Maker - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 7 - 1 8

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Easy Eat! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 9 - 2 0

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Carrefour Healthy Guide - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 1 - 2 2

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Folding Power - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 3 - 2 4

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3in1 Auto Brusher - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 5 - 3 2

Small concaves of the product are used to place coins, keys, paperclips, et cetera.

Piece of Scenery September 2012 - January 2013 Wondering in the meandering trail in the mountains, making a turn and we will see a completely different view arranged by various shapes of moutains. The interesting and amazing view is presented by this set of table decoration.

The planting pots on the small mountains are suitable for straw and moss cultivating.

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The machine imitate hand brewing by pouring the water rotationally,make the flavor more balanced.

Water Tank Cover Water Tank Water Tank Valve Switch Rotational Ring

Digital Thermometer

Wedge Dripper

Carafe

CONTROL INTERFACE ROTATION SPEED ( OFF --- ON --- MAX )

POURING SPEED

Cone Dripper

( OFF / MIN / MAX )

Scale Tray

Carafe Tray

Scale

April 2017 - November 2017

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Background

Research

As a famous agricultural region in Taiwan, Yilan provides a variety of crops for Taiwanese families. Recent years, the Yilan government encourages local farmers to switch into organic farming. Therefore, plenty of farmers have started to grow different kinds of organic crops.

Without using any pesticide and artificial fertilizer, farmers need to remove the weeds and insects constantly by their own hands. Organic farming could be a heavy burden for farmers, so just few farmers were willing to engage in organic farming.

Interview

Analysis

We visited Xing-Jian organic villiage and saw how they had applied organic farming. By interviewing with two local farmers, we were able to understand the meanings of organic farming and difficulties they were encountering.

After visiting Xing-Jian organic villiage, we observed one foundamenal problem: the organic food market in Taiwan was still small. Thus, the market was not able to support the sustainable development and expansion of Taiwanese organic farming.

Ark of Seed April 2014 - May 2014 Ark of Seed is a mobile exhibition on the trucks. It aims to spread the knowledge about sustainable agriculture to the publics and make them more like to choose organic products. Eventually, more and more farmers will implement environmental friendly farming.

Group Members: Chou, Ting-Yang / Lin, Wei-Teng / Chen, I-Ning / Chang, Fang-Shuan / Huang, Tse-Chia Personal Contribution: Concept Brainstorming, Main Image, Video Production

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Summary

Concept

Situations

Goals

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- The gneral public understands more about what organic farming is - Connecting the public and organic farmers - realizes the relationship between organic farming and environment - The general public are willong to support organic farming

Organic farming requires more manpower input Farming manpower is aging The genral public didn’t understand the concept of organic farming well

We planned to carry out an mobile exhibition in the truck. The exhibition consists of four parts: Conventional Farming Display, Organic Farming Display, From Farm to Fork, and Blindfolded Taste Experience and the audiences are expected to learn more about organic farming after their visits.

Conventional Farming Display

Organic Farming Display

From Farm to Fork

By putting all these elements into the truck, the exhibition will actively engaged with possible audiences. We hope we can promote the organic lifestyle to our audiences with different cultural and social background.

Blindfolded Taste Experience

Target Users Groups

Urban people Open minded

Young age

Their Characteristics

Where do they usually go?

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Those Those Those Those Those Those Those

who who who who who who who

have vision about life don’t have their own vehicle are not married are not aware of organic farming care about Taiwan and environment are financially independent want to try something fresh

Working places Shopping areas Night markets Leisure spaces

In order to attract more attentions, the truck is specially furnished with plywood and our logo would be printed on it as well. Part of truck is installed with glass in order to trigger people’s curiosity.

Measures - To break the limitation of distance, we plan deliver information and knowlwdge regarding organic farming by demostrating “truck road-show” at places where our target groups usually visit and gather.

- To enhance the impression of our target groups, we offer multi-sensories experience to stand out the comparison between organic farming and conventional farming.

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Conventional Farming Display

Organic Farming Display

Films will be played in Conventional Farming Display section and the audiences will explore the consequence of using pesticides in farming through senses of seeing, hearing and smelling from the perspective of a corp.

In Organic Farming Display section, the film will show how a farm had been changed after switching conventional farming into organic farming. The audiences will still be set as a crop and experience the environmental transformation

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Content of Display

Content of Display

At the beginning of the film, the scenery of a vibrant farmland with insects and weeds would be shown. As long as the farmer starts to use pesticides and herbicides, insects and weeds are terminated from the farmland. Infertile land for any kind of crop is the consequence of using pesticides.

A farmland without any cultivation. Instead of using chemical pesticides, farmers pull off weeds by hands. Organic farming becomes a substitution method.

The farmland gradually becomes prosperous. The pleasant music from various kinds of insects and birds chirping can be heard.

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From Farm to Fork

Blindfolded Taste Experience

This display compares the difference of environment, safety, nutrition, economics, and taste between organic and conventional farming practice by infographic.

It aims to make the audiences realize how much change it will bring if they choose a different consuming mode.

Lastly, the Blindfolded Taste Area invites audiences to sense the differences between organic rice and rice grown by conventional farming by tasting.

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Content of Display

Content of Display

Videos on two sides shows why organic farmers and consumers should support organic products. In the middle is the infographic part.

We also provide information of organic shops nearby to audiences who are interested in trying organic farming products.

A message board would be installed for receiving feedbacks from audiences and future improvements can be made in the exhibition.

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Unit: mm

Small Size Household appliances in small size are suitable and welcomed in the Japanese market.

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Water Outlet

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Water Tank Bean / Powder Box

Fresher Coffee “From bean to coffee� coffee makers are popluar in Japan now as they make fresher coffee than general filter coffee makers.

Single Serving Full-Automatic Coffee Maker

Grinding+Brewing (If use bean)

Coffee Outlet

Only Brewing (If use powder)

August 2015 - January 2017 It is a coffee maker designed for a Japanese household appliances company. As a response to the movement called third wave of coffee, this coffee maker grinds the coffee beans first and then brews afterwards in order to make fresher coffee. In addition, households in Japan are usually small and cozy, this product is designed to fit with limited household space.

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Tray

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Interview

Problem Study

I visited Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center to interview with the supervisor of nutrition division, Wang, Li-Ming in order to understand the diet needs of patients and the process of preparing patients’ meals.

When the patients are in the hospitals, the central kitchen will prepare the food for them. However, after the chemical therapies, the patients have to take rest at home for at least 1 to 3 months. In this period of time, they or their family members have to prepare the food by themselves which is a heavy burden.

Hospital Room

When preparing the food for cancer patients, the portion of the food have to be weighed first.

And then heat the food up to 100°C. The last step is to smash up the food into liquid mixture.

Step 02

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Putting the food into the glass container.

Recording the amounts of each nutritions.

Heating and mincing the

Finish!

Easy Eat! April 2011 - May 2011 Easy Eat! is a food maker designed to simplify the preparation of the meals for cancer patients, making the process eaiser and relieves the burden of patients and their families.

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Couple

Operation Steps

Problem Study

Step 01

Single

Hospital Kitchen

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food.

According to Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan, aging population is an serious problem. Many elderly people consult doctors frequently, trying to improve their health problems. However, many common diseases among the elderly can be relieved by proper diet.

Carrefour Healthy Guide cooperates with the most popular supermarket in Taiwan. It tells the users which food in the shops is helpful to their diceases. The users don’t need to worry about what food they should buy and where to buy it anymore.

BASIC SETTING

FOOD RECOMMEND

SHOPPING LIST

SHOPPING DIRECTION

When first entering the APP, users need to fill in their body status in BASIC SETTING page.

In FOOD RECOMMEND page, the system will list out food that is helpful to the users body.

SHOPPING LIST is the page for editing the users’ check lists. Users can either edit the latest lists or check the history lists.

When users are in Carrefour, the map of the shops and the places of the food in the check lists will be shown in this page.

Carrefour Healthy Guide November 2011 - December 2011 Carrefour Healthy Guide is an APP which aims to improve the diet habits of the elderly in Taiwan by advising them proper food for their bodies. And the APP is set to cooperate with Carrefourthe, the biggest supermarket in Taiwan.

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This project was inspired from corrugated iron, which is a common building material in Taiwan. After folding this thin iron plate in a specific way, the supporting strength will raise up dramatically, making it strong enough to be a building material.

The radian on the chair surface makes the chair more comfortable. And the magnets on two sides of each chair unit make the chairs able to be connected and extended unlimitedly.

I developed different types of folding structures, trying to find the best one for a chair. It had to be equipped with strong structure as well as comfortable surface.

(2D folding lines for the chair)

Folding Power September 2012 - April 2013 Folding power is a chair made of plastic plate (PP). I tried to creat a new way of folding which make the thin plate stronger enough to support the human weight.

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Our Client

Product Analyzing - Multiple Function Brush

This project is for a Japanese household appliances company which mainly sales cleaning and kitchen products.

Among these similar products, this auto brush is the best seller in the biggest Japanese shopping website called “RAKUTEN”. This brush is used to clean bathroom.

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Consumer Review Pros 1. The handle is long enough that uers don’t need to bow.

2. The ball-shape brush head can fit curve surface.

AUTO-BRUSHER

Cons

easily clean your bathroom, car and floor

1. The ball-shape brush head is not useful to clean flat floor.

2. It is hard to hold the brush by one hand.

Product Analyzing - Single Function Brush Client Demand Our client wanted to develope an electric brush which combines mop, brush for bathroom cleaning and car cleaning.

I have checked the consumer reviews of popular mops, bathroom brushes and car wash brushes on top 3 Japanese shopping websites. What points do consumers care are listes below.

Mopping Product

Bathroom Wash Product

Car Wash Product

1. Big touching surface can shorten the cleaning time.

2. The fabric has to be easy to wipe up the stain.

3. The fabric has to be easy to maitain.

1. Adjustable handle height will be helpful to clean different places.

2. Diverse brush heads for different use are necessary.

3. The shape of the brush head need to fit with bathtub, floor and corner.

1. Big touching surface can shorten the cleaning time.

2. The fabric has to be easy to produce lots of foam.

3. Scratch-resistant fabric is necessary.

August 2016 - September 2016 It is an electric spinning brush for floor cleaning, bathroom cleaning and car cleaning. Just switch the brush heads to clean different places.

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Similar Product Testing TOKUYI automatic brush has many brush heads. It can be used to clean wood floor, tile floor, car and so on.

Similar Product Testing

Pros Overall 1. The brush is long enough to avoid bending the waist.

2. There are two joint to ajdust the angle.

Y-Life is a bathroom brush with ball-shape brush head, which can easily fit with the surface of bathtub.

Bathroon Floor (Flat)

Pros Overall 1. It is a light brush which is easy to operate.

2. The sharp brush head is useful in cleaning corner.

3. It is very easy to adjust the length of the brush.

Similar Product Testing The auto mop and polisher has two mops spinning in oppsite direction, which make it move steadily.

Bathtub (Concave)

1. The touching surface of the brush head is big enough.

2. The small brush head for slot is useful.

1. The ball-shape brush head is very suitable to wash bathtub.

Testing Places Bathroon Floor (Flat) Bathtub (Concave)

Overall Testing Places Bathroon Floor (Flat) Bathtub (Concave)

Bathtub (Concave)

Wood Floor (Flat)

Car Wash (Convex)

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I have to touch the dirty brush head to disassemble it.

The dirty water will fly out when it is working.

It can not stand.

It will stop spinning if I press too much.

I have to bend the waist when using it.

1. The brush head is too flat for the curve surface.

Tile Floor (Flat)

Car Wash (Convex)

1. The ball-shape brush head is not suitable to wash floor.

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brush is too heavy to hold. brush head may scratch the car. spinning speed is too fast to control. foam is not much enough.

Wood Floor (Flat)

Wood Floor (Flat)

Car Wash (Convex)

Car Wash (Convex) 1. The foam will splash when spinning.

2. The ball-shape brush head is not suitable to wash convex.

Cons Overall

Testing Places Bathroon Floor (Flat) Bathtub (Concave)

1. The brush is too heavy to rise up.

Bathtub (Concave) 1. The mops cannot fit with both Concave and Convex.

Wood Floor (Flat)

1. The moving direction of the brush is difficult to control.

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1. The surface of two mops is big that it make cleaning work faster.

2. The spinning power is strong that it can avoid stopping when I press the brush.

3. The cleaning effect is great.

1. It is very suitable to clean floor as the two spinning mops move steadily.

Cons

1. The brush cannot stand.

2. It is inconvenient to loose the joint and then adjust the angle of the brush heads.

3. The brush is too big and heavy to operate.

4. It is inconvenient to change the brush heads.

Overall

Wood Floor (Flat)

Cons Overall

Pros

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Feature 1 Switch

Brush for Bathroom

Assistive Handle

Feature 2

Feature 3

Adjustable Length

Assistive Handle

Storage Stand

User can disassemble the telescopic pole for different use.

Another handle will help user to operate the polisher more easily.

User can easily store the brush on the stand and connect the adapter.

STEP 01.

Lock the handle on the telescopic pole.

Charging Hole Telescopic Pole

Brush for Washing Car 132cm 108cm

Switch

STEP 02.

Adjust the handle to the perfect position.

Storage Stand Brush

Brush for Mopping

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51cm

STEP 03.

Rotate the handle to fasten it.

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Brush Head for Bathroom

Brush Head for Car

Sponge

Soft Rubber

Brush Head for Mopping

more stable rotation Gear

fit the surface fit the bathtub Rag

Long Brush

Car Rag

stick the rag by velcro

absorb detergent

6.3cm

3cm

4.6cm

7.6cm

4.5cm

take away dust

1.5cm

fit the corner

bigger brush size

20cm

11cm

16cm

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fit the ground

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rags for different floors